Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

On behalf of Bryan Crookes: I am not registered with the website but here is a comment in relation to the shoulder injuries in young female paddlers post/thread. I am a physio who has experience of a number of different sports both from a participation and treatment perspective. Here are a few obse...

The words "short season" suggest to me that the idea is to protect people who might not have time to get 5 races in, not to give newcomers an easy ride - even if it effectively does. There's no point in putting Prems who have one off season into yoyo mode, which is what denying short season status ...

A bit of background might come in handy. Just as, today, a proportion of paddlers in Div 4 gets promotion at a single event, promotion as far as Div 1 used to go to the top paddlers in a single race - 1 in 40 from 2 to 1, 1 in 20 from 3 to 2. A fast paddler could get up the divisions like a rat up ...

Here is Andy Maddock's paper in support of the proposal: Why propose the removal of in season promotion from Division 1 to Premier? In season promotion from division 1 to Premier was introduced for the 2001 season replacing the previous system that meant all classes waited to the end of season for ...

Nine years ago we introduced in-season promotion to Prem for paddlers who could meet a very demanding target, giving them a real incentive to achieve and replacing an end-of-year committee process which, however honestly it was done, never really satisfied everyone. Don’t underestimate the test the...

"Him" here. "CSV is basically a spreadsheet so I don't see the issue with him accepting it." DJ, I know exactly what a CSV file is. Yes, it opens in any spreadsheet - all one font size, all columns one width, headings that spread over multiple columns wrecked, nothing in bold. Then you have to form...

Sorry, this is a proposal to give a special deal to people who rarely paddle, ultimately at the expense of the regulars. It's a difficult game managing the demotions fairly, and we don't need to make it more difficult. The provision under 3.1 covers the genuine cases, and I think that is sometimes ...

"I plan to put forward an ACM motion so that slalom organisers must supply results in computerised format." They nearly all do so already, and you may be putting an obstruction in the way of someone trying to get a novice event together with limited resources. Sorry guys, do any of you (bar Dee) kn...

Sorry, but repeating message from Rants to make sure: Town Falls Prem/1 Cancelled The event this weekend is cancelled because there is no water in the Dee. Rain is forecast for next week so we hope the British Open can go ahead and the British Open will be a Championship Format ranking Prem event a...

Ken Trollope confirms: Town Falls Prem/1 Cancelled The event this weekend is cancelled because there is no water in the Dee. Rain is forecast for next week so we hope the British Open can go ahead and the British Open will be a Championship Format ranking Prem event as well. The Div 1 race is defin...