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There's clearly a very strong safety case for using the Exo. It's a good back protector AND protects against crush injuries in rotations, which seems to be the killer type of accident. Rumours like "it can cause whiplash" are clearly nonsensical and easily dismissed IF the right information is...

Turns out Burghley and Blenheim both have the same soil type (a free draining limestone loam), Point still stands that the Burghley organisers said that without their groundworks the course would not have been useable, and they did have an awful lot more rain there. Parking lots of vehicles on...

[ QUOTE ] Earlier this year I did the BHS EFSAC course and the instructor seemed fairly anti- to the rigid one because it can't quickly be torn open/unvelcro'd to reveal the patient's chest for resuss, but you need the correct allen key for that frame and preferrably you need an allen key with...

Perhaps one thing worth noting is that Burghley had far more rain on the Friday before, around four times as much, and it rained for much of Saturday too (tomorrow is going to be warm, dry, and sunny). The difference is that Burghley have invested significantly in ground works to keep the course...

Well I was wrong. And I know they won't have cancelled unless they really felt they had too. Bitterly disappointed though, and I was only going as a spectator. Blenheim had 6 mm/a quarter inch of rain this afternoon and into the evening, and it's only just stopped raining in that area.

I've be quite surprised if it was cancelled this far in advance. I'm a weather forecaster and though Tuesday will be quite wet yet again, the rest of this week should be settled and above all dry! I imagine the ground conditions will have improved markedly by the end of this week.