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- Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:50 am
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Etiquette: Pint Rescue (or swim beers) vs Swim Bootie
- Replies: 5
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Re: Etiquette: Pint Rescue (or swim beers) vs Swim Bootie
The whole idea of the swim bootie originated in norway (i think), where beer is expensive. To my knowledge the idea is that the swimmer drinks the 'bootie' and negates the need to purchase each of the rescuers involved a beer. The drinking of the 'bootie' is also a way of honouring the river gods to...
- Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:33 am
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: River Information - on the River
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10754
Re: River Information - on the River
The idea is great, to have a map at the put in and a sign at the take out, this is done alot in euope and works great. The issue with it here in ireland would initially be the cost and then of maintenance. Coillte have recently spent alot of time and money mapping forrest parks for walks and biking ...
- Fri May 02, 2008 3:38 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 2114046
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
Rob Coffey wrote: How? The low brace turn is not an excellent progression to dynamic style as it is a fundamentally different approach. Dynamic style involves driving the boat and keeping speed through the turn using an active blade. The low brace turn involves losing speed on a passive blade.The o...
- Thu May 01, 2008 5:06 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 2114046
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLbwEZKrvok&eurl=http://www.canoe.ie/Performance/Olympic/AthleteProfiles/EoinRheinisch/tabid/1130/language/en-GB/Default.aspx]Slalom[/youtube] Just thought I would put up this vid of eoin to illustrate the point that the bow rudder is not "bad technique" merel...
- Thu May 01, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 2114046
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
A little off topic rob but good rant all the same. The issue of the usefulness of the bow rudder to a person on a river for the first 4 or 5 trips is a long way from there first time in norway or on the zambezi. While I do agree that we should be training people in good technique and in a dynamic st...
- Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:06 am
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: ICU and recreational paddlers.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13657
Re: ICU and recreational paddlers.
a complete load of rubbish. I read through the post of ukrgb forum and they all lead to the same conclusion, great concept, who will run it. there are already 2 organisations which support recreational kayaking in ireland, the icu and irish freestyle club. if you want to see cahnge or develop someth...
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:21 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Steep Creeks Comp???
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17308
Re: Steep Creeks Comp???
Great Idea I talked to Graham about this a couple of years ago and think it would be a great way to get people out boating and to find out whats running a when. If you are interested we could use the event formally know as riverfest in april as a finish date and give out the prizes etc there. Also i...