Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

a. Overall Event weekend - 9 - Well organized. As a Prem paddler love the qualification/semis/finals format alongside the Div 1 it means both events fit together well and gets younger kids in Div 1 more inspired and can learn from watching the prem too? b. Course design Saturday - 8 - I love a tight...

This is my understanding. 8 places were available at 2010 selection and a further 9 are available as wildcards. K1 Men, K1 Women, C1, C2: The top 5 boats in senior selection and top 3 under 23 boats in 2010 will secure places for the 2011 selection series (paddlers must gain senior selection perfor...

This is a hard topic. I would of thought that "Where age group % are applied, the rule is only applied within the top 3 boats (4th place boats and below will not be taken into the team above boats in the top three who have not made %)" Would mean that leapfrogging of boats cannot take place? By lea...

I would say poles swinging due to being hit deliberatley by a previous competitor should not be counted as a reason for a re run, this i feel because it is hard to reward re runs for swinging poles because where do you then draw the line? how much of a swinging pole do we reward a re run too etc? H...

I believe that bow rudders behind the head in general can be dangerous. However i belive if you have rotation as you bow rudder then that is ok. As a c1 i do lots of bow rudders behind the head and find then far more effective that bow rudders in frount of your forhead (text book way) because you c...

To be honest i dont like this motion the reason being is that when you train you train to go as fast as possible anyway. you dont just say, well i will have a bad 1st run and go for it on my 2nd. people in the final of world cups have gone from 10th to 1st (Horschorners) and others from 10th to med...

I think that protest fees should not go up. I think this because at lower divisions there should not have to be that many protests if situations are handled well and negociated, and at the higher end it is sometimes so hard to get judges that sometimes i believe the judges do not have of enough exp...

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