I think I might have to agree with you there, Rene. That is a very interesting racing shot. With Charlie just blurring into the frame it leaves a very strong impression of the intense, competitive nature of this sport.
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- Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:45 am
- Forum: North America
- Topic: [FCR 2003] Pictures of 2003 FCR Slalom World Championships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38340
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:31 pm
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Criddling vs missing cones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31099
I'm not sure "judge" is the right word, but if you're talking about appointing someone (or more than one) to the task of carefully watching each lane to make sure that the rider stays on-course (not that he hits the correct side of cones), I'm all for it. We don't have large groups of spectators(yet...
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:22 pm
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Criddling vs missing cones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31099
Several years ago, as this whole slalom re-birth was just beginning, the issues of criddling, attempting to somehow regulate the racer's intent and even which side of the cone was hit, were hashed out on the other website. I think it was generally concluded that it would take "Thought Police" or a h...
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:22 am
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Criddling vs missing cones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31099
Rich, In every race I've ever heard of, a racer CANNOT pass a cone on the wrong side (without, at least, hitting it) without being considered off-course and disqualified. Think about it. Legally skip one cone just before ten cones offset by 6'. Everyone who was on the course would be swinging 6' lef...
- Tue Sep 30, 2003 4:55 am
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Junior class, what ages?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25731
Actually Howard, I think we're pretty much in agreement on the rough age specs for future Junior class racing. I agree that 14 or 15 is a good top age for the Junior division. Please don't get me wrong, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool competitive-type, not one of the people who constantly wants to soften and...
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:00 pm
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Junior class, what ages?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25731
Howard, You must've missed it further back in this topic, but we're already clear that the sport is currently too small to be too acutely sub-divided. So, most of this discussion is more about framing the future than it is creating multiple age divisions for the next race. Thanks though, for joining...
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:48 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Parsons and Noah
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10270
I can't tell you just how impressed I am by the racing of Noah Heinle and Brian Parsons, and I extend my heartfelt congratulations to both of them. Way to represent, guys! Of course, I am both blown away AND not surprised by Kenny Mollica's performance. Despite our little tiff last Spring, I've like...
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 pm
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Junior class, what ages?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25731
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:34 am
- Forum: North America
- Topic: [FCR 2003] 2003 FCR World Championships - Results
- Replies: 48
- Views: 77130
Awesome coverage, Jani. Thank you! I was at the Worlds in '01 and '02, so missing it this year has been driving me nuts. Your coverage has definitely helped me know what I missed. While I'm at it, I'd like to note that I am very encouraged by the broad range of winners, the emerging truth that south...
- Sun Sep 28, 2003 6:09 pm
- Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
- Topic: Junior class, what ages?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25731
Obviously, there are many different organized sports in this world that have chosen age limits defining their Junior Classes. In most cases it seems like the ages selected are somehow relative to the expected longevity of an athlete in the sport, and the relative impact of widely divergent physical ...
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:58 pm
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: SKATE SURVEY!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14659
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:33 pm
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: SKATE SURVEY!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14659
1)When did you first start skateboarding? Did you teach yourself how to skate or did you learn from a friend or other source? I first rode seated on a skateboard in either the summer of 1968 or ’69. I was able to ride standing in the spring of 1970, and consider that my father taught me. 2) What is ...
- Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:23 pm
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: SKATE SURVEY!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14659
- Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:50 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC 2003 SUMMER OUTLAW SLALOM SERIES
- Replies: 198
- Views: 180073
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 7:57 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Sessions
- Replies: 1540
- Views: 1644915
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:21 pm
- Forum: Tracker
- Topic: Full Tracks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8899
Yeah.. You're not going to hurt 'em riding slalom. I must admit though, I'd like to see a picture of this board set-up. Are you certain you don't have a set of ExTracks there? Are they conical Snakes? I'm sitting here holding a set of FullTracks w/ Krypto C-62s up against a 10" wide board (not a DT ...
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 5:03 am
- Forum: Tracker
- Topic: Full Tracks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8899
- Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:51 pm
- Forum: Random Slalom Topics
- Topic: Kicked off your hill recently? Me too. A solution...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9444
I'd imagine my input was solicited, as much as anything, because John knows that I've been resistant to "permanent" courses before. However, it's very important to not confuse that resistance with a resistance to permanent, legitimate, legal slalom spots. I am absolutely, 100%, fully supportive of a...
- Sat Sep 13, 2003 1:09 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC 2003 SUMMER OUTLAW SLALOM SERIES
- Replies: 198
- Views: 180073
- Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:38 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC 2003 SUMMER OUTLAW SLALOM SERIES
- Replies: 198
- Views: 180073
- Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:02 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC 2003 SUMMER OUTLAW SLALOM SERIES
- Replies: 198
- Views: 180073
- Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:55 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
Understood and accepted. Thanks. Rest assured, we're on it. There will be something at 15th and W on Adams Morgan Saturday, and it'll be fun. As for what the public expects or associates, I am much more inclined towards concern over what the downhill community thinks, because they are my friends and...
- Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:15 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
Wow! Rene... lighten up! I have no interest in being "bogus". Just because you don't know who was consulted and what was discussed, doesn't mean that people weren't consulted and options discussed. During the day on Saturday, I "consulted", at least briefly, with Anthony Smallwood (DCDC), Tom Oliver...
- Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:14 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Hello, whats up?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6387
In fact, Gaithersburg, MD has probably been the site of more slalom racing in the last three years than any place else in the world. Furthermore, I had such a rude awakening yesterday as to how badly my own skills have deteriorated, and considering that the weather today is going to be perfect, I'm ...
- Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:30 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
So... I ask myself, self, how much more stoked could you possibly be? and the answer is NONE. None more stoked. What a cool day. All told, the slalom wasn't much more than a standard outlaw-type event, but the chance to test slalom on this particular hill was ideal. What a fit! Most people look at t...
- Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:06 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
Wow! The weather just turned perfect, and is supposed to remain this way all weekend! Woohoo! The parking situation tomorrow morning is typical city parking. Take it where you find it. Do not park on any part of the hill that is part of "the course". If I recall correctly, they were towing cars out ...
- Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:46 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
- Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:42 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
This is what I'm thinking, although it's not my intention to be stepping on the toes of anyone who might be running this thing. Time schedules will probably depend on how many people show up. 7:00 is arrival for set-up, and it'd probably be cool if we are close to ready to race by 9. The amount of t...
- Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:05 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
The weather looks like it's going to be great, and I can certainly set the course, if needs be. The big question is the timer. In my own opinion, and for the purposes of putting on a reasonably "professional"-looking event... no timer, no race. Driving downtown and arriving before 7 a.m. is a whole ...
- Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:06 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Adams Morgan Fest Race THIS Saturday Sept 6
- Replies: 98
- Views: 92332
I am planning on being at the hill between 6:30 a.m. and 7:00, being ready to begin setting something up the minute the road closes at 7:30. I noticed Anthony mentioned some first timers. With all due excitement over newcomers to the sport, this might not be the time or place to hold a newcomers eve...
- Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:40 pm
- Forum: Gates & Course Setting
- Topic: Let's make it tighter
- Replies: 119
- Views: 140208
TK and Ur13... in my opinion, your recent posts have been right on the mark. Thank you. It's a pleasure to read intelligent, insightful commentary on issues that I believe will be of genuine importance to the longevity of the sport. ..and Noah, you make me laugh outloud. <font size=-1>[ This Message...
- Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:10 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Sessions
- Replies: 1540
- Views: 1644915
For whatever it's worth to the rest of you, Anthony is absolutely correct about this being a great venue at which to showcase slalom skateboarding. I am prepared to be at 15th and New Hampshire N.W., next Saturday. Who else is in? Where's BP with the timer? There are definitely things that we can do...
- Mon Sep 01, 2003 4:11 am
- Forum: Gates & Course Setting
- Topic: Let's make it tighter
- Replies: 119
- Views: 140208
Hans, I think that we probably enjoy the same things, and could agree on most. Clearly skateboarding originally seems to stem from surfing, and I have no evidence to the contrary. I simply believe, based on the quotes of many of the slalom racers who were my heroes back in the days of my youth, that...
- Mon Sep 01, 2003 3:49 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Sessions
- Replies: 1540
- Views: 1644915
Anthony, That's what I thought I'd remembered (New Hampshire Ave.), but trying to read Mapquest, I think it was listed as Florida. The hill IS really big for slalom, but there are many things we could potentially do with it. It would be quite difficult to run anything like TS or even "hybrid" on the...
- Sun Aug 31, 2003 3:33 pm
- Forum: Gates & Course Setting
- Topic: Let's make it tighter
- Replies: 119
- Views: 140208
Hans... my bad. I hate these little symbols, put I probably should've put one of these :wink: on my post. There's no question that the meaning of "slalom" has evolved well beyond the root meaning. Slalom waterskiing has existed for years, and that's about as flat as standing water can get. However, ...
- Sun Aug 31, 2003 12:49 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Sessions
- Replies: 1540
- Views: 1644915
Wes, If it's the same 15th Street hill they used at the first DCDC, it is the section of 15th that runs along Meridian Hill (Malcolm X) Park, from just above Chapin St., down through the chicane between Chapin St. and Belmont St. The hill then gets fairly steep until it levels out, crosses the W St....
- Sat Aug 30, 2003 2:41 am
- Forum: Gates & Course Setting
- Topic: Let's make it tighter
- Replies: 119
- Views: 140208
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 3:37 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: All Girl Longboard Session- Monday 8/11/03 6:45-9pm
- Replies: 38
- Views: 33176
- Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:44 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Skate Across America
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12038
- Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:49 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Vlad gets Asphalt Surgery?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19412
Someone ought to start a Topic called, "Chinners". I got mine bouncing my chin off the steel flat bottom at Cedar Crest Country Club Ramp. I probably shouldn't have been skating, was already sporting a cast on a broken left navicular (wrist) and wearing dress shoes and business attire. All that bloo...
- Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:59 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Summer Outlaw #3
- Replies: 61
- Views: 51694
It really is like a curse. The weather forecast for this weekend had been looking really good, but as soon as Brian noticed and mentioned it (I'll bet Brian didn't knock on wood), it was bound to change. Then, when I realized Brian had cancelled the race, I knew we'd get some kind of freak break in ...
- Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:09 am
- Forum: Gates & Course Setting
- Topic: What makes a Hybrid course?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 50774
Maybe soon the word "hybrid" will just go away. Eventually, the whole issue should just fade away as people realize that course variety is reallly the "spice" of our game. After about 24 years of RARELY skating anyone elses courses (3 or 4 times in 24 years) other than my own, I can't tell you how m...
- Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:14 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Summer Outlaw #3
- Replies: 61
- Views: 51694
- Fri May 09, 2003 1:22 pm
- Forum: North America
- Topic: USSSF Status Report?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4404
Adam, Forgive me for not even noting that this question was ever posted, as I'd been so busy with The 3rd Gathering. Now that I am past T3G, I can say that there is communication amongst the USSSF Board of Directors, things are happening, and people can expect news within the next week. I can also s...
- Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:24 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Outlaw Summer Series 2003 race #1
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37660
- Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:17 pm
- Forum: New to slalom skateboarding?
- Topic: new to this
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11773
Alan, I'm so stoked that you're going to be at The 3rd Gathering. What you're going to find when you get here is a bunch of great people, an atmosphere that is all about fun, and plenty of racing too. I must admit, in my wildest imagination, I never imagined a day when Ollie would show up as a slalo...
- Wed Apr 23, 2003 11:57 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Outlaw Summer Series 2003 race #1
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37660
- Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:43 pm
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: DC Sessions
- Replies: 1540
- Views: 1644915
Vlad... You've pre-marked the pavement at The Gathering Site?! How'd you do it? I've been specifically asked to NOT mark up the pavement there. Hmmm... I wonder whose event will get cancelled if they get pissed? Please be careful, you clever little fellow, about presuming that you can discreetly mar...
- Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:27 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: Gathering III Q & A
- Replies: 49
- Views: 40776
Leo, Go to the airport (IAD, DCA, or BWI)that gets you the lowest airfare. Wes, the reason I listed all three airports on T3G information site on Ncdsa.com without expressing any sense of preference, is that they are all almost identically the same travel time (40-45 mins. non-rush hour, 65-75 mins....
- Sat Mar 29, 2003 2:20 am
- Forum: D.C.
- Topic: D.C. Spots
- Replies: 53
- Views: 59494
Yeah, well... to each their own. I guess, as more of a suburbanite, I've never really been able to accept that a street two blocks away constitutes a different neighborhood. Bullets, careening nocturnal car thieving joy riders, and the occasional desperately fiending crackhead all have ranges that t...