ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

I wrote an email to marcus and bob regarding a possible race to be hosted in Venezuela and ruled by the IGSA,
as i havent receive any answer yet, i decided to post it here

"Right now i am in the proces sof organizing an international event that
will include the 3 versions of the sport i mentioned before, so i would
really be interested on getting all the information needed to receive any
support or help you can provide, this will be my 5th contest so i want it
to be perfect and thats why i chose one of the perfect hills i seen i
here, u may see the full course on the attachment sent.

What i have in mind its pretty much like the downhill part of the "sandia
all around challenge" or the recent Brazilian contest Champ Do Funil
(http://www.champdofunil.com.br), the reason its that 99% of the locals riders dont use leathers for racing, some even do it on shorts and t-shirts, so we are not ina aprofessional level as otehrs countries are rigth now, BUT i strongly belive that this will be the "eyes-opener" for many of those riders that are really good to take some seriousness on the sports and maybe race in a professional level.

So my idea will be sme flexibility of the IGSA rules (wich we are
translating and adapting for the local scene) that allow the local riders
to race on denim jackets or similar protection.

if you have any comment on this matter pls let me know and we will work
things out."


you can download the file in here http://www.speedmasters.net/comp.ppt

Thanks in advance for your help

Leo

Hello Leonardo,

I'm happy to see that you're organizing races in Brazil, and translating the rule book. We do know that there are some fast racers there, we have met a couple who have travelled to races in North America and Europe.

I know that Marcus and Bob have been very busy with the races here, we just had a world cup race that they organized. The final answers will have to come from them, but I'll try to guess what you'll probably hear.

For an event to appear in the IGSA rankings, it will generally need to follow all the rules, including wearing leathers for skateboard downhill. If you organize a slalom, then t shirts and pads are OK. You might notice that in the rules for inline downhill there is a sentence allowing race organizers to modify the leathers rule, which was done because in Europe many experienced racers do not wear leathers for inline downhill. You might want to propose a rule like that for downhill skateboard for 2004. Then you could have your races count as regional (like West LA College) or even national championship races. I'd definitely recommend against racers going 60 kph in t shirts, the results of crashes will scare away a lot of people from the sport. But maybe jackets and pads would work OK for you.

I hope that we can get it worked out to help racing in Brasil, and hopefully we'll get more racers travelling to Brasil to join you, and get some more Brasilian racers to come up north to race.

Good luck!

Scott

Scott, thankx for the reply

just one thing

its Venezuela where we are

leo

Ah yes, Venzuela is better for me, I can speak some Spanish!

Bob is working on the rules right now, if you don't have his email, it's: Bob Ozman <streetluge@juno.com>

Hasta luego,

Scott