ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

I nominate that we get Richy and Maria Carrasco over to this Swiss race.

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How do we start a PayPal slalom fund for them? Or better yet, since we got 6mos to do this send a check and avoid PayPal getting any of the money.

I'm good for $50 as soon as you get Paypal up.

Richy you know that $100.00 you owe me, contribute it to the Swiss fund and then you only owe me $50.00

Arab

We'll will kick in $20! Richy and all the SSS guys have made Cheryl and me feel so welcome all year - thanks!

Ok, I really had no idea where this would go when I posted it. And I was a little like "oh shoot, what did I start now". But as I can see the idea of helping fellow skaters is a great thing. And Richy is fast and friendly.

I'll keep all records and post them here in this thread. If you'd rather your amount be anonymous that's ok too. I would also like someone else know the PayPal account too and all records, but I'll do the work.

But what if Richy can't go for some reason, or it would conflict with an FCR series race? I'm sure he'd like to but I guess we should let him in on the deal here. But if he can't make it do we have a back up plan and a return policy? The sooner we'd buy airline tickets the better deal we'd can get. It'd be awesome to see this happen.

Glenn

i told Kim about it and she said we were good for 25.00. she loves her skate kings T shirt! richy get your passports now! it is going to take a while if you don't have em and you can't wait til the last minute.

Richie, If you collect money at the Swiss race won't you also need a green card? HH

Glenn, Bad H, Arab, George, and anyone else....Skaterbuilt will throw down $50.00 for Richy and Maria. No prob......I owe Richy bigtime for all the tips and advice, so it would be the least I could do. I'm in. The Brown Bomber will be a shoe-in for the best Swiss/Euro killer!

Dave - Skaterbuilt

OK then, I did it. A little late, but better late than never. I was not sure where to go with this after I posted it.

Because it would be great to see as many Americans at a major Euro slalom race as possible. This is a start.

But a big motivation to make this happen is that from my understanding Luca and Gatti "who many considered to be two of the fastest slalomer of all time are signed up for this event"(got that one from Vlad's post in DC Discussions ).

The PayPal account is: swissfund@cox.net

My donation is $50

Do Richy and Maria have a passport :eek:

Thanks to everybody on this thread that commented on this subject -- your support is awesome! Maria and I are seriously talking about actually going now. It would be an interesting race seeing racers that I have only heard of. I have my documents in order including my green card!

Hey Mr. Brown Bomber Richie Carrasco, this is angry Eggers speaking°!
Let me know if you need any help travelling to Europe. The old freestyler Yoyo is waiting for you too!
What do you need that green card for?

Chris

Hi Chris -- Richy and I are really looking forward to making this trip. Thinking about flying into Belgium and making our way via train to the race. Haven't been to Switzerland before. Could use some advice on the train route and what station to plan for in Switzerland if you know. Ideally we will fly out of Switzerland back home maybe by way of Florida. Trying to get creative with our FF miles. Anyway -- hope we can pull it all together and look forward to seeing you (and everyone else too) if so.
Cheers!

The station to plan for in Switzerland is defenitely Zürich. If you can tell an arrival date in advance I am sure someone will be available to pic you up from the station. It is about a 40 minute ride by car to Grüningen from there. There are buses available too which you can set your watches by.
The route from Belgium can be sorted out by a travel agency. Just tell me or them from which city you want to start. I´ll be glad to help.

Edit:

I just checked: A train ride from Brusseles to Zürich takes over 9 hours and you have to change trains 4-5 times. Maybe a start in Germany might be better. Try Munich or any other city that interests you.
If you fly to Frankfurt we might even be able to arrange an airport pick up. Yoyo the mighty flatland invert freestyler lives nearby.

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Richy and Maria-

I am good for 15 bucks, just let me know when you need it!

see you soon hopefully!

Henry

Richy and Maria leave tonight for Europe where they intend to race in England at Brands Hatch and then at the Swiss race. Sorry I took so long getting a PayPal account up. I ended up being the only one to put anything in it, and PayPal took $2 of that. But I will close it out tomorrow.

But I talked to Maria and she said that this thread motivated them to find a way to make the trip, which they are. She said that if it were not for this thread that they might of not thought about going at all.

My thoughts originally were to see some Americans over in Europe this year. The Euros had been coming to the Worlds and other races in America and none of us were going over there the past two years except for Sharon who was sponsored by us the slalom community.

Well this year we are seeing Americans in Europe which is a good thing. Slalom should be a global sport, and it is.

Good luck racing Richy, and Maria get all the racing on film and video. Have fun. Also to the Gordon clan who I had heard are going to the Swiss race as well. Any others from America going?

Good luck Richi(s) and the Gordons!
I'll come if there are reasonable fares. My workplace offered a full sponsrship, but I declined. Tiket prices are just too much.

Luca's coming.

Luca? Jani? Richi? Howard? Who will take the win?

Here is a site that has video of both Brands Hatch and the Swiss site:

http://qube2.lcp.linst.ac.uk/skate/video/

Thanks again Glenn for your thoughtfulness! We're in Uster and its Friday. Having a BLAST all the way through!! Switzerland is really beautiful and England was awesome. It was hard to leave there and it will be hard to leave here on Monday. Don't worry I've been shooting plenty of video and planning some broadcast segments of our Euro experience . . . more to follow!! See ya all soon . . . Cheers!