ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

WCSS2011 is on-line and will be updated regularly.

http://worldslalomskateboarding.com/

The ISSA calendar and slalomranking.com Evens are up to date

adds/changes are

Change date for Bloody Bones Contest - Czech Cup from 11-12-June to 11-June (now one day event, but very good one -> organisation, race tracks etc.)

add Stará Kolena, Masters/Legends Survivorship


add Callot Island slalom on 1-August,

add Website for the Worlds 2011 -> http://worldslalomskateboarding.com/,

add five Brasil events

Congrats to the organizers and racers at the Texas Sizzler.

If you liked that, you may also want to make plans for the Oregon State Games June 25-26

We also have a nice smooth long Soap Box Derby track.

We will be running 4 events: GS, Dual Hybrid, Tight, Slalomcross

Sign up and more info here: http://www.stategamesoforegon.org/sport ... son=summer


Our event is a bit smaller, fewer sponsors, less expensive. Fast, fun racing on the buttery-smooth tree-lined Salem Soap Box Derby Hill !

I will handle the side pot for the Pros in Salem....

The ISSA calendar and slalomranking.com Events are now up to date and synchronized

following changes has been made

add sign-up link and website for the State Games of Oregon
MAIN Status for British Open Slalom Championships 2011
MAIN Status for Gints Gailitis memorial cup (former Riga championships) and extend Date from 18 June to 18-19 June
PRIME Status for Baltic sea cup (change Date from 20 August to 23 July)
PRIME Status for Baltic championships (change Date from 9-10 July to 9 July)

Regards
Peter

The ISSA calendar and slalomranking.com Events are now up to date and synchronized

following changes has been made

PRIME Status for The Rush
PRIME Status for Glastonbury Ales Love Monkey NASS Open Slalom Championships
BASIC Status for Hog Hill open season
add Turn or Burn - head to head
change German Open Slalom from MAIN candidate to PRIME candidate
optical corrections for sanction forms URL's, clean up

The season 2011 looks pretty good!!!

Events details, please look directly the one and only slalomskateboard calendar at

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/phpBB ... php?t=7614

and

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/slalo ... vents.list

Best Regards from Munich
Peter

Hello racers we wish to inform you that the registration for the World Championships of Slalom Skateboarding 2011 will begin at 12:00 noon eastern standard time. Here http://www.ncdsa.com/contests.asp

If you have not read about the event please visit our website for details about the 10 bursaries up for grabs. http://worldslalomskateboarding.com/

We will draw names from the 1st.20 paid European registrants. Each of the 5 names drawn will receive a $100.00 bursary to help offset costs and such.

We will draw names from the 1st.20 paid non-European registrants. Each of the 5 names drawn will receive a $100.00 bursary to help offset costs and such.

We hope you all have a great race season in preparation for the Worlds and are ready to give it your best shot at a Podium spot.

Come and visit Ottawa, Canada the Nations Capital and enjoy some beautiful sites and a fabulous event.

Darn I hate it when I omit something like that! I need to go back to every page I posted on! Sorry everyone. Opens this Saturday the 9th of Arpil at 12nn EST.

The ISSA calendar and slalomranking.com Events are now up to date and synchronized

following changes has been made


MAIN Status for Slalom St. Louis

MAIN Status for 8th Annual Dovercourt Open

Add SuomiCup (four competitions in Finland)

actualisation of Latvia events (BASIC Status, Dates, Names)

add Cone Fest Six and assign PRIME Status for this event

upgrade Status from BASIC to PRIME for first Skateboard Slalom Open Day on 15 May 2011

update sequence (by Date) for MAIN, PRIME events

optical tune up

ISSA Calendar History now also at slalomranking.com available.

see http://www.slalomranking.com/

-> Calendar -> More...

Regards
Peter

German Open Slalom (PRIME candidate) on 18-19 June has been postponed to autumn (because RIGA date collision), more information/new date comming asap

As for the Worlds in Canada, the ISSA did decide to help non-european racers to come to the major european event this year.
A 500 dollar purze will be allocated to eligible racers.

We want to thank ISSA for taking these steps in order to help out some of the racers. Considering we are all this to get rich everything helps.

The organizers of the event in Canada also decided to match the offer. You can read about it here at our website.

http://worldslalomskateboarding.com/?page_id=98

Good Luck to all in the races this season and we hope to see you in Ottawa, Canada this summer.

"May site costs paid by Steve Lavin"

Or may not.

Let us know what you decide, Steve.

Just got off the phone with Marion Karr. He's been in the ER for four hours. He was bombing a section of trail when a pine cone got him a bit squirrely. He decided to head for what looked like a bed of pine straw before bailing. What he didn't know was under the pine straw is rock. He's got a knee cut to the bone and has 40 stitches. He'll be slowed for at least 10 days. Nothing broken, though.

Marion told me last night he finished the first stage in 15th place last night. Of the original 25 riders it is now down to 15 with one more stage left for tomorrow. The temps are rising steadily and the grades are getting longer heading into Alabama.

Wesley Tucker wrote:He's got a knee cut to the bone and has 40 stitches. He'll be slowed for at least 10 days. Nothing broken, though.

Thanks for the news WT. Marion, I hope it's not as bad as it sounds: 40 stiches, oh boy!

/Jani

HEAL QUICKLY MARION. SEE YOU IN DIXIE BROTHER. YOUR AMIGO EDDY TEXAS OUTLAWS.

Wesley Tucker wrote:"May site costs paid by Steve Lavin"

Or may not.

Let us know what you decide, Steve.

I paid a long time ago - not sure if that's what you asking/saying. Sorry just seeing this now... I also paid my last dues twice

Ooo Sexy new look site - Nice. Thank you for all of your hard work Jani and Co.

Agree with Rob; great work.
Don't forget your site sponsors!

Nice work guys!!! Thank you very much!!!!

Fun times May 28-29 in St Louis, MO. What an outstanding group of organizers. Beautiful location.
Great BBQ from The Goad Family. Thanks to everyone for having a nice contest. Glad to see my Amigos once again. It was fun to go to the City Museum, Arch and Primus. Best weekend in years.
LUV YOU SKATEBOARD RACERS!

St Louis was a BLAST FROM THE PAST. I had not raced there since 2003. I believe nine of the original racers were there. Racing that is. To my fellow Texas Outlaws. Bros being there with ya, hanging out, racing, raising hell. It was an HONOR. Fare thee well. We shall session soon. It was hot, humid, mosquitoes and racing, seeing old friends and meeting new ones. I was SO STOKED TO BE THERE. It has been too long. The Texas Outlaws owe alot to JBH OF THE SAINT LOUIS DAGGERS. He has been to so many Texas Sizzlers and been our guest course setter on the GS. For those of you who raced Oasis Bluff. That was his sick mind. Scary, but makable. Friday I got to practice, met the future. The future looks good so far, Both in Texas and the Midwest. The kids are Fast, Stoked, and some are just a hair away from the top. WT showed up and everyone there was glad to see him race again. He is still on his game. I tip my hat to you sir. Till next time. Saturday was fast at the top, slow in the middle and fast at the end. If you had the right line, you had it. Sunday was fast, exausting, lots of pumping and cone processing while you are being pulled by the G forces making the S turns. If you leaned into the S course. No problen. Ancient chinese secret, actually Keith Hollien taught me that in 2003. It was an endurance course. At 60-70 cones. Your legs were burning. At 90 YOU were glad you made it through. And clean. This race meant so much for me. It was my second race back in 2003. Saw my Pavel Team Mates. Paul Price good win Mate. St Louis Daggers good race. Mellow atmosphere. It has to be the trees man. To all of St Louis Daggers ,Goad, JBH, Paul, Mary, Sasha awesome race. I will return next year. Kentucky is next, I want a Davy Crockett/Daniel Boone hat. I hope I can get one there. Your Amigo Eddy Texas Outlaws.

Original 2003 crew and winner Paul Price .
Texas Outlaws crew, believe there are more back in Texas.

Banner ads are starting to show up in the forum, so I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors for their support of the ISSA: Seismic, Radikal, Fullbag, Sk8 kings, Pavel, LongboardsByFatboy.

Slots are still open...
If your company wants to sponsor the ISSA 2011, email ISSA board member Ron "Fatboy" Barbagallo.

/Jani

Nine years ago today it was raining so hard on Folly Beach you could barely see across the street. Eventually, everyone moved to the Visitor Center Bus Terminal where we interrupted somebody's wedding reception. The racing lasted well into the wee hours of the morning. Some guy (don't know who) slalomed down the course standing on a beer cooler balanced on his board.

Some folks I met that day for the first time:

Gilmour
Michael Brooke
Bobby Mandarino
Paul Price
Pierre Samray
Cabbage
66

We all remember J.R. "The Star" Lee who rode a Greyhound Bus from San Diego all the way to Edge of America and had his entire quiver stolen at a layover in Dallas. Totally cool dude who took it all in stride. He was stoked to attend and made the most of his time in the Lowcountry.

Oceanside Open is Go.
Loretta Street both days.
Saturday: Dual Lane hybrid, then single lane tight, two courses.
Sunday: Single lane GS and speed trap. You must enter the GS to ride the speed trap. Get there early before the headwind picks up. Fastest times will go first.
$60.
Sign up on n c d s a
Hotel accomodation details there.
Road: Somehow getting better than it was in the past, but keep in mind, Gravity holds the slide fest here. I have been riding 80-82 or harder and have no slippage problems. Courses are set to the hill, right?

Waiting for event status, but having City approval was a major breakthrough.

Daily, and TV booked for next Tuesday AM. http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/ar ... mpionships

Way to go, Claude! You and your team seem to be working hard to get the word out there regularly. Nice job.

This mornings A Channel TV shoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onM4T1bZMmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CylASc7QRmg

Have you seen all the swag we are giving away at the Oceanside Open, including a custom set of Surf-Rodz trucks, free T-shirt by Screaming Squeegies, free lunch two days in a row served by Bull Taco? Not to mention an epic hill with an ocean view. Registration and Paypal are on ncdsa.

Definitely worth posting!
Nice job Marcus. (Yes, that's Marcus Seyffarth!)
Photo by Thomasine Seyffarth Swahn

The ISSA calendar and slalomranking.com Events are now up to date and synchronized

following changes has been made

add SUPERSKATE OPEN DAY Italy
add Tri-State Hybrid Hoedown West Virginia USA
change date for Spain's Outlawslalom #14 Spain

Cat Young wrote:Nice job Marcus.

We all know Marcus is a stud, but what exactly did he do? (besides having his photo taken in his exotic-dancing outfit) ;-)

Jonathan Harms wrote:

Cat Young wrote:Nice job Marcus.

We all know Marcus is a stud, but what exactly did he do? (besides having his photo taken in his exotic-dancing outfit) ;-)

Learning to swim?

I just put this on Facebook and also wanted to pass it along here.

I don't know how many of you over the years have called Marion Karr at Execquest, but if you did perhaps Jim answered the phone. Jim Blackwood was Marion's right-hand man in the business and an excellent sales performer for the company. Last night he suffered a fatal heart attack. I'm not exactly sure but I think Jim and I were the same age (50).

As you can imagine it's a very traumatic event for all involved. Jim has a daughter who's a sophomore at Duke University and things for her and her mother will get very complicated. Of course, ExecQuest will have to do some major moves very quickly to stay on top of this tragedy.

It's a very trying time for everyone involved and I thought the slalom community would want to know.

Hahaha!!!!!

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/contests/s ... ntest.html

Entered!!!

Good luck to all racers at The Worlds this weekend - great TV coverage so far. First class work from Claude and Mary Beth.
Best of British to Paul Price too - knock 'em dead!

Lots of DQs at The WORLDS. Kentucky here I come. Your Amigo Eddy Texas Outlaws.

Hey, Anyone got any info on the Worlds?

Paging Dr. Dan to the home page (not forum page) of this site--stat! :-)

JBH,

I will fix the formatting on the front page within minutes.

/Jani

I know it's all over Facebook, but that's blocked at work

Can someone post times for the Worlds?

Oh, and props to Karl for taking a DNR on the Pro Hybrid so that the runs could count - classy!

I just thought that I would repost this here for better visability. Glenn

From Dave Kirkpatrick:
Skaters,

Sorry for the wait -

You can sign up for the Antrim Can Am Slalom Skateboard Championships on NCDSA: http://www.ncdsa.com/contest_registrati ... 521#signup

You aren't fully confirmed until you make payment through Active: http://www.active.com/page/Event_Detail ... 6beffc131d

...OR make other arrangements with me. Town of Antrim can take CC or checks, cash... but please get on the NCDSA list so we can count you and extra shirts, etc.

Beginner race is free, of course, and there will be extra-credit races to be had each day, if all goes as planned.

Housing at the Maharishi is good to go, $25 pp/per night, I'll post their contact info ASAP, they will not sell out. If you need other housing or camping info, let me know.

Let me know of any signup issues, they both seemed to work fine in MY sandbox.

Game on!
--
Dave Kirkpatrick

Glenn Chapman wrote: Beginner race is free, of course, and there will be extra-credit races to be had each day, if all goes as planned.

Beginners race is free only one time? for one day?

The beginner race is free; it is usually on the run out of the GS course. Don't expect big and fast. You will need to sign a release if over 18 or have a parent there that will sign for you. You will also need a helmet (some times there are loaners available). Pads are nice and recommended but they have not been a requirement in the past. There usually are few loaner slalom boards that are shared by the group. There are typically mix of kids and adults that give it a try. As far as I know it will be held sometime on Sunday afternoon, but check back for details.

Thanks for the post Glenn,

Yes, beginners race is mostly kids but anyone's welcome. Glenn said it pretty well. Shallow end of the hill, loaner gear, they usually each get to run several times and choose a really easy course, or a less easy course, or if you just make it to the bottom of the incline you get placed in the "bomber division" - didn't go through the cones, but survived!

This is a great event to check it out at.Town Home and Harvest with food, fireworks, music, fun & games, craft fair... If you need an excuse to go, take the kid or the girlfriend "to the fireworks" on Saturday, and you'll see the best racers while you wander the festival in the daylight.

Need info? Let me know.

http://www.homeandharvest.org/

http://slalomskateboard.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mj4ZBlIck

Y'all should keep the northeast crew in your thoughts today. Looking at the track it appears Fatboy, Scooter, Noah, Tway, Joe I, ur13 and many others are going to take a big hit today. I'll be surprised if we hear from any of them for a while because electricity will be gone by the end of the day. Forecasts show it might fizzle a bit before getting to Boston and TK farther north.

No matter what it will NOT be a fun day up there today.

Glenn Chapman wrote:The beginner race is free; it is usually on the run out of the GS course. Don't expect big and fast. You will need to sign a release if over 18 or have a parent there that will sign for you. You will also need a helmet (some times there are loaners available). Pads are nice and recommended but they have not been a requirement in the past. There usually are few loaner slalom boards that are shared by the group. There are typically mix of kids and adults that give it a try. As far as I know it will be held sometime on Sunday afternoon, but check back for details.

Thanks Glenn
Its very exciting!!

Thanks for the thoughts -

We did OK in Antrim, some power outages and high water, but mostly just branches and junk in the road. South of here on the coast, they got some of the heavy stuff. I hope everyone's alright down there.

d

Wesley Tucker wrote:Y'all should keep the northeast crew in your thoughts today. Looking at the track it appears Fatboy, Scooter, Noah, Tway, Joe I, ur13 and many others are going to take a big hit today. I'll be surprised if we hear from any of them for a while because electricity will be gone by the end of the day. Forecasts show it might fizzle a bit before getting to Boston and TK farther north.

No matter what it will NOT be a fun day up there today.