Search found 59 matches
- Fri May 02, 2008 12:27 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 1605123
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
what it needs is a group of motivated people to sit down and put forward proposals to the training unit for apropriate changes to be made. This would be a big job, and time consuming- but someone's gotta do it. It sounds like yourself, Rob and Kim would be ideal candidates for this, and would know ...
- Thu May 01, 2008 2:25 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 1605123
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
Rolling is on the Level 3 from September - you are allowed set up beforehand, and it's only required on one side. (Correct me if any of this is in error). Dave F's point about a general Level 2 and evolving whitewater techniques is very valid - maybe the Level 2 proficiency should be a general award...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:16 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 1605123
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
From asking people involved: the revamp is a case of getting the ICU Award Scheme approved by the EPP group. Since March this has been approved up to Level 3. Work is ongoing on the Levels 4 and 5. The other EPP partners are - France, Slovenia, Germany, Britain, Denmark and Sweden. It sounds like so...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:13 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 1605123
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
as far as I know the L3 is being revamped I think it's being brought in line with EPP , right? And the low-brace turn is still on that. I had to help paddlers unlearn bad habits picked up at a level 4 assessment... I think it is time to have a chat with the ICU Training and Development Unit and see...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:40 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 1605123
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
Annie just in question to your above quote surely when some one is aiming at Level 3 standard they have or are well on there way to developing good boat control? I was actually just going off-topic somewhat and offering an alternative breaking-in technique... It'd be interesting to ask what assesso...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:01 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Low brace turns, pointless?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 1605123
Re: Low brace turns, pointless?
Here's a school of thought (for beginners mind) that I encountered last September: Beginners rarely lift their upstream edge enough, so the water catches them and flips them. Asking them to put a sweepstroke in upstream seems to make maintaining their edge more difficult cos they've to lift their ed...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:56 pm
- Forum: Irish Whitewater Forum
- Topic: Gauges Down
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11952
Re: Gauges Down
Any progress on the Glens gauge situation?