ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Announcement
Slalom Skateboard World Cup Grüningen 2004

This is a announcement for the famous Parallel Slalom Race in Grueningen/Switzerland.

The race will be held for the fifth time now once again organized by the Youth-Generation Association. The complete Swiss scene will be there as well as racers from all over the World.

The stats:

Date: 19./20. June 2004
Place: Grueningen/Switzerland (nearest international Airport: Zuerich; for a pick up, please contact Jadranko)
Categories: Girls, Juniors (16 and younger), Men Pro, Men Am
Disciplines: Saturday Tight Slalom, Sunday Giant Slalom. Ramp start, electronic timing
Entry Fee: 20 CHF (incl. Party ticket for the Saturday night raiders Party)
Prices: ….
Accomodation: for free in the bunker, Hotels will be listed on the homepage
Party: Saturday night, door openingen 9 pm closing 4am

Homepage: www.pscontest.ch
Contact: jadranko_r@bluemail.ch


Ankündigung
Slalom Skateboard World Cup Grüningen 2004

Dies ist eine Ankündigung für das berühmte Parallelslalomrennen in Grüningen/Schweiz

Das Rennen wird nun zum fünften mal abgehalten und wird wieder vom Verein Youth-Generation organisiert. Die ganze schweizer Slalom Scene wird anwesend sein, wie auch Fahrer aus der ganzen Welt.

Die Daten:

Datum: 19/20 Juni 2004
Ort: Grüningen/Schweiz (nähester Internationaler Flughafen: Zürich)
Kategorien: Damen, Junioren (16 und jünger), Männer Pro, Männer Amateur
Disziplinen: Samstag Tight Slalom, Sonntag Giant Slalom. Rampen Start, Elektronische Zeitmessung
Startgeld: 20 CHF inkl. Partyticket für die Riders Party
Preise: ....
Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten: umsonst im Zivilbunker. Hotels werden auf der Homepage aufgelistet..
Party: Samstag Abend, Türöffnung 21:00 Uhr Ende 04:00 Uhr

Homepage: www.pscontest.ch
Kontakt: jadranko_r@bluemail.ch

I hope you all noticed that there is a limit of 80 riders, so register early. This seems to be a first come first serve basis. I really hope this will not be taken too seriously once we get to the critical number. But Stride is already registered, so this is all I need.....

I look forward to racing you Chris.
I will be polite and wait for you at the finish.
I will take a book to read while I wait.

By the way ...Five- one, Five -one, Five one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael, will we have a new avatar from you after the next Grüningen? According to the "baby books" you should at least be able to crawl by then.

Thanks Hans, that should be enough to get him quiet.

soooooooooo, the list is piling up, newest addition is Steve Olson. Lets see how well he sweats in blackleather in Grueningen heat!
Lots of boys registered, very good. Where is Dylan?

Where is Richie C.?

Registration is still going to get closed at 80?

Is there going to be a nice TS again?

What I heard from the conversation between Chris Hart and Jadranko is that the registration isn't going to get closed at 80...I think the limit will be approx. 100 competitors...but I don't know!

Jadranko what do you think?

rmn

80 competitors are reached!
The limit will be approx. 100 competitors.

The tight pro slalom will be set by Chris Linford, Michael Stride and Paul Price. The tight AM is the self like last year.

Cheers Jadranko

Oh man, will that mean we will have a lot of pro's racing the AM tight slalom this year again?

Let's make it as tight as possible!



rmn

Make it as tight as you want. Just make sure the pro's are aware of it so that they bring proper equipment. Last year many where not sure what tight meant. It still is confusing I guess. If the course setters could give a hint in planned average cone distance that would help a lot. Both for Pro's and Am's by the way.

Edited!
I have read at the competition site that the tight will have cone distance between 1.7 and 2 meters. Time to buy yourself a new board.

Vladdi come on!
Nice and tight what is that?
Watch last years video and ask Jani which board he took for the tight then you know. The Stridínator will be setting the course with the other tight slalom freaks from the island, so why do you hesitate?

[quote="Hans Koraeus"]Make it as tight as you want. Just make sure the pro's are aware of it so that they bring proper equipment. Last year many where not sure what tight meant. It still is confusing I guess.


I think a good definition for tight is when you stand on the ramp and think "i´ll never make it through there".......................

just kidding, I don´t know.......i just know it was too tíght for certain definitive pros last year who opted for the am class instead. There should be a "rule" for them not do this. It is not fair.
Tight means going as fast as the course allows, that also means holding back just as much as needed when neccessary........some can´t do this and just fire pumps, you´ll never make it that way........

Chris,

I agree, there are certain pro's on the sign up list that are currently undecided (certain airflow riders) that without doubt should NOT be permitted to race in the Am category....like you say its just not fair on the rest of us!!

Paul

British TS in Switzerland???

In the words of Mr. Powers: Yeah, baby, yeah!

I've registered a while ago. See you soon (Paris first).

Vlad Popov wrote:
I've registered a while ago. See you soon (Paris first).

You did last year, too................allright see you soon, no Paris for me, the Baby first.....

Paul Keleher wrote:Chris,

I agree, there are certain pro's on the sign up list that are currently undecided (certain airflow riders) that without doubt should NOT be permitted to race in the Am category....like you say its just not fair on the rest of us!!

Paul

I hope those to whom it may concern read this. I would never be someone to force someone else to race in a certain category, it should be anyone´s own decision, but it should be obvious in certain cases.......to whom it may concern.

I'm one of those certain airflow riders. I'm gonna ride in the PRO class.

Top Man!!

actually i wasn't thinking of you Martin!!

As the organisers are getting busy the registration is piling up and slowly reaching critical marks, so go and register yourself if you want to compete.

see you all soon

Reached 100 rider's now !!!

waiting for Luca, Ugolini, Jani...

Hotel's for accomodation in the near of Grueningen will be listed on our site (www.pscontest.ch) next week...

Shuttlebus possible...



Transfer Friday 18. June - Monday 21. June
For the transfer Airport to Grueningen and Grueningen to Airport, please write an E-mail to jadranko_r@bluewin.ch

your name, your flight number, your landing time

the same things for the departure...


Second Free Accommodation:
We have a second Bunker for sleeping, directly by the race side. That's more quieter than below the party... See the picture next week on our site (www.pscontest.ch).


Hope to see many in Paris...

Cheers Jadranko

As you probably all know, the registration for the race has closed at 103 riders registered.
A lot of you have registered well in advance which is great, BUT, should you be registered and should you know right now that you cannot come, please write an email to the organizers and tell them to remove you to make way for someone else. Please do so and don´t block the registration. Thanks.

www.pscontest.ch

hallo, wie ihr alle wisst, ist die Anmeldung geschlossen da die Kapazitätsgrenze erreicht ist. Bitte, wer registriert ist und es sich rausstelt dass er doch nicht kommen kann, meldet euch wieder ab. Damit Platz für jemand anderes wird.

Danke

www.pscontest.ch

Hello everybody, here is a translated short update from the pscontest-team:

The start ramps will have gates this year. They have been tested successfully last week.

The cone judges will get instruction next sunday and will be equipped with number sheets this year.

Each racer will get a handout with rules and start bib and info when arriving in Grueningen

There will be lots of places where the results can be seen and checked by the racers after their runs. The 16-cut will be displayed on a large wooden board.

Speakers will be Chris Hart, Nastasia Wolfensberger and Jodli himself.

There will be someone behind the start ramps who directs the racers to the ramp when their run comes up, so the race should not delay.

A timetable will be offered next week.

Jodli will be in Silverstone next week, so talk to him if you have any questions.

Support the race and show up, and lets have some fun

Sounds like it's gonna be a lot of fun! %@£§€ that I can't make it! At least I'll give my place to someone else. Good luck to you all and see you at some other race soon!

There is a new small skatepark in Grüningen, built by the famous Bowl Construction AG who brought us the Wínterthur oververt wood bowl.

pics can bee seen on the german site of www.pscontest.ch

there will be a bowl session from 8 p.m. on friday the 18th. Be there or be square

Its a very small but funny spot - I already had a taste of the concrete around the 30:th of May when I checked CH and A with Mark and Peter. this evening I invented the fs grind into bankjump to face slide !!!!!! really cool move - ... I will see if you can copy it ???

uuuuh, this weather forecast doesn't look so nice!

Uhhh nooo! Let's hope we can get at least some hours of racing. The good thing is that it is still to early to trust the weather forecast.

...thats looks like a good timing - lets pray for a high pressure showing up from the middle of the week till the end of the event - an old surfer once said to me : "if you piss on the earth, the earth pisses on you and if you give a f#@k on mother ocean, mother ocean gives a f#@k on you !"

hope he is not right in our claim ....

Oh my god!

rmn

What is the B-plan if it rains? If the Meteo looks really bad on Thursday or Friday is there any risk the whole competition will be canceled? Is there any possibility to change date or is that option too late?

Hans, Plan B if it rains all the time is: get the Poolboards out and head to Winterthur, skate, drink and talk.
But it is looking better now.
Come on, think positive, it will not rain..........

Positive?

You mean that on Sunday it will only rain 1-5mm instead of 5-20mm?

Maybe I should bring along some slalom films. If we could get hold of a video projector and a big white wall the Weekend could get saved. See there. I can be positive too.

yes positive!

Listen everybody:

The weather can change fast in the Alps, so don´t worry, do the slalom weather dance three times a day and come to race. There are several different weather predictions for the area, so it is hard to trust anybody.

The course is open for free practice from 8 o´clock on Saturday.

Bibs must be picked up by 10:30 for all racers. At 11:00 the race will start withe the elemination of the juniors (then women, Ams, Pros I think)

There is a hall available for the case of hard rain, so bring your videos, a beamer is there.

see you all and lets have a good race!

The rain is pushed forward. Keep on sun dancing...

Just talked a few minutes with Corky who reported that the first day of racing happened despite rain ruining a part of the day. The day started off with rain then it dried so that the qualification could be held and then it started raining again and the organizers called off the event making the qualification results count as final.

Pro, Special Slalom (26 participants):
1. Luca Giammarco, Italy
2. Maurus Strobel, Switzerland
3. Chris Hart, Switzerland

Am, Special slalom
Hmm, all Corky could remember was:
2. Lee Diamant
He was pretty disappointed with his run which put him in 7:th place and checking the times he noticed that he would have to race Lee who had exactly the same time as he had, only Corky hit cones and Lee made a clean run. Could have been an interesting heat...

Women, Special slalom
Hmm, not much detail here either. Probably Nastasja Wolfensberger won, but that is still unconfirmed. Corky was too busy filming and it all happened pretty quickly with nobody realizing that the qualification would be the end of the days racing.

The course was set by the UK duo Linford and Price who both also did pretty well. Steve Olson was present and did fairly well around 8:th place. Practicing tight in Europe over the last couple of weeks may have helped him get used to a bit tighter courses. The course was also slightly longer than last year making the run out area shorter.

In general the event seemed well organized and the new gates on the starting ramps worked well. There was also an excellent head to head "wall" with wooden signs so that all skaters could follow the advancement of the finals. The only problem is that they never got that far...

Let's hope the sun's up for tomorrows race.

/Jani

So I'm back from Grüningen. I will not try to remember the results from my head since I don't recall it very well. Also Sunday races had to to be settled by the qualification results. But I can tell you Luca won on Sunday as well. More on the results soon when they are posted. At least we all got home with results from Grüningen. It didn't look good either for Saturday or Sunday and the rain did show up. But when it stopped the course dried up very quickly. We even had some really warm and sunny hours on Sunday between the rainfalls.

I think we need Jadranko to post up the result sheets!!

I've got a scann of the GS pro qualification:



rmn

Hi together....

First of all. A very BIG THANK YOU for coming to Grueningen !!

The Results will be uploaded on pscontest.ch in 1 hour (8pm MEZ)

Hey David, i had the second fastest run, but hit 3 cones. I'm waiting for the next competition. We have now 3 Courses for practice every day!!!


Cheers

Wow, Ramon Königshausen in 2:nd place Pro! Amazing! He beats Chris Hart and Maurus Strobel. That's pretty cool from a (former?) junior who's currently in 115 place in the World Ranking.

Looking forward to see the rest of the results.

/Jani

Not to talk about Simon Feldmann on 5:th place. The swiss are really growing strong on the European slalom scene.

Wow,Ramon Königshausen beats Maurus and Chris.I can promise you guys in 2 years we will have no chance against this young rider.
He makes me really proud.
chris hart
www.airflow-skateboards.com

ramon is fast as f%&ck, strong and has a powerfull style - really - but chris be sure it will take a verry long time, before he beats your performance during the winners ceremony in grüningen - this was world class ....