on a side note i see that your main focus of attack seems to be another race from another organizer again?
Don, there are no attacks to anybody or any event's.
It's only a view from another side. My main focus is to have a clearly System to messure the criterias and decide the statuses.
Also Antibes easily wins a competition against Grüningen for a main status for many reasons, not only because it's at the season's end.
If Hannover keeps establishing itself as a big one it definitely deserves a higher Status next year. It can easily overrun Grüningen in terms of attraction and professionalism.
Steve write things without facts. I gave your some facts. Those were important things for an Event.
may i ask you( i take the burden to be the bad man on my shoulders again) if it is professional to hold a "bigger" contest in a remote village somewhere in switzerland on a side lane of a main street?
or is it professional to fetch 20 euros from the entrants for a tank-top of the cheapest quality telling them they ordered it?
On the photos of this side lane you can see the development of the sport and the racers over the last 6 years. From 24 rider's to 96 rider's. Over 180 skater's from 13 country's raced this side lane.
The tank-top t-shirt was only for order. It was writing in 3 diffrent languages and you had to take your size. The standard of the registration was "no shirt" to order the shirt you had to take your size. 77 shirt's were ordered from the rider's with name and number. The price is swiss standard. And it was the choice of the raiders if they want one or not.
besides that i don't see anything unprofessional in chris taking over dans place during a race.you know damn well how experienced chris is,you are still far away from that.
I know that Chris is well experienced, he helped me every year organising the race.
But chris was there as a rider not as the man who run's the race. It's very intresting that you know what my skills and what i do and what i did.
see,i raced when you were not even in the planning and i quit racing among with lots of other racers because the races were #a absolutely boring #b mostly held at remote locations.
I heard other causes from other skaters.
it's not only the sportive aspect that counts,going to any race is also a form of tourism.
me,being the guy who has to cover the expenses any race causes,i want to get the best out of it.grüningen will not be on my map ever again.
Don, never forget this is your point of you. I respect it, it's your decision.
Ask other people what they think. Ask Luca, Olson, Carrasco, Klangster, Macster, the gordan family, Chris, Lynn, Noemi, Pierre, the Russian team, and the swiss.
if you want a corporate body who has the ultimate power to cast any decision being made towards this sport,the you are talking about MONEY-these people need to be paid for what they do-i can't see that right now.
it's not every time a question of money. I don't think that the people race because of the money. Slalom is a passion for some of us. We like to show other people the sport. The people like to watch slalom. It's somthing what you didn't see every day. I think it's possible to have a body for the Szene with very less money. What you need are people who want volunteer. And i know a lot of those people...
/J-Rad
besides: 10 of the youngsters from Grüeningen started Slalomskating after the contest. They skated 3 times a week during the summer and they will start again in the spring 2006
