Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Here's a suggestion that this topic has produced - as we are now onto suggesting ideas to the BBC or whoever covers the Europeans, I think it would be an awesome idea to ask them to place just one or two overhead "polecams" looking down towards the bottom of the pole, not for "third umpire" reasons...

pauls idea of asking the bbc is a good one as they would be covering a large veriety of views, it might be a good change to see the likely hood of it ever working. peters completely correct in his comments, nothing would ever happen without topics like this, we need to discuss the ideas well before...

The ICf rule was aimed at Worlds and Olympics and had nothing to do with video evidence appearing to show that teh world cha,pion should have had a 50. . . Cameras down poles might work for half a head, but have you ever tried to judge from above a gate and decide on water touch or brushing the bot...

Just playing devil's advocate here - as I'd be interested in what others think - but if you remove the divisional system do you not then run a more dangerous risk whereby we have a situation where there are paddlers racing on courses that they are really not ready for and thereby putting a heavier ...

I have video surveillance on my home which has 4 cameras being recorded all the time, 24/7, and this over records every 7 days. Not too expensive either. I see people with helmet cams (I have one actually) and some are very small in diameter. With one pole gates appearing in droves (!) we might onl...

Please refer back to Peters high definition camera films. Thanks to PP, paul bolton, and cadanianpaddler for the text to this arguement I put together a short video from flatwater training last night but had to reduce its size and quality by more than half to upload it! It still gives you a flavour...

Hummm, doing all the paddlers is obviously fine, but on all gates seems a bit excessive. Perhaps at the top events, where there are generally one or two make-or-break moves, the option to be able to review a video might be very welcome by the chief judge - particularly where half-heads may be an is...

Internationally videois admissable IF it has been taken for all paddlers to the same standard so is available for all (paddlers and I think gates). Even spidey can't do all paddlers, all gates on his own with one camera! As far as eeing penalties, there seems to be a paddler blindness where their o...

i feel that the courses at Tully were good and challenging, using the single pole idea made its slightly more funny and easy to watch, (and judge!!). as a mid range div1 paddle i think that single pole course's arnt the way forward, a mixture of the old and the new could pose some interesting cours...

didnt know where to post this, so i chose Events. im looking to organise a trip to Bourg in france over the summer. i was wondering if anyone could leave posts or email me regarding whatever information they have about the local area and the river itself. Thanks alot. Russ Johnson. West Yorkshire C...