[2010] GANG OF GERMANY - GERMAN OPEN, AUGUST 21/22

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:18 am

so here we go with another gog race
what do we offer?
2 days hybrid and gs with extremely fast starting ramps and good!!!!!!! courses
gs is supposed to be around 2 mins long on a new venue close to duesseldorf
day 1 is duesseldorf
day2 is close to duesseldorf

big pool party in the evening at our factory-you will see something indoor that will remind you
of a bigger skatepark,free beer in the evening too
during the days we have rockstar sponsoring free drinks for the racers too
free shirt
sponsors so far:
pavel/gog
octane sport
concrete wave cologne
longboardz.de
rockstar
frankenheim
carhartt
more are likely to follow

entry fee is 30 euros

since this is the official german championship for this year we will crown the german champion for the year 2010 there and since this is an open championship somebody else might take 1st place international.
open class,loosers brackets....

racers attending: 41 and counting

countries so far:brazil,england,usa,swasiland,germany,sweden,france,czechoslovakia,netherlands
(9 different countries)
sebastian bandtholz(ger)
thomas rustemeier(ger)
peter jachmann(ger)
sven lippert(ger)
henrik wadsten(swe)
michel dupont(fr)
christopher dupont(fr)
petr novotny (cz)
martijn nijs(nl)
alex dehmel(ger)
olli dehmel(ger)
gunnar peitz(ger)
markus roch(ger)
martin hoppe(ger)
frank beste(ger)
kako max(br)
steve pederson(usa)
dominik kowalski(ger)
martin boehmfeldt(ger)
axel kleinhans(ger)
christoph baumann(ger)
oliver otten(ger)
daniel vogt(ger)
ramon königshausen(sui)
steve hinzen(ger)
markus kaffke(ger)
paul price(uk)
sam gordon(uk)
louis selby(uk)
rob ashby(uk)
holger kindler(ger)
peter klang(swe)
frank sommer(ger)
chris schütz(ger)
heiko schöller(ger)
carsten pingel(ger)
thiago gardenal(br)
flavio badenes(nl)
ernst jan de boom(nl)
kathrin sehl(ger)
thomas rustemeyer(ger)

we also expect heavy traffic from sweden and from the netherlands

so more to come soon

if you want to participate just post here on the follow ups and i will put your name on the list.

Ramón Königshausen · Post by **Ramón Königshausen** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:09 pm

Yay, I've been defending German Champion for the past 7 years (there simply hasn't been a German Championship since 2003). It's about time someone gets to fight for the crown, Dominik

rmn

Bart Brunninkhuis · Post by **Bart Brunninkhuis** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:01 pm

good to see you guys still want to organize something after the cancelled brixlegg!!

Aivars Karklins · Post by **Aivars Karklins** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:22 pm

If I get a place to stay then most probably you can coun't me in

Carsten Pingel · Post by **Carsten Pingel** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:45 am

I am in, too!

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:23 am

ramonski
kowalke is in the house,say goodbye to german champion,you are from swasiland anyway,but in your heart you shall remain a kölsche jung forever.

what's up with the dutch fraction?
french?
eastern boyz?
spanish?
italian?
nobody coming?
are you scared?

c'mon
we got people coming from the us and from brazil-kako is no hoax,he booked his flight and he will comepete-so you better not miss the chance to race against 2 brazilians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
your chance of a lifetime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gog is back in full swing,expect trashtalk,fun,and lots of gnar to come from us.

Peter Pletanek · Post by **Peter Pletanek** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:46 pm

I am sure some czech boys will arrive !!!
Me unfortunately not --> Family Holidays.

Have a fun and perfect race!!!

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:25 am

Me and Ernst-Jan will be there.

Flavio Badenes · Post by **Flavio Badenes** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:26 am

Thiago Gardenal (from Brazil) also told me he will go.

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:42 am

just updated the list-thx for the dutch support flavio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thomas Rustemeier · Post by **Thomas Rustemeier** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:17 am

Hi,
i will take part,too!
best regards
thomas

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:22 am

as an axtra bonus we will have a medical tent at the race track with an experienced physiotherapist to help anybody with issues or just the hunger to see a sexy lady privately!

Michel Dupont · Post by **Michel Dupont** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:04 pm

Count me and Christopher in. I have a revenge to take on the "German bear"...

Petr Novotny · Post by **Petr Novotny** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:15 pm

Hi Donald,
I´ll be in there also.
Petr Novotny

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:58 am

no spanish skaters?
come on it's not that far away....

Michel Dupont · Post by **Michel Dupont** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:46 pm

No trip to Germany for us. My shoulder is still "out of order" after Hradec Kralove with no hope of skating before 3 to 4 weeks. Hope you all have fun.

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:34 am

sad to hear that michel heal well best wishes from here

updates:

new ramps are finished 6ft awesome ride

new riders confirmed
we even managed to dig out vince hell yeaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

there is a video production company at the race

they will film everything and use the video material to fish for big sponsors for next year

this is a very interesting opportunity for the sport as finally companies such as-you name it-will be approached by professionals.

that company is something like a consulter,so the production will be awesome and chances are good that we will have different names in sponsoring next year,names we never had before.

i am very optimistic about the whole deal

news and pics every day in the evening here.
so check this thread sat eve and sun eve

thanks

Rob Ashby · Post by **Rob Ashby** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:09 am

Sounds good Donald - always good to hear of a bit of media interest - good for the growth of slalom.
Would there be any chance of getting a copy of the footage once it is edited etc. to show on our stand at X in the City?

See you in a couple of days.

Paul Price · Post by **Paul Price** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:14 pm

Sam, Rob, Louis and me are flying from London - looking forward to the event. Cheers!

Vincent Berruchon · Post by **Vincent Berruchon** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:17 am

Let's go!!
I'm getting out of my lair

see you in GOGland!!!

PS : On sunday after the event I'll have to be at Dusseldorf airport around 18:00 (take off 19:15)- Donald will probably be quite busy after the race, I hope to find a good soul to help to get my plane.

Sam Gordon · Post by **Sam Gordon** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:57 am

Packed and ready. We'll be there whatever the weather!

See you later,

Sam

Vincent Berruchon · Post by **Vincent Berruchon** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:53 am

saturday should be :

sunday is more uncertain

but hey it's good to come to see all of you slalom pirates!

Sam Gordon · Post by **Sam Gordon** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:38 am

Is there a schedule or rendez-vous point and time for Saturday posted anywhere?
We need to know when to get up!

Ernst-Jan de Boom · Post by **Ernst-Jan de Boom** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:17 pm

Yes Sam, the only thing I know is that we have to go to dusseldorf.......but its not a small "dorf" its a city!
Please give us some advice!

Paul Price · Post by **Paul Price** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:57 pm

Saturday's race is on the west side of oberkasseler brucke Düsseldorf.

Registration 10am for 11am start

Put this GPS location into google maps '51.229315,6.764016'

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s ... 06516&z=14

I am the factory, will go pick up Team UK 8.30pm

Gustavs Gailitis · Post by **Gustavs Gailitis** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:19 pm

Good luck to all the racers - looks like there will be some fierce battle for the German title

Ernst-Jan de Boom · Post by **Ernst-Jan de Boom** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:37 pm

thnx Paul!

Rob Gerlings · Post by **Rob Gerlings** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:22 pm

I'm in See you tomorrow.

please put me on the entry list Rob Gerlings from Holland.

flying dutchman

Cat Young · Post by **Cat Young** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:12 am

How's the contest going?

Rick Floyd · Post by **Rick Floyd** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:10 pm

You better be ripping it up like there's no tomorrow....Pederson

Dave Larson · Post by **Dave Larson** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 8:50 pm

Yeah Stevie. Go Yank

Carsten Pingel · Post by **Carsten Pingel** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:03 pm

A-group:
1st: Dom Kowalski
2nd: Heiko Schöller
3rd: Homer
4th: Chris Schütz

B-group:
1st: Sam Gordon
2nd: Carsten Pingel

3rd: Steve Pederson
4th: Peter Jachmann

C-group:

I can't remember!

Does it mean that I am the german amateur champion due to the fact that Sam is British?

- nice sunny 1st day
- very close and fast final runs
- relaxed athmosphere

I think Don will post the official PDF's later this evening.

let's see what's happening tomorrow !?

good night everybody!

Daniel Gesmer · Post by **Daniel Gesmer** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:26 pm

At the request of Donald Campbell, I am posting the following results -

Hybrid Finals
OFFICIAL RESULTS

Group A
1 DOMINIK KOWALSKI
2 HEIKO SCHÖLLER
3 CHRISTOPH BAUMANN
4 CHRIS SCHÜTZ

Group B
1 SAM GORDON
2 CARSTEN PINGEL
3 PETER JACHMANN
4 STEVE PEDERSON

Group C
Spreadsheet data incomplete.

…Dan

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:43 pm

thanks dan
it would be nice to see the complete spreadsheets with the times,if you can't link those to a server i have to wait til mondy to post em up.
i will resend group c in roughly 8 hours

Márcio Benevides · Post by **Márcio Benevides** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:37 am

Thanks Daniel...

How did Kako and Thiago do?

Regards!!

Dave Larson · Post by **Dave Larson** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:30 am

Nice goin Steve .You have come along way baby.All the way from Minnesota USA

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:52 pm

Any results yet?

/Jani

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:50 am

all results and spreadsheets are in your mail jani.
check out who won for the people who can't wait
here he is:

or better said part of him

more in a few

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:44 am

next is a few pics i received from an old skate-buddy tom lorenz,thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heiko schoeller against his new teammate markus roch,he picked up racing 2 months ago,keep his name in mind for next season!!!!

killer kowalski on his way to victory

homer vs chris schütz from berlin another raw talent

another shot of heiko wih his new(white not black) helmet

here is one with cocoa thiago in the lead,hahahaha-only we know the secret cocoa story

another BIG surprie from france,vinnzzzzzzzzzzzzz came to our contest after a long absence from racing,he vinnzzzzzzz big love and hugs from your buddies-you're a killer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:49 am

og gog member frank th bank checking the course

sam gordon doing he eagle flappy flappy yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

steve pederson who came all the way from the usa powering through the course

a view from the back with sticker peter charging through the course

the timer guys,it was a good weekend with only 1 mistake we made,again we wan to apologize for this to martin hoppe.

another shot of our newbie markus roch

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:07 pm

day2 super hybrid single lane
best out of 3 runs

1 dominik kowalski 13,621
2 vincent berruchon 13,875
3 thiago gardenal 14,112
4 christoph baumann 14,143
5 chris schütz 14,157
6 frank beste 14,223
7 daniel vogt 14,375
8 markus roch 14,397
9 ernst de boom1 14,429
10 kongo 14,514
11 kako max 14,521
12 kathrin sehl 14,784
13 louis selby 14,920
14 paul price1 14,972
15 steve pederson 15,084
16 ferdinand lindner 15,237
17 sticker peter 15,244
18 jeroem steggink 15,503
19 martin hoppe 15,666
20 sam gordon 15,920
21 benjamin klatt 16,001
22 dirk jonczyk 16,229
23 rob ashby 16,282
24 philip enzmann 16,353
25 maxiliano reggi 16,605
26 fränky sommer 16,873
27 sebastian bandholz 16,937
28 markus kaffke 17,400
29 gunnar peitz 18,887
30 nancy schwade 19,107
31 felix buchholz 20,174
32 linus enzmann 20,283

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:24 pm

day 1 qualifying times:

1 Dominik Kowalski 13,338
2 Chris Schütz 13,693
3 Heiko Schöller 13,709
4 Frank Beste 13,840
5 Christoph Baumann 13,848
6 Ernst-Jan de Boom 13,892
7 Thiago Gardenal 14,018
8 Vincent Berruchon 14,038
9 Paul Price 14,108
10 Kongo 14,186
11 Louis Shelby 14,238
12 Daniel Vogt 14,278
13 Ferdinand Lindner 14,281
14 Markus Roch 14,284
15 Holger Kindler 14,330
16 Kako Max 14,364
17 Steve Hinzen 14,445
18 Sam Gordon 14,601
19 Petre Nowotny 14,606
20 Kathrin Sehl 14,715
21 Carsten Pingel 14,750
22 Steve Pederson 14,835
23 Manfred Koffinke 14,952
24 Peter Jachmann 15,159
25 Benjamin Klatt 15,319
26 Starsky 15,328
27 Jeroen Steggink 15,360
28 Martin Hoppe 15,363
29 Rob Gerlings 15,394
30 Rob Ashby 15,841
31 Dirk Jonczyk 16,156
32 Philipp Enzmann 16,564
33 Sebastian Hertler 16,866
34 Maximiliano Reggi 16,985
35 Sean Monroe 17,255
36 Gunnar Peitz 17,957
37 Sebastian Bandholtz 18,041
38 Franky Sommer 18,536
39 Anna Vackova 21,274
40 Andreas Schumacher -
40 Alex Dehmel -

afer qualifying we separated he starter field into 3 groups A B C
we had a total of 40 racers,here is the breakdown
group a 16
group b 16
group c 8
then we continued as follows

group c merged with the last 8 of group b and battled it out

top 8 c group went ino the finl b group and battled it out the regular way

a group remained as it was

so we ended up with more racing for the not so good racers,it seems that this was good and encouraging for the slower ones.

Aivars Karklins · Post by **Aivars Karklins** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:05 pm

That's the thing slalom needs to keep the stoke alive! Donald, you know how to make events happen

P.S...Nice pics by the way!

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:08 pm

forgot to add the overall ranking
#1 dominik kowalski
#2 christoph baumann
#3 chris schütz
#4 thiago gardenal
#5vinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
#6 frank beste
#7 ernst jan de boom
#8 kongo

summarizing the whole event dominik kowalski is his years german champion
thanks you's go out to:
heidi kitzhöfer for being the physiotherapist for the weekend-her services were for free

markus kaffke:helping with the ramps and with the timing
kako max,markus roch and his wife,steve hinzen,andy leistner,carsten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-hey all helped wih he ramps
frank hulshoff from the video production company for showing interest in this sport
käthe and christoph for the excellent trophies.
anybody else i forgot to mention right now...
heiko and fränky for sponsoring the event.

all the riders who showed up from across the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris Schutz · Post by **Chris Schutz** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:59 pm

many thanks to the pavel-gog-crew from the Berliner Kurvenrollsportverein for the nice and fast event!
it was a great weekend with a lot of new people i met!

hope to see u all in Amsterdam!

chris

Ernst-Jan de Boom · Post by **Ernst-Jan de Boom** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:25 pm

What a beautiful pictures!

Thnx Gang Of Germany for the hardcore races! It was a great event and you guys have got a strong army!

Aloha.

Paul Price · Post by **Paul Price** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:33 pm

Always a pleasure, there was some exciting racing over the weekend, and the weather stayed good for us. Thanks to Donald at Pavel for a fun event. More racing soon!

Rob Ashby · Post by **Rob Ashby** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:13 pm

A big thanks to Donald and the GOG crew for a top weekend of racing. I look forward to racing on that GS hill next year - with permission :o)

There are some photos from the weekend here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 9ef2c1cfa4

See some of you in Amsterdam in a couple of weeks time.

Cheers

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:17 pm

Here are the complete results as PDFs.

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... d_Qual.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... roup_A.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... roup_B.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... roup_C.pdf
http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/event ... Hybrid.pdf

ps. I asked for them, so I had to do them myself...

/Jani

Steve Pederson · Post by **Steve Pederson** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:07 pm

Thanks for the fun race!

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

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

[2010] GANG OF GERMANY - GERMAN OPEN, AUGUST 21/22

[2010] GANG OF GERMANY - GERMAN OPEN, AUGUST 21/22

The tussel in Dussel

G.O.G.

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