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Pat Chewning

I will continue if you want me to....

Pat Chewning

The ISSA North American contest coordinators reluctantly anounce that the San Diego Open (aka La Costa Open) contest (October 19th) will be downgraded from MAIN status to PRIME status. This is due to the rejection of the permit to run the contest on El Fuerte street and the move to the Pump Station ...

Pat Chewning

The ISSA currently sanctions events that run from the World Championships to a spur-of-the-moment local outlaw event. I think start ramps should be required for the higher-status events (Main, Major) because they give a more professional appearance to the spectators. Ramps also are preferred for eve...

Pat Chewning

Sanction # 2007-040
San Diego Open
20-21 October
San Diego, California, USA

Tiger Williams, enicsurf@hotmail.com (tel) 858 220
Kevin Dunne, kdunne@cox.net (tel) 760 277 8570

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/ISSA/ ... -OCT19.pdf

STATUS: MAIN

Pat Chewning

If 4 hampsters are acceptable, then what about 6? Every skateboard contest since the creation of the universe has always allowed 6 hampsters (nothing in the rules to prevent more than 4 hampsters). Why would any contest organizer want to inhibit innovation by banning 6 hampsters? It is really simple...

Pat Chewning

Your 1st race should be a very small event with just local riders on a hill you already know. Low expectations, fast course setting (you know the hill), easy communication (you know all the riders). Anything more ambitious than this should be for your 3rd, 4th, 5th etc race. As soon as you are promi...

Pat Chewning

Yes, big races cost a lot to put on. It is unfortunate, but most of those costs must be paid through entry fees. Contest organizers don't have a money tree. Maybe someday we will be able to have the "IBM World Championships of Slalom" or the "Coors Colorado Cup". In the mean time, we can be satisfie...

Pat Chewning

Maybe a silly question, but... How about issues with using alternating colors (such as red for heelside and white for toeside)? Alternating cone colors obviously doesn't work for dual-lane racing: It makes it incredibly difficult to tell how many cones were hit in each lane, and it slows down the r...

Pat Chewning

For all of the races where I am the timer, I always insist on having the RED cones on the right (as you go downhill), and the WHITE cones on the left. Why? Because the most commonly used spreadsheet (Dan Gesmer's) color-codes the racer's lanes with red and white backgrounds, and the timing program (...

Pat Chewning

Sanction # 2007-037
Huntington Outlaw Summer Series #2
August 25 2007
Charleston WV USA
Leonard Poage

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/ISSA/ ... -AUG25.pdf

STATUS: granted BASIC status

Pat Chewning

Sanction # 2007-038
Slalom Cone Burnes
July 29 2007
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Flavio Badenes
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/ISSA/ ... -JUL29.pdf

STATUS: granted BASIC status

Big prize money- steep race.

Pat Chewning

I agree with most of what you said (and said well) above, except for: The racers are STARVING for leadership. In my experience so far with the ISSA, I have found a large percentage of racers who believe: A) An organizing body inhibits the "bro-ness" or "freedom" of skateboarding. B) Even if some org...

Pat Chewning

................. Why should we have Tom, Dick, and Harry coming up with his own 2x or 3x or 4x or DQ false start penalty when ONE acceptable penalty is all that we need? This is not an area to be creative or innovative. Why re-invent the wheel every time there's a new race? Let's get it right the ...

Pat Chewning

Here's my take: So basically the issue is that ISSA, and not individual race organizers, are the ones who have to make the rules and enforce them. One set of rules. Just like an Association such as the NBA awards 3 points for shots from behind the cirlce in EVERY game, the shot clock is always 24 s...

Pat Chewning

As an acting member of the ISSA I request a call to vote on this issue for the 2008 season. I promise there will be a vote on this before December 15 2007..... However, I think it is premature to do the vote right now because: A) Most racers are busy racing, organizing races, and doing other "middl...

Pat Chewning

Well, there goes my racing season. I was planning on debuting my SSIB (slalom step in binding) system at Hood River. There is a huge energy loss between the foot and the deck. Concave, super traction grip tape and toe blocks help to a certain extent. The SSIB creates a more positive foot/board inte...

Pat Chewning

That is a good idea to include the intent -- it can help resolve unforseen developments and controversy.

The intent statement, coupled with more detailed structured rules would be ideal.

Pat Chewning

Huntington Outlaw Summer Series Inaugural Race Sanction 2007-035 Lenny Poage Sanction: BASIC Sanction Application: http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/ISSA/2007-Contest-Sanctions/USA-WV-15JUL.pdf Format: Dual Hybrid Date: July 15 Location: Huntington, WV, USA Contact: thepoages@verizon.net Signup: htt...

Pat Chewning

This is just a start, a strawman proposal to get some thoughts. My reasoning for prohibiting "dynamic" adjustments of various things is to keep slalom skateboarding skills limited to body inputs to the board (lean, weighting, pumping, etc), and to keep out things like moving adjustment levers while ...

Pat Chewning

The ISSA rules need to be updated (for many reasons --- a minor reason is for the 6-wheel determination). When those rules are written, we will need a good definition of "skateboard" outlining what is and what is not allowed. If the equipment rules are too lax, you will see some people pushing again...

Pat Chewning

What is the definition of "skateboard" to be allowed in races? If we do not limit the # of wheels.... If we do not limit the # of trucks ... If we do not limit the # and type of deck.... If we do not limit the "foot stops" or "bindings"..... Then we may end up with "skateboards" like this: http://mc...

Pat Chewning

JRAD started the process to get the rules updated and written.

That stalled with his departure.

We can restart that process soon, probably right after the season ends -- and be done by 2008.

Pat Chewning

Sanction 2007-033 Joe Iacovelli Sanction: PRIME Sanction Application: http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/ISSA/2007-Contest-Sanctions/USA-CT-THE_FARM-AUG10.pdf Format: Dual Hybrid, GS (Plus vintage race) Date: AUG 10-11 Location: Bristol, CT, USA Contact: Joe Iacovelli iaco@comcast.net Signup: http:/...

Pat Chewning

Yes, we should get them involved. But we need a mechanism to do so, a timeframe, and a structure with at least one ISSA board member leading each initiative. I suggest that we (ISSA board members) establish what we are trying to accomplish in each of those areas before we initiate the call for membe...

Pat Chewning

Wes, I feel choosing Silverfish Longboarding site may seriously as 'media partner' whatever THAT means, may affect the number of people who attend the Worlds. Firstly, hardly any British slalomers go there. Nor Europeans. Secondly, I realy cant be bothered to try to source information from yet anot...

Pat Chewning

OK, I understand what you're saying and it does make sense. I'd like to put it to vote to get an 'official' position on it. Not that I have a problem with you and Corky just saying it is so, but to get 'official' finality ... that is, unless there is already a clear and accepted rule in place somew...

Pat Chewning

OK, I understand what you're saying and it does make sense. I'd like to put it to vote to get an 'official' position on it. Not that I have a problem with you and Corky just saying it is so, but to get 'official' finality ... that is, unless there is already a clear and accepted rule in place somew...

Pat Chewning

If Kevin passed the cone on the "INSIDE" (the wrong side of the cone), touched the cone and it moved 1/2" (not outside the circle), and not tipped over --- then that's not a Criddle at all. That's a DQ! Unless I'm missing something ........ Pat, you're saying that if he had hit the cone slightly ha...

Pat Chewning

I saw Kevin Dunne pull the most amazing criddle today at the Peck Park race. The prevailing strategy of the course was to criddle this one nasty offset on the top section, to set up for the following drop-in section with a better line. Kevin went neatly inside the cone and ever-so-lightly touched i...

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Cole,

I suggest that you might try looking several cones ahead of where you are turning. Looking directly at the cone you are steering around can cause problems. You need to be looking several cones ahead -- like maybe 4 cones or so (even more as you go faster).

That might help a bit.

-- Pat

Pat Chewning

The ISSA N. American contest coordinators unanimously agree that the PRIME status points awarded for the "bonus" straight tight slalom event at the 2007 Texas Sizzler should be deleted from the World Ranking system. The results of this "bonus" unsanctioned event were mistakenly included with the rea...

Pat Chewning

Paul Howard and Josh Burt have good success using the Subsonic boards -- and Scott Moore is such a big supporter of the local slalom scene .... You should try the Pauliwog model of slalom board.

Pat Chewning

New idea. YES What if i add a spine .............. Would this affect the flex? peace Yes, a spine will certainly affect the flex. In general, for these types of structures, the flex (deflection under load) is inversely proportional to the cube of the thickness of the material used (double the thick...

Pat Chewning

South Hills Slalom Skate & Boardercross Sanction: Basic Sanction Application: http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/ISSA/2007-Contest-Sanctions/USA-WV-16JUN.pdf Format: Tight Slalom, Hybrid Slalom (Plus Boardercross, slide contest, Ollie, kickflip..etc) Date: June 16 Location: Charleston, WV Contact: Ma...

Pat Chewning

The "gimme cone" in skateboard slalom is called a "delay gate" in ski racing. It is a cone where you do not have to turn to pass on the correct side. You therefore delay your turn until the next cone. Example: Pass cone #3 on the right. Head toward cone #5 to pass it on the right. On the way, you na...

Pat Chewning

The Hybrid race is a single-lane event. Previously, it was stated as a dual Hybrid. The 100-cone event remains dual-lane. The jam fun event is not part of the sanction. The sanction application document has been updated, so if you click on it it has the current correct information. WAS: Slalom St. L...

Pat Chewning

The contest sanction document has been updated. It is a Hybrid race, outlaw, June 3rd. Single-lane 3 runs... The name has changed from "Nature's Outlaw" to "Harbor Hybrid". The location has changed. The race is Hybrid, not GS. If you click on the sanction application document, it will take you to th...

Pat Chewning

I am experimenting with some pressure switches as a replacement for expensive tape switches. The switches I have are: Signal Lux type P1 See http://www.signal-lux.com You can order them at: http://www.allelectronics.com/ (seek: Switches/Pressure) These switches are a single-pole single-throw normall...

Pat Chewning

Look at that stupid ski-racing stance on a skateboard!

Pat Chewning

Just want to let you know that Harms has started the ISSA sanction application process and the status will most likely be BASIC. (Because the deadline for PRIME status has passed, without and ISSA application being submitted.) But from the comments above, it looks like the final status is not much c...

Pat Chewning

The only event I'm aware of is the Antrim NH slalom race. I think they are going to soon apply for an ISSA sanction....

Not sure if your event would conflict with that at all ...

One week after your proposed date is the World Championships -- if that matters.

Pat Chewning

You can always just put the tapeswitch half way down the ramp... Yes, that might work, until the racers figure out how to lift their wheels part-way down the ramp ...... Another problem might be if the weight on the wheels in that part of the ramp is not enough to reliably trigger the tape switch. ...

Pat Chewning

What about racers who lift their front wheels over the tape switch? If a racer lifts his front wheels over the tapeswitch -- I see no problem. A) The timing equipment and the 2X (or 3X) start penalty can still apply -- being automatically done by the timer. B) The racer who does this successfully h...

Pat Chewning

Hi Pat, Is it necessary for us to complete an ISSA application if we are seeking Basic status for the Farm 7.0pen? Thanks for your help. Tway Yes, please. If you fill it out this year, then you can do simple edits/updates each year. What we are trying to do is get a COMPLETE description of the even...

Pat Chewning

Chronocone has a display interface (program) built in. You can set the preamble characters to send to the display and then it displays the time and name of the racer. Unfortunately, the display I got from EBAY is a bit small and not very bright for outdoors.... You can download Chronocone to your co...

Pat Chewning

4. Is Camber uesful for a surf-stance rider? Camber is not a stance-oriented feature. It's a flex feature. Camber is somewhat stance-oriented. If you place both of your feet DIRECTLY over the axles, then there will be no moment (bending forces) available to flex the board, and a board with flex wil...

Pat Chewning

Malcolm Stooke wrote:niccceee... is this your first axe?

im waiting on my axe too,

should be here soon.

Yep, 1st Axe for me. I rode John Stryker's Axe at WSU a couple weeks ago and I really liked it. My other slalom deck is set up for very tight slalom, so this one will be for a bit more open courses.

Pat Chewning

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/pchewn/Skateboards/Axe.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> Just received Axe II, Zig-Zag wheels, griptape, bushings, wedges, Tracker trucks. I think I'll use the trackers on ...

Pat Chewning

Ride the hill- I hate to say it but the ISSA is starting to be geeeey. It's really important the organization doesn't take itself to seriously as we are still getting established. Less rules, not artifical government helps the sport grow. The ISSA should be more focused on doing things to support t...

Pat Chewning

Handheld wind meters are cheap and easy to get (look at kitesurfing and windsurfing shops). What do I do with this wind information at a contest? Stop the race if the wind presents a safety hazzard such as: Blowing cones over (after doubling up the cones) Blowing debris onto the course. Upsetting th...

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