The event is open to paddlers of all abilities – open event for all and elite event for those who are current GB squad/entering selection/want points towards British Championship/sponsored paddlers etc.

Check in starts at 9am on Saturday 10th July with the action kicking off at 10am freestyle time.

Please use the public car park adjacent to the lock (now pay and display but not extortionate) DO NOT A…TTEMPT TO PARK ANYWHERE ON THE ISLAND as this could jeopardise future events.

Hosts are Marlow Canoe Club, Kayakojacko and Square Rock who we thank.

Raffle prize: ‘Love it live live it’ freestyle camp. Sam Ward – GB Team Coach and owner of “Love It Live It” has generously offered to raffle a place on one of his week freestyle training camps to be held at HP this summer. Sam will be at Boulters over the weekend helping and raffle entry will be FREE to all competitors at Boulters on both days.
For more details of these …brilliant camps please see http://www.loveitliveit.co.uk/trips/freestyle_development_camps.html

Entry fee £5. Classes Open – Junior and Senior, Women and Men, Elite – Junior Women and Men, C1 / OC1, Senior Women and Men. This will be the proposed running order but numbers on the day may mean this is modified.

Don’t forget this event counts towards the British Champs and Selection for GB Team.

Squarerock – For providing prizes and Demo boats
Ophion – For providing a paddle as a prize
WWTCC – For providing many prizes
Pyranha – For sending down a box of goodies
Nookie – For posting out some kit and nookie condoms!
KayakoJacko – For providing the bibs for the event.

Finn, Mandy, Jo Meares for helping me sort out registering everyone.
Craig and Pikey for helping to Judge and score.
Mike for helping time-keeping, being really enthusiastic and helping with scoring.
Rob, Pikey, Mongo and Amy for taking photos with my camera.
Craig for bringing down Jackson Demo Boats.

And everyone who came down and got involved!

I hope everyone enjoyed the event, I had a brilliant day, and due to everyone being relaxed and helping out, it wasn’t stressful to run the event and even managed to get some time on the wave myself, really couldn’t have done this event without everyone’s help so big shout out to all the supporters, sponsors and helpers.

The sun was out, blue sky, a perfect 3 gate level for competition and fun. 50 people down at the weir during the day and a good few made it to the pub afterwards, lots of friends made and old acquaintances renewed, and after the tragic events of the week preceeding in Scotland, I really wanted this event to be even more about smiles and fun and just generally getting everyone on the water and enjoying themselves as a tribute to someone who never paddled without a smile on her face, and I’m humbled to say from the feedback from everyone I think we managed that.

I think 6 comps was a little bit too much to ask, especially expecting people to get big boats down to the weir as well so unfortunetly as we were running a bit late (mainly because we had more people than I expected, and a bit of general kayaking faff) I had to drop the Big Boat Comp. I hope the rest of the events were enough for everyone

The Old Gits comp featuring old-skool moves was won by Mally, best move being an old-skool paddle throw, glad your paddles are easy to spot! Freestyle pairs was thoroughly entertaining with some very impressive synchronised moves, especially from Sam and Pikey who managed a synchronised blunt and Helix, but the move that got the most points was a double kiss from Jo and Flic to the judge.

The Spin-to-win competition saw an interesting array of styles and techniques, from elegant clean spins to the brute force approach (Rob). Some notible efforts from Nicola, Robin and Jo meares, but the top 3 were in a notch above (might have to exclude sponsored paddlers from that next time).

The knock-out-comp was an interesting event, something I invented to try to level the competition and allow everyone to compete at their own level and stand a chance of winning. At registration each paddler was asked to name their 4 best moves, 1 that they could definetly do on the wave, 2 that they thought they could do and 1 which would challenge them. 4 moves, 4 rounds, you got 2 attempts to do the move to be able to move through to the next round. This lead to a lot of novices choosing basic moves like front surf and spining, and the more advanced (or cocky) paddlers putting blunts (or Helix if your name is Pikey!). This lead to a few suprise early exits and we saw a range of paddling abilites in the final round. Only 6 people managed all 4 moves they had named, and there was a short final to decide the winners, but in the end there was almost nothing between the top two and as the event was supposed to be fun and not about technical marking, we stopped it there and moved onto King of the Wave.

3 minutes of carnage on the wave saw 4 people on the wave in the final moments, then we were down to 2 with Matty paddleless holding onto Flic’s deck and trying not to get flushed off the wave but in the end Flic Triumphed to be Queen of the Wave!

At Prize giving we had some fantastic prizes courtsey of the above sponsors, Changing mats, dry bags, books, t-shirts, boardies, hats, key rings, condoms, stickers, roof bar protectors, an Ophion Paddle and paddle gloves (which keep your paddle dry )

The novice prize went to Louise for really impressing with her determination and really trying in the pairs and knock out comp. The special prize of the Ophion paddle went to a Junior paddler, Gabriel Metcalf for getting stuck in and not playing the safe option on the knock-out-comp and impressing with his determination and almost getting a Trick-woo in the last round.

I hope this event inspires others to go out and attempt to do something similar, it was pulled together in just 6 days, after a few emails a few post online with a nice glossy looking poster and a lot of support from the community. It would be great to see more like it and I’m sure the support will always be there, bring on the next event… Hurley BoaterX anyone?

Old Gits Comp
1st Jonathan Males
2nd Chuckey
=2nd Gordon Hoddinott
3rd Jacko

Freestyle Pairs
1st Felicity Meares and Jo Meares
2nd Josh and Sam
3rd Sam A and Pikey

Spin to Win
1st Sam A
2nd Rob Harris
3rd Matty Nicolas

Knock Out Comp
1st Sam Anderson
=1st Matty Nicolas
3rd Pikey
4th Rob Harris
=4th Nicola Beeby
5th Ben West

King/Queen of the Wave
1st Felicity Meares
2nd Matty Nicolas
3rd Dale Mears

King of the Rodeo
Gabriel Metcalf

Novice Award
Louise Royle

Photos – Dave ‘Scout’ Wortley, Rob Harris, Mongo, Pikey and Amy Bowditch.

Facebook Photos

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/album.php?aid=164056&id=507807426

Flickr few more than on facebook. (low res, if you want high resolution please PM me)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30267298@N05/sets/72157623717638609/

If you want to use any of the photos on your blogs etc, please link back to the albumn they came from. I really welcome any feedback from the event and hope to run another one like it some time.

Scout

PS Matty Swam….

All competition, the qualifying heats on Saturday 8th and the finals on Sunday 9th, will be located in the upper Noguera (section between Boren and Isil).

All safety equipment, Red Cross, Catalan police and firemen will be present at the event, ensuring its proper development.

You are welcome to enjoy this second edition of extreme kayak as well as all the additional activities related to the competition (lunch, freestyle expression session, dinner, etc.).

We hope that through this and other events, Pallars Sobirà, which has an excellent environment to practice outdoor sports, will be known beyond our border, benefiting thus the entire valley.

Thank you for your cooperation and we hope you will enjoy the events.

Sincerely yours, Dr. X

Details all found HERE!

PARENTAL CONSENT

SAS MAP

The most popular freestyle site in the UK again hosts a full weekend of competition and fun. This year we have a team from Kayakojacko and the UK Freestyle Committee organising a joint event of GB Selection and The SAS Hurley Classic. The event enjoys the backing of Software giants SAS and the Environment Agency.
Spectators are more than welcome and there is limited viewing access via the weir.

ADVICE CONFIRMING FINAL DETIALS OF THE EVENT AND CONFIRMATION THAT THE EVENT IS STILL ON WILL BE POSTED On http://www.tvfreestylers.co.uk/ PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE REGULARLY FOR UPDATES.

GB Selection
The event needs to be entered separately and entries will be taken on the day at the Control Point (The Pump House) on the SAS bank. This will be open from 0900 am. Entry to selection will automatically enter you in the Classic at no extra cost. Bibs should be retained for both competitions. Anyone can enter selection but A CURRENT COMPREHENSIVE BCU MEMBERSHIP CARD MUST BE PRESENTED ON THE DAY TO BE CONSIDERED FOR SELECTION

The event will run as 3x 45second rides, best 2 rides added together (dropped rides will be used in the case of a tie – see below).

Paddlers will be given points related to their ranking at each event (the Hurley event is the last of three events)1st place = 30 points, 2nd place = 27 points, 3rd place = 25 points, 4th place = 23 points, 5th place = 22 points then 21,20 etc

The best 2 out of 3 rankings will be added together to give a final ranking. In the event of a tie the DROPPED RIDES WILL BE USED – these will be added to the paddlers’ top scores FROM EACH EVENT and the paddlers then re-ranked.

The events will be run to ICF RULES

Juniors: The first year a competitor can compete as a junior is the year in which his/her 15th birthday falls. The last year a competitor can compete as a junior is the year in which his/her 18th birthday falls. If you are too young to be a junior on the team you can still compete for a place in the squad. If you are a junior for British Champs but a senior for selection your senior ride score in selections (which is also the heats for Brit Champs) will be placed in the junior category for British Champs.

The way Hurley is to be used will be announced in a morning briefing @ 0930 on Saturday 21 November. This will take place at the Control Point. Competitors are strongly advised to attend this.

The SAS Hurley Classic Event
The Classic competition this year will be run in a seeded and random heat order. We do this so that each heat has a range of experience with the notion that the more experienced help the less experienced, very much in the ‘spirit’ of paddling. From your initial scores we will progress into a final category with the top 20% of each class. This would be run as one big heat of 20 minutes. However if we d not get through the heats by 1600 hours we will use the heat scores to give final scores

All paddlers with white water experience and a solid roll are welcome but we recommend paddlers have experience of surfing waves and holes to make the most of the day.

Rules: The competition will run in jam session style heats, paddlers can take as many rides as they like during the heat, within the running order. Paddlers may take up to 30 seconds each ride until they flush or are buzzed off by a judge. Buzzing off occurs if you don’t score a move within 20 seconds or your 30 seconds has expired. Paddlers will be scored on the top four scoring moves that they complete during their runs. A scoring list will be available on the day (this will be representative of current freestyle scoring systems).

Linked moves will score an extra accumulator that equals 50% of the total value of the linked moves.

Once we have run all the heats we will run a super final with the top paddlers competing to the international freestyle knockout final rules.

Please bring all your own equipment. There may be a limited number of freestyle demo boats on the day.

Registration is open from 9am on Sunday and the competition starts at 10 .

Scouts Catering
The Crew are back again this year and will be serving up burgers, bacon tutties, coffee and tea etc…

BCU Insurance
The BCU Provide third party cover for the competitors during the competition times. BCU, SCA, WCA or CANI members will be required to show their membership cards when collecting their entry numbers. Anyone without a card or who is not an individual member of the BCU, SCA, WCA or CANI will be required to enrol in a temporary membership scheme which will provide insurance cover. This will cost £1.50

• KJO Coaching Sessions on the Saturday!!
• If it Floats, any craft item that you think will float then enter, see if you can take the title. on Saturday
• Boaters Ball, Over 18’s Saturday Night Longridge including Camping, some food, DJ, Bar, Heated and floored Marquee plus the chance to win some prizes for the best Saturday Night Fever themed fancy Dress.
• Jam session heats at the Hurley Classic event with a international rules final. Sunday
• There will be a refreshment tent this year based at Hurley Weir on both the Saturday and the Sunday of the event. This will be run by Bucks Scout canoe club in conjunction with TVF and KJO and will provide the usual assortment of hot coffee, tea, bacon and sausage sandwiches etc not to mention mars bars, cans of coke and stuff plus hopefully some home made cakes just like your mum makes! All proceeds from the refresment tent will go to charitable causes.

For further details please go to http://www.tvfreestylers.co.uk/index.php/hurley-classic/ 

Thanks

TVF & KJO

The Main Event
The main competition this year will be run in bib order so you’ll be up against whoever has the next bib. From your initial scores we will progress into a final category with the top 20% of each class.

All paddlers with white water experience and a solid roll are welcome but we recommend paddlers have experience of surfing waves and holes to make the most of the day.

Rules: The competition will run in jam session style 20 minute heats, paddlers can take as many rides as they like during the heat, within the running order. Paddlers may take up to 30 seconds each ride until they flush or are buzzed off by a judge.  Buzzing off occurs if you don’t score a move within 20 seconds or your 30 seconds has expired. Paddlers will be scored on the top four scoring moves that they complete during their runs. A scoring list will be available on the day (this will be representative of current freestyle scoring systems).

Linked moves will score an extra accumulator that equals 50% of the total value of the linked moves.

Once we have run all the heats we will run a super final with the top paddlers competing to the international freestyle knockout final rules.
 
Please bring all your own equipment. There may be a limited number of freestyle demo boats on the day.

Classes:
Ladies and Mens
Ladies and Mens (U18 on 1 January 2008)
Open C1
C1
Squirt
Master blasters – over 35’s

IF IT Floats
If it floats is all about any craft that floats showing us some freestyle. We are imagining sit on tops and inflatable craft but to be honest anything we don’t normally see will score highly. The more unusual the more likely of winning. The other way to win is to be unusual and able to pull a few moves.
One rule – your not allowed to use anything that may pollute the river
Saturday
KJO Coaching session 1000 – 1430
IF IT FLOATS     3pm – to finish

Sunday
Registration from 0800
Hurley Classic from 0900
Super Final – 1500
Prizes – Kudos is the first but we will also have some prizes donated by supporting companies.
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Entry – entry_form_here
Please return entries by 3 December 2008 to Kayakojacko, Hurley Classic Events Desk, c/o Kayakojacko, Unit Z1, Rose Business Estate, Marlow Bottom, Buckinghamshire, SL7 3ND

We will have limited time on the day. If your U18 your guardians or parents will need to take a look at this.

Camping is available through event friends Longridge and can be booked on 01628 483252 (remember that these guys are still fund raising for there existence, so donate www.longridge.org.uk)
Other accommodation
Check out – http://www.windsor.gov.uk/
Local Travel Lodges – www.travelodge.co.uk
Premier Travel Inn http://www.premiertravelinn.com

On site – On site we will have caterers, and a small marquee. Toilets are on the adjacent island.

If you would like to help or have any questions call 01628 478787.