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General => Kayaking => Topic started by: cormac on January 26, 2009, 10:57:19

Title: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: cormac on January 26, 2009, 10:57:19: Congrats to Tom in coming joint 3rd in the Clare Glens Invitational Race http://clareglensrace.blogspot.com/ (http://clareglensrace.blogspot.com/) on Saturday against some of the top paddlers in the country.

In many ways Tom is at least as good as Kipper.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Lucy on January 26, 2009, 11:33:11: ah Cormac I thought you were gonna sell out on something stupid he did...nobody likes success stories!!
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Monkey Loving Bob on January 26, 2009, 11:40:36: Way to go C.Lynch, like his head wasn't big enough and all and anyways!

Also, a grudging nod in acknowledgement of your success Tom, fair play to ya...
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: cormac on January 26, 2009, 12:05:41: Lucy, Conor, have I ever let you down?

Just read between the lines, or at least the last one.

;)
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Amanda on January 26, 2009, 12:07:43: I'm all confused. Has Tom moved back to cork without telling me ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Sara on January 26, 2009, 12:33:18: Im sure Tom will tell us all about it, I asked him to explain in my post ;)

Sara
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Sick Boy on January 26, 2009, 22:08:00: Individual Race
1st Killian Kelly
2nd Colin Wong and Dave Carrol
3rd Conor Bredin and Tom Bannon

does this not put him on 5th place. tom you suck.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Ley-Ley on January 27, 2009, 11:01:56: I still beleve in you Tom, your my herowhen you have jelly tots.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: cormac on February 03, 2009, 15:18:37: Luce and Conor, seeing as you ask.... Spot Tom in both photos. The first one is easy.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pURKxkICEPQ/SYeB71puAxI/AAAAAAAAAK8/gmPR6MbEJfU/s1600-h/Tom+Bannon.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pURKxkICEPQ/SYeB71puAxI/AAAAAAAAAK8/gmPR6MbEJfU/s1600-h/Tom+Bannon.jpg)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pURKxkICEPQ/SYeBwd_qtHI/AAAAAAAAAK0/u2nJAMaGLcw/s1600-h/CW.jpg (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pURKxkICEPQ/SYeBwd_qtHI/AAAAAAAAAK0/u2nJAMaGLcw/s1600-h/CW.jpg)
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: cormac on February 03, 2009, 15:35:22: By the way, if anyone wants to learn how to boof then print off the first photo and laminate it to your spraydeck....
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Evan on February 03, 2009, 15:38:39: Thats a pretty savage first photo
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Simon R. on February 06, 2009, 13:52:18: ha! you can just see his head in the room of doom! great photos both of them!
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: rog on February 06, 2009, 14:34:27: Was that second shot the aftermath of that boof?
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Pia! on February 06, 2009, 15:12:05: Of THAT particular boof?!

Picture 1 = orange boat

Picture 2 = green boat

I know Tom is supposed to be a good paddler but even he can't change boats mid-boof!
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: JODY on February 06, 2009, 15:18:42: Thats not Tom in the green boat... look closer Pia ::)
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Pia! on February 06, 2009, 16:03:12: I'm pretty sure that was exactly my point jody......
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: JODY on February 06, 2009, 16:12:25: Oh terribly sorry Pia... i thought you were just THAT dumb :P
:-*
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Simon R. on February 06, 2009, 16:20:39: so did i......
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: cormac on February 06, 2009, 16:36:16: Rog,

No.

When you just paddle down a drop your boat moves downwards on top of the water's flow and you enter the stopper. When you boof your boat leaves the water at the lip of the drop and moves downwards with gravity but it also moves outwards thanks to your boof stroke, with the path of the boat being the third side of the triangle. This is why in the boof photo Tom's boat is not in any water at all but is in mid-air.

The two consequences of a successful boof are that:

(1) On landing you continue forward and away from the stopper, and

(2) Your boat changes colour.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: rog on February 06, 2009, 17:26:28: And your gear changes different colour and make as well?
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: cormac on February 06, 2009, 17:29:36: Unfortunately the main consequence of an unsuccessful boof is that the gear worn by your rescuer tends to show more prominently in the resulting photo because that person's gear is above water.

;)
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: rog on February 06, 2009, 17:33:58: Lol, but it looks like a really good boof, what happened?
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Diarmaid on February 06, 2009, 19:51:15: now clearly I'm no expert, but my understanding is that if you boof hard enough, time actually starts going backwards, the drop unerodes a couple of thousand years and the stopper moves downstream a few feet to the landing spot you picked out.

that's why I stopped paddling in the first place. it used to be about the laws of physics, dagnammit.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: roz on February 09, 2009, 00:47:29: speaking of clare glens... I hear there is a warning out on the river

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Q9HG17djw&feature=related

And yes i surf too much youtube
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Monkey Loving Bob on February 09, 2009, 12:17:36: Has anyone else noticed that aside from bashing Tom (always a worthwhile cause and investment of time) that is an awesome shot! Who did you pay to paddle for you Tom?
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Simon R. on February 09, 2009, 13:32:01: i was just thinking he should send that photo to sweet and pyranaha...... PR people would masturbate over a photo like that.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Evan on February 13, 2009, 10:18:18: That photo of Tom has gone international.

(Austria to be exact) (http://kajak.at/79/c0f991e2-cfff-4d96-8c96-8319711591fe/The_Clare_Glens_Race_Irland.html)
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: cormac on February 13, 2009, 10:25:57: Quote from: ska-child on February 06, 2009, 17:33:58
Lol, but it looks like a really good boof, what happened?

It was a really good boof, and he came third in the individual race. The swim happened in the team race - which is why Wongy is in the photo too.

Next time you see Tom hassle him to let you see the video clip of the boof photo which someone sent to him on his phone. You'll see why he was able to beat some of the top paddlers in the country - and, it seems, Austria.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Simon R. on February 13, 2009, 15:20:43: Event ein â€œKillerevent"....i guess that means the krauts enjoyed themselves
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Sick Boy on February 13, 2009, 15:32:11: you are right simon, especially seen as how the photo dosent include toms minging face.

cormac, i know you and tom have started moving on in your relationship, sharing a house together and so on but face it your golden boy tom came in 5th place. if you are in a race and there are 4 people who finnish faster than you you are in 5th place, not third.

tom, you suck.
Title: Re: Tom at the Clare Glens Invitational
Post by: Tr Ash on February 17, 2009, 17:22:02: twas me who took the mobile phone clip of tom, i was standing just a little bit down from the edge of big eas......might get the little video clips up on facebook one of these days.......watch this space.....looked class! didnt lose any speed at all :O