Holme Pierrepont – Aaron Holmes
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Lee Valley – C1L Joanna Blythe-Shields
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Lee Valley – K1L Chloe Holmes
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Holme Pierrepont – Willow Rodi
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Holme Pierrepont – Phoebe Spicer
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Lee Valley – C1L Hannah Rhodes
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Holme Pierrepont – Charlie Darby Dowman
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Lee Valley – C1M Callum Walling
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Lee Valley – C1M Adam Burgess
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Holme Pierrepont – Talu Aysan
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Holme Pierrepont – Chloe Wallace
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Lee Valley – K1L Arina Kontchakov
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Lee Valley – K1M Cody Brown
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Latest Results
| Sun 6th Jul | Oughtibridge |
| Shepperton | |
| Sat 5th Jul | Oughtibridge |
| Shepperton | |
| Sun 29th Jun | Cardington |
| Tryweryn Chapel Falls | |
| Sat 28th Jun | Cardington |
| Tryweryn Chapel Falls |
Bala Mill 2/3/Open DoubleMold Canoe Club & North Wales Slalom Clubs |
Persley 2/3 DoubleScottish Junior Champs - Scottish Junior Champs J10, J12, & J14 |
Its nearly time for the 2025 Llandysul Paddlers River Festival!
Llandysul Paddlers River Festival (7th – 10th August)
Are you up for fun and thrills? Run by the ever welcoming and friendly Llandysul Paddlers the River Festival offers Coasteering, River Swims, slalom training, intro to white water, rock climbing, river tubing, bush craft, sup, cliff jumping, tickets cost a maximum of £100 (discounts apply). It’s not just for kids either, parents can join in too, if you dare!
If that doesn’t wear you out you can follow it up with the Division 2/3/4 race.
Full details can be found on the Llandysul paddlers website
*This event earns a 5* rating from the Berriman family, so stop being morngy, stop faffin about, get tha sen signed up, it might be mafting or it could be nithering, wang tha sen off a cliff, make a wazzock of yourself, you’ll probably go arse over tit and be jiggered by the end but by eck you’ll have a gret time and it’s for next to nowt. You’ll be reet chuffed you did!
Raising Happy Champs
Train the Team Behind the Team! Support your Athletes by Empowering their Parents!
Successful sport outcomes happen when the coach-athlete-parent triangle is strong but while coaches are trained and athletes are supported parents are often left out of the game plan.
Through our experiences as a sporting family — the highs, the exhaustion, the uncertainty — I’ve come to deeply understand how important the parent role is in youth sport. So, as part of my PhD in sport psychology, I spent seven years designing the Super-P Workshop, a science-backed education program for sport parents. It’s the only parent education program to be scientifically tested and shown to reduce anxiety, improve competition outcomes, and strengthen communication between coach, parent and athlete.
Now, through Raising Happy Champs, a small but passionate team (just myself and one brilliant colleague!), we’re working to bring this workshop to clubs and organisations across all sports and all levels. It’s a one-off, 2-hour live workshop — and the feedback has been fantastic. One coach even told me, “The whole atmosphere of the club has changed.”
A short PDF is available with more details about the SUPER-P Club info Slalom and what we offer through Raising Happy Champs. If this is of interest oto your slalom club please get in touch.
Dr. Jen Harris
Psychologist | Founder, Raising Happy Champs www.raisinghappychamps.com
Shaping the Future of Slalom Consultation
Thank you to everyone that has responded to the consultation about the future of Slalom. The survey is now closed ad the results are being considered.
All the information regarding the proposals can be found here.
Water Quality Alert
Since the start of the year, Paddle UK has received an increase in the number of incident reports submitted through the online incident reporting system in which paddlers have been ill and that water quality was a possible cause.
Whether you are paddling, organising paddling activities, running an event or supporting others during a challenge, it is important to consider what approaches we can take to minimise possible illness.
Risk Assessment
If you are organising a paddling activity, or running an event it is highly recommended that water quality is part of the risk assessment process, taking into account the activity, environment and those that could be at risk. Use the AI Risk Assessment Checker to support you in the development of your risk assessment.
Paddle UK has comprehensive advice and guidance which can be found here.
Clarification of the UK Judging Rules (11th April 2025)
Following a few recent queries about the Judging Rules the Slalom Committee wish to clarify the interpretation of the rules in UK, particularly regarding Prem and Division 1 events. Rule Clarification Statement (April 2025)
Combined Kayak and Canoe Prize
For 2025, the England Slalom Talent Programme in conjunction with Peak PS will once again be offering a prize for the Male and Female paddlers aged J16 that have accumulated the greatest combined points total in kayak and canoe over the course of the 2025 domestic season. There will be a separate prize for each gender, where each prize winner will receive a £100 Peak PS gift voucher as a reward.
Last year there were a total of 121 paddlers who scored points towards the combined prize criteria with over 1000 start lists throughout the season. The overall 2024 winners were Amber Forster (Holme Pierrepont Canoe Club) and Nathan Hicks (Stafford & Stone Canoe Club).
Full details of this combined prize can be found HERE. The combined league tab will be updated throughout the season to show paddlers rankings in relation to this combined prize.
Volunteering in Slalom Training Offer
The Slalom Committee have developed and trialled a presentation to help recruit and train more people to volunteer at events. The presentation covers judging and timing roles and aims to inform people about these roles and the relevant rules, and encourage volunteers to get involved with running events. This can be combined with getting people to have a go a these roles supported by an experienced official. The trial run at September’s HPP Prem/1 event saw several new judges and section judges being recruited.
The committee would like to offer this suport to event organisers and clubs. We have a number of people willing to deliver the training which could be at club evenings, at events or training days. At events this could include supporting new volunteers into these roles. If you would like to arrange a training sessions for potential volunteers please contact Sally Atkinson.
Check out John Gregory’s ICF slalom podcasts
There are 95 episodes which can also be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Despite the name this is not an ICF product. John came up with the ICFslalom hashtag early in the 2015 season. The podcast started in 2019. This last year there were 58 guests across the 27 episodes. Series 4 were daily episodes through the Olympics and series 5 started this autumn. Lots of British guests and stories.
The Slalom Start Box
As announced in October, Paddle UK is excited to introduce the Slalom Start Box, a comprehensive toolkit designed to support paddler recruitment within clubs to increase the number of children and young people engaged in canoe slalom across the UK. Slalom Start builds on the incredible work that all clubs and volunteers do to introduce children and young people to the amazing sport of canoe slalom. It is intended to help share this knowledge and empower others to engage more people in canoe slalom. The digital toolkit is now available and supporting webinars are taking place during the winter, you can sign up here. If you have any queries please contact slalom start
Slalom Progress Awards
Last year Canoe Wales and the England Slalom Talent Programme, in conjunction with the England Slalom Committee, presented the new Slalom Progress Awards. We have updated the Awards for this year.
New C2 pairings
Apply direct to the C2 Bib Officer – you do not need to go through reinstatement. Ranked C2 pairs may enter races at any level.
Minutes of Slalom Committee Meetings
24 May 2025
6 April 2025
11 March 2025
8 February 2025
4 January 2025
England Slalom Talent Programme Squad
The England Slalom Talent Programme have published their Qualification Criteria for 2025/26. A link can be found HERE.
