ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Any news on results? What happened yesterday...?

First off, Hats off to Axel on an amazing job, great race.

I had a blast. It was great to meet everyone from so many different places. The competition was though and everyone was in good spirits.


I loved those ramps, I want to get the designs and build one in america.

It is over and I am sure the results will be posted soon.
I had a blast again!

Tight tight courses and very high level of racing and friendship, real good vibes and a fantastic organisation!
Thank you Axel and crew for everything. Your girls once again did an amazing job and you deserve the utmost respect of the worldwide slalom community. Thank you thank you thank you.

Please don´t be discouraged by some people complaining about things here and there, this will asways happen and you cannot fulfill everyone´s wishes. You did a tremendous effort to make us all welcome.

The racing was fast and tight. There were a little too many cones hit because of the very tight courses for my taste, but is was fun anyways.

I saw new equipment here and there and there are a lot of custom made or small labels coming up.

The future looks bright!

chris

yeah - it was a terrific weekend!
thanks to axel and the rest of the team to make it all happen.
a great possibillity to meet some of the people i just knew from the web before.

to my shame i really took too less pics (just of our booth and my sisters first race)

our decks:


my co-partner arne taking care of our booth:


my sister tatjana:




with her swiss race competitor Joy Spearing:

@Jani : Can you post the pictures you took from the esc2004 in Cologne ?

Super organisation and cool vibes at this competition....

Gratulation Axel !

While waiting for the official results, let's try to assemble a few pieces and get at least the top finishers together:

Giant Slalom, Pro
1. Maurus Strobel, SUI
2. Chris Hart, SUI
3. Ramon Königshausen, SUI

Giant Slalom, Am
1. Henrik Madsen, SWE
2. Heiko Schöller, GER
3. Vincent Berruchon, FRA

Giant Slalom, Women
1. Nastasja Wolfensberger, SUI
2. Joy Spearing, SUI
3. Lienite Skarainis, LAT
4. Katrin Sehl, GER

Giant Slalom, Juniors
1. Philipp Schulz, GER
2. Ferdinand Möhlmann, GER



Special Slalom, Pro
1. Maurus Strobel, SUI
2. Ramon Königshausen, SUI
3. Paul Price, GBR

Special Slalom, Am
1. Stephan Hinzen, GER
2. Henrik Madsen, SWE
3. Vincent Berruchon, FRA

Special Slalom, Women
1. Lienite Skaraine, LAT
2. Noemi Reichel, SUI
3. Joy Spearing, SUI
4. Katrin Sehl, GER

Special Slalom, Juniors
1. Philipp Schulz, GER
2. Ferdinand Möhlmann, GER


PS. Pictures coming and a few more words too.

/Jani

me...racing the course-first race after 25 years, thanks go to the other guy, who gave me so much room to move. Special thanks to Sam Gordon, Pauls buddy from the uk - both of em supernice lads-it was a pleasure meeting you

Paul Price....who else


Stephan Hinzen-fast as lightning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks go to each and everyone for being there and making this thing happen, especially to Axel for being so quite and humble-you earned our applause for organizing this very special event!!!!!!!

Good event
Organization made it right, people were nice, beers were "supa gut"

The races were fast, perhaps some will say giant wasn't really giant (but more an hybrid or special) but I suppose a big giant would have need a wider road to set 2 parallel lines ...
TS were tight but with offset

A lot of "old timers" made their come back to slalom race this WE.. (stefan, heinrik, donald ...) and they're damn fast!!!
Experience seems to be important for slalom, I've got still a lot to learn.

A few of my pics (by me or Fred) are available here:
http://rootsnattysk8.online.fr/images/slalom/ESC2K4/

Thanks to the Axel and everybody involved in the event
.. hummm.. but please check results before the ceremony to avoid surprise! As you said, your champions are fast... but we can be too

@vincent: Have you been to the "Früh Brewery" ? Did you have some glasses of "Kölsch" Beer ?

thanks for posting those cool pics,vince.
yeah,we're fast but.....
wait for next year-everybody is totally amped at the moment and we learned from our mistakes.
next year will be really hardcore-promise!!!!!!!!!!!

Official results supplied by Axel Fischer:

Only finals (8, 16 or 32) no details from the qualifications in these files.
More to come, but later, Axel is on vacation now.

Giant slalom, pro
Giant slalom, am

Special slalom, pro
Special slalom, am


Complete listing of women and juniors:

Giant Slalom, Women
1. Nastasja Wolfensberger, SUI
2. Joy Spearing, SUI
3. Lienite Skaraine, LAT
4. Katrin Sehl, GER
5. Daniela Berger, SUI
6. Tatjana Luxat, GER

Giant Slalom, Juniors
1. Philipp Schulz, GER
2. Ferdinand Möhlmann, GER

Special Slalom, Women
1. Lienite Skaraine, LAT
2. Noemi Reichel, SUI
3. Joy Spearing, SUI
4. Katrin Sehl, GER
5. Nastasja Wolfensberger, SUI
6. Daniela Berger, SUI

Special Slalom, Juniors
1. Philipp Schulz, GER
2. Ferdinand Möhlmann, GER

/Jani

special tight am
1st stephan hinzen?
woah that's my buddy from cologne
4 weeks back into it and #1
superstoker

Stephan " insane" is so fast ( he wiped me out after giant qualifications ) and so cool !!!
Speaks very well french too...

...it was a perfect finish of my 4 week surftrip in france. good waves for summer in france and nice races in cologne. thanks to axel and his crew. hope to be there next year.
greetings to everyone i met and talked to - it was an amazing weekend.
special greetings to JANI and once more a big thanks for the 50 cones. it was a specialdeal.

bye so far from berlin-germany

sven

here you will find some great photographs from this great event.

http://www.cruisin.de/de/kat_item.php?i=8236&k=13

respect to Axel Fischer

thanks to dominik kowalski now there are even more pics of the event to find at: http://www.wefunk.de THEN GO TO NEWS > ESC 2004 pics

i had to scale down and use heavy jpg compression to fit the pics in my webspace. please mail to "ALEX at WEFUNK dot DE" if you are able to host 10MB of jpgs (including thumbs).

< Ed note: Images are now hosted on this site! /Jani >

I´m sitting on Tenerife Island no surf and too hot to skate. I am reflecting on Köln and get this bitter teast in my mouth.

I have choosen not to write before, cuz my anger would color my objective. I do know how difficult it is to run a big event, thats just why I think it must be a International body whom gives guidelines on how to run slalom events. If we ever want to be looked upon as a sport we have to get our shit together and have ISSA give the orders. I know Jani and Corky, two really nice guys, maybe too nice, but their idea of how the international community of slalom could be run must be heard and listened to.

Hi Peter,

what anger ? What was wrong ? Tell us ! So we can talk about it !

Carsten

Peter,

last year in Grueningen a lot of things went wrong, we talked about it and solved it. Maybe you should clearly state what is wrong in the first place and not simply complain and say the organizers did not get it together.
I think it is a little unfair and not very polite to simply complain and not make clear point of what is wrong.
I talked to one of the helping girls who had burst into tears after your "complaining" (or whatever) to her. This is no joke. It is true.

Complete results (PDF's)

I got the spreadsheets from Axel a week ago, but didn't have the time to generate PDF's, but here they are. Let me know if you find any "production" mistakes in them. I haven't really checked them all that well.

/Jani


Giant slalom, Saturday July 31st

Pro, finals
Pro, qual

Open, finals
Open, qual

Women, finals
Women, qual

Boys, finals
Boys, qual


Special/tight slalom, Sunday August 1st

Pro, finals
Pro, qual

Open, finals
Open, qual

Women, finals
Women, qual

Boys, finals
Boys, qual

Am - GS Round of 8 missing
Am- Special Round of 16 missing

Just what I saw mainly because of trying to find my own times.

< These two errors fixed. /Jani >

Damned, that stupid Adobe Acrobat keeps resetting the paper size.
Round of 16, hmm, maybe my mistake.

/Jani

Sorry if I made anyone cry or if i hurt anyone, I apologize. Out of a riders perspective I feel there is two things that must have zero tolerance of mistakes. Cone count and competitors time. After viewing several recordings of the race I feel unfairly treated by Alex. Rather than asking me or anyone of the experience riders how to coup with the problems I was told not to complain at all. But I have now looked at numerous runs on tape were the cone count was wrong and even some DQ (8 cones taken on the wrong side), and then back on track and not given a DQ, advancing to the top eight in pro rather than being knocked out. The times was mixed up, the second day it was given a rerun, but the first day it wasn’t. These are mistakes that forever changes the results. I do believe Maurus Strobel was the best man in pro and that the amateur champions was correct, but to state the top 10 am/pro results was correct would be misleading. It might seems unnecessary of me to bring this up but Köln was a MAJOR event and the highest point toward the world rankings was given. Two years from know that’s all people are going to remember. That’s why the cone count and time can’t be wrong, it effects the end results.

peter,you seem to be really pissed,but you should know this:

axel tried his best to make this event possible and he's one of the nicest guys around.i know that a lot of small and some bigger things went wrong,but he and his crew tried to cope with em as good as possible.
don't take your ranking too serious,after all it's supposed to be fun to skate or race.one race won't affect your world ranking that much as you think.
besides that,i think it's cool to apologize about the incident with the cone girl.
but...
it would be way better to keep your temper under control next time,so you don't have to apologize later on.
the event was ok as it was-good vibes,supernice people and crew.
they all gave their best to make this thing happen for all of us.
see it as that and swallow your anger.

What value is this without the UK.
When will this be considered properly.

It's all fucking yourselves

Chris

care to explain?

Chris, since Paul Price got 3:rd in special I can't really see your point in claiming UK was missing... Too bad not more people could make it though...

As Donald said the wibe was good among the racers, the weather was nice, there were food stands, good music in a sound system during the course and a couple of tents that sold skate stuff. But as far as competition goes you didn't really miss anything. The races were delayed (as always), the courses had been set long time ahead so locals could practice and the classes where mixed during the day so that everybody had to stay at the racesite from early morning till late night. Also a few mix ups with lanes/riders/times and cone penalty made that reruns had to be done (complete round of 16 in pro special for example).

I had a good time skating and met a lot of nice people. That is a big part of why we do this, but to be honest I'm probably not coming next year, it's not worth the effort to travel 2 days by car to a competition, hang out at a site and mostly wait not knowing what is going on for 2 days and then travel 2 days back home again. Compare this to the competition in Antibes where things was (almost) on schedule, you really had time to go swimming, hang out with the other skaters and have fun...

I was there too, representing the Ams for want of others.
I took a few shots of Paul in order to verify the cone marshalling:



Very hospitable bunch of guys in Germany, as has been my experience in both Switzerland and France.

An aggressive attitude as regards inclusion doesn't lend towards an environment of discussion and unity. Its best application should be within the throes of competition.

Doh! Sorry for that Sam, I even tried your board, how could I forget? See you at the worlds!

Ha! No worries Marcus. It's good that a united European bunch are going to kick US butt next week.

...or simply boost their economy a little!

Marcus,

we finally set the courses one day before you guys from sweden came to cologne !!!
Do you think that was a big atvantage for us ???

cheers,

Carsten

Ok my bad, one of the locals told me had practiced the course for weeks perhaps he just meant something else...

misunderstanding?
maybe...
carsten's statement is true.
it is also true that we practiced there on different courses the hole week before the race.
the final course has been set on thursday/friday with the help of all the people skating there during those days.
stephan hinzen who scored first in the tight ams,didn't skate the course at all,prior to the race.
and,marcus,you better show up next year again,even though cologne has no beach hahahahaha

Hm...when I arrived I said I don't want to practice on these couses
and made my own, but this one was too tight for the most locals [...]

rmn

especially made you you courtesy of christoph baumann as you suggested before hahahahahahahahaha