ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Sorry to hear of your mishaps....may you heal quickly...time does heal injuries...good luck with your race, Detlef...I was an exchange student for a couple weeks in Gottingen back in the late70s, and I visited Hanover...very nice place!

Sorry, but we have problems with our website, because we changed the provider. Don't worry if you can't find your name on the online registration.
You can register on Friday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Everything is working good. Does anybody knosw if the Latvian skaters will show up in Hannover?

Time heals all wounds Klangster.

Detlef I promise I'll try to come...

side evtns for the german world cup.

for more information check

www.expo-sommerfest.de

friday night is rock night. meat loaf is in the house. the main stage is only 100 meters from the
tight slalom course.
saturday night is hip hop night with seeed, gentleman, max herre

but there are more stages for

jazz
world music
latino music

be prepared for long, long nights.

Is it right that the time schedule for GS and Special is the same ? Both events start at 11.30 Uhr ?

Detlef, I'll be running a little late for registration on the Saturday, but will be there. Could you book me in a little later?

Also, to speed up transport, do you have a www.multimap.com grid reference available for the race site at the messe? I'm quite accomplished at getting lost, you see.

Thanks,

Sam

Sam I know a chap from Saint Louis who would be more than happy to sell you a map, Oh for lets say 200$. You may know him as a Hornswoggling New worlder. Your Amigo Eddy Texas Outlaws.

i have to say goodbye now, because for the next days we are working on the expo site.
we have to build a booth for subway and we build up a stage.

tomorrow we are organising the skatebynight

www.skatebynight.de

thursday we are in hildesheim for the skatenight there

www.skatenight-hildesheim.de

on friday we are working for the world cup. be prepared for starting ramps 2meter high.

see you there.
dete.

Damn crazy hombres.

When I'm found doing a saucy towel dance under the determined gaze of lederhosen-clad whip-wielding vice dwarves in a Berlin bier keller then smiles will be dashed from your faces like Dorothy's outhouse in the wild whirlwind.



"Look Toto. There it goes. We might as well take up Eddie's kind offer of work at Harm's Hannover crack house now."

I just had a talk with Jani. It was a rainy weekend in Hanover (as in most of all Europe). It seems like the rain want to give us slalomers a match this year again. After all they managed to run two disciplines and the biggest surprise of the weekend was that Christoph Baumann, Germany, was running really good under the German weather conditions. He won the tight slalom before names like Chris Hart, Maurus Strobel and Ramón Königshausen. Jani himself finally decided to enter the contest. He desperatly needs some practice before the European Championships. Hopefully we will see some result lists and more stories soon. And no, it wasn't Christoph who laid the course. It was Ramón.

Here are a few snaps of the Hannover World Cup 2005:





http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/419337/

Thanks Detlef!


Sam

Result lists (thanks to Dan Gesmer):

http://www.slalomspot.com/wefunk/HannoverWorldCup/


The friday training sessions were epic with sun and perfect conditions. Too bad it couldn´t stay that way for the whole weekend.
The location was perfect with lots of cheering spectators who came to visit the expo summer festival (especially on sunny Friday).

It was a great weekend even if the weather really made it hard to have too much fun in the race. (heavy wind gusts made the qualifications a real gambling game and I was lucky enough to ride one good qual. time.)

After the rain really started on Saturday some of us drove to the indoor skatepark to have some runs in the indoor bowl. Wolfgangster Toth showed us some great oververt carving and Chris Hart that he can ride more than just slalom (very nice corner 50/50s), Maurus did his very first drop-in (It takes guts to do that in a not-so-shallow bowl - congratulations! Now you want more, eh?).

Sunday was windy and rainy so around noon my sis and me decided to leave so I could have some quality time with my son in the afternoon.

Thanks Detlef for organizing this contest - next year we´ll have more luck with the weather.
I would be there again for sure.

thanks detlef it was great event ... even if the weather was not the best !!!! it was a perfect idea to integrate the event into this expo summer festival, so we had great audience from time to time ... nice weekend and i come back next year for sure !!!!!

cheers from the "pape-brats"

svenne

you've heard it before and i'll say it again:

DETLEF RULED THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


that's the first contest i saw where you received more stuff upfront when registering than what you actually paid as a fee. there was even sunmilk in the surprise bag-he put so much love into small details, really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well run well organized-could be one of the biggest venues pretty soon.
the potential is absolutely there.




thanks also to jani and dan for helping out, showing up, being nice guys to talk with.

Ok the weather wasn´t the best but everything all was perfect organised and we all had a lot of fun. Great races, nices prices, good parking, perfect timing system, good cone judges, parking directly at the cource, cash for all Top 3 Riders, Saturday good Skatesession at the local Skatehall and Pool...I´m totally tired today but I smile when I think about the nice weekend. Good work Detlef!!!!

This contest must have main status next year!

Big crowd of spectators, nice courses (*rolleyes*), quite well organized (the weather made it hard...), fair pavement on the whole area (90A Avalons just ruled!), hotel included....and so on

well done detlef, although the weather was quite bad!

rmn

Detlef is the boss !!!!!

Good organization, nice place, big potential.... you deserve the MAIN STATUS !!!!!

Thanks again to you and your crew !!!!


Fred.


ps : Please keep this huge giant slalom starting ramp's for next year !!!!!

Hannover World Cup 2005, Results

Tight Pro, Qualification
Tight Pro, Elimination

Tight Open, Qualification
Tight Open, Elimination

The women were racing together with the men upon request (from the ladies).

Garage, Straight, Pro
Garage, Straight, Open
Garage, Straight, Women

Special, Open
(Pro cancelled)



Christophe Baumann is my new hero! He's just getting faster and faster. He's been gaingin places over the last two years, without getting much attention. All of a sudden he qualifies first and then takes out Steve Hinzen, Maurus Strobel and finally Ramon Königshausen to win the whole race. That's pretty cool!

Maurus was really fast, but hit too many cones (again).
Ramon is consistently fast, but now has to wait another race to claim the top spot.
Chris Hart is always right in there. This time winning the garage slalom.
Paul Price couldn't repeat his success story from Paris. Maurus wanted the third place more.

Nastasja Wolfenberger - the fastest woman this weekend.

Heiko Schöller completely dominated the open class and has now announced he'll go Pro in the next race (Already in Gruningen!).

Vincent Berruchon (3rd, 3rd, 2nd), Alexis Lieber (2nd, 2nd, 3rd) will be eager to take his place, but to get there they will have to fight: Max Möhlmann, Peter Darius, Oliver Otten, Frank Beste, Sam Gordon and a few more. And they will have to ensure that the ladies return to their womens category. Note that Nastasja qualified third in the Open class...


Too bad we never got to race the giant slalom. It looked really nice. Not so steep, but really sweet!

Many thanks to Detlef and his whole crew for putting on this race!
I will join previous speakers and say that this event truly has great potential. Despite the rain everybody enjoyed the weekend and left longing to come back next year.

/Jani

Congratulations Christophe, I told you home-made boards are the best.

I would have loved to be there with you guys, probably next year...

Great race in Hannover
Detlef and his crew rock! Thanks you all to make this event happens.
The only things one could complain about were the wind and rain.
I was a bit disappointed, (as most racers I suppose) that we couldn't try this nice giant road and its big start ramp.
Next year I hope to see all of you there again
And we'll try to bring pool boards, this pool is the nicest I've ever seen.. (France is poor about this kind of things)

Wow, but is it fair to let the so fast Nastasja race with guys ?

Germany is for sure the new interesting Slalom scene
Two dangerous pros now : Chris Bauman and Heiko
with lot of people pushing behind: the Koln crew, Pape Brats and the Berlin crew and much more
and don't forget manufacturers and their strong R&D (this week end I could try a new Pavel prototype, even if I wasn't used to it works! Thanks Donald)

Tshusssssss

Sounds like a great race. I hadn't read much about it, due to being 5000+ miles away and all. Maybe next year? All my ancestors are German, after all.

Anyone got any photos of this excellent bowl that's been mentioned?

Sam, if only I'd known of your need for a map sooner, I could have exploited--oops, I mean helped you!

JBH
"HNW Racing"

Jonathan Harms wrote: Anyone got any photos of this excellent bowl that's been mentioned?

I don´t have pics from our session just these from a newsletter:

The pool rips ! I didn't skate it because I had to play indoor soccer with Noemi , Nastasja, Alexis
The skater on the pictures is Anders Tellen from germany.

we will organize our second world cup from 3-5. june 2006.
hopefully there is not the slalom wolrd cup in paris.

yes, Dete!

I think next year You can count on all German slalomers, because Your first World Cup this year was simply GREAT!
Hannover is situated between the 2 strongest slalom-cities in Germany: Cologne and Berlin. What a showdown for another battle!

Btw: The weather will be better next year.

Detlef Rehbock wrote:we will organize our second world cup from 3-5. june 2006.
hopefully there is not the slalom wolrd cup in paris.

OOPS, yes that is the date planned for the Paris event. The request for authorization has already been submitted. Contact me.

/Jani

Detlef Rehbock wrote:we will organize our second world cup from 3-5. june 2006.

Will the big Expo-Fest be again at this date? Will there be rockbands playing again?
We have seen more spectators at the course than in Paris!

Paris is an attractive event and well organized but I wonder if it still can compete with these extras?

uhhmm yes,steve,you are right on that.
but we shouldn't be misunderstood on that what you posted.
you and me,we dont want to create any rivalry,but its necessary to state the facts.
sad to say,many people didn't recognize how good hannover really was,plus dete was a bit too low-key for my taste.
he did so good,he deserves waymore recognition and acceptance by the riders,especially those who missed that great event.

The best support is to come back to Hannover... ( F@=K !!!! the trip by car was so loooong ! )

Steve Hinzen wrote:

Detlef Rehbock wrote:we will organize our second world cup from 3-5. june 2006.

Will the big Expo-Fest be again at this date? Will there be rockbands playing again?
We have seen more spectators at the course than in Paris!

Paris is an attractive event and well organized but I wonder if it still can compete with these extras?

It would be really sad that this two europenean events happened on the same Week End.
Can't you change that?
Paris is on the "Pentecote week end" (it's the same for 3 years now), and it will be hard to change now

(Steve even if there's no use to compare the events, I woudn't be so categoric about spectators...)

Steve Hinzen wrote:Paris is an attractive event and well organized but I wonder if it still can compete with these extras?

I wrote this in a provocative manner to get the discussion on fire.
After participating in the world of european slalom competitions for nearly one year I will choose my participations in contests very carefully next year by what I observed this year.

Paris and Hannover were some of my favorites and I would love to go to both of them next year.

Both contests called themselves "World Cup". Therefore a certain public presentation and spectators are a must. Hannover will only work if there is the side-effect of the big party. Otherwise it will be as dead as Grueningen (which was called a "World Cup" too!) in terms of spectators. I've seen a lot of potential in Hannover which wasn't really been used because of the circumstances (unknown, first contest ever, bad weather).

Rivalry between contests does exist and is healthy. Soon we will discuss again about the status of any contest next year.

Two contests at one weekend isn´t possible. That is a fact. One contest must change the date otherwise both contests loose!!!
Spectators are nice but what should they see in Hannover when the whole world is racing in Paris at the same weekend. Sorry too say but Paris has a history and was allways the biggest contest in europe the last years...

I would support Hannover but what is Sweden, Swiss and the USA going too??????

Well, like I can shut up for any period of time, but I do have something to say. I couldn’t make it to Hannover sadly do to injury, but I’ll be there next year. On status, well I have my opinion but ISSA sets the status, however I think it would be great if we could spread em out a little so we get a race every month. The Americans gets a early start and then enjoy races almost all year. We (Europeans) have some contest with a few years history and some new ones. All I’ve been to deserve MAIN status but only 4 gets it, well 3 and then 1 MAJOR. The thing is, some has a history of when it’s on, like Paris, Gruningen and Antibes. We should respect them and try to put ours somewhere else during the year, to extend the racing session.
We have:
Paris May early June.
Gruningen middle June.
Antibes in early September.

We in Sweden can put it on whenever, we just try to fill a empty space, we will not be asking for a main, we think RIGA should get MAIN status next year and have the race in mid July.

So, April, August and October has no races.

Next year we know following city’s want to put on races. I’ll just call it like I personally like to see it, it has nothing to do with ISSA or what’s actually going too happened.
DO NOT MISSINTURPITE THIS, I LOVE YOU ALL:


Moscow May
Donalds race May
Paris 3-5 June Main
Gruningen 17-18 June
Riga 15-16 July Main
Stockholm Close to Riga or Hannover Prime
Hannover August
London August
Antibes 9-10 September Major (if World Championships)
Tenerife 28-29 October


To have Main/Major status it should be an requirement to have a Prize purse of at least 2.500 Euro. We should all try to help to make a Euro tour cup. A tour with a Major umbrella sponsor.

//Moe Green

peter
i'll do my race in july not in may,maybe august will be cool too
but that has yet to be determined.
brixlegg also hosts some other events such as etnies bowlmasters,also the vert-pros which will come to the death race need to have an open slot for this event too.
i'll be off for a few days next week when i spend my holidays in brixlegg and skate the cradle each day.everything i want to do will be discussed with the mayor and the skatepark guys then.

i think i have to increase the prize money to 10K to make it worth a trip.

this will be heavy competition for each and everybody to follow then
the design for the homepage looks awesome too,wait tillit pops up in the net.


you,especially you,have to be fast next year,i hope you're up to it,dieter pieter(you have to many aliases,that's suspicious..

the gs course will make corky's turtle shell pay off in the end.[/b]

Tenerife?????

i know we have the problem with the same date as paris. i try to get in contact with the guys from paris. hey jani, please can you give me the e-mail adress of the organizer from the paris world cup? i will try to find a way for both. if paris can´t change the date i must find an other way for hannover. heiko is right. we can´t do these two events on the same date.

Detlef Rehbock wrote:i know we have the problem with the same date as paris. i try to get in contact with the guys from paris. hey jani, please can you give me the e-mail adress of the organizer from the paris world cup? i will try to find a way for both. if paris can´t change the date i must find an other way for hannover. heiko is right. we can´t do these two events on the same date.

Dete,

I will be talking to Alain Esnault today. I was on vacation until now. He's in charge of the administrational work for the Paris race. He doesn't speak English though, so I think you better go through me. You can also talk to Pierre-Yves Ritschard, the president of Riderz. You'll find his contact information in his profile here at the forum.

I think the only chance to move the Paris race is if there another reason:
- something else happening at the Trocadero that day
- some other good reason for the Paris crew to target another date

I know Alain doesn't want the event in the autumn and if so it would cause a conflict with the Antibes event.

I sincerely hope you can find another weekend where you can get a crowd to your contest site. I'm very much looking forward to next year in Hannover.

/Jani