Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Ah that's great, thank you Sal!

*loos at list* *looks in cheque book* Aaagh, I booked the B&B and the cat sitter and forgot to enter the slalom! Guess I'll be standing in the entries queue on Saturday morning... I'm glad I looked here (and I'm very glad you posted! Thank you!) I have a couple of questions: 1) What toilets will the...

It was the TID kids, O HPPaddle, I recognise their boats too :) the main problem was simply breaking in too close in front of or behind other paddlers, and that's a basic safety skill for any discipline they choose to go into in the future really, so everybody would get something out of it if their ...

Jim W, are you the dude in the dry suit in the C1 who capsized in practice and then carried right on? Because you are awesome.

The non-TID kids who weren't paddling at their home river who talked to me were getting really frustrated with the practice situation. One came off crying.

And "strongly encourage" many clubs in the Midlands of our mutual acquaintance *ahem* to teach their young paddlers some river etiquette for practice time like not sitting chatting in a throng of 10 boats in the eddy below an upstream gate while other people are also trying to practice, and not padd...

I see quite a few kids at some races get really frustrated because they don't get a chance to practice with all the big confident kids on the water doing the same three gates over and over again. This is especially a problem for little girls (bigger boys in some cases seem to just paddle across them...