European Championships, Amsterdam, Aug 16-17 2008 [MAIN]

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:03 am

Sam great pictures, thank you!

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:01 am

http://www.iskateboard.eu/

go there then click on Vidcast number 69.....

Sam Gordon · Post by **Sam Gordon** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:28 pm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 814083746/

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/2775012173/" title="DSC01202 by samg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/277 ... feb20d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC01202"></a>

Thanks Flavio, Donald and the Dutch team!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 814083746/

Sam

Martijn Nijs · Post by **Martijn Nijs** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:16 pm

Flavio,

To start with, thanks for a great weekend!

Secondly, you mentioned yesterday that video of the competition would come available on-line, can you say anything with regard to the timing (when can we expect it) and the location (Where can we find it) of this video?

Martijn

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:08 pm

http://www.rtl.nl/(vm=/actueel/rtlnieuw ... _plain.xml

copy and paste the link above to your browser´s address window

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:28 pm

Hi there,

I apologize for the late post but after getting home at 23:45 last night after the contest and waking up at 6 AM this morning to go to my regular job for a series of meetings during which I had no access to a PC I finally find sometime to:

First of all thank everybody that came to Amsterdam to compete and to help us organizing this event. Donald did a great job on the mike. The GOG crew took care of the course very well. Shame we had minor problems with the timing system.

I also think that it is better to bear the burden of organizing AND running the event myself next time. I do think this way I can prevent misunderstandings that up to this moment were not made clear to me.

But DONALD THANK YOU!!! I could not have do it withou you guys help.

I could not have done it without these guys help neither:

Wouter van der Hamburg, thank you for using your days off and time after work to put this contest together

Cyrril Schardijn: Same as above and time out of his holidays.

John Deurholt for the website and promotion

The support of the city of Amterdam

The sponsors: Hardcore Supplies RULLED. Pavel, GOG, The city of Amsterdam, Stroom Vormgeven and Vans.

I wish I could have forseen a few problems with more antecipation, however I must say my vieuw of slalom skateboarding has changed. I see it better now, I think I needed to put my glasses on.

The contest will happen next year again, that is a sure thing.

Congratulation to all the winners.

Now it is time for me to go to bed and try to sleep, tomorrow it is another working day.

Oh yes....before I forget

I also want to thank my wife Margareth and my niece Aline for staying up until late on Saturday and Friday making 480 sandwiches. You are very brave. THANKS!

See you all next year.

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:37 pm

Carsten Pingel wrote:I think you mixed up also the women?!
WO HYBRID FINAL - Kathrin has a faster time than Sandrine, but is on 2nd place ?

You are so picky one second this way of that way, does it matter?

Its the DQ's that have been the problem, the women hybrid finals are now updated and the pros didn't have any DQs so they should be fine. Thanks for letting me know!

Jeroen Steggink · Post by **Jeroen Steggink** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:57 pm

And more:

Some more photos:
http://www.sportfotografie.nl/show.php? ... :AMSTERDAM

The following is all in Dutch, not really worth to translate. But great to see that there was a lot of attention for this event!

http://www.mijnnl.nl/amsterdam/agenda/e ... elen/11005

Dutch National news on commercial tv station!!
http://www.rtl.nl/(vm=/actueel/rtlnieuw ... _plain.xml

http://www.echo.nl/ww-ba/sport/lees/793 ... teboarden/

Jeroen Steggink · Post by **Jeroen Steggink** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:47 pm

Today in one of the national free newspapers (Dag):

The caption shouldn't be to difficult to understand right?

Carsten Pingel · Post by **Carsten Pingel** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:34 pm

I think you mixed up also the women?!

WO HYBRID FINAL - Kathrin has a faster time than Sandrine, but is on 2nd place ?

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:17 pm

The site is updated with the pro elims from round of 4. Also a small error that mixed up the heats in round of 16 for the ams hybrid is fixed so hopefully all should be ok by now.

http://www.worldcupranking.com/live

Thank you Donald for the quick update - the hardest working man in slalom today!

Márcio Benevides · Post by **Márcio Benevides** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:25 am

Marcus Seyffarth wrote:I didn't get the results for the round of 8 in the pro hybrid so I skipped the elims in that until I get those, but everything else should be up on the worldcupranking.com

http://www.worldcupranking.com/live

Congratulations to Janis and Ramón! Seems like Ramón was just 0.009seconds from taking a triple...

Thanks a lot, Seyffarth...

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:58 pm

I didn't get the results for the round of 8 in the pro hybrid so I skipped the elims in that until I get those, but everything else should be up on the worldcupranking.com

http://www.worldcupranking.com/live

Congratulations to Janis, Ramón and Dominik! Seems like Ramón was just 0.09 seconds from taking a triple...

Cat Young · Post by **Cat Young** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:10 pm

Nice pics!! Thanks.

GoDomGo!!
<img src='http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z125 ... ><br>Photo by Edwin
Kathrin looks FIERCE!!!!<br><img src='http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z125 ... ><br>Photo by Edwin.

Now, I'm with Marcio............WE WANT RESULTS!!!!!

Márcio Benevides · Post by **Márcio Benevides** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:38 pm

Who has got he full results from Amsterdam?? We all want to know that!! Thanks!

Jeroen Steggink · Post by **Jeroen Steggink** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:58 pm

It was great weather and wonderful slalom boarding!
Nice vibe (most of the time anyways) and great people!

Some nice photos from a friend of mine:

http://www.edwindillen.nl/slalom2008/

Maria Carrasco · Post by **Maria Carrasco** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:50 pm

Go Janis!! Awesome -- you are on a roll!

AXE Army Salutes You!

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:19 pm

Ansis Rudzats wrote:1. Janis Kuzmins

YEEES! Congratulations Janis - Team ConeRacing!

/Jani

Ansis Rudzats · Post by **Ansis Rudzats** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:16 pm

1. Janis Kuzmins
2. Ramon Konigshausen
3. Henrik Wadsten

nice job Janis

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:02 am

It is beautifull evening in Amsterdam, bright moon in the sky. Don and his crew were working hard until late to prepare the courses.

Many riders are camping.

We are ready to go

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:16 pm

Go Team 161 - Go Antonio!!!
Good luck and have fun - ALL OF YOU!

Martin Drayton · Post by **Martin Drayton** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:01 pm

Good luck Flavio! I hope it all goes perfectly for you. Wish I could have been there.

Martin.

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:40 pm

There is a HA and a Dirk van der Broek ten minutes away from the contest site.

Chocomel rules

The weather is good. T-shirts on. Very light wind.

Oliver Otten is on the list and the others are out.

I will be at the location from around 5 PM on.

I wish you all a safe trip to Amsterdam

Carsten Pingel · Post by **Carsten Pingel** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:09 am

Weather looks perfect!

Maybe sunday evening some rain drops! (20%)

Michael Stride · Post by **Michael Stride** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:46 am

Now you lot are for it. Go Michael, win this one for Blighty! Show them how good you really are - Euro Champ!

Hardly likely. But I will enjoy the Chocomelk.

Last time I went to Amsterdam the streets were flooded. Same happened in Venice I must be some kind of jinx.

Anyway, as I used to live in Holland it wll be nice to come back, via Bruxelles, so safe trips everyone,...

Success! as the Dutch say.

Rob Ashby · Post by **Rob Ashby** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:41 pm

I always look forward to visiting my motherland, but to race there as well is even better!
I hope there is an Albert Heijn nearby as I have to bring some goodies back home for the the folks, stroopwaffles & hagel mostly!

Team GB are staying at The Bastion.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Spike Taylor · Post by **Spike Taylor** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:27 pm

Flavio Badenes wrote:Michael Stride has just joined the riders list.

Now you lot are for it. Go Michael, win this one for Blighty! Show them how good you really are - Euro Champ!

Spike.

Antonio Saluena · Post by **Antonio Saluena** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:53 pm

Hey, see you all tomorrow!
Yihaaa!

Carsten Pingel · Post by **Carsten Pingel** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:47 pm

Flavio,
put Oliver Otten from Cologne,Germany on the AM starter list.
See you tomorrow

Pierre Hazera · Post by **Pierre Hazera** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:41 pm

Flavio Badenes wrote:Thank you Jani, welcome Skip try to be at the contest location tomorrow evening at around 7 PM I am meeting a few people there and then we will go have drink or something after.

Here is the list of the riders that have enrolled so far:

Country Rider
France Guillaume SAINT-CRIQ
France Christopher Dupont
France Michel Dupont
France Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy
France Pierre Hazera
France Schoirfer Erika
France Frédéric HUYNH BACH SAC
France Sandrine Ferreira

hey
Fred (works), Erika (ankle sucks) and me shoulders sucks
so we can't come to Amsterdam

good luck for all

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:32 pm

Please all of you try to be at the location at 8 AM on Saturday morning. We will start registration at that time.

We want to start at 10 AM

Also, around 2 PM on Saturday, Dutch national television RTL will be at the contest, filming and possibly interviewing some of you. We will be on the news (broadcasted to the whole country) on Saturday evening.

Weather: Good, forcast for tomorrow and Saturday is for dry weather. Sunday is also not looking bad, there is a 30% chance of rain only.

Michael Stride has just joined the riders list.

Robert Gaisek · Post by **Robert Gaisek** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:41 pm

WOW! That is an impressive list of good riders!

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:18 pm

The weather is GOOD!!! We did not have rain today at all. Winds are calm too.

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:17 pm

Thank you Jani, welcome Skip try to be at the contest location tomorrow evening at around 7 PM I am meeting a few people there and then we will go have drink or something after.

Here is the list of the riders that have enrolled so far:

Country Rider
France Guillaume SAINT-CRIQ
France Christopher Dupont
France Michel Dupont
France Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy
France Pierre Hazera
France Schoirfer Erika
France Frédéric HUYNH BACH SAC
France Sandrine Ferreira

Germany Frank Beste
Germany Verena Völkel
Germany Pete Scheerer
Germany Robert Thiele
Germany Stefan Kobel
Germany Chris Schütz
Germany Carsten Pingel
Germany Kindler Holger
Germany Christoph Baumann
Germany Donald Campbell
Germany Kathrin Sehl
Germany Steve Hinzen
Germany Dominik Kowalski

Latvia Janis Kuzmins
Latvia Gustavs Gailitis
Latvia Gints Gailitis
Latvia Ainars Jermacenko

Russia Vlad Lopatin

Spain Borja Muñoz-Cuéllar Pérez-Plá
Spain Jose Antonio Muñoz-Cuéllar
Spain Ricardo Damborenea

Sweden Peter Freme
Sweden Sebastian Forsman
Sweden Kaj Gustafsson
Sweden Antonio Saluena
Sweden Pelle Plast
Sweden Viktor Hadestrand
Sweden Viking Hadestrand
Sweden Henrik Wadsten
Sweden Mika Hadestrand
Sweden Peter Klang

Switzerland Simon Feldmann
Switzerland Ramón Königshausen
Switzerland Joy Spearing

The Netherlands Flavio Badenes
The Netherlands Lars de Boom
The Netherlands Ernst de Boom
The Netherlands Mike Rutten
The Netherlands Cyril Schardijn
The Netherlands Paul Brunninkhuis
The Netherlands Jeroen Steggink
The Netherlands bart brunninkhuis
The Netherlands Martijn Nijs
The Netherlands john Deurholt

UK Sam Gordon
UK Louis Selby
UK Paul Price
UK Rob Ashby

USA Skip Marcotte
USA George Pappas

Czech Republic Petr Novotny

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:01 pm

Flavio and all racers, I'm wishing you a great race weekend!

/Jani

Robert Sydia · Post by **Robert Sydia** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:20 pm

Hey Skip!

Knock them dead!!!!

Rob

Skip Marcotte · Post by **Skip Marcotte** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:41 pm

We are staying at The Belga Hotel on Hartenstraat about 2 blocks from the Dam Square.

Anyone out there in town yet?

I love this place...

Can't wait for this weekend.

Skip

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:30 am

The lastest weather report from Amsterdam:

Saturday: A 20% chance of rain, wind force 3, average temperature: 22 C

Sunday: A 30% chance of rain, wind force 3, average temperature 24 C

This is good.

and it is dry at this moment as well we could have been skating since the early hours in the morning.

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:47 pm

I see the Euros in Amsterdam as something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMiRDICVq6s

but then on a skateboard.

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:24 pm

The plan B location:

http://www.skateparkamsterdam.nl/

If it rains we will go to Everland Skatepark on north side of Amsterdam. We will have single course races, flat but decente.

So no worries about the weather, we can race anyways.

However I must add that the weather continues to improve !!!!

I have just been outside skating ...

more updates tomorrow morning

hey don´t forget we have a camping site. Let´s use it, many riders are staying there and I do think it is a good place to hang out.
There are two super markets very close to the location as well.

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:17 pm

Of course all the competitors are welcome like I have already mentioned.

But I want to send out a very special welcome to my friend
Jose Antonio Muñoz-Cuéllar

Jose you rock!!!

See you here

Born in the 50´s and PROUD OF IT!

Jeroen Steggink · Post by **Jeroen Steggink** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:22 pm

Let's hope the weather is good!
Can't wait!!!

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:02 pm

The weather is definitely improving from the last days.

We did not have rain today.

The wind is calming down as well!!
Would the contest had been today we would have raced all day long without any problems

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:52 pm

Carsten Pingel wrote:BIG RAMP = BIG FUN!
Hopefully faster than 28km/h!

I didn´t take the "pushing factor" into the equation. ±28km/h is the minimum speed

Carsten Pingel · Post by **Carsten Pingel** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:34 pm

BIG RAMP = BIG FUN!

Hopefully faster than 28km/h!

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:56 am

Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy wrote:Nice, thank you !

No problem!

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:55 am

We are ready to go:

The course will be set up on the competition day. Fresh made. All riders will have two practise runs and that is it. This way everybody will have the same chance.

Donald will be setting up the courses early on Saturday morning. So you can expect the usual GOG style technical courses .

We are all going to be there on Friday evening. I will be at the location from about 5 PM on.
If you come on Friday eve you can also register at that time. That would save us time on Saturday morning.

You are allowed to camp from Friday eve on.

How is the weather?
Presently it is not really good it rains then it stops and then is mostly blue skies at the end of the day, but from tomorrow on things are improving. I will keep everybody posted. It doesn´t look bad for the weekend.

What if it rains?
Plan B will be used. That is moving the whole set up to the Amsterdam Skatepark in the north of Amsterdam. It is flat, sorry. This is just in case of RAIN. Better flat then nothing.

Flavio, what is your phone number?

My mobile number is:

+31 6 42 50 97 80, it will be on all the time.

I wish all of you a good trip to Amsterdam.

You are all VERY WELCOME to the City.

Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy · Post by **Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:43 am

Nice, thank you !

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:39 am

Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy wrote:Hey Flavio, could you give us some infos about the giant spot, like the slope and the length ?

Size M, L... XL ?

Call it a M.
Remember you can (you are not obliged though) use the big ramp to start. I figure the exit speed at the bottom of the ramp is ± 28 Km/h.

Very smooth asphalt.

Pitch?
I don´t know. In my whole life as a skateboarder I always measured the terrein in the following way:

Pools had a little vert, some vert or a lot of vert.
Hills were: Mellow, Ok or steep.
This one is OK. It is steeper than the Trocadero. The run away goes on forever, so you don´t have to worry about your shoes

The course length will be about 220-250 meters.

IMPORTANT!!!
All riders willing to use the Big Ramp will be asked to sign a weaver freeing the contest organizers and the ramp builders from any responsability in case of an acident while riding it.
And again I say there is more than enough room to push pedal your way into the GS course.

Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy · Post by **Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:57 pm

Hey Flavio, could you give us some infos about the giant spot, like the slope and the length ?

Size M, L... XL ?

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