PAVEL/GOG DO OR DIE RACE, DÜSSELDORF, APRIL 12/13

[Hervé Berthou]

Here is the contest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2VK1oWb4Q

and some nice runs in slow motion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahi_XteC3U

Thank you guys, it was a nice time riding with you

[Flavio Badenes]

Thanks Donald...

Marcio Dominik was the skater I told Bruno to take to Brazil last year. I still think Brazilian slalom skaters need to see LIVE what the NEW generation slalom skaters are doing. Ramon Koningshaus is another good example.

I guess that after watching the video you understand what I mean.
I am trying to take Dom to Brazil for the contest in Interlagos in December 2008.

By the way I think you saw my post with the GOG trucks on the skaters.com.br site like I said the prices you get are exactly the same you would pay here in Europe, for the best slalom trucks on the market right now.

If someone is traveling to Europe and wants to take some trucks back to Brazil with him, please let me know in advance so that I can have the trucks in stock. That will save freight costs.

[Sam Gordon]

So here's some more:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 716876583/













UK OK!

[Michel Dupont]

So, still no sign of AMs special race final results. Still missing :

Round of 8
Round of 4
Consolation
Final
and the REAL final standings

Thanks in advance Donald for putting them up and hoping you didn't scratch the file.

[Márcio Benevides]

Thanks Donald...

[Donald Campbell]

that's the dominik kowalski pro model
kicktail model with deep concave and a foot pocket in the rear.
comes in carbon finish with a 22-24" wb and recessed foamcore areas
get in touch with flavio he handles pretty much all of the brazilian stuff
when it comes to gog trucks.

[Márcio Benevides]

Glad you liked it...

... and that's Dominik Kowalski.

Mick.

Thanks a lot, Michael.
One more question: do you know this board dimension? I like it a lot...

[Michael Reiss]

Hope you like it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2vFZhFf24

Mick.

Nice video...
It is freaking awesome. I loved it!!

BTW, who is the guy at the 16 seconds riding on the left lane in this video?

Glad you liked it...

... and that's Dominik Kowalski.

Mick.

[Michel Dupont]

Where are the am-special final results? worldcupranking.com only shows
"final standings" based on qualification times

Mick.

Still waiting.....

[Márcio Benevides]

Hope you like it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2vFZhFf24

Mick.

Nice video...
It is freaking awesome. I loved it!!

BTW, who is the guy at the 16 seconds riding on the left lane in this video?

[Pelle Gustafsson]

...nice ass, you pig!

lol you ask for it....

[Dominik Kowalski]

...nice ass, you pig!

[Pelle Gustafsson]

nice pics!

[Dominik Kowalski]

Someone reeeallly likes foo figthers.........hehe...looks great! No pool stuff...hmmm.

Oki doki, I would like to thank everybody who made it to our race. Nice to see all old faces and so many newbies!!! They were rippin' hard! I had a wounderfull time with all of you. The berlin crew is always fun to hang out with, so the dutch and of course the french and the swedes anybody else!!! All of you are the fire.
We where kinda worried about the weather conditions, so that is particular also the reason why we decided to have two runs instead of another race, we didn't want to take that chance, but gladly, thank you again, everbody was ok with that, and we could move on to a unforgetable pool session! That was the best! My legs are still sore from that!
The weather on sunday sucked ass...but again, all of you made the best out of it and enjoyed themselfes, freestylin' kickflipin' or jerkin' off.....thank you again everybody.

A special thanks also to the G-O-G crew and especially my little big DON! Thanks for that wounderfull board. Without you, I would have never come so far!!!!!!!!!!
Not to forget Mr.Beste for these amazing trucks....set it up and took it to victory....it's that easy

Ok, so all of you know what the deal is now! We got this beast of a Ramp, that wants to be ridden. For the next episode, we are going for a massive GS....be prepared!


ah, by the way.....I haven't had the time to take many shots during this weekend, as I was busy doing other stuff. But here are some pics you might like to see...enjoy!


http://www.flickr.com/photos/59756352@N ... 582763514/

[HUYNH BACH SAC Frédéric]

Hope you like it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2vFZhFf24

Mick.

Cool Mick.

ps : hope Ella is ok after the fall...

[Michael Reiss]

Hope you like it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2vFZhFf24

Mick.

[Joachim Leonhardt]

@Carsten:

It's the SO-NIE - Erik#SOHNs mobile-format.
Please give the free realplayer 10.5/11 a try.
Best, Joe

[Michael Reiss]

Where are the am-special final results? worldcupranking.com only shows
"final standings" based on qualification times

Mick.

[Jani Soderhall]

Hmm....I can't open my "Bowling-for-Düsseldorf" run!
Strange format, joe?!

I had a quick look at some of these using ACDSEE (good, easy to use image viewing software) so apparently it's some kind of video format from a digital camera or phone. As I got it up I didn't worry more about it before posting them for Joe.

/Jani

[Carsten Pingel]

Hmm....I can't open my "Bowling-for-Düsseldorf" run!
Strange format, joe?!

[Joachim Leonhardt]

Bowlride video
Do or Die Homer video
DOM video
Homer vs Schuller video
How to build a Pavel video
Mr cone Pingel video

[Cat Young]

Cyril, Thanks for the pictures!
Do you have any more??

Sam--- where are your pictures dude?
Let's see em'!

[Pierre Hazera]

thanks for all
here you have some pics too:

http://s288.photobucket.com/albums/ll18 ... mview=grid

[Pelle Gustafsson]

Thanks again to Donald and the GOG crew for sorting out a great weekend of skating. Frank, Dom, Steve and the Gang did us proud. Having organised fun events before, I know how hard it is to get the racing on schedule, including registration, timing and spreadsheet work. Two races in one day? Impressive. And having a contingency location in case of bad weather for day two showed excellent planning. All done on a laid back vibe. Top teamwork gents!

Will have to go back and try the big ramp one day soon. Spent half of Saturday night getting my head around it and was just about ready by Sunday. It's now on the life list of 'things to do.' Thanks to Homer for showing how easy the ramp should be.

Great too to see all of the racers from the French Pirates to the Viking Crew and the Smoking Clog Racers. The middle of the Am field is more competitive than ever with Mick charging, Slipa, Fred, Holger and Pelle bringing up the comp levels(damn them) and Donald belting through the course whilst having a head full of organisation. The Germans are always on fire. As for Latvia? We'll catch that young gun Gustav yet!

And are the time's above really correct? Damn it's close. Just you wait, Pelle. And how fast was Antonio this weekend???

Thanks again,



Sam

P.S. Has anyone seen a maurauding Viking wandering the Industrial Rhinelands of late?

love you to sam....

[Sam Gordon]

Thanks again to Donald and the GOG crew for sorting out a great weekend of skating. Frank, Dom, Steve and the Gang did us proud. Having organised fun events before, I know how hard it is to get the racing on schedule, including registration, timing and spreadsheet work. Two races in one day? Impressive. And having a contingency location in case of bad weather for day two showed excellent planning. All done on a laid back vibe. Top teamwork gents!

Will have to go back and try the big ramp one day soon. Spent half of Saturday night getting my head around it and was just about ready by Sunday. It's now on the life list of 'things to do.' Thanks to Homer for showing how easy the ramp should be.

Great too to see all of the racers from the French Pirates to the Viking Crew and the Smoking Clog Racers. The middle of the Am field is more competitive than ever with Mick charging, Slipa, Fred, Holger and Pelle bringing up the comp levels(damn them) and Donald belting through the course whilst having a head full of organisation. The Germans are always on fire. As for Latvia? We'll catch that young gun Gustav yet!

And are the time's above really correct? Damn it's close. Just you wait, Pelle. And how fast was Antonio this weekend???

Thanks again,



Sam

P.S. Has anyone seen a maurauding Viking wandering the Industrial Rhinelands of late?

[Vladimir Lopatin]

Thanks everybody for this great experience, good race, good weather, amazing people, unforgettable pool skating, Pavel factory, monster ramp..

it was my first real European race, I sucked but not too hard, can't wait to see you all next time.

Some pics from the event can be found on my blog dump page:
http://madjestic.livejournal.com/1409.html

[Donald Campbell]

more results from the indoor race


indoor pro combined times
DOMINIK KOWALSKI 6,607 6,578 13,185
CHRISTOPH BAUMANN 6,49 6,833 13,323
HEIKO SCHOELLER 6,58 6,992 13,572
VINCENT BERRUCHON 7,002 6,592 13,594
PATRICK ALLAN 6,998 7,157 14,155
PAUL PRICE 7,063 7,221 14,284
STEVE HINZEN 7,383 7,145 14,528
GINTS GALITIS 7,899 7,611 15,51

indoor am combined times
MICHEL DUPONT 7,589 6,971 14,56
PETER JACHMANN 7,29 7,628 14,918
ANTONIO SALUENA 7,562 7,371 14,933
HERVE BERTHOU 7,35 7,633 14,983
KONGO 7,669 7,356 15,025
HOLGER KINDLER 7,521 7,595 15,116
PELLE GUSTAVSON 7,494 7,632 15,126
SAM GORDON 7,685 7,443 15,128
MICHAEL REIS 7,843 7,333 15,176
GUSTAVS GALITIS 7,389 7,802 15,191
OLIVER OTTEN 7,542 7,951 15,493
DONALD CAMPBELL 7,727 7,816 15,543
CHRISTOPHER DUPONT 7,808 7,939 15,747
KATHRIN SEHL 7,919 7,838 15,757
LOUIS SELBY 7,85 7,917 15,767
FRANK BESTE 7,418 8,418 15,836
STARSKY 8,543 7,762 16,305
GUILLAUME ST CRIQ 7,874 8,674 16,548
SVEN LIPPERT 7,791 8,791 16,582
SANDRINE FERREIRA 8,275 8,431 16,706
SILVIO ENDRIZZI 8,591 8,233 16,824
PASCAL VAN BÖSEKOEM 8,432 8,454 16,886
FREDERIC HUYNH BACH SAC 8,764 8,325 17,089
CHRIS SCHÜTZ 8,689 8,463 17,152
BART BRUNNINKHUIS 8,451 8,813 17,264
ELLA ROGGERO 8,667 8,629 17,296
PASCAL VAN BÖSEKOEM 8,27 9,27 17,54
PIERRE HAZERA 8,337 9,337 17,674
VLADIMIR LOPATIN 8,902 9,075 17,977
JAN MOOSLEHNER 9,137 9,027 18,164
FLAVIO BADENES 9 9,637 18,637
ROB ASHBY 9,848 10,846 20,694
ALEXANDER KIRSCH 10,086 11,09 21,176
JOEL BOSSMANN 10,492 11,49 21,982

[Cyril Schardijn]

And as one of the Dutch crew I want to thank you also.
My first competition learned me some important lessons but the most important one is that is fun to compete. Here some pictures I would like to share with you.
If you're in it PM me for a high resolution copy.
The Fastest Old Man

[Rob Ashby]

Thank you Donald and Crew for an excellent weekend. My first competition in Europe for about 20 years proved a very useful experience not to mention educational experience. I am very envious of the facilities at your disposal! It was great seeing the factory and the construction process first hand. The pool is awesome as was the skating taking place.
It was a shame the GS was rained off, I was looking forward to the ramp - honest!
Your contingency plans for bad weather paid off and ensured that show went on and that we could all race another day while at the same time confusing a lot of very monged/wasted “creatures of the night”!

Thank you also to Heiko for the trip to your shop, I could have stayed there all day, so much to look at and drool over – a first class establishment!

Dom/Donald – sorry for treading on the tape switch virtually each time I ran up the ramp on Saturday!

Pelle, Antonio, great to see you guys again and in warmer conditions than Cadwell!
I hope you are no longer living at Dusseldorf Airport Pelle – but then that’s what happens when you give Sam the finger!

Thanks again everyone for a great weekend and I look forward to coming back to scale that ramp!

[Bart Brunninkhuis]

flavio is indeed speaking for the dutch crew.. everybody had a great time.
a big thanks to everybody involved! don & the rest for the contest, dom for a place to sleep and the hat, patrick & the berlin guys & the rest for the fun, michel dupont for the nice freestyle session and ehm.. the rest again for everything.

it was a bummer we couldn't use the three meter ramp, but i'm excited about next years contest.. or will the ramp be four meters high by then?

see you soon!!

[Flavio Badenes]

Don, thanks a LOT.

I had a great time and I am sure I am also speaking for all the Dutch crew.

The contest was very well organized. Flawless. It went on even through the Sunday rain.
Congratulations on that.

I would also want to add that Dominik not only ruled on the slalom but together with this young kid, whose name I don't know, dominated the pool session. And as if that was not enough he also displayed a variety of flips and ollies on the flat terrain of the warehouse we were where on Sunday. All around skateboarder. I hadn't seen one in a long time. Very good DoM.

I do hope to see you guys soon again and I am looking foward to rolling down on the monster's neck!!!!!

DANK JE WEL e MUITO OBRIGADO tambem!

[Michel Dupont]

$$$ Million $$$ thanks Donald and the GOG crew for our first race in Germany.

Lots of fun and cool to start the new season. Great racing with Antonio, Gustavs and all the others.

Sorry we missed THE MONSTER ramp, but maybe that was just as well, at least we got back home in one peace.

Special thanks for finding an indoor option, gave me a chance to grab at least one 1st place, even if it was just for fun.


Michel and Christopher

PS When you have time could you put up the PRO results for sunday and the final results for AMs saturday special.

[HUYNH BACH SAC Frédéric]

My album...

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v622/ ... il%202008/

I like those two pics : Dom saturday morning / Dom sunday afternoon : What happened ?

[Guillaume Saint-Criq]

Once again , thank you Donald and all the crew for this 2 days racing and having fun.
It so nice to start 2008 season, seing all of you and meeting new people smiling and sharing skateboard love.

Saturday was a sunny day with a nice spot and fast races. It was also perfect that we can skate on sunday despite of the rain.

I can understand both looks from Pat -I also think girls, and maybe junior, should be awarded everytime- and Don - the list of positive points is way longer-... maybe a consolidated view will give us all the better (GOG) race ever.

I will for sure be there for the next one, trying to roll down this scarrying beast

Thank you all again and hope to see you all in Paris

[HUYNH BACH SAC Frédéric]

A HUGE THANK to Donald and OG G.O.G Crew to have welcome us one more time ( 5 or 6 times ?! ).
This time we were almost 10 frenchies to have made the trip, sometimes 10 hours driving for some of us...
As usual we had a LOT of fun, hanging up with friends from Germany, Latvia, England, Sweden, the Netherlands, and racing.

Saturday races were awesome ( except a big crash on my ass, thanks god after the finish line... ) perfect weather, nice location !

I wish we could run the GS on the mega ramp sunday, but you can't control weather... anyway, I'll come back just for the ramp !

I can understand that Sandrine was a little bit disapointed, she trainned hard, she's very competitive but I also explained her that she ( and the other girls ) was better than a lot of guys and it's a good way to compare, 3 girls is maybe not enough for a specific category ?!

For most of us we had a very POSITIVE feeling when we left Germany and it's the most important.

See you soon in Paris and/or Hannover for the others !!!

Don you know you have a place to stay in Paris.

One last thing : The P-Camber, the Wadsten and Dom's models are AMAZING...
GS intelliflex too... Don, we need to talk !

[Pelle Gustafsson]

STILL IN GERMANY.......AND THANX every one for this fantastic race

[silvio endrizzi]

did some of guys gave a donation for skating the bowl ????
svenne

Sorry I've forgot!

[Sven Lippert]

... money money money .... its gonna make the world go around !!!!!

i just wanna give A BIG THANKS in the name of the BERLIN CREW !!!!! cool 20 euros ... races, bowl skating, bbq and beers for free (and i had enough to got tanked) ....t shirt for free .... stickers and key chains (my kids at home were happy and are already wearing them) ... hahahaha !!! special thanks again to DOM for a FREE PLACE to sleep (if you ever come to berlin, let us know ... we will take care of you, so you wont get lost here in this big city)

i mean, as i understood the main intention of all the GOG RACES so far, it was meant to be fun and meeting people.

did some of guys gave a donation for skating the bowl ???? ... aaahhh sory i know you forgot

cheers from berlin
svenne

[silvio endrizzi]

Hey Don, thanks again for the fantastic weekend !!! ... I had a lot of fun !!! ... happy faces ... nice people ... and fortunately we skipped the mega-ramp (f##k`^g scaring)!!

.... by the way I forgot to pick up the T-Shirt ...

maybe for the next time less T-shirts and more money for the Pro!!

Ciao bello

[Donald Campbell]

hello patrick
a detailed explanation regarding your criticism follows here:
- no ranking for the girls, who, at the end of the day, were completely left out...



we only had 3 girls i spoke to kathrin and ella about it,they love to communicate with me-they were fine racing the mens am division.i remember giving the exact placings of the girls to an interested frenchman promptly at the race during the competition



- only one race went all the way to the finals
the hybrid went to the finals
the straight was a 2 run best time event and the results are ok,that has been communicated about with the involved racers too-we had no complaints at the race and i was open to suggestions also.i know there was one guy who was only doing nose manuals across the race track the whole day,he even got shit from dom for doing that constantly,who was that guy disturbing the race hmmmm what was his name hmm?


- no prize money (?)
entry fee was 20 euros am and 30 euros pros
some people did not have to pay due to the labour involved especially in the preparation time before the race.and yes,there was labour involved.
i remember especially steve hinzen spending roughly 20 hours of work for the rsmps to be built,accompanied by dom,homer,frank
unpaid work by the way
i ended up paying 430 euros all in all for material,timing equipment,spare parts
100 euros went to the guy that gave us the place for sunday
the soft drinks and alco pops were free sponsoring again 10 boxes with 18 bottles per unti got wasted
bbq was 200 euros
i took 50 euros for gas
oh yes i kept the rest of the money
i also didn't get paid for printing the shirts we gave away for free during the race.

- sizes of the t shirts for the race

i remember sandrine complaining that her samll sized shirt was too big for her,she said that this must be a medium?
well i didn't print any girlies yep anyway it was for free and i didn't have to do that anyway
besides that this was the only complaint i heard about the FREE t-shirts



- no matter how many of them you have, a shitload of key chains and stickers is not cool schwag...


i gave away prizes for roughly 3000 euros retail value
the top 5 of each divison got prizes such as hoodies,pants,shoes,jackets
i am terribly sorry that this didn't seem to be enough of value for some
with the remainder of the stuff(there were also a lot of keychains,t-shirts and even some more expensive stuff) i decided to thow it into the crowd.
nothing stayed on the table it was empty
even the "cheap" keychains made it into some pockets and bags.



bottom line is:
next race higher starting fees if a realistic amount of prize money is desired
i want to mention that DOM being the overall winner with 3 first places understood the situation and was totally cool with it!!!!!!!!!!! nobody else complained either.
i am not willing to pay out of my own wallet for this.
nobody paid me or any of the gog crew for all the labour involved.


we leave this race with a good feeling and i also want to tell you patrick that i am not bummed by your critcism.
i gave you a look at the the other side,make whatever you want out of it.

[Antonio Saluena]

Great Race! Thanx a lot to Donald and the GOG crew! We had a great time and will try to bring more Swedes next time!
I think Pelle liked it so much he stayed there!
Big hugs to all!

[Cat Young]

There are many times we girls don't get ranked in the women's division.
So what.......

There just aren't enough of us racing. I love racing with the men, it makes
me push harder.

20 Euros to race.... that's nothing!
That barely covers the t-shirt and the printing of the t-shirt.

I'm sure the profits for the GOG's were ZERO.
If you had fun, that's all that counts.

[Patrick Allan]

first of all, a huge thanks to everybody!

it was a fun event

it was great to see everybody again and meet some new faces...

however, not willing to criticise in any way the work that was done by the people organising the race, some things were not right...

here are a few things that come to mind

- no ranking for the girls, who, at the end of the day, were completely left out...
- only one race went all the way to the finals
- no prize money (?)
- sizes of the t shirts for the race
- no matter how many of them you have, a shitload of key chains and stickers is not cool schwag...

other than that there were some very positive things as well, the organisation of the race went very smoothly, the evening at the pool with bbq was awesome, and the indoor factory turned out to be very handy...

[Donald Campbell]

first off the results:
http://www.worldcupranking.com/live/

DOMinik rules all 3 events
pavel puts on a good show
we had a very nice event even though the gs got rained out

i want to thank especially the <g.<o.<g. crew for all the hard work and love they put into this contest,without naming the persons involved i think everybody knows that i am fully aware of the huge amount of time and labour this good and able crew invested into this race.
thnaks to carhartt and vans for sponsoring the event
thanks to all the nice folks i was able to meet,talk to,hang out with during those short and very exhausting 2 days,
antonio and pelle the british fun crew,the parisisans,the latvian ambassadors,flavour flavio and the superb dutch gang,all the germans that came,the bewbies who put on a good show too.
did i forget to mention anybody?
i hope not

thank you again-all of you-for your support
the beast ramp is sleeping and waiting for good weather.
that thing is too cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
see you next year again for a BIG version of the race with sponsormoney and a gigantic gs track also in düsseldorf


thanks also to marcus seyffarth for his excellent programming work and his patience with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ulf Haag]

This one is better!

LOL, That's the way we like it

[Robert Gaisek]

This one is better!

[Dominik Kowalski]

How can somebody don't like this?




we getting back to this one

[Robert Gaisek]

Great job, Antonio! And Pelle too!

[Marcus Seyffarth]

A fun, nice, well organized race with lots of racers and close races, thats what they tell me. Dominik dominates amongst the pros and Antonio håller fortet in the Ams som vi säger.

Check out the results at http://www.worldcupranking.com/live/

The GS rained out, lucky for those who didn't like the monster ramp...

[Donald Campbell]

pelle
when you take the u76 to belsenplatz here's a quick info where to get out
first part of the ride is underground,then you pass the rhine.right after the bridge 3rd stop is belsenplatz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
once you are in the hotel and you want to drink someting or eat a bit outside enter any tram going back to the direction you came from,across the bridge again,first stop right after brige the altstadt is on the right hand side.
all you want is there booze,food,women
the area where your hotel is located is called "oberkassel".
if you don't want to go to the altstadt ask for "barbarossaplatz" 5 min footwalk from where you are.just walk up the street your tram took and when you see an open area that bis the barbarossaplatz,right hand side is where the pubs are, very nice and cozy good beer rich people
oberkassel is very "high nosed" to say so.