ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Finaly, I could spent some time and work on these.

It was about time, I guess.

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

Very very nice impressions, awesome!

rmn

Enjoy a great photo gallery by the pro photographer Marie-Pierre Moinet :
http://www.mpim.org/slalom2006/

56 pics of the event are here : http://descente.fr/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=57
If some people enjoyed the mountainboard demos, there are some pics of their crazy jumps too !

Summer time and the livin' is easy...

I appreciate very much indeed the enormous work of the Troca Team to make the event happen. Paris will be Paris... It was worth being there just to skate in the Fairyland:))

<a href="http://public.fotki.com/Ellena/europe/france05/pswc06/">
Here are some lifestyle pix from those days:)</a>


A bientot,
ES

Thanks to everyone who was in organization team, very very good competition.
I will be looking forward to going to Paris next year.
Special thanx from Latvian team to Patrick, and offcource to Jani![/img]

Great event!

Thank you, Vinzzz and Jani, and their large and sympatic group of local helpers for organizing and keeping things fluid.

Just some advice for the next time:
1. Do it all within three days, please. In May daylight is until 9:00 p.m. So why not profit on that?
2. Finish every race in one day, with prize-ceremony right after each race. It will make the show more complete.

Thanks to everybody for coming from so far away and competing.

Thanks to all my teammates for doing so well. Congrats especially to Civ from Canada.
CIV, YOU ROCK!
(... and please stay AM for a while. I don't want to get beaten by you next time we meet.)

Florian, welcome on Pavel boards!

Charles, thank you for hosting me and my family!

Happy to meet you all again in Hanover or Riga and of course in Brixlegg!

First, a big thanks to everyone who made my trip to Paris possible. It was amazing, I will remember it the rest of my life. It was so cool to look down at the Eiffel Tower from the starting gates. To see things in person that I had been seeing in history books my whole life was overwhelming.

The level of competition at the event was incredible.

Over the four days of racing, thousands of people were exposed to slalom. The organizers did a grand job.

One other thing that I found refreshing was the almost total lack of whining about the courses.

Thanks again!

Great race, great location and we beat the weather this time!

Here are my photos (best seen in slide show setting at a speed of one per second, add your own music):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39089904@N ... 151466152/

Thanks to all at Pavel for making the Roadster Slalom concept a race proven reality:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39089904@N00/sets/441267/

See all you racers at the next roadside attraction!

Anders and Sam, please don't thank me too much !!!
I've not been as involved as many, many others of the french crew... THEY deserve all the congrats !!!
I was only happy to be there, with all of you...

Just wanted to add to the celebratory hand shaking going on in here:

-thanks to Donald and Alex for the piles opoun piles of advice, tips and tricks for making decks, I will put them to good use and keep it in the family.
-thanks to Jani and the french guys and girls for putting on a FABULOUS race.
-Thanks dan for doing timing and sharing some great insights.
-thanks to Adam and his mom for being super cool.
-thanks to Keith for giving me good advice and keeping my head level.
-thanks to Claude, Civ, Rob and all the other Canadians for the support and encouragement
-Thanks to Lee from the UK (you know why )
-thanks to Kati and Lisa for letting us hang with ya race-side and being super cool!
-thanks to Adell (is that his name?) for being a great host and getting us Mc-D's at the bowl
-thanks to Patrick Switzer for the pads
-thanks to all the racers for putting on a great show
-thanks to team france for making us work for 3rd place
-thanks to everyone and anyone involved in making paris the coolest thing I've ever done in my life!

THANKS!!

I had a blast, you guys and gals are super cool!!

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Thanks very much once again to the whole Trockin' Crew for putting on such an excellent event in one of the great locations. Jani, David, Dan, Vinzzz, Celine, Fred and all: top work; top results!

Not only did the weather hold (just!) but the racing went according to schedule which is a first for quite some time. It meant that you could structure your day towards sightseeing/ bars/ sleep rather than being in attendance at the race site for 24 hours.

On a critical note, it would've been preferred that we lose a day of racing from midweek and add that to the Sunday. I know that many of the Ams were without competition on that day having expected to be in the Nations Cup. But I'm sure that this can be resolved for next year.

And I must remember to bring a spare bush to the Tocadero next year. That Duvel certainly works it's magic in mysterious ways. Reckon that I've explored and revealed myself to 90% of the surrounding parkland.

But that's a digression. Paris 2006 was a fantastically organised event with some really great racing.

Here's a few shots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 149729631/

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/156265101/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/44/156265101_885ec13b03.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P5262813" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/155969440/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/46/155969440_7b25b1fefd_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="P5252664" /></a>


SamG

Thank you Fred, Jani, Vinzzz, David, Etienne, Céline and rest of Riderz for a memorable weekend and an extraordinary good organisation. PSWC is hard to beat!

Special thanks goes to Patrick for staying at your place. (I hope the estate agents with apartment speculants didn't get too afraid when they opened the door on Wednesday morning and found a pale, hairless person sleeping on the floor with and a DDR T-shirt visible on the sofa. I tried my best to speak French, but all I came up with was "Ich bin müde, ein bisschen anders".

Top 5 Pro overall (Counting all three events)
---------------------------------------------------
1 Ramón Königshausen, SUI (1290)
2 Christoph Baumann, GER (1190)
3 Chris Hart, SUI (1180)
4 Anders Hellquist, SWE (1060)
4 Paul Price, GBR (1060)


Top 5 Am overall (Counting all three events)
---------------------------------------------------
1 Henrik Wadsten, SWE (937)
2 Mike Cividino, CAN (822)
3 Dominik Kowalski, GER (815)
4 Adam Schwippert, USA (759)
5 Hans Göthberg, SWE (751)


Top 5 Women overall (Counting all three events)
---------------------------------------------------
1 Bettina Luginbühl, SUI (1108)
2 Olga Kiseleva, RUS (1014)
3 Lea Gasser, SUI (1014)
4 Kathrin Sehl, GER (936)
5 Joy Spearing, SUI (897)


Top 5 Jun overall (Counting all three events)
---------------------------------------------------
1 Adam Schwippert, USA (759)
2 Pascal Weber, SUI (642)
3 Fabian Koula, SUI (579)
4 Johan Chrzanosvski, FRA (522)
5 Viktor Hadestrand, SWE (465)

Also did you notice how much difficulties the pros had in the am special course... that was used for the Nations Cup. Interesting...

Winning the Worlds in Icehockey was not enough. Sweden won the Nations Cup in Paris. Sweden is now the best slalom nation. The Swiss and the Germans are behind.

Go Sweden Go.
Just wait until the Worlds in soccer start.
Go Sweden Go!

Heiko Schöller wrote:HI David

Did you see some pics from the Bowl session? There where two guys making pics...I would like to see some of them.

By the way. It was a very nice weekend and one of the best contests ever but next year please do it only 3 days...

Thanks again Fred for giving me and Don a plcae to sleep. See you all next weekend in Hannover. kind regards Heiko

öhhhm ... dominik also took tons of pics at the bowl.
can´t wait to see them.


yes, paris was a real blast!
and even if my racing really sucked due to lack of preparation/training i had an incredible time. the bowl session was the highlight for me fun-wise.

also seeing christoph baumann stonemason-style chiseling his way to 2nd place in the overall rating on wefunk-tuned decks made me very proud and happy.
just wait to see his coming pro-model!!!

indeed, i made some photos of the environement more than runs and races...
http://wannie.free.fr/060525pswc

Somebody lost a grey zipped hood sweat...(switcher... so swiss one ?) i got it !!

Thanks to everybody i think it was a real success for us, for paris and for the slalom !!

see you next year !

Céline

yes, celine, apo, and others took some photos at the bowl... When i'll get them i'll post them

HI David

Did you see some pics from the Bowl session? There where two guys making pics...I would like to see some of them.

By the way. It was a very nice weekend and one of the best contests ever but next year please do it only 3 days...

Thanks again Fred for giving me and Don a plcae to sleep. See you all next weekend in Hannover. kind regards Heiko

Benoit will follow us to Brixlegg. He is very involved in alternative skateboards photo..

HUYNH BACH SAC Frédéric wrote:...incredible pictures by Benoit Mothes !!!!!

Indeed incredible photos. Benoit is a really good slalom photographer. Can we make a deal with him and have him present at all races around Europe? Seriously!

/Jani

Please have a look on the incredible pictures made by Benoit Mothes !!!!!

link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99976372@N ... 26/?page=2

Yeah



rmn

I'm sitting here thinking that this Paris World Cup must have been the best and most enjoyable competition I have been to. Everything worked extremely well. The organisation, the timing equipment, the weather, all the exiting and fun races, the Nations Cup, the courses, the food, all the spectators on the Trocadero and so on.

For me personally I did not do well at all but still I really enjoyed each discipline and had a lot of fun racing. And of course I could look at all my swedish race pals doing really well. Paris World Cup have always been a good place for Swedes during the past years. This year will be the year of Henrik Wadsten who won both GS and straight in the Am class. Hans Göthberg taking second in Am straight and Anders Hellquist taking 5:th in Pro straight not to forget. And the victory in the Nations Cup by Sweden (Anders Hellquist, Henrik Wadsten, Michael Hadestrand) will be something we will talk about for the rest of our lives I guess.

Something I enjoyed too as a spectator was the pro special course. It was a really hard course and the pros needed to push their skills to the max. It was not just about pushing all you had from start to finish. Then you would not make the course. It was about speed control. Some even used controlled slides for that. The course was not an ordinary pro special slalom course seen on races lately and took some racers by surprise. It needed other skills than usual that some racers could make use of and others had a hard time to handle. It was a course that even made the pros go "Yeah!" when making it clean. And I didn't here many "Yeah!'s"...

Nations Cup results and team picture of the five first teams:
http://event.riderz.net/pswc2006/Result ... esults.pdf

I think that this Nations Cup has been one of the great moments of this competition. I pushed for that to happen. I hope you liked it

Nations Cup Result

some pictures :

Pro Giant Slalom

Woman Tight Slalom
Am Tight Slalom
Pro Tight Slalom (qualif)
Pro Tight Slalom (final)

Woman Special Slalom
Am Tight Slalom
Pro Special Slalom (qualif)
Pro Special Slalom (final)

Slide Contest

they are all free to use, you can send me an email/pm if you want high def versions

Thanks again to all our generous sponsors:

# Coneracing
# 2NDSKY
# Radikal trucks
# Ride spirit
# SC8 longboards
# Hawaiisurf
# Bahne skateboards
# Etnies shoes
# Kickasss
# Gfhurley longboards
# Pavel skateboards
# Lush Longboard
# Pocket Pistols skateboards
# Désaxé
# Skate kings
# Khiro
# Seismic/ 3dm
# Evolone
# Duvel
# Kaliber skateboards
# Politic Longboard Activist

All the results will be available on the website of the event:
http://event.riderz.net/pswc2006/index. ... ts&lang=us
(Nations Cup results and Overall soon )

Marty,

I made sure the Latvian team got dressed:




/Jani

Looks like a blast! Congrats to all....

BTW it looks like team Latvia could do an endorsement deal with Coppertone!!! After all, marketing is the future......

Here are the Sunday results of the Paris Slalom World Cup.

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PRO
=================
1. Luca Giammarco, ITA
2. Ramon Königshausen, SUI
3. Janis Kuzmins, LAT
4. Christophe Baumann, GER
5. Paul Price, UK
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... oElims.pdf


=================
NATIONS CUP
=================
1. Sweden - Henrik Wadsten, Anders Hellquist, Mikael Hadestrand
2. Switzerland - Ramon Königshausen, Mikael Brönniman, Pascal Weber
3. Canada - Claude Regnier, Mike Cividino, Chris Barrett


The overall classification for Pro, Am and Women will be published Monday.

It's over, we're done, we're tired.
Once we're through the meal and the next bottle of Duvel beer, the results will be up.

...all I can say right now is that it was a fantastic experience to be part of this race. And I had the best place as a spectator and could enjoy every aspect of the show. So many good racers, such exciting runs. It was all coming together very nicely. Just judge from the faces on the team photos!

Thank's to everyone for taking part!

/Jani

Hi all !

Too many pics to share for the moment but here are the racers !!!

( missing : Italian and French racers, will come sooner ! )



Swedish team ( nation cup winners )


Team US


Switzerland !


LATVIA



GREAT BRITAIN


GERMANY


CANADA

I WANT AN ONLINE CAMERA, LIKE THE ASP WORLDTOUR INTRODUCED FOR THEIR EVENTS !!!

Here are the results of the Paris Slalom World Cup, Special Slalom Event.

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PRO - Qualifications only (finals on Sunday)
=================
1. Luca Giammarco, ITA
2. Ramon Königshausen, SUI
3. Paul Price, UK
4. Christophe Baumann, GER
5. Keith Hollien, USA
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... oQuals.pdf

=================
AM
=================
1. Mike Cividino, CAN
2. Dominik Kowalski, GER
3. Henrik Wadsten, SWE
4. Adam Schwippert, USA
5. Hans Göthberg, SWE
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... pQuals.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... pElims.pdf

=================
WOMEN
=================
1. Olga Kiseleva, RUS
2. Lea Gasser, SUI
3. Bettina Luginbuhl, SUI
4. Lienite Skaraine, LAT
5. Kathrin Sehl, GER
6. Ekaterina Khabelashvili, RUS
7. Joy Spearing, SUI
8. Katlyn Campbell, UK/US
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... mQuals.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... mElims.pdf

One last day of skateboard racing in Paris
so
Who will be the "King of the Hill" at the Trocadero?



Thanks to Politic Longboard Activist (P.L.A, from Lyon) who built those fantastic trophies

and one again thanks to all the people who helped us, especially all the volunteers and staff who were with us during these four days and before to prepare everything: Jani and Alain with members of Riderz association involved, the parisian crew and all the others
Thanks to the sponsors, to the racers and the whole slalom and skateboard family!!!

I hope you all enjoy the racing! Seems like it's close racing and I'm looking forward to see some results from today. I wonder how hard it would be to hook all this up to a database so that the results could be live...

As always when it's racing you never knows what's gonna happen. Janis qualifies second and looses to Chris that puts in two blistering runs, seems like Janis could have easialy made it to the finals but walks away with 9:th. Same with Heiko that is one of the VERY few to make it down trocadero under 10 seconds, in the head to head he has almost a second lead into the second run and DQ's...

I wish I could have made it there but that's how it is some times. Anyway's please keep us updated, and good luck too you all on the last day of racing!

Here's a couple of brief pro class comments "highlights of the day":

Janis Kuzmins qualifies faster than Luca in the first round, then Luca takes his place back again. Janis meets Chris Hart (15:th) in the first round and Chris wins.

Chris meets Paul Price and Paul wins.

Luca in once race has a reaction time of 0.003. That race could have differently.

Ramon meets Luca later and Luca and the final start signal can't be heard. Ramon goes ahead and Luca just stands still, what else could he do. After a few arguments we restart the race and they do one false start each.

...and many, many more really interesting meetings. This was one of the most exciting races I've been watching.

In the evening most skaters went to the bowl session, while the race site was cleaned up before 7000 (!) roller skaters arrived there at 23.00.

It's Saturday morning now. It's wet outside so we're not rushing to the race site, but it should clear up and get better in the day. Special slalom is on the program.

/Jani

Here are the results of the Paris Slalom World Cup, Tight/Straight Slalom Event.

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PRO (2.00 m)
=================
1. Luca Giammarco, ITA
2. Christophe Baumann, GER
3. Ramon Königshausen, SUI
4. Paul Price, UK
5. Anders Hellquist, SWE
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... oQuals.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... oElims.pdf

=================
AM (2.20 m)
=================
1. Henrik Wadsten, SWE
2. Hans Göthberg, SWE
3. Patrick Allan, FRA
4. Florian Lombardo, FRA
5. Mike Cividino, CAN
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... nQuals.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... nElims.pdf

=================
WOMEN (2.20 m)
=================
1. Bettina Luginbühl, SUI
2. Lea Gasser, SUI
3. Olga Kiseleva, RUS
4. Kathrin Sehl, GER
5. Lienite Skaraine, LAT
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... mQuals.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... mElims.pdf

ARE THERE ANY RESULTS FROM THE FRIDAY RACES ????

The firsts pictures (very few for the moment) are available on the website of the event : http://event.riderz.net/pswc2006

i bring 2 juniors whit me to riga so you got moore young racers

With the great interest I am looking at the results in gigant slalom. Congratulation Chris Hart, Henrik Wadsten, Bettina Luginbuh!
This year I do not participate for some different reasons.
About entery fee I agree with Jadranko it is very important factor to participate or not . Especialy for slalomers from East European countries. At the moment there are still different incomes for peoples in west and east countries. (Looking for the better salary out of Latvia warking about 50 thousends people to Ireland.)
I have two boys who go to school (18, 16 years) and have an interest participate in Paris. For us it is to expensive to go to Paris. We are planing to go to Gruningen and Brixlegg. I do not know why there is no juniors group in Austria.
I think we need to popularize the slalom among the new generation.
To support juniors we have made a smaller entry fee for juniors group in Jurmala -20 euro + ice cream for me. Juniors – welcome to participate in European slalom championship in Jurmala and Sigulda!

Way to go Claude, Keith, Adam, Civ, Chris, and Jack!!!!!!! Good luck the rest of the weekend!

(Thanks for putting up the results).

Welcome in in Paris!
great skateboard day today
it's good to see slalom people again

the weather was finally OK, only of few drops not enough to stop the race!

3 more days!!

http://event.riderz.net/pswc2006

Thanks to all the sponsors

Coneracing
2ndsky - http://www.2ndsky.com/
Ride spirit
Hawaiisurf
Radikal
Etnies
SC8
Pavel
GF Hurley
Bahne
Kickasss
Lush Longboard
Khiro
Pocket Pistols
Skate kings
Seismic/ 3dm
Kaliber
Désaxé
Evolone
PLA

Legendary Jack Smith ready to race at the legendary Trocadero in Paris.

These are the results of the Paris Slalom World Cup, Giant Slalom Event.

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PRO
=================
1. Chris Hart, SUI
2. Steve Hinzen, GER
3. Ramon Königshausen, SUI
4. Vincent Berruchon, FRA
5. Heiko Schöller, GER
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... antPro.pdf

=================
AM
=================
1. Henrik Wadsten, SWE
2. Adam Schwippert, USA
3. Dominik Kowalski, GER
4. Mikael Hadestrand, SWE
5. Max Möhlmann, GER
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... ntOpen.pdf

=================
WOMEN
=================
1. Bettina Luginbühl, SUI
2. Joy Spearing, SUI
3. Katrin Sehl, GER
4. Lea Gasser, SUI
5. Olga Kiseleva, RUS
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... tWomen.pdf

...and Henrik Wadsten, SWE, AM
...and Bettina Luginbuhl, SUI

Complete results in a second.

/Jani