ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

May 16-17 2009, Airflow Slalombrunch, Thalwil ZH, CH

I'm pleased to announce that we will organize the 7th edition of the Airflow Slalombrunch.

This year the race will be part of a 10-event race series called the Burningwheelstour 2009.

As always, the Airflow Slalombrunch is a good opportunity for beginners to start with racing as well as for advanced Amateurs and Pros. The the barbecue and brunch make our event very laid-back and you get a lot of time to talk and race.

One day fun race, one day ISSA world cup race.

Juniors and Women get a special deal.

More information soon.


Organized by Airflow Skateboards as part of the Burningwheelstour (Burningwheelstour 2009)

Contact:
Ramón Königshausen
Chris Hart

rmn

General Information for Airflow Slalombrunch

History:
7th edition
Local event in the suburbs of Zurich

Format:
Open fun race on Saturday
Hybrid & Tight Special on Sunday

Categories
Pro/Am, Open
Jun
Newbies and Juniors are welcome to join and try our Saturday fun race. There will be a special non-eliminatory racing format. Everybody will have runs until the end of the day.

Registration
Will be on www.burningwheelstour.ch by the beginning of March
Online registration is not mandatory.

Organizers/Experience
Chris Hart
Owner of Airflow Skateboards. Put up the MadCow Streetboardercross races from 1999-2004 and several local Slalomraces all over Switzerland including Junior Championships and all of the past Airflow Slalombrunch events. Was also involved in the 2006 World Championships in Brixlegg.

Ramón Königshausen
Helped and put up the Airflow Slalombrunch/BBQ together with Chris Hart. Was involved in various Skate-Boardercross contests. Current vice president of the 2009 Burningwheelstour. Travels a lot and is currently one out of 3 Status Marshals for Europe.

Venue
Slightly inclined venue.
Smooth asphalt
approx. 40 cones
Next to outdoor sports facility, showers and washrooms available, camping "possible"
Barbecue and tables available for BBQ and brunch

Accommodation
Camping "possible"
The Zurich Slalom community is pretty big so it will be easy to find a place to crash.

Entry fee
Very low
Includes Bread and Salad for BBQ
Includes breakfast buffet
BUT please bring stuff yourself! Special deals on entry fee for those who bring a bigger portion of food (x litres of milk, x lbs of bread, cheese, icetea etc...you get the idea)

Accessibility
Located just in the suburbs of Zurich.
There are parking spots close to the venue.

Address of Venue
Ochsenrainstrasse
8800 Thalwil
Switzerland



Also easily accessible by train and bus.
This is how to get there from Thalwil train station, if you are coming by train.

Click here to view map

Trains that get you to Thalwil from Zürich mainstation:


S2 in direction of Ziegelbrücke
S8 in direction of Pfäffikon SZ
S24 in direction of Horgen Oberdorf
IR in direction of Zug / Luzern
IR / EC in direction of Chur

or go to www.sbb.ch - there you'll get all the info you may need

rmn

Ok folks,

Registration online!

and all the information you need!

Internationals enter for free!


PS: If there is a big number of Pros we'll run a Pro division. Otherwise we'll run Open.

rmn

Is it possible to camp near the venue? I'm thinking of flying out there on Friday 15th so I can be there for the full weekend but obviously need to sort out accommodation first! Any ideas?

Yes, we are camping there Saturday night anyway.

You either get there Friday nght (Chris might sleep there Friday night already) or you stay with someone...

Don't worry about it. Just let us know when your flight is.


rmn

Sweet! I'll be flying out on the Friday evening to make sure I'm there for both days. Just trying to find the cheapest flight and get the funds together! Soon as I've got definite times I'll post again. Thanks and see you there!

Just bought my ticket! Yay! I think there's 2 of us coming from Brighton on the same flight now. We'll be flying Friday eve, getting in to Zurich at 19.40 local time. If we jump on the train and head straight there will it be cool to camp? If not is there anyone that can let us crash on their floor? Cheers

Either option will work, don't worry about it. Just contact me one day before you leave so I can give you a final update!

Stoked you guys are coming down!

rmn

no worries, cheers. I'm super-stoked too! My first international event! Only entered 3 races so far, 2 in London and 1 local so haven't had to travel far! REALLY looking forward to this!

My Flight booked! - same times as Old School Mike more or less,
maybe Airflow can give us a ride from/to the airport?

FLIGHT INFORMATION
Outbound flight: London (London Heathrow) - Zurich
Fri. 15.05.2009 17:15 LHR - 19:55 ZRH LX 325
Return flight: Zurich - London (London Heathrow)
Sun. 17.05.2009 20:25 ZRH - 21:15 LHR LX 340

I am hoping some more skaters can make it - it looks like a fun event.

Sandrine & I will come with Michel and Christopher.
It will be our starter event for this season.

See you soon

and as we now live together in south of france, we will make sure to bring some local food for the breakfast

I will be there too - and will be travelling with Paul on the same flight from Heathrow.

Not sure what we will be doing for accommodation yet though?

Looking forward to it whatever!

I am doing my best to be there as well.....so is Martijn

" Camping "possible"
The Zurich Slalom community is pretty big so it will be easy to find a place to crash. "


how real is this?? ????????what is exactly camping "possible"?????????????

First of all: I'm stoked that so many of you are planning to come to our event!

Second: We will be camping on site Friday and Saturday night.

So yes, camping is possible!

rmn

Flights all booked.

Flight information

Outbound flight: London (London Heathrow) - Zurich
Fri. 15.05.2009 17:15 LHR - 19:55 ZRH LX 325 Economy Saver(E)


Return flight: Zurich - London (London Heathrow)
Sun. 17.05.2009 20:25 ZRH - 21:15 LHR LX 340 Economy Saver(T)


See you there!

There is also a great hotel down the hill, I stayed there last year!

Had a look on google map, looks like there's a half-pipe too at the bottom of the road! If there is then sod the hotel! Slalom all day, half-pipe all night! ha ha ha! (Bugger! That's another board to pack... May just ditch the tent to make room. Now that's dedication for you!)

Positive about the half pipe and some street elements.

rmn

Sweet! What a rad venue! All that's missing now is a BBQ! Oh, wait a minute... ha ha ha!

Hi Antonio, do you have details of the hotel at the bottom of the hill?
Or indeed if anyone knows... post it up soonest please!

Thankyou,

Sam
What do you mean camping is fun?

Here my post about the Hotels from last year – for those among you who don't want the camping experience

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There is one that is very close: Hotel Sternen - Map

Unfortunately I don't know anything about the rates. Maybe there is also a B&B somewhere around. I could ask some friends of mine who live in that town if they can recommend something...

and another one next to the train station, but that one is probably too expensive. ( http://www.sedartis.ch )


But anyways, most of us will be sleeping outside, in tents or at the local sports facility. And there is also a scouts headquarter pretty close to the race track...



More Hotels

rmn

Thanks Ramon. 120-140 CHF. The camping is looking more tempting!

http://www.sternen-gattikon.ch/index.htm

http://www.hotel-ami.ch/h-83101-E/preis ... uerich.htm

Sam

Holy smoke. I paid for the May sponsorship of this site.
Here's another slow, but brilliant website: http://web.me.com/samgordon/Site/Welcome.html

Houly mouly, I am really surprised you all will come over to the Slalombrunch this year.
I am pretty sure, we all will have a nice weekend with skating, BBQ, brunch on sonday morning, freesbee, beer and so on...........................
see you soon and feel the flow....................chris

rmn

Can't make it to Thalwil this week-end, hope you'll get lots of sunshine and a great race.
See you at Over 80 cones, or before.

I've just checked weather preview: it looks fine for both days! (or much better than a few days ago) So i hope to see you all tomorrow at thalwil!
Do not forget to bring something for BBQ, suncream, boards, shorts, wheels, beer, girls ... feel the flow, chris.

I had to cancel in the last minute due to work!
Good luck to everyone!

please post results...

Big thanks to Ramon for all of the hard work at the weekend ON HIS BIRTHDAY and to Chris and the team for a great couple of days in the Swiss hills above the Zurichsee. Team UK have all returned with sunstroke and both mental and physical exhaustion. Oh, and a sizeable cow in Rob's skatebag.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 375118690/

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/3540607078/" title="P5160695 by samg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/354 ... c3ea_b.jpg" width="768" height="1024" alt="P5160695"></a>

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 375118690/

Sam

Yeah it was a great weekend and a chance to watch some amazing skating. Cheers for putting on such a rad event!

Hybrid Saturday

A Group

1 Königshausen Ramón
2 Frei Manuel
3 Hart Chris
4 Thiele Robert
5 Price Paul
6 Brönnimann Michael
7 Endrizzi Silvio
8 Plötz Alex

B Group

1 Altwegg Nico
2 Lieber Alexis
3 Feldmann Simon
4 Reiss Michael
5 Moser Marvin
6 Linder Jojo
7 Gordon Sam
8 Schneebeli Christian

C Group

1 Allison Mike
2 Puligheddu Francesco
3 Fretz Fabian
4 Spearing Joy
5 Roggero Ella
6 Ashby Rob
7 Dieterle Oliver
8 Lüthard Fabian

D Group

1 Lüscher Jan
2 Roth Julian
3 Vlasec Michael
4 Makeham Andy
5 Moser Markus
6 Carusone Manuel
7 Steinemann Marc
8 Baradoy Ross

E Group

1 Ernst Nils
2 Leupold Konrad
3 Krähenbühl Mike
4 Sahli Gion-Andri
5 Pinese Roberto
6 Schibler Fabian
7 Thiele Max


Tight Sunday

A Group

1 Königshausen Ramón
2 Frei Manuel
3 Thiele Robert
4 Hart Chris
5 Koula Fabian
6 Brönnimann Michael
7 Hofstetter Andy
8 Schaub Manuel
9 Strobel Maurus
10 Price Paul
11 Feldmann Simon
12 Plötz Alex
13 Linder Jonas
14 Longridge Dylan
15 Allison Mike
16 Altwegg Nico


B Group

1 Gordon Sam
2 Just Andrea
3 Reiss Michael
4 Ashby Rob
5 Schneebeli Christian
6 Roggero Ella
7 Wolfensberger Nastasja
8 Lüscher Jan
9 Lüthard Fabian
10 Fretz Fabian
11 Roth Balz
12 Spearing Joy
13 Gehriger Urs
14 Dieterle Oliver
15 Roth Julian
16 Auer Silvan


C Group

1 Leupold Konrad
2 Wyler Naphtali
3 Makeham Andy
4 Gehriger Levi
5 Moser Markus
6 Ernst Nils
7 Boll Oliver
8 Moser Marvin
9 Thiele Max
10 Gehriger Byron


Women

1 Nastasja Wolfensberger
2 Ella Roggero
3 Lea Gasser
4 Joy Spearing

Juniors

1 Naphtali Wyler
2 Julian Roth
3 Fabian Fretz
4 Manuel Carusone
5 Levi Gehriger
6 Marvin Moser
7 Max Thiele
8 Byron Gehriger



rmn

Many thanks to all of you made it to the race.
Special thanks to the team UK and all the riders from germany.

Also thanks to all the sponsors: Ixso, Samsung, Elektro Näf, Zimtstern, Freitag, Kölli Beck, Rollladen,Burning Wheels Tour and the whole team of Airflow (super thanks to Ramon, Christian Schnebeli & Ramona, Puli, Pia, Marc Hart, Nastasia, Dylan, Manu, Jonah, Bröni, Jojo and to Petrus who send us the perfect conditions.)

...Feel the flow...
chris hart

www.airflow-skateboards.com

Who made some fotos? Is Sam the only one?
many thanks for your impressions.
cheers chris

I took a load, here's the link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stickpilot ... 323166125/

Mike

Many thanks Mike....
It was a plessure to meet you.
(cool miniramp session)
chris

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