Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Sorry Matt - I agree that we need to look at targets, and 4800 sounds about right, but if we added the requirement for two wins we wouldn't even replace the paddlers who drop out of the sport - 11 this year in K1M. Changing the target to 4800 points would have reduced the numbers promoted this year...

I've written to the K1Ms. I think the K1W compiler will write to the K1Ws. We have a problem with the numbers getting promoted from K1M Div 3 to Div 2. Since the targets were changed 2 years ago, promotion has been quite slow. The numbers getting up from Div 2 to to Div 1 are about right, but the n...

"Still nobody has answered why this is ok for C2's and not for K1W." Because the numbers racing in C2 are tiny. Working out points for non-quorate events by factoring from K1M results makes lots of sense. At recent Div 2s we've seen 20 or more women racing. That's more than enough to be treated as ...

Spiderman Quote "If the actual slalom committee were even half bothered they would have woken up to the idea that change is needed and put together a sensible proposal from all the opinions voiced here." 1. I for one couldn't have extracted a worthwhile proposal from the pages and pages of conflict...

A suggestion: * Abolish the separate Vets classes. * Raise the DV minimum age to 40 or 45. * Give DVs protection from demotion. At the moment there are too many DVs for that, but the new age line should fix that. Note: In Div 1 K1M there are currently 52 DVs. If the DV age was 40 there would be 37....

I think the issue here is about getting white water experience before you reach Div 1. It's possible to get from nowhere to Div 1 within a year in any of K1M, K1W and C1, and a handful of paddlers do. But while many Div 2 races are run on fairly flat water it will always be possible to get to Div 1...

Colin is mistaken in thinking that the change to 3.1 will stop any end of year promotion. If it did, it would also stop demotion! The text is: 3.1 Promotion during the season through the divisions is based on performance at events as set out in paragraphs 4 and 5 below. Promotion and relegation als...

The issue seems to be that Vets, as opposed to DVs, are protected from demotion. So why not discuss whether we can give that protection to DVs and scrap the separate Vets class? Anyway, there were pages of debate about this earlier in the year. Didn't anyone turn the conclusions into a motion for t...

I'm just a judge, and I'm hoping someone will explain single pole gates to me. If only one pole, there's no gate line (sorry Jim, the bar and bearer don't count). If no gate line, can't go through it the wrong way but maybe can't go through it right way either... It's probably sensible (someone und...

Pete The British Open has been open to all Div 1s for two or three years now. I'm sure you would maintain a healthy place in Div 1, so you don't need to be a Vet for that. There is an issue if you want to do Prem events - which as a P/1 Vet you can, but as a Div 1 you couldn't. By the way: it will ...

Sorry Phil, I haven't grasped your fundamental aim. Is it: - to continue to run Vets as separate races, and introduce age bands, or - to run all vets as DVs within the Divisional events, tagging them V35, V45, V55 as we currently tag J12, J14 etc and DV? If the first, there seems to be even less co...