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Hans Koraeus

Registered users aproaching 300! I know it's nothing compared to the numbers of slalomers out there but it is still a kind of a measurement of the international slalom community. To register yourself on this site is an act you only do if you have a serious interest for it. The day we reach 1000 I'd ...

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Ok Vlad. I will stop enoying you. I just wanted to make sure there where no way I could persuade you into coming to Morro Bay. This was of course very selfish since I was only thinking of myself. For ME it would have been a lot more fun having your there. Of course you shouldn't go if you don't feel...

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I can't see what's wrong with my story.

Step 1: He walked away last year after his first attempt on the "modern" course.

Step 2: He came to Gruningen this year thinking it was a "modern" course but it wasn't.

Now, return to my post and read again.

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Vlad, if the moral is... have fun. Why aint you coming? I'm there. What could be more fun?

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By the way the championships is closing in. Only one week left almost. The big favorite is of course Marcus Seyffarth. He seems to be ahead of the pack in Stockholm. Never lost a race. Except in Paris where he lost against a Swiss and me actually. But that was in GS and he didn't go for it in his se...

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I have noticed a somewhat larger number of views than excpected on this topic. Especially since it is mostly in Swedish.

Maybe it's time to explain that SM in Swedish is not the same as in English. Actually it an abbrevation for Swedish Championships. No spanking here.

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Vlad wrote "I choose the Ridolli's way. You know, the one guy who'd been spanking Luca not long ago....I just turn around and leave." Well that sometimes can have its price. Ridoli came by Gruningen to say hello and he was very positive about the special slalom course. He admitted that it looked ver...

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Chris, seldom I read long posts where I agree with everything someone says. Well, I do with yours. A proof that you don't have to have been skating/slaloming since 1895 to have good comments and ideas. But... in your last post (and Vlads by the way) I finally found something alarming. For me the Wor...

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On 2003-09-02 15:20, Chris Stepanek wrote: Slalom skateboarding will NEVER be big. It will never be a cash cow for the industry and it will NEVER be more than a small minority within the skateboarding world. It ain't going to happen. Chris, I don't agree at all. Look around you in this world of our...

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When persons are using the forums only for their personal vendettas they will tend to twist things to whatever they like, to be able to get at you. Chris, you could actually see that the postive way. It means you are probably right. If you where wrong someone would have aimed at your mistake. Since ...

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Here's something for the very dark side of the cone. There seems to be a lot of bad karma on the "other site" now. Be aware! Don't tell me I didn't warn you. Here some flashing topics... On 9/1/2003 jonnyx wrote in from 195.92.xxx.xxx: hi kids i'm done with this site, the so-called moderation is a j...

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By the way. I was over on the "other forum" to get some info and inspiration for the Morro trip. Since I think that on this site it doesn't "shake" very much. I very seldom go to the "other place" unless for a very specific reason. Sadly enough my good idea turned out to be a bad idea. How much insp...

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3 Englishmen 1 little Swede That's the current status. I guess Price is going for the PRO class this time so don't expect any European miracles this time. Or... Tiny rumours tell that Luca is starting to show some interest in this last minute. He's looking for a sponsor to pay his flight. Any sponso...

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And by the way. Why not use the same course and rules as in the "other forum"? Then we automatically solve the problem of people who can't participate if they are banned in the "other forum" and vice versa.

Let's fight for the right for everybody to cyber slalom!

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I just put down the virtual slalom course used in "the other" forum. I tried my best (even though it was on wet asphalt) but my best times ended up around 11 sec. My self confidence got broken in pieces. The best guys had times well under 9 sec. I was just about to quit slalom skating. But luckily b...

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First John and now a turtle. :razz:

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I'll sleep well on that one.)

Hans Koraeus

Hey, what kind of a zoo is this?

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Andy, and others. Nice post by the way Andy but I still don't agree that skateboarding and skiing is the same. As I see it they are in two different branches, surf and ski. On the surf branch we have surfboarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, sandboarding, skimboarding and even waterskiing when usin...

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Funny little tight story from Paris. The Audience in Paris found often that the AM tight slalomers where faster than the PRO's. What they didn't know was that the PRO's had a tighter cone distance (2,0m) compared to the AM's (2,5m). So let the PRO's have tighter courses if they want to. It will only...

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First of all my comment on cheating when pumping downhill was of course only to tease JG. But it did lead us into a very interesting topic. The definition of skateboard slalom. Another subject that would fit the missing "Rules and regulations" section by the way. I checked my Swedish dictionary and ...

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Wes, going away are you. Good. Then I can have the last word for a while. :smile: If it's so easy how come we have this discussion? You disagree with me you say but I don't understand with what. I have been waiting on a rules section on this forum for ages. That's the place where we should have thes...

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Wes, I agree with you. But have you ever thought of why organizers don't put up there rules in time, if they do it at all? Answer: Because it's a huge task. And if they do I bet there are as many loop holes as in Microsoft software. If the only thing you needed to inform was weather to enter the cou...

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Michael, I agree that there is a sort of anarchy regarding rules right now. And it does create problems as you so well described. I will add another good one. Jean-Paul Alavoine though that each course in Paris was timed separatly. He would wait a second or so after his oponent had started before he...

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.008 reaction time! That would have been considered as a false start in the athletic games...

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One step at a time John. First let's see if we can persuade him to come to the European championships in Antibes.

But then again Max is an old school European slalomer. I don't know if the course setting att Morro Bay would be in his favour.

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I just realized that when Pierre says 15 min to the slalom area from the Formule 1 hotel it's probably by car. Not by foot. So maybe a car rent is needed after all. And by the way the car is good to keep all stuff during competition. I have reserved a room in the Formule 1 from Friday to Sunday. Eve...

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There are train and buses from Nice airport to Antibes taking about 27 minutes. They seem to go quite often.

Then next question. How far from train station to Hotel Formula 1?

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I checked on my favorite car rental site http://www.autoeurope.com and they charge SEK 1400 for 2 days.

But maybe since the hotel is so close to the site maybe car is not needed even. But then you have to find a way to get from Nice to Antibes there and back.

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Ah bha, checka in numret ba va! De e jö 08-or de me!

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Pierre Samray said:
"FORMULE ONE : it's 28 euro for a 3 beds room with tv and it's 15 minutes from the slalom and 5 from the downhill."

FORMULE 1 ANTIBES SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
phone number +33 (0)8 917 051 65

I don't know if they speak English but if you want I can make the call for you.

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On 2003-06-05 05:30, Haggy Strom wrote: Hey Hans! We should definitely put together a weekend of slaloming this summer, that'd be great fun. I haven't quite figured out if anyone here in norway is riding any slalom yet, we shall see... Good luck in switzerland. i'm not sure i'll make it down from h...

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Planerna för slalom SM går sakta men säkert framåt. Snart kommer ett preliminärt schema upp för lördagen med discipliner och tävlingsformat som kommer att användas.

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Seems like there are a couple of Swedes that probably will pull out of the Eurpean Championships. It's true that the tickets are a little bit expensive. My flight was SEK 3200 with Polish airline LOT. Taking Ryan air to London and Easyjet from there is also possible. That will get you down to around...

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Pierre, can you get hold of a phone number, web-address or e-mail so that it is possible to book rooms. Formula 1 is cheap and good enough for me.

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Michael, the ISSA rules weren’t built in one day. You have to try better to knock them out. About the "should thing" it is taken cared of in the "General rules" where it says, I quote: "In these rules every should is a must." End of quote. “Rules” is a hard word but we must understand that they can ...

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Michael, I just wondered how many posts you would make before you went out of the course.

I love rules because...
1. Then it's easier to find something to complain about.
2. There is something to brake.
3. They drive Englishmen crazy.

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Wes, In the last hybrid course you are suddenly going in to the course from the left. Is that an intentional "trick" or a mistake? I prefer the golden rule to start all courses by going in from the right. Nice drawnings by the way. Maybe we should print up a little booklet with courses and course de...

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John, I've always thought that flat is the challenge. Then we're talking pure pumping. Using hills is cheating.

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Oops! Just realized that this is the "tight slalom" forum. So... what I really meant, of course, is that tight is good, wiggle is better and loose trucks are the best. :roll:

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I think I agree with Jani though that you have to loosen up your trucks. When Jani says tighter courses at that time when courses already were very tight means VERY tight. The technique for that is pure wiggling. I have never seen anyone doing that on tight trucks. Sure you don't get as much speed b...

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Wesley, I think Luca is buying your theory because his trucks are not that loose as you think. There are not many slalomers (if any) that after testing his board would go... "Oh, this is a really nice board". Mostly they go... "Shit, how do you do to pump this board?". Actually they are thinking "Wh...

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History fanatics remember well Max first place in Straight slalom in Verrières Open (Paris) 1994 when he did beat both Jani, Daniel Ridoli (1:st at ISSA world ranking at the time) and Andi Sidler (4:th at the ISSA world ranking at the time). We where all surprised but most surprised of us all was pr...

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The second part of "The roots of slalom" is ready. The story is the same. No skateboarding, no cones and no sound of wheels sliding on the asphalt. But you'll get some boards pumping, carving and turning anyway. And yes, I will do another format later on. Until then, for you who don't want to downlo...

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Well isn't this topic as interesting as a dead fish. Since I'm fully responsible by starting this topic I feel the need to shake some life into that fish. Hold on to your hats! I'm going. But let's be honest and say that it's not to pretend that I'm in any way are going to defend the European (or Sw...

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Jani, better check those forum filter settings again. Seems like we have got a serious virus attack here.

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Marcus, Gör ditt bästa för att övertala downhill folket (Ants!?) om att köra kval och final på samma bana. Då kan vi som kör slalom köra 2 discipliner i lugn och ro utan stress. Att markera banorna i förväg är inget problem för mig om det blir officiellt och banan som sätts publiceras. Det är ju en ...

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Visst är det bättre med special men det kräver lite mer. 1. Någon/några ska utses att sätta banan på morgonen innan tävlingen. 2. Kan alltså inte förberedas. 3. Svårare att sätta upp en dual. 4. Punkterna ovan gör att det tar mer tid. 5. Risk att det blir en bana som folk inte gillar. Dvs för svår e...

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Backen kommer att vara svagt sluttande uför. Det diskuteras kon avstånd på 1,90 (från mitten av kon till mitten av nästa). Startramp kommer med största sannolikhet att användas.

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There are rumours of others in the Stockholm area thinking of going to Antibes including Marcus Seyffarth and Per Svensson. Maybe even some for the downhill events on Sunday. There are many pieces to puzzle together before you make your descision. I can here them all humming "Should I stay or should...

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Here is another little film much more interesting than the last one but the same goes for this one. There is no slalom skating in it. Only the roots of it. The roots of slalom part one 3.8Mb 310x248 The roots of slalom part two 7.8Mb 310x248 You will need the "RealOne player" for this film. Free dow...

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The roots of slalom