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by Etienne de Bary
Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:37 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

if you keep training as hard as you do... Even on an easy spot you still have to beat opponents.
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:03 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

slalomers' paradise too... However acceleration in a ramp results of a multiplication of the weight, and friction is about constant, which means if a 80kg person take a speed resulting of a X cynetic value minus a Y value of friction, a 40kg person will take half of X, still minus about Y of frictio...
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:50 am
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

Switzerland is longskaters' paradise.
it's like Nederlands for bicycle.
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:51 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

Next step might be: setting up easy races, on easy spots with easy starting ramps.
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:35 am
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

Jadranko Radovanovic wrote:Sorry for the long text... and the post on the wrong place...
it's Jack's fault ;)
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:04 am
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

As i was a beginner myself, 8) i always insisted that we do the thursday sessions on EASY spots. i'm always hooking passerbies, those who look happy at seeing us: "- want to try ?", and i suppose i'm not too bad at showing how to push for the first time. Even old people, they say "- Oh no, really, i...
by Etienne de Bary
Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:14 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: [2005] UKSSA races in 2005
Replies: 17
Views: 16399

Switzerland are up in the mountains and not even in the Euorpean Community but I never hear them talking about how different they are. Compared to some other swiss, most swiss will find us quite common. Though they built a European community of countries 3 and 4 centuries ago, and they even share t...
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:26 pm
Forum: France
Topic: Viaduc de Millau
Replies: 6
Views: 9015

Makes me think there's a huge highway bridge/slope when you come back to Geneva after ski in the french alps, seems to fly dozens meters over the valley, very impressing (hard slope too)
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:58 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

Just wanted to point that this idea that skateboarding is just a dangerous way to waste time is so heavily dominant that even hi skilled mature skaters, people who ride and enjoy riding for decades, will assume it when it comes to their own family. There might be a cost to changing this, if one care...
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:26 am
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

Racing should be dangerous dangerous, ill reputed, unwelcomeful to beginners, hardly legal... i have a friend, who is a passionate skater for years, who does not want his kid to own a skateboard. That's the future we need ? A really dangerous sport like horseriding, a regularly harmful practice lik...
by Etienne de Bary
Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:25 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Future World Championships locations
Replies: 114
Views: 112403

Spectators are very impressed by flat pumping. During trainings and french-cyber sessions in Daumesnil spot at night a lot of the passerbies actually sit down to stare for a while. Obviously the visible pumping acceleration has something "supernatural" that forces admiration and friendly feelings. i...
by Etienne de Bary
Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:57 pm
Forum: Movies
Topic: more Eiffel Tower ! Local skaters practising in winter 2004
Replies: 0
Views: 2851

more Eiffel Tower ! Local skaters practising in winter 2004

a little film cut from a winter night session around december 2004, the place is very quiet for it was very cold http://www.debary.nom.fr/book/movies/RookiesPlayground.hiQ.mov other server http://www.gentilly.fr/ftp/etienne/RookiesPlayground.hiQ.mov low def http://www.debary.nom.fr/book/movies/rooki...
by Etienne de Bary
Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:43 pm
Forum: Movies
Topic: Trocadero 2004 MIX - waitin' for Paris Slalom WorldCup 2005!
Replies: 15
Views: 15048

that's french girls, not frightened ?
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:15 pm
Forum: MANX
Topic: Jani Pistol set-up
Replies: 4
Views: 9112

What is remarquable is that the Manx has identically straight lips on both sides (the edge is even more acute on the normally inside when new). The 3dm wheels have very agressive lips on the outside but it is 45° rounded in the inside, so if you put it inside out you get a very progressive behaviour...
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:33 pm
Forum: MANX
Topic: Jani Pistol set-up
Replies: 4
Views: 9112

Jani Pistol set-up

http://www.debary.nom.fr/book/images/L1040846.JPG http://www.debary.nom.fr/book/images/L1040847.JPG An interesting possibility of the Manx is to create a very narrow set-up with "normal" good trucks, here normal Airflow OS and RtX (101/109 would do too), much more narrow than what symmetrical Abec ...
by Etienne de Bary
Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:11 am
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

Thanx Mathias, and we should thank the Riderz team too i guess... However, you were a skilled skater when you started slalom, and a sportsman too, i wish i could fall with your grace, and you are about 20 years younger than me... Offer a skateboard to your dad, and then you will have something to co...
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:17 pm
Forum: SKF
Topic: Information new SET of Bearings Made for slalom/downhill
Replies: 12
Views: 19537

These bearings have been in the competition during last season, used by SKF team members, and i have been using them too. i kept begging for one more set all the time actually. i absolutely love them, it's not that they are the fastest at first use, but you have this feeling that those are the beari...
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:54 pm
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

We can talk about that somewhere else, and tomorrow.
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:33 pm
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

What was your level 3 years after you bought your first skateboard ? That is my situation. Wes, as, before that, i had kept away from any sport during the 39 first years of my life, if i except one or two experiences during childhood, i do not think there is so many exemples to compare to mine; but...
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:01 am
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

we are trying to devellop a slalom scene and we welcome beginners with gratitude, we try not to make fun of them.
It is for them i do need all kinds of wheels, (the beginners, and those who are turning excellent)
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:13 am
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

Re: Nice threat

Thanks for your help but my Manx are already on the way and I´m awaiting them the next days here in Cologne!!! Heiko, by "anything i can do" i meant "if my first posts were somewhat incorrect toward you i can change them". As a matter of fact i did not notice this topic was about Germany particular...
by Etienne de Bary
Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:45 pm
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

Now since all this is certainly very boring to most readers, if you guys did remove your personal attacks i would remove my answers

Heiko if there is something i can do... just tell me.
by Etienne de Bary
Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:46 pm
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

:)
by Etienne de Bary
Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:19 pm
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

:)
by Etienne de Bary
Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:57 am
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

8)
by Etienne de Bary
Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:12 am
Forum: MANX
Topic: Manx Wheels in Germany
Replies: 41
Views: 57086

nanana !

bet we get them first ;)
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:27 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

Ordinarily, i'm rather proud to be French but ,man i'm so ashamed right now....a sissy boy and a retard; looks like Laurel & Hardy to me... life's cruel sometimes you know... Who's supposed to be Stan is of little interest, as all your nacissic mummie's son's little judgments. :D it's cruel to be y...
by Etienne de Bary
Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:48 am
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

donald campbell wrote:ah i see you're a keyboard racer
hahahahahahahahahaha
i'll beat you all sometime ! But probably not next season yet ;)

A purely utopic idea that goes thru my mind while reading Michael's post: what about judges exchanges ? european timer and cones judges in Morro Bay, US judges in Paris...
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:06 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

donald campbell wrote:thank you,etienne,for proving your point and mine too.

i didn't want to get you in a typing frenzy.
;) i can do more frenetic (in typing)
donald campbell wrote:you'll see me and a few of my friends/team guys entering your race,make sure you bring some really good sparring partners.:lol:
:D excellent news !
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:05 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

it is strange,but i can't shake the feeling off,that all you french guys try to push paris as much as possible. is that so? :D As a matter of fact i'm not just french, i'm parisian too or am i just misinterpreting things? what are you supposed to interpret, that is the question saying that paris st...
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:55 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

Yes I had just forgot the Euro championship was not in Koln ever. An Euro Championship halfway between the Baltic, Russians and Swiss looks fine to me. As this major status seems somehow to anticipate a world tour, I am not sure one single competition should assume both status. But that is another, ...
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:58 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

i've just been rereading the whole topic: lots of people express the opinion that Paris is the most important event, nobody says Koln is more important than Paris. Seems hard to understand how Koln could be been choosen as major over Paris, certainly did not happen on this Forum ! So, like the pries...
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:28 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

Stop teasing me you guys, this is not the Etienne de Bary topic ! ;) If it is so, i'll go back to classical argumentation, and answer Pierre's point by point : 8) That's why I think these 4 races might be the MAIN. THESE RACES ARE : Paris, Grueningen, Koln, Antibes. One of these 4 should be a major ...
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:07 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

Jean-Paul, we know you own a particular mastership of proper english speaking, a skill that will actually be rather useless on the internet. orthographic and crammatical correctness comments, in whatever idiom are absolutely contrary to the "netiquette" . all the same, an excessive use of capital, b...
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:01 am
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

Michael's charging up and down the raceline by his complaining inspiration was really part of the show in Antibes. I really had a great time there. Corky doesn't mean to take all decisions by himself, (correct me if i'm wrong ;)) he expects us to take part in his improving that system by our comment...
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:52 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

Michael Stride massively complained "equally" in Antibes, he is very generous of this on all races. ;)
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:02 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

I'll try to make it clearer

I am not considering the complains as so, nor their legitimacy. i am using the complains as a tool. I am only comparing the level of request, the complains actually reveal what the riders are ready to tolerate, and by so the esteem the actually have for the organisation. By the level of their demand...
by Etienne de Bary
Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:44 pm
Forum: ISSA World Ranking
Topic: [2004] Region East Atlantic: Europe
Replies: 86
Views: 115591

You should change this hierarchy, Korky

After a season of racing, it comes to a point where it seems that we have to reconsider which events are main and which is major. We have all noticed that international riders in Paris have been little tolerant towards organising problems, such as: Jani had to switch from one timing system to anothe...
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:34 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Top Speed Cyberchallenge new cyber format
Replies: 18
Views: 19507

Top Speed Cyberchallenge new cyber format

hi, There is a new cyberchallenge that has started now on Riderz forum, it is meant to determine the maximum speed possible for such rider, such spot, such slope, such equipement and such conespacing. No self-generated speed here, one is free to use the slope and all conditions that he thinks will s...
by Etienne de Bary
Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:32 am
Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
Topic: THE TRAP
Replies: 16
Views: 19628

Steve Michael wrote:20 cones vs. 25 on the CyberSlalom course is a fundamental change on the course and the competition, and you would have deserved your beatings.
This is 20 cones for 40 cones Riderz.net metric cyberslalom a barebone cyberslalom that i suggest you:
http://riderz.net/viewtopic.php?t=2918
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:02 pm
Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
Topic: 100 cone challenge
Replies: 13
Views: 17516

Shouldn't this topic be moved to "Virtual slalom" section ?
by Etienne de Bary
Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:46 pm
Forum: ISSA Site administration
Topic: [Announcement] Editorial and ownership transfer 2004
Replies: 87
Views: 124810

Re: Congratulations Jack Smith!

I am undecided about the advertisements. IMHO I find it more tranquil to not have ads. It keeps you focused on the information. I also worry about advertising $$$$ support distorting things. On Riderz.net there is an ad on top of the window for years, it never affected the contents (only question i...
by Etienne de Bary
Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:15 am
Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
Topic: 100 cone challenge
Replies: 13
Views: 17516

i suggest to add a table in the first post of the topic

we will do a 100 cones session in Paris in september.
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:46 pm
Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
Topic: THE TRAP
Replies: 16
Views: 19628

i remember terrible bashings when i proposed to enter a cyberslalom time set on 20 cones at my first attempt (as of course i go faster on the 20 last cones that was fair), but everybody thought it was kind of cheating...
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:17 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Alternative Cyber Slalom
Replies: 76
Views: 101175

another great idea would be to start a permanent 100 cones cyber challenge,

-> and i offer to moderate this
(here or on Riderz actually, first offer !)
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:14 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Alternative Cyber Slalom
Replies: 76
Views: 101175

Mathias Puentedura wrote:I m with you!
You're ahead of me ;)
by Etienne de Bary
Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:32 am
Forum: ISSA Site administration
Topic: [Announcement] Editorial and ownership transfer 2004
Replies: 87
Views: 124810

funny how a benign anouncement can actually reveal a civilisation gap. For us Europeans, community responsabilities and industry interest should be as well separated as possible, or the links should be at least continuously scrutated. Riderz.net was too created by a single initiative, then the work ...
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:25 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Alternative Cyber Slalom
Replies: 76
Views: 101175

Mathias Puentedura wrote:but, it is skateboarding ;-)
So let's urge mr S to setup the rules so that we can do our first Trap session !
i bet you'll get faster than me, Kroman !
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:57 pm
Forum: Random Slalom Topics
Topic: Alternative Cyber Slalom
Replies: 76
Views: 101175

Steve Michael wrote:I'll outline the very specific (and very SIMPLE) rules in another forum on this site: Competition Rules: "The Trap"
This will be fun,
however this is not slalom, or is it ?
by Etienne de Bary
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:21 pm
Forum: ISSA Rules & Discussion
Topic: THE TRAP
Replies: 16
Views: 19628

88' (26.82 metres) is way too short : a short distance like this makes very precise timing necessary while hand timers timing would be acceptable over 50m, with best times around 10" or so.