Trocadero Grand Prix, Paris, May 9-12, 2008 [MAIN]

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:46 pm

Yummie!

rmn

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Thu May 08, 2008 5:45 pm

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OPENING PARTY
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Here are some photos from last nights opening party.

...and oh yes, it was also the opening of the photo exhibition by a few local skate photographers, among which you may already know Motz (www.photomotz.com).

...and a booth where you could buy the event t-shirt and obtain more info on the event.

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THURSDAY
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Today we've got beautiful weather in Paris and the freestylers are having a session right now. Dan, Corky, Celine me and my brother are all busy at the office. All is under control and we're looking forward to the first events tomorrow.

/Jani

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Sat May 10, 2008 7:59 am

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FREESTYLE BATTLE ZONE & BEST TRICK
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Winner of Battle Zone: Rene Marubayashi
Winner of Best Trick: Rene Marubayashi

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PARK SLALOM
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1. Jean-Philippe Marie
2. Edouard Ducos
3. Nicolas Morel

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BOWL JAM
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1. Jean-Philippe Marie
2. Nicolas Morel
3. Edouard Ducos

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SATURDAY
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It's nice and dry outside. We're ready for the tight (straight) slalom. The ramps are beautiful and will give good speed. We usually use ramps that are 1m high, but these are 1m40, so that'll give more speed than most will want at the top of the Trocadero hill.

We've set courses of 50 cones (at 1.80 m) for the Pros and 35 for the Ams (at 2.00 m). Someone already raised concerns for the pro course, is it going to be too fast? We'll see.

Start making your bets on who wins today!

/Jani

Joe Iacovelli · Post by **Joe Iacovelli** » Sat May 10, 2008 8:27 am

Jani,

I know loads of us wish we were there. Thanks for the excellent pictures and updates. Please keep it up.

How is Team 161 doing so far? Did they win the party?

Joe

YOYO SHULTZ · Post by **YOYO SHULTZ** » Sat May 10, 2008 10:39 am

Thanks for the update Jani!!
Sorry that I couldn't make it this year, but it's great to see that quite a few Freestylers made it to Paris. Props to my Brazilian friend Rene for coming over and winning, hell yeah!

Guillaume Saint-Criq · Post by **Guillaume Saint-Criq** » Sat May 10, 2008 10:44 pm

Joe Iacovelli wrote:How is Team 161 doing so far? Did they win the party?

Pro tight results
1 - Dom K
2 - Marcus Seyfarth (Team 161)
3 - Janis Kuzmins

Antonio Saluena (team 161) won the AM

Full results will come soon

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Sat May 10, 2008 11:31 pm

pavel rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hans Koraeus · Post by **Hans Koraeus** » Sun May 11, 2008 12:11 am

More verbal comments later. Here are the results...

Saturday Tight-Straight Results (All in one)

Karl Floitgraf · Post by **Karl Floitgraf** » Sun May 11, 2008 2:32 am

Yeeeeeah! Congrats Dom! The machine.

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Sun May 11, 2008 3:34 am

thats awesome racing Dom, your very deserving of the name Dominator. Good luck the next 2 days, to you and all of the team!.

Sadly Im stuck in Canada.

Cat Young · Post by **Cat Young** » Sun May 11, 2008 5:35 am

Ahhhhhhhh Dirty Dom!
Right on baby!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep it up & kick some more booty!!

Jean-Michel ATTIA · Post by **Jean-Michel ATTIA** » Sun May 11, 2008 7:59 am

Well done, Guillaume ! But what"s happen to the Dupont family ?!

Johan Thiel · Post by **Johan Thiel** » Sun May 11, 2008 8:35 am

WOW THATS FAST!!!

Hans Koraeus · Post by **Hans Koraeus** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:31 am

Here are the results for day 3...

Sunday Special Slalom Results (All in one)

We will get all the links on one page when it's all over.

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:50 am

you fucken rock Dom.

Cat Young · Post by **Cat Young** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:15 am

DOM is the absolute Sh*t!!

Hans Koraeus · Post by **Hans Koraeus** » Tue May 13, 2008 12:47 am

Here are the results for day 4...

Monday Hybrid Slalom Results (All in one)

Is this the Pavel thread or the Paris World Cup thread? Maybe I'm posting in the wrong place?

Well, apart from Dominik being the King of Paris it was some very warm and sunny days in Paris. No rain this year. At least not during the event. But 1 hour after the event finished with the last prize cermony in front of the Eiffel tower there apparently was some heavy rain coming down. So this event was historical in this sence. First Paris World Cup with no rain. And of course that made cables and tapeswitches happy also. Things was running smoothly and it was probably the best Paris World since the start. We will see what people think once they get home and get some distance to the whole thing. Right now I just want to sleep.

On the racing side there was also some very good racing and some new slalom talents that have taken 1 or 2 steps forward. Also nice to see that some Americans and Canadians came over to Paris also this year event though some might make priority for the Worlds in Gothenburg, Sweden later on this summer. And funny also to see a gang of Spanish slalomers showing up. Spain have been silent on the slalom scene since the 80's. And fun to see that the Netherlands are starting to show up at international slalom events.

6:th Paris World Cup in a row with Main status. A record hard to beat. But then again, where in the world do you find a better slalom spot than Trocadero in Paris?

Cat Young · Post by **Cat Young** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:28 am

Thanks for updating in a timely manner!!!!

Congrats to Dom for 3 outa 3!
He da man!

Jason Bishop · Post by **Jason Bishop** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:01 am

I really enjoyed myself! Well organised and great fun.
Here are my photographs from the event. I have dozens and will upload as quick as I can.

Any requests for enlargements please contact me at salja@tiscali.co.uk.

Here is the link, hope you like em. Let me know your feedback so I can improve on them next year.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/southcoastimages/

Antonio Saluena · Post by **Antonio Saluena** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:29 am

Thanx to all for a fantastic weekend! Great competition and so much fun to meet all the wonderful people!

Love to all!

Antonio

Sven Lippert · Post by **Sven Lippert** » Tue May 13, 2008 12:25 pm

... HE DOMINIK ... congrats in the name of the BERLIN CREW for the TRIPLE !!!

we want to become your menetscher ... hehehehehehe

cHEerS from Berlin

svenne and the rest of the crew

Steve Hinzen · Post by **Steve Hinzen** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:39 pm

I knew Dominik would win the Hybrid, but going down in history by winning all 3 races?

This is totally DOM !

Now everybody watch out for future races:
talent, pysical and mental power - the Dominator has got all you need for winning slalom races.

p.s.: it's a pitty he couldn't make it to the park race, know what I mean.....

Guillaume Saint-Criq · Post by **Guillaume Saint-Criq** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:47 pm

Thank you all for coming !
I have a lot of fun seeing you all once again and great time racing.
I'm already looking forward the next one.

Big up to the main organisation : Jani !
You did a really good job, this year war certainly one of the best ever, and everything was near perfect : smooth races, excellent speaker (;) ), big prize money for pro's...
Thanks to your brother, Corky and Dan for all the work at the time table (and before and after).
Thanks also to Michel for bringing these excellent starting ramps!

Big thanks to Chris Hart and Airflow Skateboards for help and amazing trophies.
Thanks also to all of our sponsors for the amazing prize giving :

Another big thanks to all who work as cone judges during the three day : Riderz crew and Politic Longboard Activist crew
It was really hard with this sun, you did a great job

Special thanks to Claude and Mary Beth for their kindness, lot of advices, and taking care about Sandrine when she cashed during training few days before the race.

Ok, it's over, and as Antonio said : love to all !

Guillaume Saint-Criq · Post by **Guillaume Saint-Criq** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:48 pm

Steve Hinzen wrote:Now everybody watch out for future races:
talent, pysical and mental power - the Dominator has got all you need for winning slalom races.

p.s.: it's a pitty he couldn't make it to the park race, know what I mean.....

Dom was also in top 3 for the high jump event

Stefano Bellingeri · Post by **Stefano Bellingeri** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:50 pm

Congratulations Dominik!
From what I saw, you deserved the three victories.
CU in Hannover,
Stefano

Pelle Gustafsson · Post by **Pelle Gustafsson** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:37 pm

To all who make this event possible,and all totaly wonderfule racers from all countries. and a specaly thanx to DONALD..... cant waith to race againe!!

Peter Klang · Post by **Peter Klang** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:11 pm

DOMINIK
UBER
ALLES

paul brunninkhuis · Post by **paul brunninkhuis** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:13 pm

a long weekend of paris madness can really screw up one's rythm.. but still smiling!
what weather, sweet grippy tracks, all kinds of nationalities flying by, craziness, domination, niceness, old and new heroes and the fair competition!!

thanks for the great weekend, everything went smoothly as far as i could see, great mc'ing, lots of help from the seasoned racers, great vibes!

merci et au revoir!

Marcus Seyffarth · Post by **Marcus Seyffarth** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:39 pm

WOW THAT WAS FAST!!!
Next time we'll avoid the cones as well

Thank you Riderz crew, Jani, Corky, Dan, Per and all others that helped making this a world class event!

Robert Gaisek · Post by **Robert Gaisek** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:47 pm

Jason Bishop wrote:I really enjoyed myself! Well organised and great fun.
Here are my photographs from the event. I have dozens and will upload as quick as I can.

Any requests for enlargements please contact me at salja@tiscali.co.uk.

Here is the link, hope you like em. Let me know your feedback so I can improve on them next year.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/southcoastimages/

GREAT PICS!!

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:27 pm

Thank you for a great time!!!
I enjoyed every minute of it. Great skateboarding, great people, perfect weather and a great place as well.

Congratulation to all winners and specially to Dom. Well done.

Hans Koraeus · Post by **Hans Koraeus** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:09 pm

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
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Day 1 (Friday) - Park and Bowl
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Freestyle - Battle Zone:
1. René Murabayashi, BRA

Freestyle - Best Trick:
1. René Murabayashi, BRA

Park slalom:
Park - Quals (PDF)
Park - Finals (PDF)
1. Jean-Philippe Marie, FRA
2. Edouard Ducos, FRA
3. Nicolas Morel, FRA

Bowl - Best line:
1. Jean-Philippe Marie, FRA
2. Nicolas Morel, FRA
3. Edouard Ducos, FRA

Bowl - Best trick:
1. Nicolas Morel, FRA

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Day 2 (Saturday) - Straight slalom + Flatland Freestyle
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Straight slalom - Qual & Elims: PRO, AM, Women (PDF)

Straight PRO
1. Dominik Kowalski, GER
2. Marcus Seyffarth, SWE
3. Janis Kuzmins, LAT

Straight AM:
1. Antonio Saluena, SWE
2. Gustavs Gailitis, LAT
3. Jean-Sebastien Dennebouy, FRA

Straight WOMEN:
1. Nastasja Wolfensberger, SUI
2. Joy Spearing, SUI
3. Sandrine Ferreira, FRA

Freestyle:
Freestyle (PDF)
1. Günter Mokulys, GER
2. Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson, SWE
3. René Murabayashi, BRA

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Day 3 (Sunday) - Special slalom + High jump
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Special slalom - Qual & Elims: PRO, AM, Women (PDF)

Special PRO:
1. Dominik Kowalski, GER
2. Janis Kuzmins, LAT
3. Hans Göthberg, SWE

Special AM:
1. Robert Thiele, GER
2. Antonio Saluena, SWE
3. Pelle Gustavsson, SWE

Special WOMEN:
1. Nastasja Wolfensberger, SUI
2. Joy Spearing, SUI
3. Sandrine Ferreira, FRA

High Jump:
HighJump (PDF)
1. Vincent Langlade, FRA
2. Martins Liepins, LAT
3. Dominik Kowalski, GER

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Day 4 (Monday) - Hybrid slalom
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Hybrid Slalom - Qual & Elims: PRO, AM, Women (PDF)

Hybrid PRO:
1. Dominik Kowalski, GER
2. Ramón Königshausen, SUI
3. Christoph Baumann, GER

Hybrid AM:
1. Robert Thiele, GER
2. Johan Thiel, SWE
3. Dylan Longridge, SUI

Hybrid WOMEN:
1. Nastaja Wolfensberger, SUI
2. Sandrine Ferreira, FRA
3. Erica Schoirfer, FRA

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Slalom overall
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Overall slalom PRO, AM, Women (PDF)

Overall PRO:
1. Dominik Kowalski, GER
2. Janis Kuzmins, LAT
3. Ramón Königshausen, SUI

Overall AM:
1. Robert Thiele, GER
2. Gustavs Gailitis, LAT
3. Antonio Saluena, SWE

Overall WOMEN:
1. Nastasja Wolfensberger, SUI
2. Sandrine Ferreira, FRA
3. Erica Schoirfer, FRA

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Statistics - Participation
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Participation (PDF)

Johan Thiel · Post by **Johan Thiel** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:17 am

A huge THANK YOU for making it happen again.
Jani, Corky, Dan, Per and all the others that made it possible.

Have some pictures to share. Might be some focus on the 161 team and Sweden

but here you are

http://picasaweb.google.com/johanthiel

PRO - Special slalom:

PRO - Hybrid slalom:

AM - Hybrid slalom:

AM - Overall:

Juniors

1. Oscar Strid (10 yrs)
2. Olle Bauer (14 yrs)
3. Christopher Dupont (14 yrs)
(Ed note: This is according to age, not necessarily to placings)

See you all soon

Michel Dupont · Post by **Michel Dupont** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:19 am

FREESTYLE

First of all, a huge thanks to Corky, Dan, Detlef, Paul and Flavio (great speaker, we are counting on you next time as well) for your participation in the freestyle event. To Jani and Lillis for making it happen, to Jean-Mi for fixing problems on-site and to ETNIES and Sk8kings for sponsoring the event.
It was great to see freestyle back in France with so many participants and a high level of skating. I’m sorry I couldn’t compete, but I’m looking forward to meeting you all soon.

Back to SLALOM…

Thanks to the PoliticLongboardActivist team for helping us out with the ramps Tuesday and to all those who helped us pack up on Monday.

Secondly, as already said above, it was a GREAT week-end. Especially for Christopher who entered the CONERACING team, who beat Antonio (Antonio’s DQ doesn’t matter for him he is going to buy a picture frame for the results anyway) and who did some very good results with the amateurs (and I’m not saying that because I’m his father).

Congrats to the Dominator, king of Trocadero.

It was great to see old friends and to make some new ones. Well, we just had a fantastic time and we can’t wait to see all of you at the next race.

Some pics up soon.

Dupont family

Hervé Berthou · Post by **Hervé Berthou** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:32 pm

Here is some freestyle runs -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRkbUuC3wDs

Michel, your english is perfect !

YOYO SHULTZ · Post by **YOYO SHULTZ** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:23 pm

Although I could not attend this year's Freestyle event, I want to say a BIG THANKS in the name of all Freestylers to the organizers to include this event in Paris. Quite a few highly ranked Freestylers made their way to Paris, so there is even more room for next year.
We have some new blood in there as well and even Rene from Brazil made his way over.
Keep on going....

YOYO

Dominik Kowalski · Post by **Dominik Kowalski** » Thu May 15, 2008 1:10 pm

YEAH!!!!!!!!

I don't want to leave Paris without a little feedback...but mostly I already told Jani, as it was all done and over and a small cloud appeared and gave us rain at last. So strange. It really just rained at the troca, across the seine, everything else stayed dry. That really was a moment, and that made it perfect after all.

Man, I like to say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making this event the best ever!
The schedule was full of skateboarding events. There you had pool (grrrr!), High Jump, Freestyle and Slalom all included. Wonderfull!
ok...

pro:
+++ Timing system: flaweless, quick and I really enjoyed the starting with a random beep method (altough it could have been started a bit earlier in average), and now there you had something more likey what a reaction time really is!

+++ Schedule: I loved it. It made it for Pros very comfortable to race! AMs get to practice, as the crew is getting set. Pros come late and finish early. Great! Cause Pros want to finish the race, and the ams could watch the Pros and learn, and think about setting up their equipment and skate longer. and having a little ceremony after each raced day! Nice!

+++ MC Jani on tha mic, constanly giving good information, in english or french. He just did a lovely job!

+++ Media: Many many photographers and guys with videocams. The poster looked great (would also have been without me printed twice....

+++ Awesome prices for ams, and very good money for pros!!! Congrats on this.

+++ The weather! Can't really control it, but thanks anyway!

This year Paris raised the bar for any upcoming events! Good information, together with a good schedule, good equipment and a professional team, gives a super combo!!!!
Thanks again for all the hard work! There are maybe more stuff to consider that I can't think of right now. But it is not hard to tell that you've done a really good job, and with this I mean everybody involved.

cons:

- The food was not as good as last year. It was a bit poor, and strange to me that I couldn't choose what to drink, well unless you really really begged.

- - - Corky

- - - all those toilets not working!--------

---------especially the one across the street at the troca. Didn't find any button to indicate it was closed, and there you go, I took a poop as a young mother and her child wanted to enter, I was holding the door hard as it kept on opening....because the kid kept on pushing the fxxking button!!!! Priceless!

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:23 pm

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COMPLETE RESULTS
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This is just to let you know that I have updated Corky's post above with some new results, primarily for Freestyle, Bowl and participation (273 race entries, 93 unique riders, 12 countries).

/Jani

Hervé Berthou · Post by **Hervé Berthou** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:42 pm

Night fall at 1m35 and Effeil Tower lighted at 1m40 !

http://picasaweb.google.fr/herve.bertho ... oGrandPrix

Bart Brunninkhuis · Post by **Bart Brunninkhuis** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:43 pm

i had so much fun! thanks to the organizers and racers!

Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy · Post by **Jean-Sébastien Dennebouy** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:58 pm

Thanks to all the riders who came to see us !!
What a good start event to begin this season...

CND's pictures are available : See the gallery

Rob Ashby · Post by **Rob Ashby** » Sat May 17, 2008 2:46 pm

I can't believe a week ago we were all basking in the Paris sunshine now I am watching the rain running down the windows back in UK!

I just want to say a big thanks to Jani and his massive team of organisers for a great weekends racing, even if I did spend more time picking myself up off the tarmac than perhaps I would have liked! I loved every minute of it and can't wait for next year.

Here is the link for my Paris photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robs_galle ... 096318415/

Grégory Girard · Post by **Grégory Girard** » Sat May 17, 2008 4:45 pm

It was awesome, an amazing week-end ! Thank you !

Hervé Berthou · Post by **Hervé Berthou** » Sat May 17, 2008 6:34 pm

It was so good.

Tks

Look ->> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHp8_n_eRPg

kenn james · Post by **kenn james** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:17 am

Vincent Berruchon wrote:Our parisian skatepark is nearly finished
Look at a few pictures I took yesterday (and a few minutes skate all alone in the bowl!!!)
http://www.riderz.net/galerie-simple/?s ... _finitions

We were waiting for so long... Me and David went to many meetings with other parisian associations to give our points on this park (yes there is a roof!!!)

Now we can really expect a nice park-slalom/death-race during the Trocadéro Grand Prix!!!

awesome! that totally rocks! surely it's the best event ever!

Join the ISSA 25 cone series. One cyber race every second month!

Regular sessions allow newbies to join our community and discover slalom racing.

Trocadero Grand Prix, Paris, May 9-12, 2008 [MAIN]

Results: Trocadero Grand Prix - Friday

161 - Antonio

PICS

pAris

Thanx.....

Re: PICS

PARIS: COMPLETE RESULTS

Just want more

Frreeeeestyle

PARIS I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

High jumps pics