European Championships, Amsterdam, Aug 16-17 2008 [MAIN]

[Flavio Badenes]

Please note.

the comment:

"Relax, it's skateboarding!"

posted at the end of the riders list on the event website list does NOT reflect my opinion.
I surelly want this contest to be runned the proper way and a proper rider´s list is part of it, otherwise we should not have it.

The right way is the relaxed way.

[Flavio Badenes]

Ha ha, yes please, move me to AM please!
And Dom, just give me five or ten years and I will give you a fight!

Will do

[Antonio Saluena]

Ha ha, yes please, move me to AM please!
And Dom, just give me five or ten years and I will give you a fight!

[Flavio Badenes]

Carsten you are right, I do understand your point but....I had to make a few deals with the press to see that they would show up.
This was the best way I found to make it possible for them to film the PRO´s with some decent light.

I do hope you understand.

[Flavio Badenes]

I did not register as pro (yet) ha ha

So Antonio, after reading what Dom wrote, should I move your name back with the AM´s ????

[Dominik Kowalski]

sandbagger...haha!

See you all soon!

[Antonio Saluena]

I did not register as pro (yet) ha ha

[Pierre Hazera]

I sent you a PM
I could not come to Amsterdam
I think I can't ride before 3 weeks

hope see you soon

good luck fo every racer

[Flavio Badenes]

These three hotels are like 5 minute skating from the contest location but they are a bit expensive:

Mercure Amsterdam Airport 4
Oude Haagseweg 20
Amsterdam 1066 BW
Netherlands

Hotel Nieuw Slotania
Slotermeerlaan 133
1063JN, Amsterdam
+31 (0)20 61 34 568

Amsterdam Centrum/Zuidwest
Nachtwachtlaan 11
1058 EV Amsterdam
Tel: +31 (0)20-6691621
Fax: +31 (0)20-6691631

if you go to www.amsterdamslalom.com then click on INFO
scroll down the page until you find:

list of cheap hotels in Amsterdam.
click on it

you will be taken to a page with HUNDREDS of cheap and good hotels. Pick one in the center of the city places like Leidseplein, Rebrantplein or any address that ends up with a gracht word
from the center of the city you have to take tram number 2 to the location. Please refer to www.amsterdamslalom.com under INFO then scroll to PUBLIC TRANSPORT.

[Emrik Larsson]

For those of you who like to hear some jazz and funk visit the town Haarlem.
On Friday and Saturday it is Haarlem Jazz. The whole town will be filled with places where you can hear Jazz, Funk and Soul for free.
From the championship site it is a 15 minute drive by car. I tried to point it out on google maps, don't know if it works but here is the link;

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=& ... 23474&z=11

Fridaynight you can see f.i.
New York Ska Ensemble
José James
Alain Clark

On Saturday
Ibrahim Electric and Ray Anderson
Ernest Ranglin(Jamaica) meets The Highnotes

Enjoy your stay wherever you will go.

I recorded an album in haarlem with my former band stonefunkers. would be great to check that out! emrik

[Flavio Badenes]

What is happening in Amsterdam during the month of August? as posted on www.topsportamsterdam.nl the official site for the city sports events

augustus - 2008
Olympische Spelen

8 augustus 2008 - 24 augustus 2008 Diverse sporten
Beijing
.
LG Amsterdam Tournament

8 augustus 2008 - 9 augustus 2008 Voetbal
Amsterdam ArenA
.
EK Slalom Skateboarding

16 augustus 2008 - 17 augustus 2008 Diverse sporten
Sportpark Sloten
.
KLM Dutch Open Golf

21 augustus 2008 - 24 augustus 2008 Golf
Zandvoort
.
Johan Cruijff Schaal

23 augustus 2008 Voetbal
Amsterdam ArenA
.
UPC Holland Triathlon

30 augustus 2008 Triathlon
Almere
.
WK Triathlon

31 augustus 2008 Triathlon
Almere

[Cyril Schardijn]

For those of you who like to hear some jazz and funk visit the town Haarlem.
On Friday and Saturday it is Haarlem Jazz. The whole town will be filled with places where you can hear Jazz, Funk and Soul for free.
From the championship site it is a 15 minute drive by car. I tried to point it out on google maps, don't know if it works but here is the link;

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=& ... 23474&z=11

Fridaynight you can see f.i.
New York Ska Ensemble
José James
Alain Clark

On Saturday
Ibrahim Electric and Ray Anderson
Ernest Ranglin(Jamaica) meets The Highnotes

Enjoy your stay wherever you will go.

[Rob Ashby]

I have now re-registered - hopefully you should see me now!

Thanks

[Flavio Badenes]

Hi Flavio,

I know you said that the competitor list doesn't update very quickly but can you check that you have me down as I registered about 3-4weeks ago and my name has not yet appeared. Or should I sign up again?

Many thanks.

Rob please register again we don´t have any records of you registering, something might have gone wrong.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!

@Antonio, I have your registration, sorry.

@ all riders, I am preparing a better riders list that will appear on the home page. coming real soon

Carsten I will answer you later, I am too busy now......

[Carsten Pingel]

why always this long break between quali and finals of the AM's ???????

Motivation is going down, the muscles have to be rewarmed, etc.

Why not 1st the Am quali & finals , and then the PRO's quali & finals???

[Flavio Badenes]

I am calling the webmaster right now. My apologies.

[Antonio Saluena]

Hello,

I also registered 3-4 weeks ago and can't see my name...

Antonio

[Rob Ashby]

Hi Flavio,

I know you said that the competitor list doesn't update very quickly but can you check that you have me down as I registered about 3-4weeks ago and my name has not yet appeared. Or should I sign up again?

Many thanks.

[Flavio Badenes]

I won't be able to catch a flight until saturday morning, arriving at schiphol 0755 approx.
How far is schiphol from the sportspark..
i saw that you could easily take the tram etc..
but thinking of instead catching a Cab, is that expensive?

there's no direct shuttle ?
or anyone else arriving early saturday morning, maybe we could go together?

emrik larsson

Best is to take a bus or cab. There's no tram going from Schiphol to the sportspark.
You can take bus 195. But then you'll still have to walk 11 minutes from the bus stop to the park. Cab will costs you between 20 and 30 euros I guess. Bus only a few euros.

From Schiphol to the site you can take the bus without any problems. You an skate the last part, it should take you no longer then 5 minutes and it is all done on bicycle lanes. No problem at all.

I am working at finding a place for in the case of rain. If this goes as planed we will skate on the SAME LOCATION but then inside a covered venue for bicycle races. I still need to get the OK from the association that takes care of the place but I think we will not have any problems. Bad news is that it is flat.

[Jeroen Steggink]

I won't be able to catch a flight until saturday morning, arriving at schiphol 0755 approx.
How far is schiphol from the sportspark..
i saw that you could easily take the tram etc..
but thinking of instead catching a Cab, is that expensive?

there's no direct shuttle ?
or anyone else arriving early saturday morning, maybe we could go together?

emrik larsson

Best is to take a bus or cab. There's no tram going from Schiphol to the sportspark.
You can take bus 195. But then you'll still have to walk 11 minutes from the bus stop to the park. Cab will costs you between 20 and 30 euros I guess. Bus only a few euros.

[Steve Hinzen]

Hi Flavio,

I sent You a PM. It's about the big ramp. Call me.

Steve.

[Emrik Larsson]

I won't be able to catch a flight until saturday morning, arriving at schiphol 0755 approx.
How far is schiphol from the sportspark..
i saw that you could easily take the tram etc..
but thinking of instead catching a Cab, is that expensive?

there's no direct shuttle ?
or anyone else arriving early saturday morning, maybe we could go together?

emrik larsson

[Flavio Badenes]

Do your best to read the letter above I apoligize for the small printing. It is good to see that the city of Amsterdam is backing up a slalom skateboarding competition, we are not part of a festival or whatever other event. We are just a slalomskateboarding event.

The city has provided us with fresh new asphalt, advertising of the event and they also have cancelled a cycling event that was going to happen on the same location on the same day they had to pay a fine for that.

We will start on 8:30 AM Saturday morning August the 16th with the registration of riders.

I hope we can start on 10 AM:

Tight slalom qualification for the amateurs.

Tight slalom qualifications PRO´s

Tight slalom Final Pro´s

Tight slalom Final AM´s

Hybrid slalom qualification PRO´s and AM´s

On Sunday August the 17th we will start at 8:30 AM

Hybrid Slalom Finals for the Amateurs

Hybrid slalom Final PRO´s

GS Qualifying runs Amateurs

GS Qualifying runs Pros

GS Finals PRO´s

GS Final Amateurs

Two days of solid skateboarding.

Facilities:

You can camp on site from Friday evening on.
We have reserved a half football field for the tents. We also provide showers, changing rooms and proper sanitary facilities. All of it of the best standards, clean and new. Please take good care of it. You will all be provided with trash bags. Please do not make any fires at any time. The location is well lit, no BBQ, sorry. You will be in a football field next to a golf course, ten minute walk to a lake and a ten minute tram ride to famous Leidseplein.

!!!!!!!BRING YOU OWN TENT!!!!!!!

For the ones looking for a nice and cheap hotel:
http://www.flyingpig.nl/
You can also go to our website:
www.amsterdamslalom.com
there is a link there for nice and cheap hotels in Amsterdam.



Prizes:

AMS: Goodiesbags are full. Thanks to Vans and to Hardcore Suplies
PRO`s : It depends on the number of competitors but it is looking very good already

Starting ramps will be provided by PAVEL. The big ramp will be used, please wear a helmet!

I do hope to see you all here.

[Flavio Badenes]

[Flavio Badenes]

I have some more stickers for you guys. Not much more Sector 9 but some others I found on my trip to SIA AND ASR trade shows on Hogtown business. Im going to give to Skip to give out for me. Have a great contest. I miss you guys. Come to Toronto to visit me someday. We will skate. -Joyce Cats

we all miss you too Joyce!! and (thanks to Pavel) we will have a even bigger ramp this time!!!

now where is MY t-shirt?????

Now @ everybody else...

The camping site is ready to go:

I will post a few rules that must be follwoed by the ones using the camping facilities. Nothing really serious but do obey them, ok????

and PLEASE clean after yourself. You will all get trash bags from us, please use them if you want to use the camping site in the future.

[Joyce Wheldrake]

I have some more stickers for you guys. Not much more Sector 9 but some others I found on my trip to SIA AND ASR trade shows on Hogtown business. Im going to give to Skip to give out for me. Have a great contest. I miss you guys. Come to Toronto to visit me someday. We will skate. -Joyce Cats

[Joyce Wheldrake]

I usually do what i say I will do, but have forgotten about this one. Which shirt? Size? Give to Skip or Claude for transfer. Sorry about that, ok.
j

[Claude Regnier]

Joyce send me Mika's shirt and I'll bring it to him!

Mika, nice to see the boys kicking some big time butt out there.

Should be booking soon!

[Mika Hadestrand]

Joyce,send me the T-shirt you promised me in Hannover!
I love you!

[Joyce Wheldrake]

Gentlemen of the ASS. I regret not being able to go to your contest this year. Maybe I was the first woman to go down your big windmill start ramp. The ramp made me almost flat bottom out but it gave me just the right speed to go into the course for a good run. Hope to come back another year.
Some of you guys are looking for hotels. The location is a bit away from the Red Lights. If one were to stay by Overtoom, Osdorp, Sloten, Slotervaart area you would be closer. The prices have increased since I started going there big time. The cheapest hotels on expedia are closest. Tulip Inn Amsterdam City West and Basion Centrum Zuid West.
If you have a car stay at Zandvoort En Zee at Pension Irma Louise B+B. There are lots of other B+Bs, way cheaper out this way than staying Centrum. ($50Euro a night single ++) Its only a 15 minute drive to the contest and it is nice out there by the beach. There doesn't appear to be any hotels by Haarlem that are affordable.
Hoping to go to Grenoble in September, maybe see some of you then.
Later Skaters!

[Flavio Badenes]

Flavio,

Hope you are surfing a lot! Is it in Brazil? lucky you!

When you come back, pls post the agenda of the event so I can adjust planes & hotels. I'm coming from Mundaka (good surfing too!, he he), so logistics are a little tricky.

I'm also trying to abduct some other guys from Spain. Argument being we are on a historical winning streak we need to mantain (Eurocup, Wimbledon...)!

Rgds.

Hola Ricardo!! and all the others!!!

Man I must congratulate Spain for the worderfull victory in the European Cup, great football and Nadal was also very good. So it is now up to you guys

Ok:
The contest starts Saturday morning on 10 AM with the qualification for the TS AMs. Please go to our website on www.amsterdamslalom.com there click on info and you will find a link to a lot of really good and cheap hotels in Amsterdam.

Please keep in mind that the website has not been updated in the last week or so due to the vacation period, so you your name is not on the riders list do nt worry eventually it will be (sorry....).

The contest goes on through Saturday and Sunday, we plan to finish at around 5 PM on Sunday. So everybody can catch their flights back home on Sunday eve. The location is really near by the airport.

This is it for now.
Oh yeah before I go...I have surfed Mundaka in 1987, I was a much younger fellow then but I still remenber the lefts I surfed.

[Ricardo Damborenea]

Flavio,

Hope you are surfing a lot! Is it in Brazil? lucky you!

When you come back, pls post the agenda of the event so I can adjust planes & hotels. I'm coming from Mundaka (good surfing too!, he he), so logistics are a little tricky.

I'm also trying to abduct some other guys from Spain. Argument being we are on a historical winning streak we need to mantain (Eurocup, Wimbledon...)!

Rgds.

[Flavio Badenes]

I am on holidays. I will be back on July the 23rd. Please bear with us if you have registered and you don't see you name on the website.

I amat work, but under the sun and on my surfboard

See you soon!!!

[Flavio Badenes]

Hi Robert,

I have two meetings this week with managers from two hotels in that area. More info soon.

The camping site is on the racing site. It is almost like sleeping on the course.

It is a quite nice grass field. You can place your tent there. There are also all the facilities, like lockers, showers, WC and dressing rooms. All very nice. They are part of the sport complex and they are used for the events that happen in the sport complex.

[Robert Thiele]

Hi Flavio,

are there some special rates for the competitors
in Hotel Mercure ?
(Last year in Hannover was Mercure a sponsor
and the cost of a doubleroom were about 35,00 EUR.)
What about the campsite - Is it in the same area ?
If you go to Riga we can speak there about it.


Kind regards

Robert

[Flavio Badenes]

Thanks again Jani!!

[Flavio Badenes]

Hi, Flavio!

I hope you will include junior group in European championship 2008.

They are not so many and need only gratitude and diploma.

Junior group was last EM in Latvia 2006 and in France 2007.

No juniors - no future!

www.skateboardinfo.lv

Agreed, juniors for free as well.

[Gints Gailitis]

Hi, Flavio!

I hope you will include junior group in European championship 2008.

They are not so many and need only gratitude and diploma.

Junior group was last EM in Latvia 2006 and in France 2007.

No juniors - no future!

www.skateboardinfo.lv

[Jani Soderhall]

Jani, Are you the one that can change the title on this topic from PRIME to MAIN ? I would really appreciate if you could do that. Thanks!!

Done.

/Jani

[Flavio Badenes]

one quick question:
why does the header of this topic say prime?
i heard its a main
could somebody change that?

Shouldn't it say European Champs too? Sounds like its going to be a great event! Good luck Flavio.

Martin

Thank you Martin, I hope to see you here.

[Martin Drayton]

one quick question:
why does the header of this topic say prime?
i heard its a main
could somebody change that?

Shouldn't it say European Champs too? Sounds like its going to be a great event! Good luck Flavio.

Martin

[Pelle Gustafsson]

i use to have tits before... just trade it away in paris...

[Bart Brunninkhuis]

nice work flavio!

if i dress up like a girl, do i get a free entry too?

[Flavio Badenes]

... and Girls entry fee: FREE

I hope we have hereby started a new trend. Let's make it free for the girls all the time.

/Jani

Indeed Jani. You started it and I am glad to be able to do the same. This is the least we can do to get more girls involved in slalom skateboarding.

By the way, are you the one that can change the title on this topic from PRIME to MAIN ? I would really appreciate if you could do that. Thanks!!

[Donald Campbell]

one quick question:
why does the header of this topic say prime?
i heard its a main
could somebody change that?

[Jani Soderhall]

... and Girls entry fee: FREE

I hope we have hereby started a new trend. Let's make it free for the girls all the time.

/Jani

[Flavio Badenes]

The website in on the air.

http://www.amsterdamslalom.com/

you can register on line but you pay when you are here.
Please note that the riders list is not automatcaly updated, so it will take some time after you register to see you name on the list.

This is only the beta version of the website. I will add a lot more this week. Please be patient because we are woking very hard at this contest.

PRO´s fee is € 100,00, AM´s € 50 and Girls: FREE

This will entitle you to meals (yes you read it right MEAL) during the two days of the competition. Also a small breakfast for the people how will be camping.
Camping on site , with showers and facilities. Please bring your own tent.

Event T-Shirt

MOST of the money will go into the PRO`s prize purse.
Goodie bags for the AM´s

and a lot more.

[Pelle Gustafsson]

Flavio,

I'll try to be there with some of the Spanish crew. After Paris, the (slalom) bug has definetely bitten us !

Um abraço

hope to see you all there!!

[Pablo Ballester]

Nice video Flavio
Thks!

[Flavio Badenes]

Flavio nice to meet you in Paris, we raced together in Sunday same lane.
Hope We´ll be in the Beautiful Amsterdam!

Hola Pablo.

I do hope to see you here.
I have a video of our race check the link:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=lOHG7MladnU

Saludos!!