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Hans Koraeus

Seems like I am harder in my opinion than the actual ISSA rules that says... "A racer is disqualified if he touches the ground with a foot between the start and the finish line." So the first post in this topic asking weather it is ok to use hands to give a slight push in the end. Well, according to...

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I you need to foot push inside the course I think you are on a level where rules are of no concern for you.

Of course foot push can be used instead of a start ramp but it should never be allowed after the start line.

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I prefer to make it simple. Any part of body touching ground between start line and finish line is DQ. For those who want to put their hand on the ground in a really wide super G-turn has just to keep hands off. For me the surface between start and finish line are holy ground. That's why I never lik...

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I just saw that I forgot to mention in my Morro Story that Claude Reigner was the main factor for making my trip to Morro Bay a success. Since I couldn't skate I was really depressed and if it hadn't been for him helping me out with driving the car, fixing somewhere to stay and talk about the good o...

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Flash (version 6) 1.4 Mb

Sunday Tight Slalom

P.S. If it hangs just right click and select "Rewind" to go back to the beginning again. I still have problem uploading files. End is cut off.

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Leo, if you touch the ground with any part of your body (i.e. hand, foot or nose) it's a DQ.

(These last posts should be a new topic by the way. Maybe Jani can fix that...)

< Ed note: Topic split, this is now a new thread. /Jani >

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It's here! The conehead song for everybody's skateboard music library. Sing along when it hits the radiostations anytime soon. Strangly enough the song doesn't want to upload correctly so the end is cut off but you will get the idea. The conehead song copyright Hans Koraeus So it's time again anothe...

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Wes, When I say I like the idea with some cones penalizing more than 0.1 sec I don't go as far as you. I see a maximum of 1 or 2 cones per course with this extra penalty, not more. Otherwise it gets to complicated. I like the idea though to be able to register exactly which cones each skater knocked...

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If a cone is assigned a high value....then that judgement call is lost Judgement is not lost. It's just a different judgement. Ideally it looks great if cones are not hit and racers run clean. To make this happen is simple, make the first cone cone struck a DQ- Like in cyberslalom Yes, it looks gre...

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A F T E R – S K A T E The competition was over. Three days of intense action both for the skaters and the organizers. It was impressive to see how Jack Smith and his crew worked from early morning until the evening. First building everything up. Then running the competition to finally tear everythi...

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The "Pre race" text above edited again after some nice photo portraits from René Carrasco at the SSS warm-up. Thanks René. And thanks for the warming words TK. It's going to be hard to live up to them though. I have still the final "After skate" text to do. Congratulations to myself. 300 posts! Adam...

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I'm almost finished with my little story from the World Championships in Morro Bay. Only the A F T E R - S K A T E left. I was there but didn't skate. Did a lot of filming instead.

Here is a link to the Morro Story. Scroll down a bit and you'll see it.

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S U N D A Y – T I G H T During the night Luca had had great difficulties sleeping. His back was hearting and he woke up every time he turned around in his bed. In the morning he told his girlfriend that he wouldn’t be able to enter the competition today. He wasn’t too happy about this of course. Es...

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Just saw Strides new personal pic! Does this mean his down and out?

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Welcome to our forum Ted. There is no constant bagging and baiting on people on this forum. For those of us used to this forum it's almost refreshing to see it sometimes. In small doses I find it funny. And I can asure you the guys above thinks the same. Except for Vlad maybe that can take it in lar...

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S A T U R D A Y – H Y B R I D Saturday morning was coming quickly. I was really tired and I hadn’t even skated. Claude was looking over his wounds from yesterday. Something one could see he was very used to. He could probably take a job on any emergency unit. He seems to know it all. The best thing...

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Adam N is the reason why you have a choice Chris, he is the reason that slalomskateboarder.com exsists. Even though this may be the reason this forum was created I don't fully agree to this comment. Even though the other forum would have worked well this forum would have been needed anyway. It's a ...

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F R I DAY – S L A L O M - C R O S S Friday had come and once again a grey chilly morning. This is how the days are in California, foggy and cold in the morning. And then around one a’ clock suddenly blue skies appear and you have a really hot summers day. I even felt a couple of raindrops Friday mo...

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The "Pre race" text above edited after some inside information from Eric Groff.

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Great idea! That will become a very big book though. We have had the idea of the same thing but just around slalom skateboarding and doing it here on the forum. It's a huge task and something that changes all the time. That's why I have personally thought that a live encyclopedia on the internet is ...

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I don't know what topic would be the best for stories from Morro Bay. This topic seemed to be the one where to put it. P R E - R A C E Luca Giammarco (ITA), Claude Reigner (CAN) and myself (SWE) had agreed to meet up on Tuesday in LA. Claude and Luca came in at 12:00 and 14:00 a great while before m...

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Hey, look at that jacket. I didn't get that by looking at the Cross all day long. Just the kind of thing I would need. Where do you get hold of those? Would do fine for all slalom events including the tight ones. A fall is a fall and hurts whether its in cross or in tight.

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Wouldn't that be a nice opening of the European Tour...

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I have discussed this topic with Jani and I had also the idea that the high jump mattresses could be something that could work. I remember using those in the Swiss competition in Hombrechticon many years ago. But with the speed at Trocadero you would need more than one to take on the chock I guess.

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I think it's a good idea to have a head judge. The cone judges are normally not enough qualified to be able to see if skaters DQ or not. But with a 80 cone course it would still be pretty difficult. One head judge per course would be good. Organizer could also make sure that all runs are recorded (f...

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It was very hard to follow what was going on concerning the times during the day. I think you are on to something John when you say that a rider should always be told or given his/her time and cone penalty right after the run. This should be a standard procedure on all competitions.

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Sam, thanks for your encouragement. My result was not important for me or the history books. It's just that my initial goal was to make top ten and there is 68 hundreds of a second up to that place. My second run felt much faster. That's why it still goes around in my head. Would I have made it or n...

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I'm not for a cone limit. I’m all for giving a bonus for clean runs as I am punishing those harder who take lots of cones. But DQ? No. It's enough with the embarrassment. I think some of the cone problem in Morro was also that there where one course for everyone. A pro normally can handle a big vari...

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A funny quote story from Morro Bay: It was Sunday afternoon in Morro Bay and the suspense from the tight slalom was starting to get high. Slowly photographers and cameramen took their place 10-15 meters after the finish line. David Hackett was in place in his chair with his swollen foot and video ca...

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Just got to see my result in GS. Not very good but that was expected due to shoulder injury. So i didn't react too much at my placement. When I later saw Dan's spredsheet though I was in for a surprise. I was interested in how much I improved in my second run. First run was for safety. The second I ...

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I'll say it again. What made Ridoli go from good to one of the best was the gym. This has two advantages. The most obvious is that you get stronger. The second is that when getting stronger you can practice efficiently more often and during longer sessions. So if you have the determination and the t...

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Good one Marcus. Proof that it doesn't take much to screw up.

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Ferrero, you really had me laughing here. I don't think Michael will though.
Better change his name to Dong before he reads this.

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Sorry Marcus, You will not be able to compare your virtual results very well. I didn't feel very well with my shoulder. I don't know my result but I guess it's not impressive. Jani wasn't doing great either. No exciting news for Sweden I'm afraid. But we managed together to get a Swedish result in e...

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<c><b>I N T R O</b></c> The weather was perfect in Antibes. Sunny and warm. The courses where set with quite some offsets. Antibes is longboard territory. This I don't say as a complaint. The courses where ok. Just a little bit different than some are used to. The scene was very beautiful on the bor...

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Seems like he's coming.

We will know for sure in Antibes. Then we will be able to talk to him. Eye to eye.

With my hearting shoulder I think I will skip the cross and have one more day to hope for the pain to go away.

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Sitting in Antibes old town on an internet café (Friday 17:58). Anything happening tonight? Or maybe I should head directly for the bed. My shoulder still hearts...

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Here is a translation of some of the text Marcus wrote about the Swedish Championships and with some added comments from myself. Another Swedish Championship in slalom skateboarding may now be written into the history books. I think the last one was in 1994 or 1995. There where some problems with we...

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1 day left! The Swedish Championships is going according to plans. Just talked to Marcus and he says everything is under control except for the weather. There are 18 riders registered so far but my guess is there are a some that will show up and enter on race day. The course will have 35-40 cones. M...

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I will arrive Friday 15:50 with flight LO0341.
I will leave after the downhill standup qualification on Sunday. My flight leaves at 16:30.

Anyone interested in sharing car rent, taxi or bus travel?

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Good one Vlad.

The good news though is that I start to have a couple of good ones (as good as they get on me) that could do. Speaking of that... they are all on Jani's table.

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Jani taking double victory in Moscow http://images4.fotki.com/v39/photos/5/53745/299115/Jani-vi.jpg This is not the first or the last time I say it. You never know where you have Jani. He might just be strolling around mumbling that he don't want to race. Then in the last minute, of course, when the...

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Brady, About the course setting subject. This is a complicated one. Here is the current ISSA rule 22. COURSE SETTING The courses for special and straight parallel slalom should be set up by representatives from three countries selected by a lottery draw. This selection and the names of the represent...

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Good picture. Now let us make him change his personal pic with this. I'm starting to get allergic to his current one.

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Michael, I'm all for the idea even though I'm having the golf world as my favorite for how to organize the world slalom scene. In golf you have a whole lot of different tours going on. They all handle themselves quite independently. The two most important are the USPGA Tour and the European Tour. Du...

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Don't worry Marcus. I will race for you too. Just beat the shit out of me in Stockholm and then you will be able to compare your "virtual results" in both Antibes and Morro Bay.

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It would be great if we could handle times and result lists with the php forum software. Jani starts to get a hang of it. Let's see what he thinks.

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Sure, I'm all for a Euro version. But I'm not a tight freak so I would go for 1.80m. But why not have have multiple versions. 6 foot, 1.80m, 1.70m, 1.60m. Then people can choose the distance that matches best their skill and board setup. 1m box and 5 meter to first cone would be great. Than I could ...

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It also says in the rules that if it's not flat you should run it in the two directions and get the average time. I think this is a good idea in general even though you have flat surface. I noticed this last time that the wind is as much a factor as a possible slightly downhill slope. But it does ge...

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That's better. With 2 pushes I shaved off a second to around 10 sec. With 3 pushes I shave off another second to about 9 sec. But I have a hard time getting 3 good pushes in. It's true as you say that it is very much how good a pusher you are that decides the outcome. I think it would be better to d...

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Moscow 7 Sept, 2003, Swedish results