ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Heiko Schöller wrote:HI Sam

I will post some more Infos tommorrow. We all stay at the same hotel (Mercure). So don´t worry we will arrange it to get you guys to the strandbad (racetrack).
Carsten and I will arrive at the Mercure about 22-23 o clock on Friday. See you guys in the Hotel-Bar?

Heiko, did you book at : Mitte mercure hotel or Messe mercure Hotel ?

just for a few minutes in the office.

sorry taht we don´t post the subway stations. to the hotel mercure use subway number 1 or 2.
the station of the hotel is called, bahnhof laatzen/ eichstraße.
from there it´s sven stations to the maschsee (direction to the city)
the station called döhrener turm.

here is a link to the subway map.
http://www.gvh.de/deu/dateien/2006_Stad ... 090506.pdf

the racers choice is the hotel mercure messe. just follow the link of the world cup website.

From the Mercure Hotel (Karlsruher Strasse) after a short walk go to the Trainstation
"EICHSTRASSE". Line "1 - Langenhagen" or "2 - Alte Heide". (not "Laatzen" or "Rethen")


Get out a the 6th station "FIEDELERSTRASSE"


Cross the Street under the Bridge in Direction "McDonalds", you will see it
Now you should be on the "WILMERSTRASSE" and go along a Car Dealer.
Turn on the next Street right (a very bad concrete) and go along the "HEUERSTRASSE"
If you go under a trainbridge again, you are on the correct way!
Turn left on the end and go along "RIEPESTRASSE". This walk only takes a few minutes
and on the end you should see the parkinglot from the "MASCHSEEBAD" in front of you.


In case you missed the trainstation "FIEDELERSTRASSE", go out on "DÖHRENER TURM",
cross the street and walk along a small way through some trees ("VIERTHALERWEG"),
turn right on the end and the parkinglot from the "MASCHSEEBAD" should be in front of you.
You cant miss it

Edit: If you are 2 to 5 People, there is a special ticket for the Train "Tages Gruppen Ticket" , thats 7,20 Euro for the whole day !

Thanks Heiko, Dete and Mario. I'm arriving on Friday morning having made the booking before the race plans changed.

Even though I'm 'never drinking again' again, do take a quick look around the floor and edges of the hotel bar for remnants of the English. There might still be a Union Jack sock with life still in it.

Sam

If you need a "local skater" for some sightseeing skating, or, if you not training on friday
and want not to get drunk alone on friday, send me a message.
Maybe i can hook up ya

keep the fingers crossed for no rain!!!!!!

We already arrive Thursday afternoon...could somebody show us the bowl or is there anything to help or so?!

Mobile phone: 0041 79 676 21 24 (text messages prefered)

Yeah Fred we all booked the Mercure Hotel near the Messe/Expo. Just follow the link at
www.skateboardworldcup.com Hannover

We will arrive Friday Night at about 22oclock...

Heiko Schöller wrote:We will arrive Friday Night at about 22 o'clock...

So do we (Corky, Dan, Vinzzz and myself).

/Jani

Thanks Mario; appreciate the offer. I'm packing now, taxi arrives in a couple of hours time to get me to the airport. Reckon that a long and lazy siesta on arrival might be the best treatment for this piece of aching flesh. Feet up, sombrero down. Hasta manana.

Sam

oh what can i say ... berlin 10 o`clock - sunny blue sky and not a cloud in sight - looks promising for the upcoming weekend ... the mighty slalomgods have heard our prayings

cheers till tomorrow
svenne

Hey guys

I don't know if you remember me from Köln 2004, I wanted to wish everyone a excellent time at the race this weekend. I'm graduating high school on monday so I'm flying in a June 13 to Dusseldorf. Have fun, see you in Riga!

Thanks Karl!! Call me up when you are in Koblenz, so we can shred!!!!

Best regards and gratuliere!!!

Any results available yet!

Here is a link with the results as provided by Dan Gesmer.
I just uploaded them on my webspace, so there is a folder with the individual events and pdf files.
http://home.arcor.de/skateyoyo/SLALOM/Hannover%202006/

never forget this:
detlef the hostess with the mostest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there you go
superlaidback race organizer
thanks for the good vibes and all your input into the event

next year again for sure

you da man

where are the results ? I can't open Yoyo's link !!!!

Carsten Pingel wrote:where are the results ? I can't open Yoyo's link !!!!

The link WORKS.....maybe your PCs got a problem. You have to install a pdf plugin...maybe....

Hi everybody !

A big THANK to Detelf and the Hannover crew for this WE of competition, as usual the organisation was perfect : nice tee shirt, food and drinks for free, price accomodations, good vibes and so on !!!!!!
As Don wrote, I'll be there next year for sure !!!

Fred.

... dete and the crew - i can only say the same like fred - nice event, nice food, nice drinks anyway, even if i liked the expo fest last year ... the idea with the miniramp was perfect !!!

it was really surprising to see how the slalomscene developed in the last two years especially in the OPEN CLASS - i mean the suisse guys ARE EXTREMELY FAST as always, the french guys come up but germany and especially the gangs from the ruhrgebiet/köln area and even the hannover guys are getting faster and faster ... puuuuuuuuuuuuuhh

sven lippert wrote:... dete and the crew - i can only say the same like fred - nice event, nice food, nice drinks anyway, even if i liked the expo fest last year ... the idea with the miniramp was perfect !!!

it was really surprising to see how the slalomscene developed in the last two years especially in the OPEN CLASS - i mean the suisse guys ARE EXTREMELY FAST as always, the french guys come up but germany and especially the gangs from the ruhrgebiet/köln area and even the hannover guys are getting faster and faster ... puuuuuuuuuuuuuhh

yah buddy !..... we ´ve got to stop smoking maybe (...hehe)...well....you said it before ...GREAT WEEKEND...nice to catch up with you folks ...
....and yes ...they were fast !!!....probably still thrilled from paris !....
...it s a pity ,we didn t find a decent GS spot yet ...i really loved this GS thing ..
...good laughs ,when 2 of the guys turned out to be a bit gay ,by wearing their "aerodynamic racing clothes ".....
prost from berlin

peter darius jachmann wrote:...good laughs ,when 2 of the guys turned out to be a bit gay ,by wearing their "aerodynamic racing clothes ".....
prost from berlin

You mean those one ?!...





who's this mysterious racer ?! ( king of the hill last week... )

That was the key against the f***** headwind !

Yes...and there was also a factor called "hangover of Hannover"


rmn

Ahhh. So that's why there was no beer left in Germany on Saturday evening.
Hannover had been Ramoned.



Someone told a certain 'Ginger Ninja' about a large bucket at the bottom of the hill.

Haha!

Thanks for the pictures Sam!

May I post the link to your gallery? I think yes...

SamG's photo gallery

rmn

Ha ha! For sure Ramon! Anyone who can skate like that after a skinful either has to be hugely talented (unlikely) or the meandering progeny of an erring Steve Olson.

Here's another link:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/161533093/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/67/161533093_0ff5fdb30e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P6043711" /></a>

Don't argue with Katrin. Here she blows an uphill breeze back into the face of Aeolus.

Cnut could only dream of such skills.

yo Sam ! Thank you very much for the wonderful pictures ! Allways fun to review a very nice race weekend with friends from all over Europe.
I try to make it to Riga, but for sure see you in Brixxxxx for some exiting races and exiting beers and exiting women and exiting pizzas and exiting pool races and and and...

Sam Gordon wrote:Ahhh. So that's why there was no beer left in Germany on Saturday evening.
Hannover had been Ramoned.



Someone told a certain 'Ginger Ninja' about a large bucket at the bottom of the hill.

yesssssss.....i didn t recognize this fast guy that mutch (hheheee)...sure...sexy indeed !...also with shaved legs ??
great shots ,sam !
@steve...you forgot your secret trick you told me that day ...alwaysalways tape your shoelaces when you go out for a serious skate !
thanks again for the nice weekend
prost gabbagabbahey

Less spectators than last year but less rain, too. There was a good all around service for the riders and even family members (big thanks!) with free food and liquid. A good deal for only 40 Euros! I just have to find somebody who likes the t-shirt.

The cone judging wasn't as good as I expected. Next time, Dete, you better give those guys their well deserved beer AFTER the race, not before.

Personally, I didn't like the trophies very much. Aki showed how to improve the design in an easy manner.

Thanks to all riders for even coming from far away.
I was happy being surounded by so many Pavel-Team-mates.

Thank you to Donald for making the Giant race possible by bringing the whole equipment all the way from D-dorf.
Bad luck the speed-rush of a real Giant race was blown away by the wind hauling up the hill. It made the course a lot slower than expected. Aerodynamics were the key.

Congrats to Donald, who deserved his third place in the Giant race more than anybody. He was racing good all weekend.

The Hannover World Cup was another great race in Gangland.

Now stay tuned for race no.2 of the Great Western Race Series in Octobre this year!

The road back home was so long (Hans didn't check which airport was his flight, so it was longer than expected to get to the other one far away North from D-dorf)
but we had a great week end in the city of Hanover!
A bit surprised by the flat spot at the begining, but the nice mini-ramp was good
Good giant but too bad that we had so much wind!

But what about the skimboard contest?? My boardshort has stayed dry!

Does anyone happen to have a picture of Ekaterina Khabelashvili with a Belarusian copy of a Bennett truck on the podium? I’m doing a write up for a couple of Russian and Belarusian sports magazines that would benefit tremendously from the podium pictures.

Thanks!

thank you for being here in hannover. it was a nice race for us. after all the trouble with the expo sommerfest and the fun sport days, we were happy, that our race was held. next year we don´t trust others. we will organize our own event.
be sure, we will find a good location (hopefully the expo area) and a new spot for giant slalom.

if you have pictures from the hannover race, please send us pictures and your name on cd and we will post your named gallerie on our website www.skateboardworldcup.com

see you next year in hannover????
dete

Dete, thanks for sorting out some excellent racing under adverse organisational conditions.
If you want to use any of the snaps I've taken, then go right ahead.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/161243819/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/56/161243819_1988b4464f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P6033414" /></a>
Adel "don't call me Frenchie" the Frenchie.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 157335044/

Sam

the hannover world cup was in the local press, that means 150.000 readers see the article from our World Cup. It means, local sponsors get interested in the event. that means maybe we find a sponsor for next year. that means, we can organize a better race.

for skaters, it means.....nothing. what we have to do is, organizing not only races. we need to organize local sessions to bring new blood into the slalom sport.
after 2005 we found 5 new slalomers from Hannover that compete in the race 2006. it´s so small.

let´s see what we can do for 2007