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Vincent Berruchon

saturday should be :

sunday is more uncertain

but hey it's good to come to see all of you slalom pirates!

Vincent Berruchon

Let's go!!
I'm getting out of my lair

see you in GOGland!!!

PS : On sunday after the event I'll have to be at Dusseldorf airport around 18:00 (take off 19:15)- Donald will probably be quite busy after the race, I hope to find a good soul to help to get my plane.

Vincent Berruchon

Hey why not!! can we have more details on the schedule?

Vincent Berruchon

Grenoble 2009 no specs, no danger, no glory, no pain.... no money, no booze, no chicks no fame... short.....boring! I'm so bored of forum talkin but I have to react Dom writing that is just lying and unfair and what time of day do you take theses pictures, can you say? This contest is setting an hi...

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Ramón Königshausen wrote:Looks like we're finally not racing against the wind anymore. But it seems like the drawback is we're not in front of the stage anymore.

rmn

Probably organizers think it's too dangerous: some spectators could be injured by cones launched at them by racers loosing nerve!
8P

Vincent Berruchon

Arrghh Seems there's finally no Parisian ready to go by car for this week-end :( Last chance could be to go by train Would an arrival on friday night at 21h15 KOELN HBF and a return on Sunday 18h44 KOELN HBF (there's another a bit later but more expensive) would be something possible? A catch to go ...

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silvio endrizzi wrote: I still need to tune my new SuperPower --> Vincent gave me 0.8 sec.

Silvio "Il Mago Merlino" Endrizzi

Luckily I'm always wearing my Tibetan armlet and it protected me from your black magic tricks Silvio

Vincent Berruchon

What a great week-end in beautiful AMSTERDAM! I was a bit surprised that so few people came.. but if you didn't - you did miss a nice event. Everything was there for a good race... only the rain did troubles but even with uncertain weather we could nearly respect the daily schedule, even on the rain...

Vincent Berruchon

Normally I have a place to sleep for Thursday and Friday but got to find something for Saturday and Sunday. Is there some skaters who'd like to book a room in an hostel or an hotel, or who ever booked and that I could join at the same place? email: vincent AT riderz dot net / cell: +33 . six 60 75 1...

Vincent Berruchon

Bom dia Amsterdam!

I'd like to come for the race but also to stay a little in the city and carve the bowl
I'm not sure many frenchy will come... so who is going to eventually arrange something? Or pehaps some locals to hang out or for couchsurfing?

Vincent Berruchon

So finally who's in?
I'll probably be alone in my double room in Ibis hotel in centre of Grenoble
so if someone interested it's quite cheap (less than 40€ for the double - it's a special price) - contact me (cell: +33 6 60 75 17 32)

Vincent Berruchon

Little update about the race Benny ! ;) Online registrations are opened here : http://assoride.free.fr/mascaride For ISSA's marshals... The status of the race is still awaited ! Thanks ! The contest in Nantes is next week end and no news from marshalls?? it's bad because it's a good venue, in a nic...

Vincent Berruchon

I've been totally out of what happend here for quite long time, but what about the status. It's not setted for races of May and June? The contest in Nantes is next week end, and they had no news... it's bad because it's a good venue, in a nice city quite easy to access. THey were expecting internati...

Vincent Berruchon

we have seen often junior racing also in AM, or woman racing with am or even pro too... There is nothing wrong with woman racing pro, or Jr racing AM -- As long as this is the ONLY class they enter in the race. I don't know if it's should be considered wrong but we saw some racers entering differen...

Vincent Berruchon

So according to the actual rules: organizers should decide and announce which discipline is the tie breaker? The contest sanction application document should also precise this when an overall results is to be calculated, don't you think? I totally forgot about this rule. That clear and easy too if a...

Vincent Berruchon

we have seen often junior racing also in AM, or woman racing with am or even pro too...

Vincent Berruchon

The problem is about overall ranking calculation, isn't it?

If an event has 3 disciplines, what about a that doesn't participate to a discipline compared to one that did a DQ?

Vincent Berruchon

Pat I think Jani is talking about more than just a DQ for a run. When it comes to dangerous acts for the public, judges and/or equipment, how do you want to show this discipline in a good way! Lot of people have been shocked about some totally inappropriate behaviors last week end. I'm even feared t...

Vincent Berruchon

Great event in Grenoble. Organization was of a professional level like we'd like to see more often. Despite the bad weather, everything worked well - we can only regret the cancellation of the Giant on a really promising spot because of the rain - but mother nature decide and we cannot change that a...

Vincent Berruchon

NEWS : Amateur : the winner of the ALLOVER competition will win a 1-week stay all inclusive in his/her chosen UCPA centre (sport holidays centre) in France (voucher is valid for 1 year). Value : 600 to 800 Euro. Women: if there are over 10 participants, the winner of the ALLOVER competition will win...

Vincent Berruchon

If nothing changed, from what I know, Pierre is helping as being responsible of slalom races

Vincent Berruchon

Oh and I fogot to say taht Pierre is in charge of the slalom races and represent the event organizer for slalom related points.
so yes he is the one who deserves respect organizing races for years!

Vincent Berruchon

Pierre has been a bit hard but hey I can understand - is it a tradition to lobby french organizers about course settings again and again?? seems it's only french events? why? Don't they desserve a bit of respect of their decisions?? Is it because they try to be fair and to announce details (and for ...

Vincent Berruchon

great - things are getting close!!! Finally I've found a appartment with 3 rooms, with David we are only two, so does someone would be interested to share with us? (I think we can be four, but at least one people would be great - it's 3500SEK for wednesday 30 to tuesday 5) my cellphone: +33 660 75 1...

Vincent Berruchon

Great week end in Munich, nice city, nice people, nice weather, everything fine (except the return...) the spot is really good and the Munich crew did a good jobs with my teammates from Pavel. This outlaw race showed conditions better than bigger races we saw. I also really enjoyed the KeyHole sk8pa...

Vincent Berruchon

We are flying tonight to Munich. We'll be there for the euro final too as we are only leaving on Monday!! I took my bowl deck with me (arghh.. big bag!!) Is the "Monaphone" available now (http://www.alexander.meinekommilitonen.de/eStartseite.html) ? Or a number just in case I could be lost somewhere...

Vincent Berruchon

Hallo Seems Munich got an active scene and ever organize some race. The event seems interesting, what about the sanction status? hum but ok status is not important but is it really outlaw in a place where nothing is for sure so it's why nothing noticed? And what about not doing a separation between ...

Vincent Berruchon

Fresh painting on the Trocadero (tight slalom marks really late Wednesday night on deserted Trocadero) http://riderz.net/galerie/gal/Evenements/Riderz/Grand%20Prix%20du%20Trocadero%202008/Preparatifs/RIDERZ_GP_P1000982.jpg Grand Prix 2008 gallery (check it we will update it during the contest) Pictu...

Vincent Berruchon

========================= OPENING PARTY - WEDNESDAY ========================= We are waiting for you on Wednesday for the opening party of the TROCADERO GRAND PRIX: we call it the "RIDE ON!" party The party will take place in a famous parisian alternative club "Glaz´Art" Concerts! Three bands live :...

Vincent Berruchon

let's move away from bickering a bit. the season looks good lots of races the czech crew is coming on strong this year with good events too. each country got what they deserved,no country should ask for more,my oppinion if you want to make it fair and square. Wow ;) but no real bicker here (ok if w...

Vincent Berruchon

yup its a problem with power at small races where you don't have a power generator. And if you have a new expensive laptop with a fresh battery that would last a race, perhaps having it outdoors at a skateboard race is not the first thing you choose. Anyways I was just curious if you had tried it. ...

Vincent Berruchon

Dom, I don't want to accuse you or any "status marshalls" of bad intentions. I was only pointing on lack of information... As you've said France is well deserved, so I cannot say anything that you've probably compared many parameters and you have been attentive to hard work done by french organizers...

Vincent Berruchon

We love Latvia

but something is not really clear about the race locations:
are the other race (tight and special) held in Jurmala or somewhere else?

I suppose you'll have a bus to go to the Giant spot? Going from where? Riga, Jurmala...?

Vincent Berruchon

I'm a bit surprised to see Hanover promoted Main so quickly as I had understood before that Dete wouldn't organize a big event in Hanover this year. As everybody is giving his 2 cents, I will to. I really don't want to attack Dete, he did good before and organizing is not easy but I was really decei...

Vincent Berruchon

Wow Mick was on fire... and Ella did great too!!
I suppose they are training together and that works!!!! Way to go!

We know about Swedes but it seems that Czech riders are also definitely back in the game for this new season!

Vincent Berruchon

So what are the news?

Vincent Berruchon

Hey Anders, good news.
Congratulations for this album
I wrote a litlle article on riderz.net about it:
http://www.riderz.net/index.php?option= ... &Itemid=41

Will you tour outside Sweden soon?

Vincent Berruchon

Inauguration of our new concrete skatepark is finally confirmed an it's Saturday!!!
anyway with our hopes to skate pacific islands and the big amount of work at the moment, I didn't had time to organize this difficult trip!

Hervé will represent France. Go Hervé!
Have Fun

Vincent Berruchon

Very fast times. Nice job! Did you try out the excelmate program or did you do the old paper and pencil routine? No test yes. I asked for but I suppose no one had tme to do it. But I took the chrono at home after the race (It's Jani's, he lets us use his chrono), so I should at least try to test th...

Vincent Berruchon

Our parisian skatepark is nearly finished Look at a few pictures I took yesterday (and a few minutes skate all alone in the bowl!!!) http://www.riderz.net/galerie-simple/?spgmGal=Spots/Espace_Glisse_Paris_18_-_avant_finitions We were waiting for so long... Me and David went to many meetings with oth...

Vincent Berruchon

I wrote: Is there some people that really think we should race on wet roads?

Vincent Berruchon

So no guarantee that an organizer ask the racers to race no matter how bad the weather is. Violent rain or even little rain, slalom racing under the rain is not really something I realy want to practice too much with usual slalom skateboards. It does just mean nothing! Longboarding under the rain or...

Vincent Berruchon

Here it is a little video made by some new slalom fans during a session aimed to test the spot (Plaisir, 30' from Paris). "Slalom session" http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxGb36FJIY Nice cut by Wave, images by Flav The spot is good for Giant. Really few cars arriving slowly. Perhaps a giant will be h...

Vincent Berruchon

If you event is not a Main, it's not really important and we should talk about that in another topic. It's not so bad to have a prime before the Worlds and A'dam is well deserved with flights and trains for most of europeans. 3 events in a row with one big highlight is ok, but after it's a bit too m...

Vincent Berruchon

Hi Vinz, I see your point, but all events are on the weekends, so maybe you get a little bit tired on Monday but it is still something I think most of us can deal with. This is only true for place that you can reach easily, Paris-Amsterdam = no problem to be back on Sunday night , like most of the ...

Vincent Berruchon

Argh, I don't mean this date is a problem but for the following :
it's really not easy for people working (so most of us I think except students) when events are all packed in the same period.
One of the status attribution point is avoid to concentrate events in the same period.

Vincent Berruchon

or make it on the overall results so the same racer won't get everything - I think it's more fair but It's easier with bigger amount anyway here are two possible distributions: Overall 1st: 150 - or 200 2nd: 100 - or 75 3rd: 50 - or 25 You need to cover the cost of racing for the top guys. This ensu...

Vincent Berruchon

John pointed good things here very well (as often

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So it's also a good thing when not only 3 racers can have prize money. Overall ten first is not bad for example, event if the tenth just get his entry fees back.

Vincent Berruchon

About safety, perhaps it's not easy but what could be advised to organizers: Big events (MAIN and MAJOR) events should have on site first aid team or ambulance, rescue and medical team. Smaller events should at least have first aid equipment and if possible people who do know first aid. Off course y...

Vincent Berruchon

In french... the next PIRATE will go CYBER! NCDSA and RIDERZ Challenge http://www.riderz.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=140&Itemid=19 http://static.riderz.net/pirate/images/pirate-S3-cyber-400.jpg Pour la prochaine épreuve des courses skateboard mensuelles parisiennes, l'association R...

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