ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Yes,

A big Thank You to the following persons who have made a big effort in getting in event results for the 2009 World Ranking or other help or motivation boost.

Rick Floyd, USA
Silvio Endrizzi, Italy
Josef Stefka, Czeck Republic
Gustavs Gailitis, Latvia
Ricardo Damborenea, Spain
Jani Söderhäll, Sweden
Guillaume Saint-Criq, France
Jean-Sebastien Dennebouy, France
Marcus Seyffarth, Sweden
Maria Carrasco, USA
Tom Mangelsdorf, USA
Jonathan Harms, USA
Steve Pederson, USA
Joe Iacovelli, USA
Gary Fluitt, USA

And all others forgotten and missing in the list...

If you like to look at the rankings, and even if you don't (liar!), send Corky a thank you for all his volunteered hard work in making this happen this year!

Congratulations to the top three in each division!

Pro Men
1 - George Pappas USA
2 - Martin Reaves USA
3 - Joe McLaren USA

Women
1 - Lynn Kramer USA
2 - Cat Young USA
3 - Ella Roggero GBR

Amateur Men
1 - Robert Thiele GER
2 - Sebastien Leger CAN
3 - Gustavs Gailitis LAT

Masters Men (45+)
1 - Keith Hollien USA
2 - Marty Schaub USA
3 - David Pirnack USA

Masters Women (45+)
1 - Cat Young USA
2 - Judi Oyama USA

Junior Boys (-17)
1 - Gabe Duquet CAN
2 - Dan Duquet CAN
3 - Jaroslav Knettig CZE

Junior Girls (-17)
1 - Eva Wicheová CZE
2 - Ella Roggero GBR
3 - Irene Di Giorgio ITA

And an additional special shout to my Men's AM class bros - Robert, Seb and Gustavs...GREAT JOB. And to Justin Collins and Kevin Delaney, who likely would have been in that top 3 had they had 6 scored races...especially to KD for having the guts to race Pro at the Dixie Cup (when he did not have to) and STILL take home some hardware.

Huge THANK YOU to everybody involved in pulling the ranking together and of course biggest THANK YOU goes to CORKY!!!

Shame that PRO’s were almost 10 (!!!) times less than Am’s and only 43 women…
Well, I can’t race in women, so I’ll move up to PRO this year (trepidation over me when I wrote that line!)
For me it was a great year of racing and 3rd place in AM (2nd in 4year ranking )!

Congratulations to all the top finishers in the ranking ! ! ! Why I wasn’t born in Colorado?

And of course congrats to Louis Ricard from FULLBAG as being the ’’ PRO Rookie of the year’’ He’s also 7th PRO overall just behind 3 Colorado guys and 3 European K’s – great debut in PRO, I hope that I will be able to keep the same level

Happy New Year to everybody!!!

I hope that one of the New Years resolutions for every slalomer all round the globe will be to improve his position in the World ranking (I know that Ramon will try to do that ) !!!

Looking forward to my debut in PRO and some great racing in 2010

Rick,

Thanks for helping getting the all the Northeast US data into the ranking!

Terry

YES! Thanks to everyone involved.

I have heard in the past that points and rankings were not such a big deal, but take them away and boy it sure did seem to matter.

Corky has been at it for a long time, now he is getting help and relief. I am very glad.

I have always used the rankings as a recruiting tool, c'mon kids, see your name on the internet and if you are faster than your friend, it will show that too! Glad it got rounded up and there is no lapse.

Joe

Joe Iacovelli wrote:YES! Thanks to everyone involved.

I have heard in the past that points and rankings were not such a big deal, but take them away and boy it sure did seem to matter.

Corky has been at it for a long time, now he is getting help and relief. I am very glad.

I have always used the rankings as a recruiting tool, c'mon kids, see your name on the internet and if you are faster than your friend, it will show that too! Glad it got rounded up and there is no lapse.

Joe

Just noticed Nick is ranked higher than you in AMs...was there money riding on that?