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Pat Chewning

Most of our races (CSA: Oregon and Washington) are push start. Getting ramps to the races and setting them up is usually too much of a hassle. We sometimes limit the amount of distance for the push start.... It works just fine, the fastest racers are faster regardless of push or ramp starts. We do h...

Pat Chewning

YES. I think Luna should be a prime. Reasons: 1) Historically a great event. 2) Spread events out over the year. 3) Early PRIMES are better than late PRIMES. 4) Possibility that # of primes can increase this year, and it would be a shame to miss Luna in the (potentially increasing) number of PRIME e...

Pat Chewning

Corky! Why exactly is Luna too late? Is it because there is no registration yet? Ricky is trying to confirm everything before posting it on the Contest Calendar. It has been anounced for quite some time. Claude: This discussion belongs in the USA EAST discussion topic area. But the process still do...

Pat Chewning

1) Distribute awards/prize money (some problems with this at past events) 2) Report results to World Ranking organization 3) Clean-up: The hill should be as clean or cleaner than when you arrived. Except for a few chalk marks that will go away in a day or two. 4) Post results to your favorite web si...

Pat Chewning

I agree (with someone) that the process does seem a bit messed up. Somewhat similar to what happened in USA East Coast: 1) A race was cancelled, someone made a post about another race obtaining the cancelled race status (I believe within the deadline). 2) No decision/action from the deciding body by...

Pat Chewning

Cool! The system is working. We are agreeing that the US Nationals should be the MAJOR (4 cone) event, and that La Costa should be a MAIN (3 cone) event. Definitely agree with others that there appears to be plenty enough growth and geographic separation to support more than 3 PRIME events.... So I ...

Pat Chewning

This is how I see the current situation Main status subjects (1 Major 2 Main) or (3 Mains) Hood River, Oregon | 2006 West Coast Slalom Skateboard Championships | July 8-9 Morro Bay, California September 12-18? Boulder/Denver/Golden Colorado | US Nationals | August 18-20 Prime status subjects (3) Ho...

Pat Chewning

So you think we could compete with t-board too? http://www.tierneyrides.com/ and can I skate with electronic trucks? We need rules, precise but not to restrictive and not asking each time if this or that should be allowed. Only 4 wheels is not restrictive for me when talkin about skateboards... Yes...

Pat Chewning

so i need to pay to vote? Yes. Same as most organizations -- you need to pay to be a member and you need to be a member to vote. ISSA has been a great deal, though. I paid in 2004 and 2005 and am allowed 2 votes. That is a great deal compared to most organizations where you get 1 vote and pay every...

Pat Chewning

I have no problem with any skateboard that has any number of wheels to be used in competition. As long as it is lean-to-steer, ridden with the feet, and has a single platform, then it is OK.

Pat Chewning

Congratulations on getting the rule at least partially changed. Did you happen to show them the CSU (Colorado State University) rules? They seemed pretty reasonable to me. Nice outcome, but I can't say I would endorse this method for other similar situations. Sometimes, getting the "right" result is...

Pat Chewning

I highly recommend that you make sure your wire is STRANDED and not SOLID conductor. The solid conductor wire will break from repeatedly winding and unwinding on the reel. I use "Silver Satin 4-Conductor Modular telephone wire" (flat, grey, stranded conductors). Do NOT confuse this with the 4-conduc...

Pat Chewning

I think the priorities for what to work on ought to be this: 1) Seek out and document who has energy/interest in developing this organization. 2) Select a core group of people to generate proposals and documents. Most organizations start with things like MISSION , Constitution and By-laws , finances...

Pat Chewning

Tom's system did work flawlessly at the Dublin race. We actually ran a Trakmate and one of Pat Chewnings systems belonging to Bobby Mandarino simultaneously and they were all similar. We were able to run the tape strips for the Trakmate and the other system on the same cable using splitters. Did yo...

Pat Chewning

Thanks for the membership list. Maybe you could post "Sticky" all of the membership info all in one place? How much it costs. How to pay. Duration of membership. How many votes you can buy. Transfer or "proxy" of votes from one person to another. Etc. I sort of forgot that I obtained votes when I sp...

Pat Chewning

No matter what voting system we come up with there will always be those that do not agree that it's a fair voting system. Right now there is only one way to vote within the ISSA. That is to use the current voting power of those who have paid their membership fee. (I'll update the listing asap). I c...

Pat Chewning

The question is: Where should the organisation be. When we clear this question, than it's claer who has to make the proposal how the organisation should be. I personally don't think it matters too much WHERE the organization is "located". We will likely run a lot of business and documents over the ...

Pat Chewning

Corky, get real, the big federation of states that regularly produces most of slalom champions was constituted several centuries ago: (united stated of) Switzerland beat all other coutries, whatever size, including Russia and China ;) Switzerland is the place where riding is skateboard is as legal ...

Pat Chewning

ISSA board 1 South American 5 Americans (USA, 3 from the West and 2 from the East) 1 Canadian 4 Europeans 1 Russian 1 Asian 1 Australian Total board of 14 people (if all posts are filled up) Sad to say, but if the # 5 above represents actual Americans who would be willing to be on the ISSA board, t...

Pat Chewning

Sorry to everyone that I posted a few minor problems I see with the World Ranking system. I misunderstood the intent of the original posting. I thought we wanted to discuss whatever problems there might be and see if improvements could be made. Evidently the system is perfect. Just ask all of the Ea...

Pat Chewning

For a good example of how skateboarding is regulated and integrated into the bicycle rules, take a look at Colorado State University rules. http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CSUPD/beep.html Skateboards are treated like bicycles. Skateboarding is allowed. Pedestrians have right of way, overtaking signal...

Pat Chewning

http://www.mines.edu/All_about/safety/pages/faq.html#11 11. Can I skateboard/snowboard on campus? Skateboards and snowboards are not permitted on campus at anytime. Notice that the rule says that the actual skateboard is not allowed. Not just the activity of skateboarding. This is a very restrictive...

Pat Chewning

Sounds like you got what you asked for.

Maybe you need to find a better place to skate, or work within the system to change the rules.

I think you've just torpedo'd any future possibility of getting the rules changed to allow skating there.

-- Pat

Pat Chewning

actually i would like to know why there might be the need for somebody esle to create another system.what's wrong with corky's system? Your words say a lot. Too many people think of this as "Corky's System" and not "our system". No slam on Corky. But the attitude exists that the World Ranking Syste...

Pat Chewning

I see the following problems with the system: 1) There is not a decision-making body or person empowered to award the various levels of races. The current system is a free-for-all discussion on the internet trying for concensus but rarely achieving it. Possible solution: An elected or appointed body...

Pat Chewning

I'm confused. I'm not complaining, just asking how the Worlds were different than every other timekeeping method I've seen at races. At the last World Championships, Jack hired a sports timing company to do the timing. I believe they used a system that we haven't seen before (not Chronocone, not Tr...

Pat Chewning

I understand Jack's dillema WRT the World Ranking system. If Jack runs a major contest with placings being 1,2,3,4,5,5,5,5,9,9,9,9,9,9,..... and this is how the racer's use their strategy in the final rounds, then it is "unfair" to then take those results and apply a new placement system after the r...

Pat Chewning

The idea is to get rid of "equal placing" as much as possible. Why? It is the fairest of all the systems offered. In my opinion, and you know the old saying about opinions, any place earned by using qualifying times and/or loser heat times from the head to head to portion of the race, are false pla...

Pat Chewning

What if two or more losing racers DQ on both their runs in a heat, within the same round? How would you place them? Do they tie? Are they given that dreaded "equal placing"? -->First they end up last among those who lost this round, then we use their respective qual times to separate them. I think ...

Pat Chewning

I can't see the difference between method D and E. Method D uses the times received in the current round of head-to-head to sort the "equal losers" in that round. (Does not use qualifying times at all, does not use prior rounds where the racer advanced). Method E uses the best time achieved by the ...

Pat Chewning

I favor method B with Method E a close 2nd. Method A: Does not reward advancement in the head to head Method B: Rewards advancement in head to head. Each racer gets unique placing. Racers only compared with Qual times. Simple to administer. Method C: Too many ties. Method D: Too many ties. (Lower qu...

Pat Chewning

This is a follow-on poll for the topic: "Why use the Qualifying Time in the elimination rounds?" 5 methods for determining the final placement in a race are described. The race example consists of a qualification round, a round of 32, a round of 16, a round of 8, a semifinal round of 4, a consolatio...

Pat Chewning

Corky and Pat, Maybe I didn't explain it correctly. If Jack (#3 qualifier) is eliminated in the round of 16 and JG (#14 qualifier) is eliminated in the round of 8, using the qualifying time plcement system, both would be placed by their respective qualifying times amongst racers not placing in 1-4....

Pat Chewning

So why not use the "equal placing" format? I know this has been posted before in this forum, please take a moment to read it again. 16 racer final JG qualifies 14th he beats JS, the 3rd fastest qualifier in round 1. JS is done for the day. JG is now in the round of eight. He races in the round of e...

Pat Chewning

This is directed to the forum in general. Qualifying seeds you in the finals...period. Racing places you. You cannot place ahead of someone you did not beat in the head to head round. What is so wrong about placing equal 5th, equal 9th, etc? Is it some sort of self-esteem issue? I just don't get it...

Pat Chewning

I fully expect to see both of those nice young ladies to be riding Pink SickSicks and Seven-O's at all of the slalom races in 2006. Can any super good guesser tell us how big (in millimeteres) the SickSicks are and how big the Seven-O's are? Can anyone guess the color? I'm going out on a limb here:...

Pat Chewning

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Pat Chewning

Whatever you say basic and simple if this guy said anything understandable, he kind of asked for help. So we should call that terrorism "overcover". pure abstraction. He obviously was not. Kill anybody, but not he who comes to ask your help. Etienne: How do you make the leap from saying 'anything u...

Pat Chewning

84 for the front
80 for the rear
3DM Avalons.

Pat Chewning

- The victim's wife was screeming her husband was out of his mind all the time, her speech was clearly understood by the passengers. - The victim was shot in the back while running away on the vast tarmac. - The passangers were kept hands on head for 1h inside the plane while the other marshals wer...

Pat Chewning

Yes, SBD hills are great. Check out the hill we use in Salem Oregon:

http://www.salemsbd.org/salem's_track.htm

http://www.salemsbd.org/media/track%20panoramic-256.wmv

-- Pat

Pat Chewning

A passenger had a panic attack on this plane and ran away, he was shot in the back and killed, then they kept passangers with hands on their heads for one hour into the plane while they were checking the luggages. It took several more hours to the FBI to decide this was not the start of a new wave ...

Pat Chewning

Pat Chewning

Chris Barrett wrote:I'm curious, how did this eventually pan out?

It was a lot of fun. I think Tay Hunt won it?? At least one person (Olson?) went off the course and down the embankment. I got a great picture of Luca on the upper sections.

Paso Robbles (spelling wrong I'm sure) was a nice site.

-- Pat

Pat Chewning

Here's another suggestion for winding wire onto the reel: Take your 1000' of wire and find the center (500' point, midpoint) Start winding onto the reel at the 500' mark and wind two strands at once onto the cable. Advantages: Takes 1/2 as long to wind/unwind. Allows excess cable to remain on reel f...

Pat Chewning

2. He's incorporating a SERIAL PORT connection I asked about DIRECT CONNECTIVITY to a laptop. He said he could not guarantee that he would write any code to do it, but would be glad to assist someone who wants to take the plunge. When this is available, whoever gets one should contact me and I'll g...

Pat Chewning

It doesn't have to be all Prime or all Basic. This is a case where the rules don't meet the needs of the skaters, so let's make a new rule: Rule 103.4.5 subsection D, paragraph F, ammended: If an event is cancelled, the contest organizers within that event's region may make a proposal to substitute ...

Pat Chewning

Erin, I'd suggest going to one of Paul Howard's races in Oregon or Washington. You would be welcome there for sure. Paul is a really nice guy, and the OR/WA races also seem to have a variety of riders, ages and skill levels. They also seem to have quite a few races throughout the year--in fact, I t...

Pat Chewning

Pat Chewning wrote:I envision a lightly spring-loaded chalk holder

Wesley: Key point is "spring-loaded". The spring would force the chalk against the road regardless of decreasing chalk length or variability in deck-to-road distance.

-- Pat

Pat Chewning

Something I've thought about but never followed through with: How about a chalk holder attached to your skateboard? It could be used in several ways: a) lay down a curve against which to set cones b) lay down a (relatively) straight line that's longer than a chalkline c) as a training aid to see whe...

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We use push start all the time

YES: LUNA PRIME PLEASE!

Re: Luna?

Don't forget the AFTER-RACE list either

The process does seem a bit messed up

6 wheels are fine

Wrong approach, right outcome.

Wire

Priorities for re-launch of ISSA?

[2006] ISSA membership information

"Membership" ???

Number of votes -- no need to argue about that right now.

Re: Another push for ISSA...

Re: what's wrong with the world ranking system?

Bad publicity

One other problem

What's wrong with the World Ranking System?

Use qualifying times or times in Head-to-Head for placement

Apply Qual time sorting only to "losers" within a

Re: I'm almost ready to give up...

.... when you went to races w/o helmets or shoes.

Wheel Duro

Re: joys of flying

Soap box derby hills are great.

Re: joys of flying

Luca near the top of the course.

Event was fun.

Winding onto the reel

Re: Trak Mate Update

Proposal to break the deadlock.

Drive South

Re: Chalkline

Chalkline