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Gary Fluitt

<img src="http://www.asphaltplayground.com/images/HPD_tshirt_thumb.jpg" width="150" height="277" align="right">Glenn - good one, Clint packin' a Pistol...har har. I rode the hills we're racing on last Friday. Gesmer drove and counted turns, checked speed, etc. SlalomCross/GS hill;<img src="http://ww...

Gary Fluitt

Best places to stay: Beaver Run Resort - On course, 5 star. Hot tubs, pools, etc. $81 Fireside Inn - Private rooms and dormatory rooms. Cool youth hostel environment with friendly hosts. Talk to Niki. 10% off in you stay 3 days. 2 blocks from the TS site. Discover Resort. I don't know anything about...

Gary Fluitt

http://www.asphaltplayground.com/images/bot1.jpg Odell's Brewery is the official beer sponsor of the 2003 High Peaks Drifter. There will be a Friday night party at the restaurant called "Downstairs at Erik's" and the Saturday party will be at "Breckenridge Barbeque". More details later. [ This Mess...

Gary Fluitt

Shihan, There isn't really a list that I can send you, but I can tell you the places that I've raced with the other guys. Golden - Spyderco Everygreen - Swede Gulch GS up by Wall Mart Golden - Table Mtn. Parkway behind Coors graphics Westminister - Vans parking lot (not a hill, and sort of a bust ri...

Gary Fluitt

It's not as hard to throw a race as you might think. I had no clue what I was doing last year when I stepped up in front of the Breckenridge Chamber and spewed about how great slalom is. You've got to be persistent, and organized. You've got to produce documents like "Road Management Plans" and "Res...

Gary Fluitt

Breckenridge will have FCR ramps and timer. Krisik and O'Shei in attendence. No need to fashion them for Geo's ramps.
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Gary Fluitt

Should we try Table Mesa Parkway? I'll get a leaf blower.
Nice find Gerry.

Gary Fluitt

Fly into Denver International Airport. It's about a 2 hr. drive to the hill from the airport casue the airport is basically in Kansas. There are shuttles from the airport to Breckenridge. I think the shuttle is about $50. My guess is it's cheaper to rent a car if you are more than 1 person in your p...

Gary Fluitt

Kerry - welcome aboard. Great style. Don't loose any skin for that tan though.

I hear the weather is going to suck this Saturday. Calling for statewide snow (4/19).

Perhaps a Sunday afternoon session after all the easter egg hunts are over would be in order?

Gary Fluitt

<a href=http://www.asphaltplayground.com/deck.html> Asphalt Playground </a> is donating a sweet 47" Gravity HyperCarve to "the biggest slam" of the Bahne-Cadillac SlalomCross. No fallen rider should go away empty handed. If there are no big beefs, and let's hope there are not, the award will become ...

Gary Fluitt

Jack - We need a rule of thumb on the round of 32. When we have over 50 racers (a la La Costa where we had 100) we go to a round of 16 straight away. There's just not enough time to qualify that many racers and do all the brackets. When we 50 racers , there's no need to pare it down to 16 so quickly...

Gary Fluitt

I can confirm Arab's comment that the Worls's will not be "Pre-Seeded" like it was last year. Everyone will have an equal chance regardless of their points standings. This was straight from the Man, Jack Smith.
Smitty - How was Panama?

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Gary Fluitt

Adam, Good for you man, racing in your first FCR race. Hope to see you in many more. The phenomenon of racing so much faster in head-to-head racing proves that slalom is so much more mental than we give it credit. When you can drop your time 10% because there is another guy pushing you (or pulling y...

Gary Fluitt

I was in Paris 10 months ago and I went to the Trocadero to check it out. It is indeed one of the most perfect venue's I can imagine for a race, except for the run out. I think that would be a foot drag stop, but not too bad. My guess is the pitch is about 5-6%. Much like Avila in the US. An easy wa...

Gary Fluitt

Good seeing everyone out at Legacy on Saturday. Great hill! Nice course Barker. Big and fast, a little sketchy too. I still can't believe how fast Jason is on that lil wooden plank.
Geo, Excellent start Ramp! Josh, good on ya making that big drive.

Gary Fluitt

I like everybody's ideas. I like the major/minor thing, and I like Hans idea about limiting the number of races one can count. John has some good points about how to encourage racing. The use of "FCR ranked racers" to qualify a race for it's level of competition is a flaw for sure, but honestly, it'...

Gary Fluitt

Brady - thanks for your comments. As for the example you raised that no FCR ranked racers (or not enough of them by the criteria) traveled to Europe so they can't qualify for A level, I think I called that out specifically as a flaw in the criteria FOR EUROPEAN RACES ONLY, and that we would work wit...

Gary Fluitt

Ahhh! stop calling it "Gary's points system". It's the ABC points and a lot of guys weighed in on it. Once we collect all the data we can have all sorts of database fun (although personally I find "database fun" to be an oxymoron). I'm not the guy to do a lot of statistical analysis. I know just eno...

Gary Fluitt

Hans, You raise a good point about awarding points to different styles of slalom (e.g. tight, GS, banked). As for the awards this year there will be an overall winner of all disciplines. If you want to do some interesting dice and slice of the points based on disciplines, we could do that as the poi...

Gary Fluitt

<center> <img src="http://www.asphaltplayground.com/trophy_sm.gif"> </center> ABC Points The ABC points ranking for 2003 is posted up at http://www.asphaltplayground.com/home_points.html for your review. The purpose of the ABC points ranking is to recognize races and racers from all over the ...

Gary Fluitt

Let me be clear about the Breckenridge races. I say RACES (plural) because there will be THREE. 1. SlalomCross (Friday PM) 2. Dual GS (Saturday) 3. Dual TS (Sunday) I've recently (4/14) changed the format of the Friday race in Breck to a slalomcross. We had so much fun at the Bahne-Cadillac slalomcr...

Gary Fluitt

Single Lane vs. Dual Slalom Let me be clear about the Breckenridge races. I say RACES (plural) because there will be THREE. 1. Single Lane GS (Friday PM) 2. Dual GS (Saturday) 3. Dual TS (Sunday) So for those of you who like full bore GS on a single lane, crossing the fall line, and using the whole ...

Gary Fluitt

Single Lane vs. Dual Slalom Let me be clear about the Breckenridge races. I say RACES (plural) because there will be THREE. 1. Single Lane GS (Friday PM) 2. Dual GS (Saturday) 3. Dual TS (Sunday) So for those of you who like full bore GS on a single lane, crossing the...

Gary Fluitt

ABC Points Rankings There will be a worldwide slalom points ranking system this season called the ABC slalom points ranking. This system will be used to acquire points from many rac...

Gary Fluitt

Personal Goals 1. Become all God being of time and space. 2. Make it through the round of four. 3. Set a course that Arab likes (yeah, like that's gonna happen) 4. Race out East (no, not with Gilmour, i mean like DC, NY) 5. Kick Dunn's ass. 6. Get the start on Chicken 7. To not DQ in competition 8. ...

Gary Fluitt

Dual courses are always slightly different, one being faster than the other. I think that's your point Brady, no matter what you're going to have different courses. That's why we run both lanes and the difference always decides the victor. So we're running around a curve. The courses will for sure b...

Gary Fluitt

Brian, Talk to Jack Smith. When he rekindled this whole slalom competition phenomenon a couple of years ago, it was a fund raiser for the Morro Bay Skatepark that got it started. I think races are a bad way to try to raise money however. Having staged a couple of races, I find them to be a good way ...

Gary Fluitt

Maria, yes you can be certain of the dates for this one. Hey if you see Evans, encourage him to drive it again this year. It nearly killed him last year. I need the handicap.
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Gary Fluitt

Thanks for all your thoughts and suggestions. Wes you put some thought into your post and I appreciate that. GBJ, you've got the experience and I trust your judgement, but on this one I have to disagree. I believe a dual GS on a big curve is totally doable and it's going to be a real blast to both w...

Gary Fluitt

Here are the vitals on the Breckenridge race. http://home.earthlink.net/~garyfluitt/HPD_tshirt_thumb.jpg Dates: Friday June 6, Sat. June 7, & Sunday June 8, 2003. Events: Friday afternoon - SlalomCross Saturday - Dual GS Sunday - Dual TS Evening festivities in Breck on Friday and Saturday. The Frida...

Gary Fluitt

All this discussion about setting courses got me working on a plan for Breckenridge. We're now going to do three days of racing. The Friday of the event I will have 6-8 hours to set the course before the racing begins. We'll set two courses in that time. One for Friday afternoon, and one for Saturda...

Gary Fluitt

Claude are you suggesting that race organizers are black balling guys who complain about courses? You said that it can work against you to speak up? I don't think that happens. Hell Arab did the full course plow at Donner and I think at Catalina as a protest. Pretty stupid way to protest distaste fo...

Gary Fluitt

and flaming hoops, and natives with blow darts. Dan- How does one jump when mounted semi parallel on a slalom board? sky hooks come to mind.

Gary Fluitt

I'm wearing leathers

Gary Fluitt

Wes, What happens if the local teams get the course wired before hand? I could tell all my Roe buddies exactly how to set the course that they will encounter at Breck. "Set four gates at 6.5 with a .5 offest. Break into a 10 gate hipper to the left, then a straight stinger for 6 gates" bla bla bla. ...

Gary Fluitt

Some of you may remember the survey that I did back around Christmas. It asked FCR participants what courses they liked and disliked, and about who should set courses. 53 resondents rated the courses below. I forgot to mention that Mark McCree wins the T-shirt prize. Hey Mark, I need your address. B...

Gary Fluitt

Good to hear there is a little local comp coming up through the ranks. Jason is amazing. That guy has some serious potential. I want to get that guy on a Roe and see what happens. He seems to like rocker style decks so I think he'd do well on a flat deck, without too much camber. Gotta get him some ...

Gary Fluitt

Hey CB - How'd that hill work out across from Vans? Did you guys skate? It was hellawindy that day. Now we're under 2' of snow. 3 more days in the sling. PT is kicking my ars. I've got this nazi working on my shoulder. You should see the pictures from the arthroscope. Looks like califlower salad in ...

Gary Fluitt

Gotta disagree with you Vlad, otherwise there would be millions of downhillers and luge skaters. My previous post was in jest you must know. There is plenty of room for slalom to grow. Couple of things have to happen though. 1. Equipment- Starter set-ups are key. And lots of them. Bahne is suppliyin...

Gary Fluitt

JG - give it up man. This IS all there is to slalom. We're it. We're the last remaining souls interested in wiggling around little plastic cones. Somebody ought to pack one of us up in a cryogenic freezer for safe keeping lest we disappear again. Oh sure- there will be the occaisional freak who come...

Gary Fluitt

Adam, The current growth of slalom, it's second birth, IS VERY MUCH DUE to the care and feeding the internet has provided the sport. Without the internet to communicate what's going on and gather slalomers into this community, I very much doubt that we would see this "rebirth" of the sport. We might...

Gary Fluitt

Here is one of my early memories of Colorado. Getting there was half the fun. I use to be able to sleep almost anywhere, anytime, on anything. My friends thought me to be mildly narcoleptic. I once traveled from California to Colorado and back, in the rear compartment of a 2-door 73 Ford Mustang. Th...

Gary Fluitt

I know that the Colorado slalom scene is starting to really happen because yesterday, in the dead of winter, 15 guys showed up to race some head-to-head tight courses in the Vans parking lot. It was good to see some old faces out there; Wireman (a.k.a. crunchy knee), Rick nietherWidenor<...

Gary Fluitt

I'm gathering some data on your preferences for courses that we raced last year. We'll use the data help with the 2003 series course designs.

Click here to take the 2002 slalom course survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=84447157601

Gary Fluitt

Albuquerque is definitely God's Land of Ditches as advertised. Paul Dunn, Chris Barker, and Myself drove around quite a bit of Albuquerque, and the most often heard phrase was "there's another one"! The place is just a freak show of ditches, everytime you look up some gap in the freeway or surface s...

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