ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Video:

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkdR0kvXf4

part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uab7qseQi9Y

part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4TX9lH814

part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4zswzyUBnM

Looks like a great race! Sunny, well attended, good organization, close racing, etc. I like the ramps, too--very nicely done.

And congrats to Frank Beste, who just keeps getting faster, and to Kathrin--finishing ahead of Louis, Paul and Steve in the super hybrid is very impressive. That woman is just plain fast!

Thanks for the fun race!

Here are the complete results as PDFs.

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... d_Qual.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... roup_A.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... roup_B.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... roup_C.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... Hybrid.pdf

ps. I asked for them, so I had to do them myself...

/Jani

A big thanks to Donald and the GOG crew for a top weekend of racing. I look forward to racing on that GS hill next year - with permission :o)

There are some photos from the weekend here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 9ef2c1cfa4

See some of you in Amsterdam in a couple of weeks time.

Cheers

Always a pleasure, there was some exciting racing over the weekend, and the weather stayed good for us. Thanks to Donald at Pavel for a fun event. More racing soon!

What a beautiful pictures!

Thnx Gang Of Germany for the hardcore races! It was a great event and you guys have got a strong army!

Aloha.

many thanks to the pavel-gog-crew from the Berliner Kurvenrollsportverein for the nice and fast event!
it was a great weekend with a lot of new people i met!

hope to see u all in Amsterdam!

chris

forgot to add the overall ranking
#1 dominik kowalski
#2 christoph baumann
#3 chris schütz
#4 thiago gardenal
#5vinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
#6 frank beste
#7 ernst jan de boom
#8 kongo


summarizing the whole event dominik kowalski is his years german champion
thanks you's go out to:
heidi kitzhöfer for being the physiotherapist for the weekend-her services were for free

markus kaffke:helping with the ramps and with the timing
kako max,markus roch and his wife,steve hinzen,andy leistner,carsten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-hey all helped wih he ramps
frank hulshoff from the video production company for showing interest in this sport
käthe and christoph for the excellent trophies.
anybody else i forgot to mention right now...
heiko and fränky for sponsoring the event.

all the riders who showed up from across the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's the thing slalom needs to keep the stoke alive! Donald, you know how to make events happen

P.S...Nice pics by the way!

day 1 qualifying times:


1 Dominik Kowalski 13,338
2 Chris Schütz 13,693
3 Heiko Schöller 13,709
4 Frank Beste 13,840
5 Christoph Baumann 13,848
6 Ernst-Jan de Boom 13,892
7 Thiago Gardenal 14,018
8 Vincent Berruchon 14,038
9 Paul Price 14,108
10 Kongo 14,186
11 Louis Shelby 14,238
12 Daniel Vogt 14,278
13 Ferdinand Lindner 14,281
14 Markus Roch 14,284
15 Holger Kindler 14,330
16 Kako Max 14,364
17 Steve Hinzen 14,445
18 Sam Gordon 14,601
19 Petre Nowotny 14,606
20 Kathrin Sehl 14,715
21 Carsten Pingel 14,750
22 Steve Pederson 14,835
23 Manfred Koffinke 14,952
24 Peter Jachmann 15,159
25 Benjamin Klatt 15,319
26 Starsky 15,328
27 Jeroen Steggink 15,360
28 Martin Hoppe 15,363
29 Rob Gerlings 15,394
30 Rob Ashby 15,841
31 Dirk Jonczyk 16,156
32 Philipp Enzmann 16,564
33 Sebastian Hertler 16,866
34 Maximiliano Reggi 16,985
35 Sean Monroe 17,255
36 Gunnar Peitz 17,957
37 Sebastian Bandholtz 18,041
38 Franky Sommer 18,536
39 Anna Vackova 21,274
40 Andreas Schumacher -
40 Alex Dehmel -

afer qualifying we separated he starter field into 3 groups A B C
we had a total of 40 racers,here is the breakdown
group a 16
group b 16
group c 8
then we continued as follows

group c merged with the last 8 of group b and battled it out

top 8 c group went ino the finl b group and battled it out the regular way


a group remained as it was

so we ended up with more racing for the not so good racers,it seems that this was good and encouraging for the slower ones.

day2 super hybrid single lane
best out of 3 runs

1 dominik kowalski 13,621
2 vincent berruchon 13,875
3 thiago gardenal 14,112
4 christoph baumann 14,143
5 chris schütz 14,157
6 frank beste 14,223
7 daniel vogt 14,375
8 markus roch 14,397
9 ernst de boom1 14,429
10 kongo 14,514
11 kako max 14,521
12 kathrin sehl 14,784
13 louis selby 14,920
14 paul price1 14,972
15 steve pederson 15,084
16 ferdinand lindner 15,237
17 sticker peter 15,244
18 jeroem steggink 15,503
19 martin hoppe 15,666
20 sam gordon 15,920
21 benjamin klatt 16,001
22 dirk jonczyk 16,229
23 rob ashby 16,282
24 philip enzmann 16,353
25 maxiliano reggi 16,605
26 fränky sommer 16,873
27 sebastian bandholz 16,937
28 markus kaffke 17,400
29 gunnar peitz 18,887
30 nancy schwade 19,107
31 felix buchholz 20,174
32 linus enzmann 20,283

og gog member frank th bank checking the course

sam gordon doing he eagle flappy flappy yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

steve pederson who came all the way from the usa powering through the course

a view from the back with sticker peter charging through the course

the timer guys,it was a good weekend with only 1 mistake we made,again we wan to apologize for this to martin hoppe.

another shot of our newbie markus roch

next is a few pics i received from an old skate-buddy tom lorenz,thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heiko schoeller against his new teammate markus roch,he picked up racing 2 months ago,keep his name in mind for next season!!!!

killer kowalski on his way to victory

homer vs chris schütz from berlin another raw talent

another shot of heiko wih his new(white not black) helmet

here is one with cocoa thiago in the lead,hahahaha-only we know the secret cocoa story

another BIG surprie from france,vinnzzzzzzzzzzzzz came to our contest after a long absence from racing,he vinnzzzzzzz big love and hugs from your buddies-you're a killer!!!!!!!!!!!!

all results and spreadsheets are in your mail jani.
check out who won for the people who can't wait
here he is:


or better said part of him

more in a few

Any results yet?

/Jani

Nice goin Steve .You have come along way baby.All the way from Minnesota USA

thanks dan
it would be nice to see the complete spreadsheets with the times,if you can't link those to a server i have to wait til mondy to post em up.
i will resend group c in roughly 8 hours

At the request of Donald Campbell, I am posting the following results -


Hybrid Finals
OFFICIAL RESULTS


Group A
1 DOMINIK KOWALSKI
2 HEIKO SCHÖLLER
3 CHRISTOPH BAUMANN
4 CHRIS SCHÜTZ

Group B
1 SAM GORDON
2 CARSTEN PINGEL
3 PETER JACHMANN
4 STEVE PEDERSON

Group C
Spreadsheet data incomplete.


…Dan

A-group:
1st: Dom Kowalski
2nd: Heiko Schöller
3rd: Homer
4th: Chris Schütz

B-group:
1st: Sam Gordon
2nd: Carsten Pingel
3rd: Steve Pederson
4th: Peter Jachmann

C-group:

I can't remember!

Does it mean that I am the german amateur champion due to the fact that Sam is British?

- nice sunny 1st day
- very close and fast final runs
- relaxed athmosphere

I think Don will post the official PDF's later this evening.

let's see what's happening tomorrow !?

good night everybody!

Yeah Stevie. Go Yank

You better be ripping it up like there's no tomorrow....Pederson

How's the contest going?

I'm in See you tomorrow.

please put me on the entry list Rob Gerlings from Holland.

flying dutchman

thnx Paul!

Good luck to all the racers - looks like there will be some fierce battle for the German title

Saturday's race is on the west side of oberkasseler brucke Düsseldorf.

Registration 10am for 11am start

Put this GPS location into google maps '51.229315,6.764016'


http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s ... 06516&z=14

I am the factory, will go pick up Team UK 8.30pm

Yes Sam, the only thing I know is that we have to go to dusseldorf.......but its not a small "dorf" its a city!
Please give us some advice!

Is there a schedule or rendez-vous point and time for Saturday posted anywhere?
We need to know when to get up!

saturday should be :

sunday is more uncertain

but hey it's good to come to see all of you slalom pirates!

Packed and ready. We'll be there whatever the weather!

See you later,

Sam

Let's go!!
I'm getting out of my lair

see you in GOGland!!!

PS : On sunday after the event I'll have to be at Dusseldorf airport around 18:00 (take off 19:15)- Donald will probably be quite busy after the race, I hope to find a good soul to help to get my plane.

Sam, Rob, Louis and me are flying from London - looking forward to the event. Cheers!

Sounds good Donald - always good to hear of a bit of media interest - good for the growth of slalom.
Would there be any chance of getting a copy of the footage once it is edited etc. to show on our stand at X in the City?

See you in a couple of days.

sad to hear that michel heal well best wishes from here

updates:

new ramps are finished 6ft awesome ride

new riders confirmed
we even managed to dig out vince hell yeaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

there is a video production company at the race

they will film everything and use the video material to fish for big sponsors for next year

this is a very interesting opportunity for the sport as finally companies such as-you name it-will be approached by professionals.

that company is something like a consulter,so the production will be awesome and chances are good that we will have different names in sponsoring next year,names we never had before.

i am very optimistic about the whole deal

news and pics every day in the evening here.
so check this thread sat eve and sun eve

thanks

No trip to Germany for us. My shoulder is still "out of order" after Hradec Kralove with no hope of skating before 3 to 4 weeks. Hope you all have fun.

no spanish skaters?
come on it's not that far away....

Hi Donald,
I´ll be in there also.
Petr Novotny

Count me and Christopher in. I have a revenge to take on the "German bear"...

as an axtra bonus we will have a medical tent at the race track with an experienced physiotherapist to help anybody with issues or just the hunger to see a sexy lady privately!

Hi,
i will take part,too!
best regards
thomas

just updated the list-thx for the dutch support flavio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thiago Gardenal (from Brazil) also told me he will go.

Me and Ernst-Jan will be there.

I am sure some czech boys will arrive !!!
Me unfortunately not --> Family Holidays.

Have a fun and perfect race!!!

ramonski
kowalke is in the house,say goodbye to german champion,you are from swasiland anyway,but in your heart you shall remain a kölsche jung forever.

what's up with the dutch fraction?
french?
eastern boyz?
spanish?
italian?
nobody coming?
are you scared?

c'mon
we got people coming from the us and from brazil-kako is no hoax,he booked his flight and he will comepete-so you better not miss the chance to race against 2 brazilians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
your chance of a lifetime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gog is back in full swing,expect trashtalk,fun,and lots of gnar to come from us.