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...

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...

I checked it out earlier. Very cool. I'm just joking with you John. It's great you are getting some kids into it. There's kind of a gap right now between the 8-10 year olds and the 30s and 40s crew. It would be interesting to see what kids that are at their late teen early 20s physical peak can do.

I applaud your efforts.

In a few years, fly those soft prep school kids out here so our west coast homeschooled kids can "take 'em to school" and finish their education, ha!

-Slim

I'm just getting into slalom (from vert) and everything I've heard is that the Bahne set up you mention is a very good board for getting started in Slalom.

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...

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 ...

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...

And once again the other forum is safe and boring for those whose shorts (and cones) are too tight.

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...

p.s. I believe it works both Mac and Windows since I've never had any complaints about the code photoshop spits out.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

This statement has some FCR bias but after what I saw this weekend in Morro Bay, I'd vote for Nature Boy. Kenny had a 1st, a 2nd, and a 3rd this weekend to go with his other two wins earlier this year.

I could see a strong argument for Luca though. A 1st, 2nd, and 4th this weekend.

-Rich

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, ...