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- Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:50 pm
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: Secondary thoughts on Slalom- Secondary Schools that is.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 63223
John, that was a very good post with so much good stuff. But this part I have to comment on: "But there still are bunch of people opposed to the prep school idea. Maybe its some sort of strange inferiority complex (ie. they are richer and smarter than I am...will they make me feel stupid?)." It's th...
- Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:47 pm
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: Secondary thoughts on Slalom- Secondary Schools that is.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 63223
Re: Teacher, I criddled my homework.
Rich, would you like to try and do the same thing with Prep schools in CA? I can assure you it is some of the most fun you will ever have skating. I want to get a slalomcircuit going with the NorthEast, Midatlantic , and Florida going at it. Adding CA would allow us to have a National youth Champio...
- Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:13 am
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: Secondary thoughts on Slalom- Secondary Schools that is.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 63223
- Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:08 pm
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: Secondary thoughts on Slalom- Secondary Schools that is.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 63223
- Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:42 pm
- Forum: Bahne
- Topic: What do you think about this board??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11030
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:28 am
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Criddling vs missing cones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31077
Thanks. That totally makes sense. I wasn't thinking right: there is no way to set it up for one side or another like I was thinking, ha! Obviously going straight down the middle of offsets would be obvious and obviously something that should DQ. Thanks for explaining that "Criddlers" must at least s...
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:55 am
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Criddling vs missing cones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31077
Criddling vs missing cones
I asked this in the 2003 world championship thread where people were talking about DQ but no response so I'll ask here where it really belongs. Can a skater purposefully blow off a cone so as to set up an upcoming series of cones to be on his/her prefered frontside or backside when entering a wider ...
- Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:48 pm
- Forum: North America
- Topic: [FCR 2003] 2003 FCR World Championships - Results
- Replies: 48
- Views: 77084
That's the problem with recording times for the DQs. It's only useful to the racer themselves. To everyone else it is meaningless. You see some guys time listed and what do you think? Did he barely hit 11 cones and get DQed and therefore his real time with a slightly cleaner run would have been, say...
- Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:09 am
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: Quote of the day...
- Replies: 88
- Views: 110871
- Thu Oct 09, 2003 1:29 am
- Forum: North America
- Topic: [FCR 2003] 2003 FCR World Championships - Results
- Replies: 48
- Views: 77084
I put in a few hours picking up the cones on Saturday in Morro Bay and there was a section on the saturday course in morro bay that many people missed on purpose. All part of the strategy I guess. The whole cone thing and DQ thing is confusing for the spectators though - especially since the courses...
- Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:37 am
- Forum: North America
- Topic: [FCR 2003] Pictures of 2003 FCR Slalom World Championships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38316
- Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:36 am
- Forum: North America
- Topic: [FCR 2003] Pictures of 2003 FCR Slalom World Championships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38316
I used the photoshop automated "web photo gallery" (or something like that: it's in the file menu, automate submenu) to produce the simple thumbnail page and slide show pages for the pictures I took at Morro Bay. It's not too attractive but it works, I think, and took me no time at all since it resi...
- Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:59 pm
- Forum: North America
- Topic: [FCR 2003] Pictures of 2003 FCR Slalom World Championships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38316
FWIW, on my mac using safari as the browser, clicking on the thumbnails fails to load that image in the main frame to the right. I still see just blank white space. But if I select "open link in new window" then the image will load. And unforntunately, if opening the image in a new window, the "next...
- Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:46 am
- Forum: Gates & Course Setting
- Topic: Let's make it tighter
- Replies: 119
- Views: 140126
Claude, my degree is in philosophy, not pyshics, but last time I checked, weight didn't have anything to do with downhill speed. Can you elaborate on what you mean? John, I was stoked on the performance of the kids. My own 8 year old has started skating at the skatepark recently and perhaps he'll be...
- Thu Oct 02, 2003 4:01 am
- Forum: Gates & Course Setting
- Topic: Let's make it tighter
- Replies: 119
- Views: 140126
From a spectator's perspective, it seems to me that tight slalom is totally unnatural for adult bodies. I think that fact that some of the young boys qualified as high as 10th in the open class in Morro Bay last weekend proves this: their bodies are more to scale with the course. As a slalom spectat...
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:31 am
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: 2003 Slalom Skateboarder of the Year
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18889
- Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:04 pm
- Forum: New to slalom skateboarding?
- Topic: Slowing down...?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5962
I received the video John mentioned and have put it up on my server. It plays in quicktime fine on my Mac - and I assume on Windows as well. http://www.3jar.com/rich/skate/Imgp0466.avi or JG, AVI file on SlalomSkateboarder server -Slim _________________ Rich Stephens (aka Marabout Slim) California, ...