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now we have moved the rendez-vous from wednesday to thursday.
(There is twice as many participants when i promise Jani is coming)

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i wonder if Arab will have the guts to try RULE the Trocadero slope...

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I think World Cup was held ones in Saratov. I think 10 nations are going to be at the Swiss race. I think there was only 5 or 6 at the Californian World Championships. I think the Swiss were very careful in the past with naming their comps Championships or Cups. I think...but I’m not sure, I wasn't...

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is your question about "World Championship" ? Gruningen is not a World Championship. Whatever the only previous World Championship is F-City-World. Since Paris is not into F-City... Each one can be world champion of his own city, but none of you will ever be world champion in Russia or Baltic countr...

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On 2003-04-18 17:48, Joachim Leonhardt wrote:
Moro Bay, CA / USA - Grüningen, CH - Paris, F ...
just wondering what is going on ...
Worlds ... only the amount of countries counts...
Did I misunderstood the poster ?

... What did you understand ? what do you mean ?

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i bet Jani did not read this. ISSA nor Slalom! ever was Eurocentric (this is SLALOM! website HERE), and, mr Hester, i don't think the 95 "Trocadero" contest was slow nor under 6'. i'll add that, now that slalom is restarting in Europe, it might be useful to restart a global ranking on objective basi...

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well it ... seems that the file is going its way, there has been proposed dates, and the final decision is in the hands of the city administration. Organisers even had to include starting ramps plans in the file. it's all 100% official

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there is two skateparks in Paris a new concrete thing near the russian ambassy in the 16th that is not public access now, and the access question seems undecided (association) a few people have jumped the wall and it's not excellent (a topic about that on Riderz.net) and there's a wooden indoor comm...

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Yes i'm sure we are talking about the same place, see the link below:
http://www.parispourvous.com/index.php?wpe=a38
fountain thing is at the very end of the line and the race won't use much more than one third i guess.

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there is fountains between the two ridelines but rarely dry (actually even stimulate the discovery of slide when there's a bit of wind), there is a street skate spot by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 300m from there, in the same architectural ensemble. Matybe your memory mixed the two...

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The Tarmac was certainly the best possible while processed for the Expo Universelle in the late thirties. since then this spot has never been opened to automobiles. it's been softly polished by numbers of nurses, baby carts and quiet old people doing a little digestive walk. One of the problem relat...

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i practiced there as a beginner, before i started slalom, with a cruising board, i didn't like it, not the slope but i found it too narrow to carve. it's actually used by longboard riders to practice slide (tuesdays 9PM) the ground is one of the best i've ever seen. Jani says it's going to be select...

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i found this :

http://paris.ride.free.fr/slalom/trocaphoto1.htm

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you're the brave kind ?
so check your ticket (and your ribs,) because there is actually big chances you have opportunity to race there shortly, we'll post dates on this forum...

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So we shall have softer springs for sure, aren't we ? i'm only 85 kg but yellow springs are far too strong for me in GS

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Hi, Let me introduce the parisian slalom rendez-vous: every Wednesday night with dry ground, slalomers meet after 9PM by the gates of the Charlety stadium. Precisely at the top of Bd Kellerman, RER "Cité Universitaire", PC bus "Porte de Gentilly" Rendez-Vous Charlety is the proud owner of a GS Turne...

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another idea i had recently (for the Troca) is to use a tennis or volleyball net, as high as the belly, so that riders would pass arms over it. the thing would be hung on poles thru what we call here tendeurs [tighteners ?] or sandows: long flexible cords with hooks to fix luggages on a roof or so, ...

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to John Gilmour : the ground in Trocadero is as slick as baby skin, very fast and sticky as long as it is dry ; sometimes the wind brings wet from the fountains at the bottom, but if you go that far down you are too fast anyway, aren't you ? there is some cracks on the left track, only the right one...

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What do you think is the right declivity in degrees or percent (how does one estimate that ?) in Paris we're probably going to have a contest in Trocadero, which is a great setting, but it's rather slopy. Maybe it has to be related to how long, and how wide, and the level (beginners and seniors in P...

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hi Jani, though it can be used as one wishes, this is not a foot blocker, this is "fly hooks", you're suppose to have one at each end and, as the name says, this is meant for jumping sidewalks. It produces a lot of pizza (i don't know if this metaphor is in use in american skate jive, means tomato-l...

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i mounted one for my wife, who is a beginner rider, lately, she wanted a little board, the common slalom board is that "702", it is 71 cm and it has a perfact classic elegant eliptic shape. there is beautiful graphics on both sides, the top being grip treated in an original transparent and efficient...

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stencil putting white waterbased building paint with a plain big round brush seems to make sense. The pattern a central point & two half circles around.

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once, i was working on the studio i live in, i dropped a huge can of paint on the sidewalk, it opened up : splash ! 1 square meter of thick white lake on the ground, thick like that it would take like 24 hours to dry. i was shure i'd get a ticket, people would slip on and fall down into it... That w...

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that use of Xcell is very smart, but still it's strange to use that format. it makes a very complete document, but not very visual though. Not WYSIWYG. Seems more natural to work with a vector drawing tool (ideally ArchiCAD or such technical soft, but lots of sharewares would do, or bitmap drawing t...

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empty cardboard boxes are interesting too (but one use)

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mmh, isn't it more Xcellent than Xtreme ?

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there's a dhtml trick in the photobook adress:
in the page that opens you must click in "bilder" link to get to the photoalbum page

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a foto album i would like to suggest visiting http://www.madcow.ch/skb/#

http://www.madcow.ch general info
the Madcow is a very hybrid race, it's inside the city, there's a crowd for it, i think it's fun...

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(question in previous post is adressed to WesE after seeing the video)

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your board is custom ... needed a tail and cut it in a newschool ?

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On 2002-09-12 09:40, Jani Soderhall wrote: We will need to come up with a common strategy on how to make European slalomers understand that things are happening. One strategy will be to bring some of the old competitors back again, but more importantly we need to interest a new batch of slalomers. ...

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they ride Airflow 71, same board i mounted for my wife, with Tracker, and is it Stingers ?

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so i guess you practice slalom very secretely and forbid your kids slaloming in the hope of meeting them in the cones ?

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as a slalom newbie who has never competed i'll make myself ridiculous once again..., i'd say JG demonstration introducing the topic is rather convincing and the comparision with athletic running is all in the advantage of slalom, more fake starts means less runs, and less riders on stage in my idea ...

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a great technological progress we are to expect in a near future:
a plain html FCR website with common interactivity and links that work

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passing from last gate of section2 to 1st of section3 must be harsh ?

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There really was a kind of misunderstanding: one of our local slalom specialist as done posts revealing that such american skater -i forget his name- could not skate cones that were not the right size. another post was about Chaput proposing to change the size of cones, and it all sounded much more ...

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now that i think about it... i'll run thru my cones

no, i have a real GS board, but the trucks are huge : Indy 210 in front, Seismic 150 rear, and 76mm wheels
i did put angled pads recently, it's a first step
i'd like to keep it as is, it's a good freeride machine, so i have to buy mister No2

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to come back to the matter, on the "other" forum (where i studiously report the precious informations i get here - do you know the story of the japanese guy visiting the factory with his tie ?) i've been answered that "real" cones are not forever, after a few years they('d) get stiff, and they('d) s...

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Glenn, As a matter of fact some of the cones chopped were probably still good, others were up to be recycled. Someone had paid for these cones once, ... i got quite upset i'm afraid, didn't mean to be rude, i hope i didn't hurt... Hans, too bad you left, i got here 6years ago, also the neighborhood ...

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every country has a different story: Swiss never stopped slaloming, but they do very hybrid races, they ride narrow 70cm to more than 1m boards with average Krypto wheels Here in Paris we start from zero in a group of DH riders, so a board that is less than 70cm seems really weird, like riding a lun...

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OK, now i got a little mad,
nov 20th is my 40th birthday, and i have to choose between the cones and a real slalom skate, no budget for both

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the question is:
would you guys ride 6" cones, or would you be in trouble ?

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first of all this situation is the Paris situation, not my particular situation, as myself i own one (1) of these cones. Since i'm setting up a first regular weekly slalom session in Paris at the moment, i have to face the problem. As being raised a calvinist i understand very clearly your point of ...

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wrist thing is the only protec i use all the time, i have several but my favorite one is a pair of hockey things i found in a supermarket, here in France,
costs like nothing, and it's actually produced in Canada, the Brand is Grizzly Gear

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a little joke about the Airflow cones (Airflow is GREAT) the Madcow, greatest slalom event ever (if you're not too academic), is completely supported by Airflow , right ? now go see the (extatic) Madcow photo album (www.madcow.ch i guess) you'll see dozens of cones, all orange and white, ... that's ...

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add 20-30 box for port and (probably) 19,something% taxes, unexpectable delivery delays..., you'll see temptation of free ones gets stronger,
workers leave these nice orange and white cones all around, all you have to do is bend and cut, instant delivery !

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hi, Getting Turner cones here in Paris, if you pay port and taxes comes to a ridiculous price, so we should have the proper cones, but we don't Usually we cut heads of traffic regulation cones, 9"-23cm cones like that make a big and heavy bag, so we would be very interested in an alternative norm (l...

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Hi,

there is a very popular french French speaking skate forum, very useful to get connected on Paris sessions, events, make contacts, whatever, ...

DH and slalom section are particularly lively :

http://www.riderz.net

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