[2006] European Championships - Riga, July 1-2, 2006

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:27 am

Marcus Seyffarth wrote:Peter are you bringing a large suitcase for the trophies?

Yeah, that would be cool. So I can take yours and don't have to bring my own.

*funniest joke ever*

looking forward to meeting the Swedish guys

rmn

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:58 pm

Peter Klang wrote:Still Riding With the Vikings

There was this article in the newspaper yesterday about someone that had done a lot of research about the vikings and came to the conclusion that the vikings never ever used helmets with horns, went berserk and killed people but was more of a travelling salesman.

Pretty gay.

Peter are you bringing a large suitcase for the trophies?

Pelle Gustafsson · Post by **Pelle Gustafsson** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:42 pm

why not now? i also got another board

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:22 pm

Now? Why not in Riga?

hm...I'll think about posting a picture...

rmn

Pelle Gustafsson · Post by **Pelle Gustafsson** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:09 pm

yezzz i want...now!!!!!!!!!!

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:06 pm

Wanna see MY new board, do you?

rmn

Pelle Gustafsson · Post by **Pelle Gustafsson** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:43 pm

you can expekt the most beautyful place on earth!
here is my new kaliber board!

Karl Floitgraf · Post by **Karl Floitgraf** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:38 pm

Bryan and I will be there in Latvia being the only Americans to crash this race. Can't wait, have no idea what to expect.

Peter Klang · Post by **Peter Klang** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:09 pm

It has been awfully quiet about the European Championships.
Shouldn’t we start the psychological war soon?

Like the Germans did to the Swedes during the Football world cup. It was really unnecessary, Last time Sweden beat Germany 3-1 in the world cup 1958, Germany boycott Swedish products for 20 years. Germany being our biggest trade partner since the 1500th we know it would not be wise. Good luck in the quarter finals.

However on the pavement in Jurmala we’ll mite not cave in to the Germans or anybody else for that mater.

Still Riding With the Vikings
PK

Vincent Berruchon · Post by **Vincent Berruchon** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:11 pm

Steve Hinzen wrote:Janis K.,
I just send you an e-mail. Now, with Kathrin and Holger, we are 5 German riders coming to Riga. Please book us a second room in hotel Daina. Thank you.

Janis I've sent you an email too. Me, Pat'Allan and Adel will arrive at 17:35 on friday at Riga airport - and we'll leave on manday at 18:00.

So we'll need an hotel room too in Jurmala if it's the easiest place to sleep, can you arrange that?

Thank you
I'm looking forward to be in Latvia again

Steve Hinzen · Post by **Steve Hinzen** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:11 am

Janis K.,
I just send you an e-mail. Now, with Kathrin and Holger, we are 5 German riders coming to Riga. Please book us a second room in hotel Daina. Thank you.

Patrick Allan · Post by **Patrick Allan** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:35 pm

Hi, I arrive at Riga's airport friday at 17h35... Not quite sure where I'll be sleeping but I can't wait!

See you soon...

Sam Gordon · Post by **Sam Gordon** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:03 pm

Now I remember where I'd seen that Kowalski Kat before:

No wonder he's bouncing off the walls.

Peter Klang · Post by **Peter Klang** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:44 am

Gints,
I hope we will have a party like last year, the best race of 2005.
I can´t wait.

PK

Gints Gailitis · Post by **Gints Gailitis** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:33 pm

I would like to inform that registration to the European slalom championship in Jurmala will be closed on June 15, 2006.
Registration fee will be possible to pay on July 1st before competition.
Payment method: cash only will be accepted.

Dominik Kowalski · Post by **Dominik Kowalski** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:58 pm

Now please have look at that ugly f-xkface. Damn, didn´t notice how hard it worked on me...
Yeah, it was a real struggle. But I´ll do my best to stand up for a new battle with the bottle on the next PSWC.

Thanks again, Jani

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:01 pm

Dominik Kowalski wrote:Olala, thanks for saving me from embarrasment...

Let me present our newest Team Duvel member:

Dominik qualified at his first attempt in the PSWC 2006 Duvel beer-allover-body challenge.

/Jani

Dominik Kowalski · Post by **Dominik Kowalski** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:34 am

Whaaat??? And I thought I could wear my favorite dress!!! HAHA!

Olala, thanks for saving me from embarrasment...

Steve Hinzen · Post by **Steve Hinzen** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:41 am

PS. I don't think it's fair to let Dominik Kowalski race in the ladies class.

Jani, you're right. That was my fault. Dominik has absolutely no chance against Katrin Sehl who might participate too.
Gints or Janis, can you please move Domina to the AMs. Thanks.

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:16 am

Time to sign up!

To further strenghten Team ConeRacing.com we have decided to add Russian Champion Anatoly Matsukevich to the team. He's all set for Riga. He might also be bringing one or two more skaters from the St Petersburg area. Most likely Elena Sinadolova will be there. Denis Kozhin has registered already. For those of you who don't know Denis yet, you'll be pleasantly surprised to discover such a strong Russian slalomer. Since we last met he's been into wakeboard racing, so he could very well provide some surprises to the top level.

See you all in Latvia in a couple of weeks!

PS. I don't think it's fair to let Dominik Kowalski race in the ladies class.

/Jani

Steve Hinzen · Post by **Steve Hinzen** » Wed May 17, 2006 2:30 pm

Paul, I'm happy we meet in Riga.
Christoph Baumann and me booked our flights yesterday.
Friday night we arrive at the same time as you and Sam.

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:34 am

hey paul, did you try to call me yesterday?

rmn

Paul Price · Post by **Paul Price** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:36 pm

I will travel from London to arrive in Riga on Friday 30 June at 22:35 hrs
and leave on Monday at 16:20. Sam Gordon is on the same flight

Last years race was great - and the place is amazing - try to go if you can!

Steve Hinzen · Post by **Steve Hinzen** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:46 pm

Thanks for your quick answer, Janis. Please check your e-mail. Steve

Janis kuzmins · Post by **Janis kuzmins** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:20 pm

We recomend for staying hotel daina. we have discount for this hotel 10%. double room cost something about 32-38 euros per night for room. Hotel is near of the very nice beach(50 or 100 meters) This is a good price for this time, becose in this time hier will be a lot of tourists who want to relax on the beach, and staying for good price will be big problem. will be wery good if participians will send me e mails on janis.kuzmins@inbox.lv, and i will barrow specially for you this rooms, and you need to pay only when you will be there. for that you need to registred for competition on www.skateboardinfo.lv. Staying in one place will be wery good for second reason, gigant on second day will be on other place, we will organised a bus from this hotel to this place and back.

About Giant, We search for good place very long time. It's very good for giant, slanting(steep) will be 6%. Special and straight will be on the same place as last year, near the beach and a lot of spectators.
We will try to catch all of participants, but anyway taxi to hotel Daina cost 10-15 eur.(7-10 lats.). that takes only 15-20 min.

Steve Hinzen · Post by **Steve Hinzen** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:48 am

Janis,

I guess some members of the G.o.G. will attend your races. For now, Christoph Baumann and me are planning to come, eventually Heiko and Dominik, too.

Is there any chance to get picked up at the airport on friday night (22:00) ... and get a lift to the airport on sunday night (22:00) by some of you local guys, please?

What about cheap accommodation?

...and please, tell us all you know about the giant course.

Patrick Allan · Post by **Patrick Allan** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:54 pm

Thanks, it didn't sound very likely anyway...
But about the competition, will the special take place on the same road as last year? Where will the giant be? Will it be steep? Will it be turny?

oooh! I'm all excited...

Janis kuzmins · Post by **Janis kuzmins** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:22 pm

Patric, you can't catch a flight at 18.00, becose second day of competition will be in another place (that will be giant), not so close to the airport. And we never know about weather, maybe the competition will finish later.

Patrick Allan · Post by **Patrick Allan** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:24 pm

Ramón Königshausen wrote:How about the schedule? Is it set up yet?

rmn

Do you have any idea as to when the competition will end (what time...) on Sunday?

There's a flight that leaves from Riga airport (ryanair) at 18h00... Would it be possible to get that flight?

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:14 am

Well you live in the EU and you can book at Ryanair or so... there aren't any cheap airlines that fly from Switzerland to Latvia. I don't know how to get there for less than CHF 500.-

rmn

Heiko Schöller · Post by **Heiko Schöller** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:43 pm

Ramon what do you have to pay? I checked today for some flights and I have to pay about 85€ in total. I don´t know if I get holiday but I check and then I will maybe come too!!!

Jadranko Radovanovic · Post by **Jadranko Radovanovic** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:32 pm

Karl,

you can register for the comp on www.skateboardinfo.lv

J-Rad

Karl Floitgraf · Post by **Karl Floitgraf** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:12 pm

Bryan and I just bought our tickets from Hahn to Rigga, June 29th to July 4th. You guys don't mind if a couple Americans crash the Euros do you?

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:37 pm

Thx, I already knew...a few months ago it looked different. Now everything's okay, thx again! I hope to get a cheap flight but at the moment it doesn't look like

rmn

Gints Gailitis · Post by **Gints Gailitis** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:18 pm

Ramon,

www.skateboardinfo.lv you can get english version by clicking on the eglish flag!
The sistem work for all the people, not only for swedish guys.

GG

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:24 pm

Last I checked there was only a latvian version on that I couldn't make out any facts....now it works. thx....

rmn

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:20 am

How about checking the website first

http://www.skateboardinfo.lv/

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:04 pm

How about the schedule? Is it set up yet?

rmn

David Rudnianski · Post by **David Rudnianski** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:20 pm

I'll be there!

Detlef Rehbock · Post by **Detlef Rehbock** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:33 am

i appreciate the decision for latvia. by the way. thank you that some of you guys think about hannover as a candidate for the esc 2006.
last year we organized our first race ever and this year the esc 2006? no thank you. first we will show all of you that we can do it better than in 2005. after that we will see.

this year we had the big problem that paris want to have the first weekend in june, because it´s the pentecost weekend. i think next year they don´t have that problem. pentecost weekend then is on the last weekend in may.
for our area we need to use the first weekend in june.
that´s the only possibility for the expo 2000 area in hannover.

anyway, let´s see what we do this year. good luck for latvia.

Janis kuzmins · Post by **Janis kuzmins** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:40 pm

EC in Latvia will be on first and secend of july.

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:33 pm

I'll double check those dates first.

/Jani

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:15 pm

Hey!

I'm about to book my hotel and boat/flight cause I won't miss this for the world! One question though, Jani (or someone else that is admin) can you change so that the date for this topic is the same as the one in the event calendar so that I know what date to book.

I'm pretty sure july 1:st as it says in the eventcalendar is correct but I don't wanna buy a ticket the wrong weekend...

Thanks!

Pelle Gustafsson · Post by **Pelle Gustafsson** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:36 am

RIGA RIGA RIGA!!!!!!!! i be there!!! The most wonderfule place (latvia) in the world!!! and lovly people can´t wait to get there

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:18 pm

brad wrote:Would it not be feasible or make sense to have a Championship Slalom curcuit like the ASP World Tour for surfing?

The tradition we have is to let the European Championships to be a single weekend event, just like the World Championships. If you're not there you can't win.

The series that you propose though is a good idea. It could be done on a European or World level. Making it on a world level could work out, but people are not so likely to go to more than one event overseas (whichever direction) and after all we have the world ranking to cover a World ranking.

Making a European Cup series however does make sense. It wouldn't require much organization so it's possible. All the events are already there, we just have to choose which ones to include and set up a points system for the series. Good idea, but there still some work to be done. Anyone interested?

/Jani

Bradley Elfman · Post by **Bradley Elfman** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:30 pm

Would it not be feasible or make sense to have a Championship Slalom curcuit like the ASP World Tour for surfing? If several events draw equally qualified racers, then why not use a cumulative point system for three or four slalom events?

If one wins in Paris or Antibes or Paris and Antibes but not in Latvia, then the title held by the Latvian winner is really arbitrary (just using this year's discussion as example).

alavoine jean paul · Post by **alavoine jean paul** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:01 pm

Peter Klang wrote: oLsOn wil be there...

PK

Is Olsen a Swedish newcomer???

JP: The King of kings... wearing a broken leg!

Peter Klang · Post by **Peter Klang** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:09 am

Riga was the funnest and best contest in 2005 by far.
I will go Euro or no Euro status.

However, I do think they deserve it, being the only ones having focus on it from the beginning. Ask anyone who was in Riga last summer. Why does everyone support Riga?

oLsOn wil be there...

PK

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:43 pm

Steve,

The Euro Championships is held EVERY year in Europe.
For the Worlds it's the first time EVER and at most we can expect to receive it every second year. That means it's worth discussion about it.

I think it's good to rotate events such as the European Championships, so I think new countries and towns should have an advantage. I did not consider Antibes as a candidate, but now Pierre has proposed it. My vote still goes to Riga/Jurmala. Antibes will still be a good event being the last important race of the season in Europe.

/Jani

Jadranko Radovanovic · Post by **Jadranko Radovanovic** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:17 pm

It's very easy !

There is only one candidate for the European Championships.

Pierre had already the European Championships in 2003.

Only the Latvians were interested in the Euro's for 2006.

If you look on the Post's, you will see that all the organizer's were on ss.com in the last time. No one of them asked for the Euro's in 2006, only Pierre in his last massage, But he already had the Euro's in 2003.

Latvia now run's the competition for the third time.
The organisation and the location was the best for 2005.

A lot of spectators, no timing or any other problems.

They organised in 1995 the last European Championchips in Latvia.

That's how it was decided.

/J-Rad

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[2006] European Championships - Riga, July 1-2, 2006

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