FEBRUARY 1985 PRICE SOp INCORPORATING~ · P.O.BOX 17 STONE STAFFS ST15-8SP EUROSTYLE'~ waterproef sports wear CONTENTS SPECIAL FEATURES PAGE 6 NEW BOATS FOR '85 A look at the Derwent and Nomad boats by Joe Lyons 9 COACHING C2 Advice to budding C2s from Bill Endicott 12 SLALOM DOWN UNDER FAC's reports from Australia by Richard Fox e1 MELVIN JONES 2nd Brit at Fosters NEXT ISSUE e PROFILE MELVYN JONES e HOW TO GET TO AUGSBERG 1 School Terrace, Selly Oak, Birmingham. B29 6DY • THE PALACE REPORT Telephone: 021 471 3869 EDITOR: JOE LYONS FEATURES: RICHARD FOX The official magazine of the B.C.U. Slalom REGULAR FEATURES ,... )Cutive, 45/47 High Street, Addlestone, PAGE ybridge, Surrey. KT15 1JV. The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Editor or of the Slalom 2 FROM THE EDITOR Executive. SUBSCRIPTIONS 3 NEWS AND INFO Subscriptions may be obtained at £4.00 for 6 issues post paid from: Slalom Magazine, 1 17 TRADE NEWS School Terrace, Selly Oak, Birmingham. B29 6DY Special Rates for overseas readers. 20 ADVERTISING. LETTERS Rates for the next issue are available from the 16 Editor - Telephone 021 471 3869 OPINION COPY 15 The next issue wil be published on: APRIL 7th FAST AND CLEAN Copy to reach the Editor 14 days before 11 publication date. EVENTS ROUND UP Cover Photo: T. Tickle 2 SLALOM Magazine FROM THE EDITOR A new name - a new eye in an attractive way. For the clubs, encouraging senior magazine. This is the first those of you who subscribed paddlers to involve edition of a new look to 'Feedback', you will themselves in coaching and magazine for the slalom receive 'Slalom' magazine in training the lower ranked paddler, brought to you by lieu, until the end of year paddlers. It will also, the team that produced subscription when you will hopefully, encourage the 'Feedback', and incorporat- receive a renewal slip. All clubs to help Canadian ing the executive content of that was previously in paddlers to learn more, 'Feedback' within its pages. 'Feedback' will be in 'Slalom' widening this branch of the This is a magazine for the magazine, with much more sport from its small base. It specialist slalomist, the only available too. New services also nice to see one of its kind in the world. In to the paddler include our manufacturers putting back its pages you will find all the Trade reviews, a regular into the sport some of what information you need to help technique colum by F.A.C. they take out. you right at the forefront of and for you to use to sell Slalom in the UK and inter- those unwanted items, a Another area of input to the nationally. In each issue will classified page free to sport is the research and be news and information from individuals. development field, as the slalom executive, articles So, welcome to Slalom Pyranha have long been at on training and event prep- magazine, we hope your the forefront of this. After the aration, equipment reviews, association with us will be a design revolution of the reports on national and long and fruitful one, and that freestyle and the roto bat rI intern8:tional ~vents, and our pages can provide you they now introduce a exclusive advice from the with what you need to construction revolution, with experts, including U.S. Coach achieve your goals within the production of Images Bill Endicott, British Team the sport of Canoe Slalom. made from A.B.S., a form of Coaches, and our own World plastic that is much more Champion Richard Fox. The The news of the sponsorship resistant than gelcoat and aim of the magazine is by Nomad of the Winter Club glass fibre construction. simple. We intend to promote Championship is a refreshing Graham Mackereth described Slalom as a sport through its response to a need to it as the biggest advance in pages, with a professional localize our sport, and to construction since the move "!> approach and well create a healthy spirit of from canvas to fibreglass, as researched articles and competition between clubs, from what I've seen i.can information, to put our sport fhat will generate a spirit of only agree. on the map and in the public support for all levels within SLALOM Magazine 3 NEWS EXECUTIVE ELECTIONS - That well I.C.F. Rules - After tosing around various known CI paddler Pete Bell has been options such as total implementation and elected onto the executive to represent total rejection a compromise was finally the 'voice of the padder'. Pete, whose reached with the following points: voice has long been heard at premier (i) The new rules will be implemented events and internationals, will now get from 1st Janury 1986. the chance to make waves at a more However the following exceptions will exalted level than ever before. Mind you, apply: Division 2 - novice. in the light of his responsible position we (ii) Minimum of four specified reverse hope to see a more restrianed form of gates. / behaviour at post international parties. (iii) Minimum of two specified forward gates (iv) At least one team gate (other than CANCELLATION OF EVENTS - The finish line). A.G.M. threw out a motion to return (v) Penalties for pole touch to be 5 on entry fees to competitors when an event each pole, not 5 for one or both poles. is cancelled. However a motion that (vi) Boat weight regulations will not be allocated the entry fees from a cancelled applied. event to Holme Pierpoint was carried. A sub-committee has been established to (just) review the rules and to submit detailed proposals on these decisions of general principle to the 1985 A.G.M. proposals on these decisions of general principle to the ORGANISERS QUALIFICATION -The 1985 A.G.M. During 1985 certain events A.G.M. decided to introduce an officials will be run as test events under the new qualification, with a syllabus and rules. assessment system relating to a knowledge of slalom rules and regulations and organisation of events. Further to this ADVERTISING AND THE AMATEUR the A.G.M. also decided that from a RULE - A statement of principle on future unspecified date the executive advertising was agreed and the executive would be empowered to declare it a will implement the detail. The gist of the condition of ranking status that the event motion was that the advertising material organising staff includes appropriate should not cover more than 10% of the qualified officials. visible surface area of any one i tern, that the advertising shall be limited to the manufacturer, the supplier, and of one UOYANCY AIDS - Although the new other organisation (e.g. a sponsor). The rule on buoyancy aids does not come into material will be limited to the brand force until testing of existing 1986 name of the company, its company name, bouyancy aids take pla_ce during the will and its logo, trademark, or emblem. The 1985 season. Permanent testing facilities name/emblem shall not appear more than will be set up at a minimum of four sites twice on any item, nor shall it obscure in England and one each in Wales and any competition numbers. If t.v. Scotland. At least one test will take coverage requires the blanking out of the place in each region at novice level. The material then the even organiser may executive will determine some means of demand it but if it is not in breach of the marking those that pass in some above rules then there is no other reason permanent way. However it is the for event organisers to object. If the competitors responsibility to ensure that slalom executive feel that the letter or their equipment is within the rules. spirit has not been observed then it may withdraw authorisation. PREMIER/DIV l JUDGING - The rule has now been extended to cover open events as well! 4 SLALOM Magazlrie PREMIER CANADIANS (?) - A new AUSTRALIA '85 - Richard Fox, the world premier division for the top end Canadian Kl Champion was narrowly beaten into boats has been created for 1985. second place at the Australian Championships staged below Burrinjuck INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES - These must dam, New South Wales, on Jan 20th. In be made through the slalom administrator the main event, contested by paddlers for all individual entries and all from the U.S.A., Sweden, New Zealand, competitors and supporters who are Britain and Australia, New Zealander B.C.U. members at slalom events abroard Donald Johnstone held on to his clean are subject to the disciplinary rules of the first run score to win with a time of slalom committee. 206.41 secs. Fox wa unable to make up for a poor first run and a careless shoulder SCRATCH TEAMS - In an effort to solve touch on his second run finishing with a the problem of missing members of total of 206.86. Australian Lindsay scratch teams, all competitors who have Binning took 3rd place with 211.39,· sent off scratch team entries must reinforcing the fact that the top paddlers register with the organiser at least one from the Southern hemisphere are hour before the start of the event. Any improving fast. The following week in t scratch team not complete may then be state of Victoria, on the Salburn river , re-organised at the discretion of the Fox regained some of his form to win all organiser. A revised team list will then three slaloms convincingly. He · then be displayed 30 minutes before the start continued on to Tasmania for a training of the event.