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John Gilmour

you are the best East Coast hill hunter I've ever met- amazing
Maybe I will summer in the hamptons again to coach.

John Gilmour

Ooops too late.. Go to Home depot. Buy 16 domed aluminum washers with neoprene backing. You'll find them in the plumbing or cabinetry section Use flat head screws (yeah I know they strip but they won't if you do this... ) When the screw head sits on top of the dome they can pivot around very easily ...

John Gilmour

The way the dollar is doing against the Canadian dollar, under the Bush administration...Canada better put up a fence to stop Americans from crossing the border to working under the table for those Canadian dollars. Gone are the Famous Crazy drunken Canadian USD$3 lap dance after race parties in Mon...

John Gilmour

I went to Sportskool and saw his video on assembling a skateboard, after gleening no useful information from that I decided not to watch any more clips. Sportskool is a great idea but needs to improve its scripting to be worth watching. Mike V. is cool nice guy but would be even cooler if he had use...

John Gilmour

I do think that the simplistic flatland courses are frankly boring for skilled slalomers. Very boring. and mind you I ran straight cones for years on end for about 70% of my slalom because we had rollerskaters and later inliners sharing courses. I do however recall being thrilled watching a Pro slal...

John Gilmour

Yeah I got my first set mail order from a store that sold archery and sports gear out of Long Island NY. Then Blacker and Kooby (a stationary store on Madison avenue) started carrying them. Tod- here's just the thing for your mental sanity- what High end audio manufacture is also out of Binghamton N...

John Gilmour

Just as a old school skater who rode nearly every slalom and downhill wheel design from the 1970's forward I wanted to personally thank you for your input to the skateboard community and for helping to create the catylst for so many peoples fondest memories of childhood. I have ridden the RR 2,4,6,H...

John Gilmour

Make sure you clean the inside of hte hanger before applying locktite. If you do it outside you can use common starter fluid. too flammable to do inside.

It will give the locktite a better bond to the hanger.

John Gilmour

As I remember.. I ordered a buch of Turners from Bobby in 1989. About 4 years later I got them. The cores were from San Diego which he brought with him to Dulzura, Oregon. Bobby and Peggy decided to leave San Diego in hopes of a better life in Oregon. However Bobby never knew what the weather was li...

John Gilmour

I think it should be possible with inexpensive printers to print out race results at the end of the race. Better still would be to post the results immediately to the web. I would like to see results for each run posted live at the race site so that people can look at their cone counts. It is very i...

John Gilmour

I also think that if it can be demonstrated that a skater used deliberate deceit to cheat. For instance- lies about a cone marshall being in his way, or a cone out, or argueing a easy to prove DQ. That is absolutlely unsportmanlike behavior. Though I must say the story about the "dog on course" when...

John Gilmour

I would like to strongly suggest that organizers list the starting order pairs - simply a print out of the skaters. These should be printed so that spectators can follow a particular skater and skaters know when they are up. Simply shouting out the skaters order is not only- not that effective but a...

John Gilmour

I certinly do remember getting tossed out of the common many times....lol The idea would be to get permission for a World Championship. Which brings me to another point. With the name "World Championship"...it brings a lot more clout to getting races hosted in areas that would normally be hard to ge...

John Gilmour

One thing I think is very important is course quality. This year at Antrim NH we had a race on a near perfect hill and a surface that was simply amazing. The town paved it for gravity racing (soapbox derby). I was very impressed with the GS hill at Nationals in Colorado. It was wide and well chosen....

John Gilmour

It is a hard thing- to rank people properly. Too bad we don't know anyone who could do statistical analysis of the racers. Figure for each event-who statistically is likely to beat another based on past performance- perhaps weighting current races more . In end you should get something that for sigm...

John Gilmour

I turn my skateboard by first preparing to move my center of mass first (2 inches in from the navel ) for long radius turns. Then lining up my body in advance and finally steering teh deck through lean using pressure on teh front foot first 60/40 nad then changing the presure to like 55/45 as the tu...

John Gilmour

Two issues. If you have a fast Junior and he podiums with the men- and also dominates Juniors- I think the kid has got to pick a class and stick with it (in regards to getting a prize) Kids can pay twice to race in both classes I suppose. (then they would be entitled to prizes from both classes) You...

John Gilmour

Does the points weighting of this need to be revised..Where did this weighting originate from- what sport?

John Gilmour

I think Pro/Am designations should be made when you ahve novice and intermediate skaters present with advance skaters. Lets say there are 15 guys capable of runnign a pro level course and 5 novices and 15 intermediates. In this case it would be nice forhte intermediate guys to try and get podium. Ha...

John Gilmour

Boyd- look closely at some of the set ups in Dixie Cup on that website- it should give you an idea of proportion and so forth. Your trucks are quite wide relative to the deck. Try turning your wheels around it will make the overall width less and likely a little better for slalom. I also had a slalo...

John Gilmour

An ALL ceramic bearing would be nice What I have found though is tha Bearings tend to get dirt inside them AND that is what makes them PIT and become "semi-precision". Even a great bearings can turn to garbage in just 4 days of riding in MICRO dust and not cleaning them! So even if the Balls are rea...

John Gilmour

How about a group viewing of Borat...actually... Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan I hate when they use the abreviated title on movie marquis,,, so darn lazy. TK is a relative to Boltok, Borat's father. He is a big fan. We should expand our horizons ...

John Gilmour

I also think that if a cone is seen hitting another cone- a flag should be raised or a colored card shold go up to alert people of this special instance. That way people pay attention immediately. In the recent Dixie cup race a cone was hit into Mike Duquettes lane, it displaced one of his cones and...

John Gilmour

double post

John Gilmour

Well I think we need to have some sort of videoconference to discuss things. Not a long winded 4-hour video meeting. Just a few short 20-minute conferences to stay on target. If demand is not happening the way we expected- then we should change the “marketing plan”. That’s how successful corporation...

John Gilmour

I have some half used nice smelling Yankee candles but if the any of them broke we might get a cut and my mom would yell at me and I would get no desert for a week or more. Well Karl, I think we were thinking of something wilder than that. We could do 2 narrow chutes at one spot- cones channels on ...

John Gilmour

I'm also going to run a text internet chat at the same time next race. That way...if you are at home.... you can ask me in real time to see me shoot a clip....LIKE say "Hey John, let me see the time diffenetials", or Papa Schwippert could say "I'm at work now, but could you please shoot a clip of my...

John Gilmour

Hey- That sounds like a great idea. I could do that at a contest while we were not running a race. Then try and take some examples from race footage to illustrate it. Have you seen "Freewheeling"? There is a short segment with Stacy Peralta and Bobby Piercy where they talk about style. Peralta shows...

John Gilmour

So i am always interested i finding out what people want tosee. Do you want more footage of gear set ups and hte logic of setting up a board, more on strategy, course reading? Or how about more victory and after party footage...awards ceremonies etc..etc. Think of something that I haven't yet mentio...

John Gilmour

The link is simplified

now

http://web.mac.com/nobelprize/iWeb/Dixie/webcast.html

Perhaps Jani will start a place for these on the server and will replace this link so I can free up my space for shooting more things.

John Gilmour

Steve Jobs make it possible to attempt this. Thanks for everyone's comments. All the clips have been uploaded. For a while I had problems uploading from a Hotel with a firewall. I won't move the camera as much next time. Please comment on what you would like to see in the future. I'll likely get a r...

John Gilmour

we are moving the link to

http://www.slalomspot.com/video/2006/di ... index.html

you will see the entire race there- footage will be edited over the next few days..

sorry for the over "moving" camera work- just getting used to shooting like this.

John Gilmour

Thanks posts like that mean a lot to me.

John Gilmour

Hi donald,

I'm not ignoring you...I'm annoucing, giving cone marshalls food, helping out...you know... but I will check pm now.

Thanks for helping lets get it to work.

John Gilmour

slalomspot.com floitgraf will help mirror this website. so we don't run out of room- had to announce for a bit..more updates now..

John Gilmour

the internet connection is not over the entire course- so when I film the finish my connection drops.

Ramon- can you host a live stream?

John Gilmour

http://web.mac.com/nobelprize/iWeb/Dixi ... 0feed.html

here is a website constantly updated...but not live...c'mon guys
lets get it LIVE!
JG

John Gilmour

Anyone out there?

John Gilmour

Well I am here at Dixie cup with broadband and video conferencing via Ichat. any apple gurus out there that can mirror an ichat onto a server that can handle multiple viewers..... I will stream live. I can chat with up to 4 people at once so I can mirror to 3 different servers. ichat id nobelprize@m...

John Gilmour

I'd like to take a spin up there. whats teh weather like. mapquest info?

John Gilmour

Flat is okay only if you are on exkate power boards that can go 40mph Only Simon Levene can make flat look good. He is the only one with massive accelleration so he can make flat look like a hill in 4 cones. I have never had any interest in flat anything. On flat we are limited by our pumping speeds...

John Gilmour

Well Karl told me yesterday he was posting them by putting up the entire PDF's which I think is a lot nicer than just posting single times...

If Karl doesn't post then in a day or so I'll just post up single times...

John Gilmour

New york City's Broadway Bomb was a cross country race... though perhaps cross city. 8.5 miles down Broadway. The T-shirt had a picture of a lit bomb and said : "Broadway Bomb.... You could Die" So this race while technically being a cross country race- heavily introduces traffic into the equation. ...

John Gilmour

As people continue to race each lane there are more times to look at. I try and determine which lane is the faster lane and put a safety run down in the slower lane. If average time is required it would make my runs slower with less risk. I wouldn't try and post a 100% run in qualifying. Does it mat...

John Gilmour

We could see how Rookies progress when they meet the number of contests required for their maximum points. The Rookies with the best record win.

I think there should be a North American as well as an European rookie.

John Gilmour

I think this would be a good step towards securing long range slalom event spots for the future. In the words of the Assistant Headmaster at Westminster. "Longboard skateboarding has exploded at the school. The numbers are many times over what we saw last year. We are trying to figure out what to do...

John Gilmour

So a lot has gone on in the 3 years that I started this thread. Here is a list of the current schools that have already participated or have said they will participate this year. Hotchkiss Marvelwood (snowboard program) South Kent Miss Porters School for Girls Miss Halls school for Girls Deerfield S...

John Gilmour

Brandon- hey no problem in picking up a deck- but they are really meant for the kids doing the demos to purchase them. That being said- the prep school slalom clinics will be over in two weeks so you certainly can buy them then. I guess by Spring time we will have more decks to clear out. PM me your...

John Gilmour

Sold to Joe Iacovelli

John Gilmour

JUSTIN, give me a PM and tell me what you've got and we'll figure out what we can clear out for you. New demo is at Marvelwood next Sunday the 22nd. Just put your price on the board(s) and paypal address. longboards are urgently needed! Especially for the "never evers" who have never stepped on a bo...

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Skating over here.

flat land

clean the opening

UR13 is pretty spot on with the boards.

Course quality + Large sponsors + TV

Proper weighting of placings

Cone interference

some changes

Flames

ON DEMAND FOOTAGE

Thanks T.O.

Macs are fun

Ramon- you should have come here!

I can even styream small 10mg clips.

Dixie cup LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! footage and Live direct.

Hey Mig- like to hang with you and your crew this weekend

We all look like crap on flat - except Simon Levene

broadway bomb

qualifying

Rookie

Should we host a Farm Series Race at Prep school?

secondary school update Oct. 2006

Buying boards.

Thanks Justin!