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Michael Stride

It was a pleasure to sit down after breakfast and read the two previous posts.

And Wes, I've printed out your great leaflet, and also some of your course plans. I think they can help many people understand whats going on at a race or practice sesh.

Michael Stride

And as for rules, i have never been to any race in Europe where the same rules applied consistantly or the timing was consistant either. I didnt even realise at the Tunnel race in Switzerland that each lane was timed individually, and that it was possible for the skaters to go whenever they wanted a...

Michael Stride

Oooooh Jani, get out of bed on the wrong side today...? Couldn't find the Arrow on the Duvet? I am not "spreading rumors". Paul Price TOLD me, perhaps he was wrong then, could you clarify? Did you enter the wrong way or not? Actually I don't really care. I wasnt there. What did you think of the mirr...

Michael Stride

...Oh I see it now, your meant to join them together. I wondered where you were finding such wide, short hills. Of course I'm yanking your chain. I think it might be fun to get a sheet music book (and 'sheet' doesnt mean country) and do a course to music notes, along the lines of your grids, to musi...

Michael Stride

I tried a couple of your courses yesterday, but got fed up running back up the hill after every 10 cones or so.

Am I doing something wrong?

Michael Stride

I have been thinking about this course for a while, I call it a UK Summer course:

.""""".""""".*****.""""".""""".""""".******.

where " = rain and * =sunshine

Michael Stride

I propose that all protests at ISSA events should be preceded by lying down in the middle of the racecourse until the racer is happy with the judgement. Maybe I just felt sorry for Jon Drummond bacause I know what it feels like to end up lying on my back in the middle of a race course. Switzerland w...

Michael Stride

Well I thought it was funny. Good one Wes. And Hans, I agree with you 100%. Studying Law has made me curiously lacking respect for Rules that serve no purpose other than to be a waste of ink. By the way, the Rule about right side entry says "Should" which in my mind leaves an element of doubt. A law...

Michael Stride

Paris Slalom:

O O O O O Ohhhhhh La La!

Michael Stride

A Jani course with poles:

/ ) ( { } ¬ | /

An Eric Groff course:

* $ ^ 5%%%%% *** F*8 D****MMMMM *****!!

A TK Course:

"Where did Stride go!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????"

Its been two days since I slalomed, I'm stir crazy. Sorry.

Michael Stride

And another:

O 0

(American Tight)

Michael Stride

Sorry, didnt number them, indicate which way you should enter, nor which direction the run should be in. OOOPS.

By the way here's another:

O o . . o 0

(view from between the start ramps)

Michael Stride

Here is my course:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I call this tight and straight. (C) Michael Stride 2003 with respect to Wes.

Michael Stride

Good thoughts Wes. My solution would not be to add or remove cones in order to fit in with the "rules". I'd throw out the stupid, dumb, pointless rule! What on earth is the reasoning behind such inane pickiness? IS it REALLY important as to which side you enter? And if it is surely it favours goofy,...

Michael Stride

Never realised there was a "Golden Rule" for going in either way.

Mixing it up a bit is no great biggie. When we practice I always draw an arrow to show the entry side, easy. The less "rules" the better.

Michael Stride

Thanks TK...As for paying for stuff, I'm pretty lucky to be able to choose from the best gear out there. I remember last year getting that first set off you (paid for), trading in a motel room like a drug deal was going down. Since then I've used PVD on my medium/tight board (a Roe) and really like ...

Michael Stride

TK....when we race at the worlds I guess there will be two sets of clicking sounds.

Only mine will be clicking faster!

Michael Stride

Both Roe and Pocket Pistols make excellent tight slalom boards. No doubt there are some others. Also the Radikal trucks are excellent for TS. Even when tight was more popular the equipment was rare, often an upturned GandS bowlrider. I feel we have a great spread of gear these days. And 4ft was neve...

Michael Stride

Jack will hopefully be interviewed on the BBC, radio, tonight 6.45 Cali time...I think.
If you go to: http://www.asphaltplayground.com/lowe.html
there are details on how to listen on-line and also how to hear it archived later.
Isnt technology a wonderful thing!

Michael Stride

Octane Sport (Octanesport.com) have the new decks in stock ready for supply. Of course the first one out the box had to be ridden, and it is a beaut. Try to get to see one of these, the finish is totaly professional, hard to describe how nice, but put it up against a brand new snowboard and you'll g...

Michael Stride

Grrrrr... sorry I'm getting to be even more of a whinger than ever. just that these euro slalom stories crop up all the time. Last year Martin Drayton entered an event in France. He was patently the fastest through qualifying...then on the final run he hit a cone. He was told the cone penalty was 2 ...

Michael Stride

Why dont we adopt the hanging gates they use in canoeing then?

We could get the rollerbladers and snakeboarders to practice on a river and get dragged down and drowned.

Michael Stride

Unfortuantely slalom was listed as an event. The two Brits practiced hard beforehand having bought special slalom boards. Sure its fun...but these guys left with the impression that the comp was a joke. And having been practicing tighter slalom they also left with the impression that the organisers ...

Michael Stride

From reports I goy from two British downhillers present the slalom was a farce. The cones were really widely spaced. And the real comp was cancelled with qualifying times being taken as race times. Another case of changing rules after the start of the event. As the two Brits had bothered to take con...

Michael Stride

Chris, for your ideal event to be worthwhile a "world" event would have to be confined to say, the top 3 from various countries, with a common determinator. Then a race would be a spectator event apart from the top 3, and would be of little interest at this stage in the resurgence. Or you can have a...

Michael Stride

Pierre, you are a gentleman. Thankyou.

Chris, my grandfather was German, and Paul Prices mother was!

So Paul could be the German champ???!!!!

Michael Stride

Maybe I'm dumb, but If I entered Koln who would I race if no other foreigners turned up? I have heard the argument that if good foreign racers turn up it could discourage less good slalomers from entering. I'm afraid that i don't accept this. When Michael Dong and Ritchie carrasco turned up at Brand...

Michael Stride

Wes, yes.

Makes absolute sense to me.

Michael Stride

The simple answer to your question at the end of your peice is that if a Skater chose to come along to any race they should feel able to enter. By leaving competitions open to all you encourage skaters to race. Limiting numbers based on where your mother chose to give birth is just a nonsense. In wh...

Michael Stride

Jani, it still doesnt wash with me. How can we possibly restrict entrance to ANY race. I see you entered Eastbourne last year, alongside Dan Gesmer. Had we called it the "Britsh flat championships" you would have been prevented from entering...how lame is that? What if Paris had been for French nati...

Michael Stride

Jani, I just dont get it. Are you saying that 5 years ago, when very few Americans were skating slalom in Europe from the US, Gilmore would have been excluded from entering? What are the Criteria for "European" do you take the EU countries, or the European Area, why not include Israel and Russia lik...

Michael Stride

That looks fun. I wonder how tight tight will be...
And you get to qualify in each event, so thats a few runs then.
Slalomcross isnt my scene but i'll give it a bash.

Michael Stride

Vlad, I'd agree with you on the big slalom deal In France, and a similar widening of cone distance happened at the recent Hot Heels comp in Austria. Now what the deal with Morro? I see from their site fcrseries.com that official FCR races can have a specialty event that suits the location, are you s...

Michael Stride

If you held an American championship i'd whine and whine an whine and shame you into defeat. Or marry your sister, if you have one. I'd rather keep things "open" and the solution is to have "open" races with bragging rights for the highest host nation rider. Trouble is if a local contender is beaten...

Michael Stride

Looks like the winners took home prizes of young children. I think T shirts are a better alternative.
Dont go getting any ideas about ski poles Jani.

Michael Stride

Michael Stride

I do see your point Chris, but as yet the de-facto "Worlds" has no entry requirement from nations, ie top three only. Lets compare Slalom to say, Tennis or Golf (last time for that I hope!) and what we have are "open" champs. Something I have never really understood in all sports is why being the na...

Michael Stride

So the Euros is only open to Euros...
I will not go if that is the case.
Slalom should be inclusive, not exclusive.
Tell me it aint so.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Michael Stride

I'm sure that to get a true "world record" some form of rules whould need to be set. I quite like the idea of the harshness of "no cones or your out". But second choice would need to have a limit of, say 3 cones, with a time penalty? As for the chance that timing of events would leave contenders hav...

Michael Stride

Cone spacing and hills vary, but when us UK guys tried 100 cones the rule was, no cone hits, none, not at all...zilch, zero. cleans runs only count.

Hitting the last cone at Brands on a 100 cone run is a bummer. I know.

Michael Stride

I have no doubt that you can order Turner Summerskis, and that Vince and Peggy will be happy to make them. Sales of slalom decks are directly related to race results, and who is riding them at competitions. And I know that UK racers do look at US results before deciding what to ride. Another big fac...

Michael Stride

Octane Sport no longer distribute Turner decks, which became Turner Summerski. We updated our Turner web page (www.octanesport.com) to take the changes at Turner into account, and we advise potential purchasers to contact Turnersummerski direct if they want to order direct. We would love to offer Tu...

Michael Stride

Being a "tart" I got my wide TTC metal polished for the worlds last year. Running a simarly polished metal Seismic front it took me to 5th in the Open on the Sunday. Brilliant. The polishing softened the edges somewhat and really looked fine in the Cali Sunshine. My other wide TTC I had anodized in ...

Michael Stride

better looking....yes!
More experienced...yes!
Sexier.....yes!

Faster....yes! (ask Chris Eggers)

Michael Stride

Jani, you've finally flipped! Unless as I suspect you are joking. The whole point of ski slalom poles in skiing is that you hit the pole, but never go inside of the line set by the poles. Should a skier go inside of the pole they are DQ'd. I see absoluetly no way that could be replicated safely on a...

Michael Stride

No!
But great sponsors though.

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