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Peter O'Sullivan:

--- Quote from: HelenaC on January 18, 2013, 10:48:28 ---what the hell is a "trickywoo" like?? :D

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Its fairly rare, don't think I've ever seen it in real life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNmhz4w76-4

Tiny Tim:
i have theyre remarbkly unspectacular. really represent the falling over in a hole repeatedly end of freestyle that tyler bradt and ben marr etc really hate

Maryanne:

--- Quote from: Maryanne on January 17, 2013, 14:39:49 ---- Women will get their own heat.
- If 30 or more women enter then a second female heat will be created to avoid congestion on the water.
- Heat durations will be adjusted accordingly.

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Clarification sought and received:


--- Quote ---Maryanne Doyle
This could be a misinterpretation on my part, in the pack it says:
"- Women will get their own heat.
- If 30 or more women enter then a second female heat will be created to avoid congestion on the water.
- Heat durations will be adjusted accordingly"
So I'm wondering if that's just to have the ladies on the water at the same time, or because there's a separate ranking.

Conor Bredin
I'm not entirely sure how to interpret your question so i'll try and just explain the whole thing. Guys will be competing against guys and girls will be competing against girls exclusively. Individuals will be ranked against their own gender.

Each rank is awarded a certain number of points as per the metric for 1st, 2nd, 3rd....etc. the teams will be ranked then according to their accumilated points and this will ve the final order of ranking from the freestyle. I believe there was a discrepency in the captains book and only the metric for the teams was included. It is the same metric however that will be applied to the ranked individuals however.

Conor Bredin
Just seeing your second reply now Maryanne sorry. The idea of separating women into their own heat is just about keeping the women, who are competing against themselves exclusively, on the water for the same time window and thus what ever the conditions will be at that time - they will have the same conditions to work with. This is the same for the men. The skill ranking section of the entry form is so I can put all the people of the same skill level in the same heat so that everyone will have the same conditions to work with as those of the competitors who are closest to their skill level.

Maryanne Doyle
Thanks for the clarification. That actually sounds like quite a good idea, I know I've heard some grumbles in the past that the freestyle standard (generally speaking) is lower among the female paddlers, but if they're ranked against each other this gap won't feature in the same way. It should also encourage more female participation.
However, it's quite a change form other years, so it should really have been mentioned before, I didn't hear it come up at Captain and Safeties and as you said there's a discrepancy in the Captains pack. I still think it's a good idea, just that colleges would probably have run training or team selection differently if they had known earlier.
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Looks like it would be in our interest to put more female paddlers on the team, as there will be one scale of points for the male competitors and another for the female competitors.
There will be 13 colleges in the competition, most will have one female paddler and apart from some exceptions the standard of freestyle won't be that high. If UCD enter female paddlers who won't swim and catch the wave we'll come out well. If they catch the wave and manage a trick, we'll do very well.

Bill C:
This just in:


--- Quote ---Newsreel: Breaking News on the FREESTYLE EVENT.

I've been going over and back with my main man at Ardnacrusha to organize water for Curragower come Sunday. However, due to the unprecedented amount of rainfall this spring and with more rain forecast for the coming week their hands are tied and have no choice but to continue with the full flow which they've had going for the last two weeks. At this level unfortunately the wave won't be a consistent and contestable feature. The reason I'm only coming out with this now is that it has only become a possibility that we wouldn't have a contestable wave at Gower yesterday and today that was confirmed.

In the words of Freddie however, "The Show Must Go On!"
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So here is the proposed alternative.
Everything remains the same bar how we show off as freestylers to score points; Simples!

Ah fuck the fire alarm just went off so I'm going to make this brief.

So every competitor shall start in the top eddy; above the Curragower falls.
When it's your turn you peel out you'll enter the flow (which is slow and flat) at a predetermined point high above the falls. From here you'll have 35 seconds to do flat water tricks (see the proposed score sheet which I'm just about to post in the 'Files' section of this page). Once the 35 seconds are up or you reach the top of the rapid the second half of your run begins and that is to perform down river tricks through the rapid which consists of a series of small holes and wave trains (see the same sheet I've already referenced).

This is a novel format for a freestyle competition and, I admit, if it was just a flat water competition I'd be fairly displeased. However, I do believe that the down river section adds a bit of flare that will keep it mixed up and really bring out competitors creativity in putting a run together. This will all be discussed tonight at the Captains meeting and straight after the captains meeting I would like if every college competing could have a representative of their freestyle team available to meet and discuss the score sheet and any queries people may have.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask here also, I'll be keeping an eye throughout the day.

I'm sorry about the late notice but I hope you appreciate I've been doing everything in my power to produce a contestable wave. To lighten the moods though there'll be scones and hot drinks on sale from some lovely ladies right there on the river bank!
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Maryanne:
Freestyle results:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-LfOEvdKu0veDRRMVpmcmxNbFE/edit?usp=sharing

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