Thanks Steve,
personally, I'm immensely grateful to you for putting your own time, effort and resources into running this brilliant facility.
Top stuff fella,
PB
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- Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:37 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: IMPORTANT - Changes coming for the board - Moving platform to phpBB
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11286
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:11 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Olympic Tickets
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8246
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:45 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Undercut - definition
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11096
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:18 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Behaviour unbecoming?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10080
Anyone who behaves in an un-sporting way should be required to explain themselves to the chair of the jury and apologise. Failure to do either is disqualification. The jury chair should also report the incident to the slalom committee who should have the power to further ban competitors for a perio...
- Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:18 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Enhancing the Sport - Good or Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13343
My son did a double event this weekend and the entry fee was £15.25. My daughter will compete in her sport this coming weekend and her entry fee is £80. Both do around 10 competitions a year. Therefore, from where I'm sat, slalom is a very "cheap" sport, particularly as canoes are low-maintenance. ...
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 3:16 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: How long should protest time be? - Just wonder what paddlers think....
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13843
"If you want it extending to say 30 mins then bear in mind we will all end up sat on the bank for 30 mins before we can go for lunch or take down a course." Time to review "protest time" in this respect. One thing worse than a long spell of watching paddlers on a cold, wet day is sitting in the sam...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:50 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Making double div2 events financially viable
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5832
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:43 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Strategy - What do you want covered?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 27021
Brilliant to have strategy work commencing. I wonder though what the aims are for the strategy? A big growth in participation at all levels? A total focus on the production of an elite top end feeding potential Olympic champions? National versus regional events? More events, less events, quality of...
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:46 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: For discussion: Motion 5.14 - Division status
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11319
I agree with Duncan. I occasionally do some running events and every competitor is given a personal time via a microchip you wear. There are potentially many technologies that might work, be a lot simpler and require far less human resources. Perhaps the motion should be held over to allow some res...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:09 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: For discussion: Motion 5.14 - Division status
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11319
Quote: "* We can hold doubles: but the more doubles you have within a limited overall number of races, the fewer venues you can use and you don’t get regional spread. * We can combine Prem and Div 1 races in the same weekend event. For Div 1, these are usually the best races anyway! It may be that ...
- Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: nokia tv 6700
- Replies: 4
- Views: 25301
- Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:02 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: For Discussion: Motion 5.7 - Reinstatement of Shepperton Div 1/2
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6784
Given the ever increasing price of fuel (there's another hike in fuel duty in January), VAT increasing to 20% and wages being frozen, I just cannot see me being able to justify the cost for a single day of point collecting. Do any other paddlers or parents look at the calendar and think "that's an ...
- Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:56 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: PROVISIONAL Slalom Managed Calendar 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12649
£8000 to hire HPP!!!! I remember as a young slalom paddler doing loads of fund raising events to help the slalom community raise their share of the initial costs. I am increasingly concerned that we are now the group being sidelined - just check the notices regarding when gates can be in the main f...
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:31 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Junior and Vet Champs - Improvements/suggestions
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12392
I'm always happy to make suggestions for improvement, I'd assumed constructive criticism (albeit it personal opinion) would facilitate the extrapolation of suggestions for improvement. I think all I indicated was to hold the events on better water and allow people as much water time as is practical.
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Junior and Vet Champs - Improvements/suggestions
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12392
I competed at Cardington one year and came second (mainly because most of my peer paddlers did not attend). I decided not to return for the second year primarily for 2 reasons. Firstly, the course was Div 3 standard and, secondly, no practise was allowed, thus entailing I'd travelled a long way for...