Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

I don't think that mikey's complaining about being disqualified (which he rightly was), he's complaining about not being able to do a second run! What harm would doing a run that doesn't count for anything do? I think that he's paid the entry fee, let him do the run. Especially if John's right (i'v...

I don't think that you can look at the results too much to determine who was put off by Saturday. I think that tthe question would be, how many people entered and pulled out? And how many div 2s chose not to race at a 1/2 as the course was was going to be harder, or wanted to spend mothers' day wit...

I agree with Carl Pretty good course on Sunday, except for 6-9 which was just awkward! I don't mind tricky, but that bit was terrible. The rest was good given the conditions. I agree that it was a bit long too, but the only other alternative was to just have the one cross and would have lead to a p...

Firstly I think that the slalom committee do an excellent job and to say that they are out of touch is unfair. They are volunteers. If you think you could do a better job, why not stand for a place on the committee? Richie is right too, of the 10 or however many people have voted on the poll, how m...

Just having a quick look at the selection policy, isn't it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of age? i.e specifically saying that if you're over 30, you have no potential... It doesn't effect me, with my boyish good lucks, but could effect others, i.e campbell? I understand that it is the rese...

I agree that mid season promotion isn't necessarily a good thing! There are exceptions when a good prem paddler has been demoted due to illness injury or other, or a div 1 paddler has had a good winter training and is reaping the rewards. Maybe setting the limit for promotion higher to give div 1s ...

I don't see a major problem with any of the races that Geebs is suggesting we cancel. At the right water levels, they're fantastic div 1 races, at the wrong level they're div one races. Its that quality of the paddlers that makes the race. We have to deal with whatever is thrown at us. If anything ...

It wasn't that close! Sam Ahmed won by a mile on Saturday and would have done the same on sunday had he not necked one gate too many! You will get paddlers that close when you have so many people racing. Have you ever looked at the results from a prem race? This is more pronounced in div 1 as it's ...

Completely disagree with the comments about water level. A good paddler can compete on any water. I don't think that there have been any exceptional results due to the conditions. The best paddlers won and the people expected to be at the top were and the people you'd expect to be at the bottom wer...