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Grueningen
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On 5/3/2002
Scabs
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Do the organizers realize that they are having their contest on the same date (weekend) as the World Longboard Slalom Championship? It would be a shame if worlds talent couldn`t make Rasos event. Already listed is racers from Sweden, Australia, France, Canada, and from all over the USA. Here is the link....
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Albert
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On 5/3/2002
Michael
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Albert Memorial's fine by me. To anyione that doesnt know where it is, its opposite the Albert Hall, nearest tube Kensington High Street.
I want to play with my new toys.
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Sunday
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On 5/3/2002 Clingfilm
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How about Albert Memorial or Hyde Park on Sunday.
Chris
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Swiss course
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On 5/3/2002 Clingfilm
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I could arrive on Saturday or Friday night to help set the course with anyone else if this is of any use.
I have suggested before John, Chris Hart, Levene and myself could do it fairly.
Looking forward to it.
Chris
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map
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On 5/3/2002
fff
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your map will be very usefull for me.i leave in lyon(france);i will be happy to see you in grueningen
danke chris
fred
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re: grueningen
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On 5/3/2002 chris eggers
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done!
hope it helps!
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grueningen
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On 5/3/2002 fff
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chris,
Fredreveillard7@aol.com
(now it's righT!!!!!)
fred
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grueningen
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On 5/3/2002 fff
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chris
here's my new adress:
Fredreveillard@aol.com
thanks chris,it's really cool!
fred
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re: grueningen
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On 5/3/2002 chris eggers
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I tried to email a map to you but the mail was returned because of a failure in the adress...
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grueningen
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On 5/3/2002 fff
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and zurich????
(joke)
fred
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grueningen
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On 5/3/2002 chris eggers
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Grueningen is very close to Zuerich
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grueningen
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On 5/3/2002
fff
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few people organize slaloms in europe.i believe we can congratulate the organizers for their job and let them organize the slalom as they usually do it for 2 years...
it will be a very good day..
(please;where is grueningen?....)
fred
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Re: Grueningen
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On 5/3/2002 Chris Eggers
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I will enter if the course is 10 or 150 meters long, I dont mind.
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Grueningen
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On 5/3/2002
Jadranko
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I'm one of the organisators of the Grueningen PS-Contest (www.pscontest.ch). If the request for a larger
course is big enough, we will make a larger course...
How many people would only join the contest if the course would be 140 or 150 metres?
Please send a mail to: info@pscontest.ch
To John Gillmour: Would you help us in designing the larger course?
If you are interested please send a mail to: info@pscontest.ch
PS: Grueningen is only a 1/2 hour away from the Zurich mainstation with public transport. I'm currently looking for some accomodations. Our homepage will appear in english soon...
Greetings
Jadranko
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Grueningen
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On 5/3/2002
Clingfilm
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How do you enter and where do I go. Zurich is fine but where is the contest and where can I stay.
Anyone know, anyone else going from the UK.
Lee can you get me a quote for the flights etc. that we can post here.
Chris
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Grueningen Contest 23.06.02
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On 5/3/2002
Chris Eggers
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I just sent in my entryform for the Grueningen Contest on 23.06.02. If anyone wants to join me from Karlsruhe, Germany, please email me.
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Swiss comp.
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On 5/2/2002 john gilmour
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Mike, Hart and Stroble were in the Swiss contest so there is a good level of talent there. I realize that Santi Diaz, Andres Sidler, and Daniel Ridoli were absent- but perhaps they will make it this year. The italians have mentioned that they were going to a Swiss comp this year.
80 meters that is a pretty short course for TS not allowing for much variation- hopefully they'll make a longer one this year. Having so few cones would out tremendous emphasis on the start as opposed to the skill level through the cones if it was done with a common start. Independent timing would help- but yes I think 30 cones is a little short. We would be looking at under 10 second times which would make a mistake at any part of the course- bad Start, hitting a cone, skid.... too hard to recover from. Hopefully we'll see courses with more cones. Though having 30 cones in what appears to be a " ISSA Special slalom format" would meet the minimum cone requirement. ISSA rules stated that the Special slalom course would between 30 and 60 cones to meet requirements. Actually "double special slalom" is not a recognized ISSA discipline anyway.
I think the reasoning to allow courses as short as 30 cones was to allow for space requirements more than anything else. I also think 60 cones being the limit was to make it fair for people that either do not have so many cones for practice- or do not have enough practice space. 30 cones for flatland slalom with a ramp makes some sense and I would expect courses with hills to be closer to the 60 cone limit.
If you were to have a 85 cone course on a steep hill- it's likely that those from coming flatland areas would not be able to handle the speed and complete the course. Also it would take a lot of stamina.
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New contests
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On 5/2/2002
Clingfilm
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I have been in contact with Bournemouth Council to use one to their park (Slade Farm) which has a really bad skatepark in it, but a few little ramps.
Although not totally confirmed I have been taliking to them and they see no problems coming and I should have official notification soon.
The location is like Crystal Palace but a little narrower, but longer and slightly smoother.
We can run giant, longboard and staggered on the variable slope, a bbit like Greenwich. I will go down upon confirmation to take pictures for you.
Accomodation and transport is easy in Bournemouth and it is the sunniest town in the UK.
Dates
29-30 June
24-25 August
These date do not clash yet.
More to come
Chris
UKSSA
Anyone up to sponsor it. We have a UK/Euro championship here:
Brands
Skatenstone,
Sheffield (TBA)
2 x Bournemouth
Any other event in Europe to add to it.
Serious stuff.
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Swiss comps and the site www.pscontest.ch
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On 5/2/2002
Mike
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Hi there,
about the swiss contests, if you like to know what is going on exactly check out www.sk8board.ch or www.asphaltsurfing.ch
About the site www.pscontest.ch this is the site of a youth organisation from a town called Grüeningen. They started to organise this event about 2 or 3 years ago. So far it is still a very smal local event where there is no international riders. It`s still fun to go there but don`t expect a high rider level.
If you don`t wanna miss a event it`s the “street surf cross“ comming from Mai 18. - 20. This event is probably the biggest of its kind check out www.streetsurfcross.ch
Riders from the USA, UK, Germany, France, Austria and switzerland have already anounced that they are comming.
Mike @ summit
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Lots of stuff
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On 5/2/2002
Clingfilm
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Aviemore
Gravity said to us when we were in Sheffield that they had Channel 4. The news is from them. Knowing the UK media, who knows for sure, the market is too small to show all. Satelite wanting to fill airtime, or US channels have the best options, but terrestial TV must be the goal.
Hats off to Gravity if its true. Remember they still want a slalom comp, but I can not be there or arrange it. If you want you 5 mins of fame ORGANISE IT. Get slalom on TV.
John
I have the said contest on the calendar. I think that it is in Zurich. I am not so sure about the course. I am told, by the organisers that it is 80 meters in length, and I find it difficult to count more that 30 cones on the course, you do the maths.
I have no details of course. I have offered that Leven myself and Chris Hart set the course, and if you come then we could set a cracker which satisfies all. However I have had no feedback from that. I have no other details, airports, accomodation, entry fee/process, how to get there etc.
I'll be there if I have enough details, Fly out Saturday come back Sunday night Monday morning.
If you want back up for media remember that I can provide letter heads etc for the UKSSA, send me the text, the address and I'll post it. I can put your address on the letterhead.
Brands
I talked to Simon Gunning today and he is keen to hold a downhill (old school) event there. Saturday we could hold this and this will confirm a good relationship between longboarders, downhill and slalom, as it was before. More details to follow after date confirmation.
Brasil
This sound great but expenses will disqualify me on this. I was there 18 years ago in Rio, You must go if you haven't been. I love the sound of it. We had nowhere in the UK able to do this apart from tha skatepark 'Tag" games we played at Thunder.
Chris
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Brazilian Banked Slalom
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On 5/2/2002 john gilmour
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They have been having banked slalom events in Brazil for a while.
I used to live in Brazil and can mispronounce Portuguese well. The parks tended to be wide open Super Parks great for surf influenced high speed vert carving. Some were large enough that we would get dragged by off road motorcycles into these huge 300 foot long halfpips and have our own banked slalom races- head to head format both people towing off the same motorcycle. (don't try this at home- we used to wreck pretty spectacularly. We even set up mirrored courses and would run them at the same time nearly crashing into each other at the bottom every time we crossed each other's paths in the half pipe- once in a while you would see people get "gutt wrapped" at high speed.
We got rid of the mirrored courses concept after that. We had no timing system so that was the only way to do it.
If the race is in Rio then I would be much more likely to fly down-if Sao Paulo- it might be more difficult. Olson and Hackett might like Rio. Yuppie can help guide us around- besides, Reef gets some of its models from there.
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Swiss Competitions
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On 5/2/2002
john Gilmour
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The site for the Swiss contest is http://www.pscontest.ch
There are lots of menus on the top to investigate.
I am assuming it is Swiss because .ch is the European abbreviation for Switzerland or Confederation Helvetica or something like that. The site is in German and you can go to Babelfish.com to get a variety of free translators- I used Altavista's machine translation. Copy and paste.
Sounds like they have been having competitions for some time as they used to do their slalom competitions with University Longboard before they decided to start doing them on their own. I guess the slalom comps never stoppped in Europe as Latvia also has had at least a major competition every year. My translator isn't the clearest- but it sounds like they broke off doing slalom competitions in conjunction with University Longboard after 2000 aand have oprganized their own competitions since 2000,2001 and this years. Chris Hart and Maurus seem to be doing very well over there.
The course they set looks like a good one- judging from the picture of Stroble and Hart from the top.
I'm going to try and make it over there. Guido Sidler, Andres Sidler's dad, used to throw amazing competitions in Hombrecktikon Switzerland. I hope these will be nearly on the same level. Ussually it takes a promoter a year or two before they get the bugs worked out. It sounds like they are doing well immediately. Those Swiss have a way with organizing- like clockwork.
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TV coverage
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On 5/2/2002
Paul Price
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I had a long drinking session with the producer of ITV news and showed him photo's of Catlina so give me the skinny and I will lobby him. His kid skates and he play Tony Hawk Proskater.
As for banked slalom in Brazil, sounds great! Me and Cling film would always skate parks and vert first, slalom second. We even found a huge pool in Neasden! I stopped halfpipe after I snapped my ankle in Australia in 1990. But it feels pretty good now!
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avie
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On 5/2/2002 longy
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http.www.gravitysports.co.uk
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who is arranging avimore??
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On 5/2/2002
Grant
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Doe's anyone know who is arranging Avimore??
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