Westwood Ski and Sports Club and the International Gravity Sports Association (IGSA) are pleased to announce that the second stop of the California Championship Series is here! We apologize for the late notice, the permit for our original plan was denied but this will be a fun race with our new plan...

Westwood Ski and Sports Club and the International Gravity Sports Association (IGSA) are pleased to announce that the second stop of the California Championship Series is here! We apologize for the late notice, the permit for our original plan was denied but this will be a fun race with our new plan...

Westwood Ski and Sports Club and the International Gravity Sports Association (IGSA) are pleased to announce that the second stop of the California Championship Series is here! We apologize for the late notice, the permit for our original plan was denied but this will be a fun race with our new plan...

As you may have already heard, the WLAC construction should be underway now, and the permit to use Sophomore Drive will take months to get worked out (it involves negotiations between LA County and WLAC that are bigger than us), meaning our next chance to race there will probably be October. I'll ke...

Tight Slalom results, Team Carrasco dominated again! 1 Richy Carrasco 11.9 2 Attila Azodi 12.2 3 David Carrasco 12.5 4 Jack Smith 12.5 5 Chris Chaput 12.8 6 Brent Kosick 13.1 7 Rick Howell 13.7 8 Rene Carrasco 14.0 9 Michael Kaelon 14.1 10 Mike Gorman 14.2 11 Adrian Pina 14.8 12 Tim Kienitz 15.0 13 ...

Steve, thanks for beating me to the post. Sorry to everyone for the late notice, it's been an ordeal getting this set up. We're hoping that they'll delay the start of construction for a week, so that we can get in another race in 2 weeks, but we won't know until at least the end of this week. Once c...

We're working on the permits now, but the new guy in administration that we got established with last year is gone, so it's not as easy as we hoped. The state budget woes have effected office staff, leaving the survivors swamped. However, we're still working towards opening day in late May. I'll pos...

We've always had just timed downhill runs at WLAC. No style contests or flat events (at least yet). The tight slalom has been skateboard only, although if there was interest in it from inliners I presume we would go ahead and add that. We've always managed to get everyone's runs in, and in a way it'...

At WLAC we've found that inlines worked fine in the GS, but tight slalom was not popular for inline, so we've only done a few runs of inline tight slalom. I'm interested in what made inlines a "huge mistake" in Paris. More specifics would be good to help us avoid repeating their mistake, since we do...

I've been chatting with Marcus about the 2004 season. He's interested in adding world cup races to the WLAC regional races. These might take place at the world cup street luge races. For example, there was a slalom demo race last year in Austria at Hot Heels in the evening. I think another good cand...

Yes, we'll be back in 2004! The insurance is in place. We're waiting to see when other bigger events will be before filing our permit application (which should be all fine, based on our conversations with the college and 10 years of history). Hopefully it'll be racing from May through November again...

Ah yes, Venzuela is better for me, I can speak some Spanish!

Bob is working on the rules right now, if you don't have his email, it's: Bob Ozman <streetluge@juno.com>

Hasta luego,

Scott

Hey Vlad, I can't even finish the course on a skateboard! But in general I think inline is slightly faster for a top racer on GS, and the faster the course the bigger the difference. For a really tight course like JPL, it seems like skateboard is faster. And for tight slalom, skateboard is definitel...

California Slalom Series #4 Results (California Championship Series date 6) West LA College, California November 2, 2003 The fourth slalom of the 2003 California Championship series (and sixth date of the race series) at West LA College featured an tight slalom set by Richy and a fast slalom with s...

Hello Leonardo, I'm happy to see that you're organizing races in Brazil, and translating the rule book. We do know that there are some fast racers there, we have met a couple who have travelled to races in North America and Europe. I know that Marcus and Bob have been very busy with the races here, ...

The third slalom of the 2003 California Championship series (and fourth date of the race series) at West LA College featured an informal tight slalom and a hybrid giant slalom with a fast and smooth finish, but a series of 6 tight cones near the top that made it more representative of the fast slalo...

Juice Magizine article (click here) The 2003 California Championship gravity racing series date for August is now set for Sunday, August 17, at West LA College. This added date will feature races for downhill skateboard, inline downhill, classic luge (buttboard), street luge, and gravity bikes, as ...

California Slalom Series #2 Results (California Championship Series date 3) West LA College, California July 20, 2003 The second slalom of the 2003 California Championship series (and third date of the race series) at West LA College featured a very tight and challenging tight slalom and a very fast...

The 2003 California Championship gravity racing series continues this Sunday, July 20, at West LA College. This Sunday will feature tight slalom (skateboard) and giant slalom (skateboard, longboard 36" or longer, and inline) racing. It will be a best of 3 run format (2 runs for longboard). For tight...

Great fun as always at WLAC! Big thanks to Ed Economy and Steve Evans for working to make the race happen while most of the staff was over at the downhill course. Plus the help of everyone there to make it a fun day even on our shoestring budgets, we couldn't do it without everyone chipping in. It w...

Thanks for beating me to the post. See you all there on May 18th!

Scott

Westwood Ski and Sports Club and the International Gravity Sports Association (IGSA) are pleased to announce the 2003 California Championship gravity racing series, with races at West LA College for skateboard, inline skate, classic luge (buttboard), street luge, and gravity bikes. All races will co...

The slalom races are in the planning stages, with races at West LA College again this season, plus one hopefully at Mammoth, plus another possible location. We'd like to have the permits being processed before making announcements, to make sure that cancelled dates don't take on lives of their own. ...

We're working on the 2003 calendar from the top down. The World Cup races for luge, downhill skateboard, etc are posted at gravity-sports.com. The slalom races are in the planning stages, with races at West LA College again this, plus one hopefully at Mammoth, plus another possible location. We'd li...

I just read about the creation of the USSSF and wanted to say that it's good to see slalom skateboarding growing, and having an organization based on the east coast sounds like a good thing. If anyone's interested in borrowing the IGSA rules as a starting point, have a look at them at http://www.gra...

We're now putting together the slalom rules for 2003. If you're interested in seeing a draft, please contact me at scottpeer@aol.com. Please don't publish the draft anywhere, that could result in someone using the wrong rulebook in 2003. But comments are more than welcome!

California Slalom Series #6 Results (California Championship Series date 9) West LA College, California 11/24/02 The sixth slalom of the 2002 California Championship series (and ninth date of the 10 date series) at West LA College featured a smooth, fast courses for tight slalom and giant slalom, an...

California Slalom Series #5 Results (California Championship Series date :cool: West LA College, California 10/27/02 The fifth slalom of the 2002 California Championship series (and eighth date of the 10 date series) at West LA College featured a super fast hybrid tight slalom that once again Richy ...

Leo, That would be excellent to have a race in Venezuela with IGSA sanctioning! I think that would be the first IGSA sanctioned event in South America, a great milestone. You can see the 2002 rules at gravity-sports.com (note that the slalom rules are towards the back). The 2003 slalom rules are in ...

Richy Carrasco is at the top of both the tight slalom and the GS rankings, with Attila Aszodi in second in both. For the details, go to: http://www.gravity-sports.com/index.html This is the first year IGSA has had slalom races and rankings, and all the races are classified as "regional" level races ...

California Slalom Series #4 Results (California Championship Series date 7) West LA College, California 10/6/02 The fourth slalom of the 2002 California Championship series (and seventh date of the 10 date series) at West LA College featured a challenging tight slalom that left 2 racers with no fini...

There are a few options that I know of. Bob Pereyra used to borrow gymnastics mattresses from a nearby school. For the Mammoth race, the ski area has offered their protective mattresses for loan. I believe ReliableRacing.com should have some of the ones for ski racing available for purchase. I've ta...

Adam,
Thanks for the compliments! I've posted a reponse under a new topic to try to make it easier to see for all. Hope to see you at West LA College next weekend,

Scott

Hi All, Our next event is at West LA College on October 6. It will feature tight slalom and skates and gates slalom (a course set similar to a GS, but with a little tighter spacing, and using poles similar to ski racing). Details for this one are posted at: http://www.ncdsa.com/contest_registration....