ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

I'm pleased to announce that the slalom season in Latvia continues with:

BALTIC Championship 2010 race in Jurmala, Dzintari and giant slalom contest in Priekuli
Format: Special, Tight slalom, High jump and Giant slalom
Date: 3 July in Jurmala and 4 July in Priekuli 2010
Location: Latvia - Jurmala and Priekuli

We will have JUNIOR, OPEN, LADIES groups.
Enter fee - € 5 for Open and € 2, for Ladies and Junior in Jurmala
and € 5 for Open and € 2, for Ladies and Junior in Priekuli
Website: www.skateboardinfo.lv

Registration will be: www.skateboardinfo.lv

The place for GS (Sunday, 4th July) wiil be in Cesis region, Vaives municipality skiing and biathlon centre "Priekuli" -
http://www.olimpiskaiscentrs.cesis.lv/? ... %81s_vieta

Start at 11:00 a.m.
2 runs

Hi - Can anyone local recommend a reasonable hotel to stay in Riga?

Also if I can get a ride to the race sites that would be cool.

I arrive at Riga airport on Friday 2 July at 14:05

Hey Paul!

If Gints or anyone else hasn't already contacted you, then I can get you from the airport to any hotel in Riga by car. There is a free bus (22nd Lidosta-Abrenes iela) also, leaving from the airport to the centre of Riga every 15min.

You can search the hotels on google because they are all available in english too. I haven't really spent a night at a hotel in Riga

If you need any help you can PM me anytime.

Anyone for some practice runs on Dzintaros on Friday?

You are welcome to register Baltic slalom championship:

http://www.skateboardinfo.lv/?mod=80

Thanks for the advice - booking a hotel in a new city is always tricky,
and the best prices tend to not be on the net.

I have booked for the weekend:

Europa City Riga Hotel
Brivibas Str. 199c,
Riga, 1039
Latvia
866-539-0036

although it seems the hotel is not near Riga City!
I can cancel the booking if something better turns up. Aivara, if you have time to meet me I will pay you for gas etc. I arrive 14:05 on lufthansa from frankfurt 14:00pm Friday

I have now cancelled the above hotel and emailed a request to the Elina Hotel.

Lienes street 43, LV-2015, Jurmala, Latvia, phone/fax +37167761665, +37129235230, +37129286695
e-mail: elina@elinahotel.lv

I hope to meet Aivars Karklins at the airport on Friday and then go skateboarding in Jurmala. cheers Paul

We will be in the competition site +/- at 4pm and if anyone else wants to join us then let us know. My number is +3718334938.

See you all there!

I will join you to learn

hey gints
thiago can't come
we were at the airport in duesseldorf and thiago had a ryanair ticket which said duesseldorf in big letters and in the small print weeze.no chance to make it to weeze in time,sorry but he did not know about that.

Sorry to hear that, I was supposed to be sharing a room with him in Jurmala.
Ryanair sucks big time - it is the airline from hell! Just driving to Frankfurt now before flying to Riga. With Lufthansa.

Finally got out of hospital today (had an operation on Tuesday - no serious skating for at least a month...) - pity that Thiago didn't make it to Latvia (he got his GOG truck now, so he would be too fast to catch anyway

Paul Price and Sj Kalliokoski are already here, so looks like it will be a great race tomorrow (not for me this time)!

Hot weather, girls & slalom - it's Jurmala baby

TS: 1 Armands Sausins, 2 Janis Kuzmins, 3 Didzis Jasukaitis...7.Paul Price... 13.Sj Kalliokoski
SS: 1 Kuzmins 2 Marks Kiselovs 3 Armands Sausins... 5.Paul Price... 14 Sj Kalliokoski

Tomorrow: GS

Gustavs Gailitis wrote:TS: 1 Armands Sausins, 2 Janis Kuzmins, 3 Didzis Jasukaitis...

Armands beats Janis, holy smoke!!
You're definitely back in shape. Good to see!

/Jani

Thanks, Jani!
I'm shocked too!:)

Armands

GS in Priekuli: Great atmosphere, sun & racing! We had 3 runs and we already finished - 1.Gustavs Gailitis, 2.Ainars Jermacenko, 3.Didzis Jasukaitis,4.Paul Price, 5.Marks Kiselovs, 6. Armands Sausins!

Well done Gustavs with broken hand.

Gustavs Gailitis, July 2nd wrote:Finally got out of hospital today (had an operation on Tuesday - no serious skating for at least a month...)

Gustavs Gailitis, July 4th wrote:GS in Priekuli: 1. Gustavs Gailitis, 2. Ainars Jermacenko, 3. Didzis Jasukaitis

That's a very short month!

/Jani

Sj Kalliokoski wrote:Well done Gustavs with broken hand.

Jani Soderhall wrote:Gustavs Gailitis, July 2nd wrote:
Finally got out of hospital today (had an operation on Tuesday - no serious skating for at least a month...)

Gustavs Gailitis, July 4th wrote:
GS in Priekuli: 1. Gustavs Gailitis, 2. Ainars Jermacenko, 3. Didzis Jasukaitis

That's a very short month!

/Jani

HANDBAGGER!

Photos from Gints:

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Gustavs Gailitis


Junior Podium


Armands Sausins with his Garage model.


Sintija Erkevica


Awards ceremony


SJ and Paul Price
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Some shakey clips from Jurmala saturday race:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEKHlXCZwAA

Jani Soderhall wrote: That's a very short month!

I didn't had a calendar with me

It was really hot weekend with some close racing – in special slalom Kuzmins won and my ‘’Wheelbite’’ fellow youngster Marks Kiselovs took second. Third was Sausins. In tight Sausins was unstoppable and won the Baltic championship title. By the way, his the first guy ever who become Latvian champion (it was in 1989 – few months before I was born ) and he is the first Latvian who won medals in Euros (3rd in 1995, just behind Luca and Ridoli )!

About my racing - I got out of the hospital on Friday afternoon with my broken thumb. Now I must keep my hand like you can see on the right background side of ‘’Junior podium’’ picture for a month or so. But as I am really addicted to slalom racing and as it was my 5year birthday as a skateboarder in that weekend (my first race was the World cup ‘’Baltic sea’’ 2005 – you were there, Jani I decided to make at least a symbolic runs besides being the speaker of the race. In special and tight it was quite hard because my hand hurts every time I wave it.
On Sunday GS there were 3 runs for everybody and of course here I didn’t need to wave so active – I did only 1 run and with 1.2sec lead it was enough to become Baltic champion in GS (actually, it was funny, that everybody shouted ''Slow down'' not ''Go'' because they were afraid that I can hurt myself more seriously)!

We had a great weekend and of course huge THANK YOU to Paul and Pokkis for coming to our race and Jurmala city council for support! ! !

Giant slalom:
1.Gustavs Gailitis 49.49
2.Ainars Jermacenko 51.03
3.Didzis Jasukaitis 51.21
4.Paul Price 52.10
5.Marks Kiselovs 52.76
6.Armands Sausins 55.02
7.Valdis Sermols 55.07
8.Edijs Jermacenko j 55.53
9.Gints Ruperts 55.63
10.Arguts Skudrens 55.63
11.Janis Sirmais 57.14
12.Toms Dreiblats j 61.25
13./14.Edzus Konosonoks DQ
13./14. Aksels Ruperts j DQ

Tight slalom:
1.Armands Sausins 10.17
2.Janis Kuzmins 10.21
3.Didzis Jasukaitis 10.70
4.Marks Kiselovs 10.72
5.Ainars Jermacenko 10.80
6.Gustavs Gailitis 10.96
7.Paul Price 11.07
8.Edzus Konosonoks 11.21
9.Aivars Karklins 11.36
10.Gints Gailitis 11.47
11.Juris Grundulis 11.62
12.Lienite Skaraine w 11.80
13.Janis Jirgens 11.83
14.Edijs Jermacenko j 11.95
15.Sj Kalliokoski 12.13
16.Valdis Sermols 12.28
17.Gints Ruperts 12.67
18.Arguts Skudrens 12.85
19.Aksels Ruperts j 12.93
20.Toms Dreiblats j 13.83
21.Eduards Vitmanis 14.30
22.Anna Gailite w 15.71
23.Eliza Gailite w 16.56
24.Sintija Erkevica w 16.66
25.Anatolijs Bojarins j 21.87
26.Janis Sirmais DQ

Special slalom:
1.Janis Kuzmins 10.55
2.Marks Kiselovs 10.96
3.Armands Sausins 11.05
4.Didzis Jasukaitis 11.13
5.Paul Price 11.17
6.Ainars Jermacenko 11.38
7.Gustavs Gailitis 11.48
8.Aivars Karklins 11.77
9.Juris Grundulis 11.85
10.Edzus Konosonoks 11.88
11.Gints Gailitis 12.25
12.Edijs Jermacenko j 12.27
13.Lienite Skaraine w 12.50
14.Janis Jirgens 12.61
15.Janis Sirmais 12.76
16.Sj Kalliokoski 13.05
17.Arguts Skudrens 13.24
18.Valdis Sermols 13.33
19.Gints Ruperts 13.46
20.Aksels Ruperts j 14.05
21.Toms Dreiblats j 14.25
22.Eduards Vitmanis 14.94
23.Anna Gailite w 15.37
24.Sintija Erkevica w 15.70
25.Eliza Gailite w 17.68
26.Armins Stepanjans j 21.26
27.Anatolijs Bojarins j 24.76

Gustavs Gailitis wrote:Giant slalom:
1.Gustavs Gailitis 49.49

Tight slalom:
1.Armands Sausins 10.17

Special slalom:
1.Janis Kuzmins 10.55

Three different winners - what a great level of racers in such a small country (but big in slalom!)

Congrats!

/Jani