Event Registration

Slalom St. Louis 2010 29 Registered Contestants. Event Date and Time: Saturday, May 29, 2010  10:00 Event Duration: Two days Location: Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, MO Entry: Open Helmets: Mandatory Divisions: Open Women (if ≥ 4 show up) Classes: Single-lane "sort of loose" slalom (Sat.) Dual-lane "sort of tight" slalom (Sun.) Organizer: St. Louis Daggers Map: Click here for online map Entry Fee: $20.00 online, $25.00 at race Contest Info: Click "Pay Now" button to pay online via PayPal. If you pay at the race, it'll be $25.00. RACE LOCATION: Tower Grove Park in South St. Louis. Friday's fun session will be on a slightly steeper hill with a mild left-hand bend at the top. Saturday and Sunday's races will be on the same hill as in past years, an S-shaped street with a mellow slope but plenty of speed. THE COURSES: As in previous years, they're gonna be "slalom," with courses varying from 40-ish to 88 cones. New this year: Start ramps! :-) FRIDAY, MAY 28, we plan an afternoon/evening outlaw session at "Spot 2," a slightly steeper hill at the other end of the park. Single lane, no timer, just for fun. If you wanna work out the kinks after your travel or just hang out, stop by any time after 5:30 p.m. This is what it looked like in 2008: SATURDAY, MAY 29, we plan a single-lane jam at "Spot 1," the same hill as previous years. Course will be a sort of loose-ish slalom, with spacing anywhere from 6 feet to 20 feet, emphasizing speed and fun--makeable for newbies, challenging for experts to go fast on. Take as many runs as you want; fastest time wins. Paul Graf about mid-course way back in 2006: Brian "MmmTacos" Ellison on the single-lane course in 2009: SUNDAY, MAY 30, we plan a dual-lane 88-cone race (in honor of the race's eighth year). Cones will be set straight (no offsets) but will follow the natural curves of the road, which bends right, then left. Cone spacing will be somewhere around 7 feet, perhaps with up to eight "mystery" cone spacings. Can't seem to find any photos of past dual courses laid out on this hill, so no pic here. Just picture two lanes snaking their way down the hill and following the curves. TIMING: Trackmate timing system, using RANDOM beep for dual-lane racing. AMENITIES: Bottled water and Gatorade-type drinks; portable restroom, plus public restroom about 300 yards away; plenty of shade from the park's many trees; event-only pavilion with picnic tables and water pump 50 yards from top of the course. PARKING: There's room for about 8-10 cars near the barricades at the top of the course, and there's plenty more room to park on South East Drive, just on the other side of Central Cross Drive. SURFACE: Decent asphalt, good runout at the bottom--little or no footbraking required. The streets are very slightly crowned and not particularly steep, but you won't be hurtin' for speed. 1st place: At least $100.00 2nd place: At least $50.00 3rd place: At least $25.00 Custom trophies of some sort to top 3 finishers. Swag from various companies in the works. And maybe a surprise or two. Stay tuned... LODGING: Closest hotel: Water Tower Inn. This former hospital (yes, you read that right) is at Lafayette & I-44. Rates are about $75/night. Next closest: Red Roof Inn Forest Park. Also about $75/night. Awaiting word on whether a group rate is available. If you wanna go cheap(er), try Motel 6 in Fenton, about 12 miles away but a super-easy 15-20 minute drive on I-44 to get to the race location. A small number of racers may be able to find a place to stay with one of the Daggers. If finding a place to crash will make the difference between coming and not coming, let us know, and we'll try to work something out. WEATHER: In the event of the "R" word, we have three options: 1) Cancel the race (nooooooo!) 2) Race anyway (rain or shine), or 3) Invoke the "Dick Cheney contingency plan" and move the race to an "undisclosed location" somewhere out of the rain. In the race organizers' opinion, Option #1 just totally sucks; Option #2 is pretty darn unworkable, so it's not REALLY an option. Which leaves us with Option #3: If we get dumped on, we will move the race to a parking garage downtown. It would result in a different race than at Tower Grove, but we should be able to pull it off. More details will be available in the "racer's packet" PDF that will be sent to all registered racers before the event. If we get just a little rain, we may be able to dry the course with some help from Mother Nature--and a propane torch, as shown in this photo of the one and only Clifton Jennings: OTHER STUFF: Free BBQ at the Turkish Pavilion after Saturday's race. If you're lucky, you may get to witness something like this: What's a Turkish Pavilion, you ask? It's a big shelter about 50 yards from the top of the course. A sampling of goodies from previous years: 2009 "Best Beef" trophy with its owner, Tom Mangelsdorf 2008 2007 2006 What do we have in store for 2010, you ask? (What, new start ramps aren't enough?) :-) Actually, it's getting harder and harder to come up with clever ideas every year--but we'll try. Click "Pay Now" button to pay online via PayPal. If you pay at the race, it'll be $25.00. 1st Place Finisher: 2nd Place Finisher: 3rd Place Finisher: Overall Results:

Registered Contestants (29) -- Slalom St. Louis 2010
Name	Home City	Division	Classes	Sponsors	Bio	Comment	Date Submitted
1. Jeremy Coffman	Louisville, KY			Legendary Longboards			4/25/2010 5:41:46 PM
2. Keith Hollien	Gainesville, FL				Keith Hollien Signature Series, Radikal Trucks, AXE ARMY & Oust	Skateboarding Since 1964 & Slalom Skateboarding Since 1976	4/25/2010 6:11:53 PM
3. Willy Demis	Indianapolis, IN	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Ha...	Newbie. Little training. Just having a good time!		4/25/2010 9:34:53 PM
4. Chris Doan	Richardson, TX	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Fullbag Skates			4/25/2010 10:44:34 PM
5. Lenny Poage	Huntington, WV	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Marc's Board Shop, Pawnshop, Found		Dang glad I can finally make this race!!	4/26/2010 3:36:06 AM
6. David Tolley	Huntington, WV	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	1998 skates	Father of Old Skool Evan	I'm bringing my Axe and It's going to get ugly.	4/26/2010 5:03:37 AM
7. stephen lavin	CHIxILL	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	CHIxILL		I'm bringing $77	4/26/2010 5:25:30 AM
8. Glenn Bukowsky	Dallas, Texas	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Texas Outlaws (Anybody else in their right mind wouldn't sponsor me)	Just bringing the flow, hopefully faster than at the Siz. Maybe get close enough to Sniffless to read the back of his shirt! Ha!	Damn Lavin! You got $77?! I may hafta hang out with you! Keep me from arrest for vagrancy!	4/26/2010 9:03:08 AM
9. Dave Larson	minneapolis Mn	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Pavel			4/26/2010 1:50:50 PM
10. Lou Statman	TEXAS...That's right ... All of it!	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Yea right	Texas Outlaws... Axe Army... I've been skating with some guy named Henry.	I still don't care who Heather's going to the prom with. I'm here to skate.	4/26/2010 2:39:02 PM
11. David Harris	Crown City,Ohio	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane				4/26/2010 2:53:55 PM
12. Steve Pederson	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Pavel	Long time listener, first time caller --- actually making it to the race this year.	Does the 88 cone race have a mid-way rest spot?	4/26/2010 6:08:38 PM
13. Evan Tolley	Huntington, WV	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Plum Skateboards, Marc's Board Shop			4/26/2010 8:14:01 PM
14. Paul Graf	Alton, IL	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	UN	Just another board-startramp-trophy building kook	I little voice said "build it and he will come"... so he better get his A## to STL.	4/27/2010 11:11:20 AM
15. Aaron Yowell	Kansas City, Missouri	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Pull-n-peel licorice			4/27/2010 8:50:49 PM
16. Keenan Thompson	Minneapolis, MN	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	BeSquared Longboards	I mostly DH, but have been skating slalom w/ Steve and Dave for a bit also. This will be my second slalom race.	I'm stoked for this race!	4/29/2010 7:55:42 AM
17. Lisa "BailDog" Scott	Minneapolis, MN.	Women (if ≥ 4 show up)	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Twin Cities Slalom Crew		How could I NOT show up? It never rains in Saint Louie, right?	5/5/2010 7:50:53 AM
18. Jonathan Harms	STL, MO	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Wicks Aircraft, John Greer epoxy--oh, wait, I kinda subsidize THEM	Co-race organizer. Direct all kudos to me, all complaints to P.Graf. :-)	If anyone has one of those jet-engine dragstrip dryers, please bring it along. Where dem MI and IL boyz at?	5/7/2010 2:24:40 PM
19. Terra Massia	Kansas City, MO	Women (if ≥ 4 show up)	Single-lane , Dual-lane				5/7/2010 4:07:05 PM
20. Sasha Goad	St.Louis Missouri	Women (if ≥ 4 show up)	Single-lane , Dual-lane		My first race. The next generation of Goad skaters!	Practice practice practice!	5/9/2010 9:50:38 AM
21. Paul Adams	Dallas, TX	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	my mom	I'm a little bit outlaw and a little bit pool shark but all that really means is I'm a commin via Texas	looking forward to roll with all of ya	5/10/2010 6:34:43 PM
22. Peter Metzger	Bronson, MI	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Metzger Skates	Peter Metzger has been skating since he was born but still manages not to be very good at it. He runs Metzger Skates out of a small workshop with the goal of changing the world.	Can't wait!	5/14/2010 12:01:11 PM
23. c fav	CHIxILL	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Representing the Freak Bros.	Leaner,meaner,looking for the not too far betweener.	Wow.Eight years!Thanks to the STL crew and their families for doing this every year.I love you guys.	5/17/2010 7:26:48 AM
24. Derek Yerke	Lansing, MI	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Bees Knees Skathletics / Go Green Longboarding	I started slalom racing last year because I had no chance of beating my brother at anything else. We founded Bees Knees Skathletics shortly after because we were too broke to keep buying new decks :)	Haven't secured a ride yet, but I have $88, a kids tent, and two healthy legs, so I'll kick there if I have to!	5/17/2010 8:47:06 AM
25. Paul Price	London, England, Great Britain	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Pavel Racing Team		Looking forward to seeing how you roll in St. Louis MO. Looks like a fun event!	5/21/2010 4:56:38 PM
26. Deron Rehma	St. Louis Mo	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	JBH!	Slalom racer from 1970's		5/21/2010 6:55:25 PM
27. Jason Yerke	Lansing, MI	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	Bees Knees Skathletics / Go Green Longboarding		Can't Wait!	5/25/2010 6:58:34 AM
28. Chris Booth	Mason, Ohio	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane	My own sweat and blood		Skate to work, skate everywhere, skate to go fast, skate for mind and body.	5/27/2010 8:59:55 PM
29. the dagger	?	Open	Single-lane , Dual-lane				5/28/2010 7:49:29 PM