the beard test

Use this test to determine you beard level. Tick all the boxes which apply then press the button at the bottom. Your beard level should pop up in an alert box. When your beard level has been calculated click the link at the bottom to read about what you beard level means and what you can do about it. There are six levels with descriptions on the next page.



1 Do you own a canoe longer than 4 metres?
2 Have you ever spent and entire weekend away providing saftey cover and not paddled at all?
3 And enjoyed it?
4 Do you carry enough repair kit to build a new canoe on all trips?
5 Have you built you own canoe?
6 Do you get excited by canoe sailing?
7 Do you take a throw line when evey you go to the supermarket, just in case?
8 Have you ever taken you dog paddling?
9 Can you fit full camping equipment in your boat?
10 Have you done this?
11 Have you ever seem someone run a rapid and thought, what a fool?
12 Have you been to a coaching synopsium?
13 More than once?
14 Have you ever said, that boat is far too small?
15 Do you posses cloth badges?
16 Are you proud of the fact?
17 Do have a preference for wooden blades?
18 Do you carry flares when paddling on the canal?
19 Do you paddle on the canal?
20 Do you practice X-rescues at the end of every session?
21 Have you forgotten the last time you were scared when paddling?
22 Have you never been scared when paddling?
23 Do you like muesli and porridge?
24 Do you have laminated plastic cards with strokes on them?
25 Do you carry a map and compass for a river trip?
26 Do you own a group shelter?
27 Do you think it is fun to sit in it?
28 Do you take a full packed lunch on a river trip?
29 Do you take a cooking stove on a river trip?
30 Does your first aid kit contain more equipment than the local A and E?
31 Do you think that oxy-acetylene cutting equipment is a good idea on the river?
32 Does you boat have an emergency radio fitted?
32 Do you read safty manuals?
33 Do you tow a life raft behing your boat?
34 When you lead a group do you give out crib cards with group signals on them?
35 Do you think freestyle means that your stokes do not have to exactly correspond to the BCU hand book?
36 Has you boat never been vertical?
37 Do you thing the H-rescue is a good idea?
38 Do you paddle in order to get closer to nature?
39 Do you wear sandals at all availible oportunities?
40 Do you colour coordinate your kit?
41 Do you think that open boating is a great way to get about?
42 Do you think rolling should be avoided at all costs?
43 Do you wear woolen clothing on the river?
44 Do you understand tide charts?
45 Do you think CoDe is a good read?
46 Do you think deck lines are a usefull adition to you boat?
47 Have you ever made a small child cry?
48 Do you feel a desire to work in the scouts?
49 Do you regularly leave pubs before 10pm?
50 Do you think getting drunk is just immature?


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