Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

That's all good input folks. I've written most of the texty bit and hope to get some time early next week to write some of the more techy bit to do with data exchange. Entry cards - once we're beyond the point of needing them for entries then we can create more appropriate bits of paper for the oth...

Firstly I greatly appreciate everybody who does something for nothing in slalom, canoeing as a whole and in other sports, and I do understand that there's already probably a very full agenda for the committee to look at. I do feel however that such a system does more than make competitor's life eas...

Payment: WorldPay is one solution which I've used before - there are other available. I would envisage BCU being the only organisation to register - they could then pass on the fees to the club after the event minus the levy they take - seems to cut down work. Paddlers don't need to register - just...

See Fairnilee topic in events - I probably should've posted it here in a new topic. It really wouldn't cost very much to develop a simple sub-site of the BCU site which took entries and displayed results and rankings. Then as it is now a condition of holding a ranking slalom that the results gets p...

I also know I could've put an SAE in, but the problem is in advance I don't know if I need to do this or not - some slaloms are excellent at getting the results up fast. If you read the post again you'll see I know I could put an SAE in. My point is it doesn't reflect well on the sport for Div 4's ...

I was at Fairnilee and heard some of the grumbling going on. The "drinking" water was unfortunate - I suspect it was clean enough to drink and 20 years ago tap water was regularly that colour where I grew up, but with cheap bottled water these days I and I suspect everyone else didn't take that ris...

The reality is that no rescuer in their right mind would use them to rescue your boat, yet they are needed in the rules. My advice would be to bodge some sort of connection between the two ends of broken cord then wrap it in some narrow cord creating a new outer. Then glue both ends of the new oute...

There has been one person that has died at a slalom event at llandysul a few years back when they were swept past the finish line during a university slalom championships. I don't know the details but air bags would not have saved his life but a throwline may have done. It was a University of Wales...

I always find "safety must be paramount" to be an odd statement, in any context. Surely if we wanted to be safe we wouldn't go canoeing? There's a line somewhere I just think that forcing people to use airbags is beyond it. Helmets and BA's can stay! Personally on the off chance I go for a swim a r...

Sounds to me like we're looking at this the wrong way. We don't insist on everybody in a swimming pool wearing inflatable armbands just in case they can't swim - we leave it down to the individual sense for people who can't swim to put them on. Let's just encourage people who can't roll (or can't r...

It would be better if the boat was a genuine 9kg (or whatever it is for C1/2) but I can accept an 8kg boat with weight added. The rule however allows a 5kg boat with 4kg of weight which would be not what the rule set out to achieve. I wouldn't like to see weight anchor points and standard weights t...

Slightly late on topic (as usual). The boat weight rule was brought in because of the very fragile boats being used by the top people. In my understanding this was deemed bad for two reasons - it gave unfair advantage to those who were rich or sponsored, and it gave a disadvantage to the bigger pad...

Maybe I'm a bit late on this topic (again), and there's nothing I can do cos it's happening but wasn't the original reason behind the 4m min length to not give advantage to smaller paddlers? At 6'2" and 15st I already have more boat depth in the water, bigger chest + then bigger BA on top. The only ...