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Wesley Tucker

The link is busted at slalomrankings for the rules page. I was checking on a mystery... Steve, Use the menu items across the top to go from topic to topic: Introduction - Overview - Definitions - Events - Rankings - Calculations. The initial page with a link to "Introduction" seems to be cranked bu...

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The answer is ELIMINATING the "pro" class. We have no "pros." We have a few skaters racing for beer money and some free equipment from their sponsors. Every once in a while a skater gets someone to pay for a plane ticket. Sorry, that ain't pro, I don't care how you argue otherwise. We need "A", "B" ...

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Corky and all those who pitched in, Great work. Also, for five years whenever someone complains about the World Ranking my first question is, "have you read the rules and how the ranking works?" When the answer is "no" or something along the lines of "f#@k the rules, man," the conversation is over. ...

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Maria,

My only question is if it's monster ramp only or a choice between that and the regular ramp?

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. . . Ella asked ME for my phone number!

Of course, she also asked her 679 other Facebook friends

BUT

In the meantime . . . just remember who you're talkin' to.

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You can sing all you please.

Just avoid any dancing.

It's all covered in the FAQ section.

Wesley Tucker

The amazing thing pulling this together is that the contest calendar is growing every day. /Jani That's interesting. Perhaps that is the European trend? The US/Canada has not even had a full slate of Mains for the last 2 years. Essentially we have thrown away a main each year and almost any race ca...

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James, ISSA's calendar is not the same as NCDSA. Over there Adam has a service he provides for race promoters. I don't know if things are different but he used to charge to get a listing. What's more is even though NCDSA is slalom heavy, it's not a slalom exclusive calendar. What we do on ISSA is li...

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Hey, that press can be made to work both ways.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

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Do you ever wanna just get naked and roll around in it all?

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Marcos Soulsby-Monroy wrote:
Wesley Tucker wrote:Does y'all's motel room have mirrors on the ceiling?
Something for you and Joe I to shoot for

If I shot for them they'd shatter into a billion pieces.

Wesley Tucker

Does y'all's motel room have mirrors on the ceiling?

Wesley Tucker

Marcos Soulsby-Monroy wrote:
Wesley Tucker wrote:
Steve Pederson wrote: If the legendary John GIlmore is attending, then I'll have to attend too so I can learn how this slalom thing is done.
If he's a legend then I'm Winston Churchill.
I thought that you were Beelzebub. At least that is what you said.

Ask the Labor Party. They'll tell you there's no difference.

Wesley Tucker

Richy,

Didn't want you to think you were being ignored. I avoided any lengthy discussions during the election.

I'ma gonna hafta spell on this a bit to see the advantage in running a race with this format.

Wesley Tucker

Steve Pederson wrote:
John Gilmour wrote: I'll have to drag myself off the slopes this year to attend.

-JG
If the legendary John GIlmore is attending, then I'll have to attend too so I can learn how this slalom thing is done.

If he's a legend then I'm Winston Churchill.

Wesley Tucker

Mike,

I looked at the Octane Sport website this morning and noticed this board wasn't offered (at least that I could find.)

Are you still doing them?

Wesley Tucker

The voting for the 2010 ISSA Board of Directors is now closed. First of all, congratulations to all the nominees. To be be considered for these positions and to be nominated by fellow slalom skateboarders is an honor in itself. The 2010 Board Of Directors welcomes two new members: Joe Iacovelli, Con...

Wesley Tucker

Mike, If you want . . . Feel free to post these links again in the MEDIA RESOURCES forum. It's good stuff and should get plenty of circulation. Just retype that sentence and it will fool the website into not thinking you're double posting (even though you are. You're a lawyer: you're used to saying ...

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Erik and Malakai are both very proud members of the ISSA . . . just not loud and proud.

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hohoho...i live in egypt...i just want the board as a collection item can you guys tell me what is the spec of the fullnose and the needle nose board so i can try to make them dont know what board to buy...I want a GS board that doesnt have a kicktail and thats hard to find Contact CHIxILL or Pocke...

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so they dont make any board anymore...I was thinking of buying one...is there any site that sell turner they are only 4 model? i thought there was more....what about the turner GS/Hybrid and turner GS/hybrid XL? who make this board? so the cutaway is not meant for surf stance but why? do you guys k...

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Afi, Right now Turner SummerSki is not being manufactured. In 2004 the production was transferred from Southern California to England and France. Several boards were made and were of the highest quality but changes in preferences for board design and materials led to Turner just not being able to ke...

Wesley Tucker

I'm on this thing, dude, like white on rice.

Wesley Tucker

Mary-Beth is Claude Regnier's "significant other." She's probably been to more races in the past eights years than most of the racers in the ISSA. The ISSA offers LIFETIME membership for a one-time fee. I am not going to take it upon myself to decide who's dead or alive. Fortunately, the ISSA does n...

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I just paid to join ISSA. How do we officially nominate people to be on the board? Do we email someone? Will there be a a thread we post at? Thank you Steve, I assume you Paypal'd your dues? The process is Jani Soderhall in Paris will get notice of your payment. He will then notify me and at that t...

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Rick Floyd wrote:See Morro Bay 2008 format - first racer across the line wins (only if within 6 cone DQ limit at that race). . . . . And you pull early - you DQ...kind of a barge gate without the gate. I liked it.

Thank you.

I do try my best.

Wesley Tucker

With some minor rule changes or a different way of looking at things - "racer A hits two cones and crosses the line before racer B, RACER A WINS!" Let me see if I understand what you are saying or if I'm twisting what you are saying into a different thing. What I think you are saying sounds like an...

Wesley Tucker

CURRENT Start platforms shall: • Be a minimum of 0.75m tall. • Be a maximum of 2m tall • Be a maximum angle of 45 degrees from horizontal • Contain transitions of minimum radius 1m • Be placed no closer than 4m from the 1st cone in the course. • Provide hand-holds for the racer to pull on for propu...

Wesley Tucker

Plus buying 300 batteries and extras for a race involving 75-cone dual courses with each gate requiring two batteries. It could add up. But, try to get someone who drag races to commiserate because we spent a couple of hundred on dry cells. Hell, they spend that much on air filters . . . between runs!

Wesley Tucker

Here's a sketch of my idea of the ideal system for our sport: http://slalomskateboarder.com/Stuff/Slalomgate.jpg These would be battery powered and the swing gate is spring loaded. If the skater hits the gate the light goes off and stays on until reset. No cone heads, no popcorn. Just a lot of brigh...

Wesley Tucker

OK. I understand the concept. Now comes the persnickety nit-picking aggravating questions for which I am known: How to guarantee running over the disc slows down everyone THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT? In other words if two racers are very competitive (as in comparable) and both hit a cone then that's exact...

Wesley Tucker

One question, Gary: Whether using a max-cone count OR a total cone penalty rule, how does anyone know for sure what black discs are hit? Some skaters flick a cone so slightly I wonder sometimes if they hit the cone or their draft knocked it over. With your disc idea how would we know what a skater a...

Wesley Tucker

Put a nut on the axle. Put on a lock washer. Put on another nut. Tight the two together. Heat the truck with a blue flame torch. Don't try and melt it but get the aluminum HOT. This will melt the loc-tite. Be careful not to heat the powder coat too much. It's a very delicate balance between enough a...

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http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/11/0 ... ays-dirty/

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Jonathan Harms wrote: JBH123 XYZ, B.S., BAMF, B.F.D., WTF
94 Evergreen Terrace
Springfield, USA

If you can't say what state it's in, Flanders, you ain't gettin' no hardware.

Wesley Tucker

Those bills are only good on January 8.

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TO ANYONE DRIVING IN FROM THE WEST ON INTERSTATE 40:

Don't know how many people this affects (maybe none) but I-40 is closed at the NC/Tenn border. Big rick slide. There's a long detour north to Johnson City on I-81 and then south again to Asheville on I'26 to pick up 40 again.

Wesley Tucker

For those who remember, the exact same thing happened at Avila Beach for the 2002 World's. The good thing, though, is the sitatuation was seen at the top of the hill before anyone took a run. Racing stopped for a few minutes while the gen was refilled, started and the blower filled up the arch.

Wesley Tucker

the arch is kept inflated by a generator powering a blower. When the generator ran out of gas, the blower stopped. The arch began to deflate in the middle of Eddy's run. Since it went from one side of the road to the other, there was no where to go but into it. Getting tangled up in all that sagging...

Wesley Tucker

A thin strip of metal (actually two) runs the length of the tape strip. If that metal gets kinked or bent, you're screwed. I went to Home Depot and paid $6 for a length of 5" PVC pipe and two end caps. Whole thing cost less than $10. Cut it to like 4 or 5 feet (can't remember.) I put the tape strip ...

Wesley Tucker

Rick Floyd wrote:CW should have a pie section.

It does.

There's a forum at the botton on restaurants and eating.

HAH! gotcha.

Wesley Tucker

maybe its over and the samll niche market is saturated with product? who knows... some do for sure... Don, are you moving boards to NEW customers or selling more board to people who already own a Pavel? Do you get orders from people you've never heard of (meaning they haven't been to races and don'...

Wesley Tucker

I was looking through the latest CW at Books-A-Million (I don't subscribe) and noticed something worth considering: no slalom ads. Of course, ABEC 11 was there but with no slalom-specific emphasis and the Concrete Wave online shop ad recognized having GOG available. Other than that, though, nothing ...

Wesley Tucker

My quick advice is two things: 1. Wear a helmet. 2. Get "centered" on the course. "Centered" means to skate mentally through the middle of the course as opposed to allowing your whole body to "out" to one edge and then "out' to the other. The way Professor Evans and Instructor Gilmour describe this ...

Wesley Tucker

You know, Stridely,

Keep this up and people will start taking you seriously.

THEN where will you be?

Wesley Tucker

Well, it's like this: "Pro" should ALWAYS be a PERSONAL decision. Period. NO ONE at any time should be made to run for money. Don't forget: the greatest golfer who ever lived never declared as a pro and spent his entire grand-slam winning career as an am. What's good for Bobby Jones is certainly goo...

Wesley Tucker

I'll be straight up: it's always people who aren't in the money (me) who discuss whether or not there should be cash prizes. Sounds very disingenuous. Personally, I think everyone should pay the same registration fee and the money used to put on a great race for EVERYBODY. Qualifying will put skater...

Wesley Tucker

I was looking at Sk8kings's website and wanted to make sure of something:

Venom Bushings are FIVE DOLLARS A PIECE?

It says "One Truck" "$9.99"

Is this correct? $4.995 per bushing?

Wesley Tucker

One other thing . . .

Just how deep is the snow that late in September?

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Peter, Could I trouble you to snap a few pics of your proposed venue? I don't want to be a pill but I've seen Indiana. Ice skating rinks have more grade than what I saw. Does it get "hillier" near the lake? I'm not saying I'll be there because the end of September is a long way away. But maybe the p...

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