ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Chris Eggers wrote:Vote for racer representatives:

Chris Linford, UK
Donald Campbell, Germany
Chris Hart, Switzerland

I would suggest adding Vincent Berruchon, France.

I also think that there should be at least one Swede in the group. Extend it to five in total and you can still make it fair. It is normal that an event held in Sweden has at least 20% of Swedish influence. It should then be someone not (too much) involved in the organization. Maybe Henrik Madsen?

/Jani

yes why not have five, although there is a german saying that "too many cooks destroy the meal"..............well, five is ok I think and why not have a swede in there........note all should be able to speak in one language, (for example english).

Yeah, Peter puts up the list an then lets get to work.....eh, vote

If Donald is not going to Stockholm , Steve Hintzen or I will take his part !? Or Chris ?? What about you ?

We have discussed this and have our view. There are reasons to everything so Ill put this as simple as possible. Even though we understand the world is not perfect.

Swedes do not get to vote, even more important, Swedes can not be in the representative group. Why??? Well the non-Swedes will be stronger and freer to criticize the event and stress the racers issues. We think the racers need a strong voice free of any Swedish influence, only then can the organizers and the representatives have an honest dialog.

Therefor NO Swedes can be representatives.

Why can’t we vote (Jani), well if Swedes vote they influence the choice of representatives, which can be misinterpreted at the end. If we going to have a completely free and independent group of representatives it most be free of Swedes.

I can’t understand why anyone would want us in the group, we are the congest of the world, we are simply a pain in the ass.

If no other claims the European Championships for 2005 until Saturday January 16 I propose we officially announce Stockholm. It's important for us as organizers to know. We want to get started contacting sponsors and it will help towards the local authorities. As Chris mentioned it's also good for the racers to know as soon as possible to be able to plan ahead and getting cheap tickets.

Stockholm has good communications with Ryan Air. These are current prices in SEK (Swedish crones). 100 SEK is right now 11 Euros so most prices are 22 Euros. Very cheap!

Düsseldorf(Weeze) 196
Brussels(Charleroi) 196
Milan (Bergamo) 199
Riga 196
Frankfurt (Hahn) 196
Rom (Ciampino) 209
Glasgow 196
London Stansted 196
Girona (Barcelona) 299
Hamburg (Lübeck) 196
Paris (Beauvais) 196
Shannon 299


Riga is a new destination for Ryan Air from Stockholm. Since they will have a competition the weekend before why not take a whole week off. Go to Riga first weekend then take som vacation days in Riga/Stockholm before the Euros in Stockholm Friday-Sunday.

So I take it then that we officially can decide that...

Stockholm gets the 2005 European Championships in Slalom Skateboarding.

thanks for mentioning me,chris.
that's a great responsibilty and i'll gladly accept the offer,if no one votes against me doing it.
hopefully the brits will show up in a big bunch too,especially chris lindford,after all the bad vibes that have happened here in the last few months.

No flights by ryanair for one of the strongest nations, Switzerland?

rmn

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Peter, how steep are the courses? Some comrades want to know...

Will 1.8m be used for women's class as well as for men's?

Privjet Vlad,

The Hill used for the Giant Slalom is steep enough. It curves almost 90 degres at one point.
The venue used for the tight and straight will be flater compare to Paris. When you go through the tight special slalom course you will be happy its not steep.

Straight slalom women will run the same course as the ams and juniors, 2.20 m. If riders want to tighten it up to 2.00 we will listend.

Ti pridjosj?

/Nendatjnik

Great!

I'm asking this for Elena Sinodalova (who I'm sure will be bummed to hear about 5 meter parallel Sl and who would most likely want to compete in the men's Pro class @ 1.8 meters).

Foot-dragging or runout? (again, some concerned comrades from the flatland slalom country would like to know)

Bunches of thankses and DA, a few people have already marked this one as a MUST-ATTEND.

Well,
I think Elena shouldn’t be bummed, 2.0-2.20 meter apart is still fast for this course. The start ramp will allow riders enough speed to slam, knock down cones and DQ. In the special slalom I hope nobody complains till they see the course, it will be tight.

The Competition will have three courses all different. It’s meant to be variation, not two- three similar courses. Therefor a straight (not so tight high-speed course), a tight (very tight and technical course) and a long big offset giant course (demands a totally different technique compared to the tight).

I think there is something for everyone at this race, not only slalom. The race on Saturday and Sunday is just outside Stockholm Skatepark. Bring all your board there is also a decent downhill course near by. Bring your shorts, there is water all around in Stockholm, bring your appetite, there is GREAT food in Stockholm.

A little point, Sweden is in fact NOT as expensive as France, Switzerland or the USA.


//Dragan

hello peter,
congratulations to you hosting the european championship.
hope to see you there. we plan our trip to sweden.
is there a website for your event, where we can sign in?

yeah, keep on rolling

Just a few days more. Soon, very soon. We are just about ready. It will not be 100% complete anyway so we will go for it as it is in a couple of days.

Well if Riga and Stockholm happen on consecutive weekends I will surely attend both.

John Gilmour wrote:Well if Riga and Stockholm happen on consecutive weekends I will surely attend both.

That's my idea too, stay a day or two extra in Riga for sightseeing, then head over to Stockholm and get there early.

See you there!

/Jani

20 Oct 2004 12:17 5 - European Championships 2005

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Stockholm wants to host the Euros 2005.
Anyone out there with plans of hosting the Euros 2005?

Stockholm will run a three day event july 15-17 with
Gaint Slalom, Big offsets long course (40 sec).
Tight Slalom, like Morro Bay style, about 70 cones.
Straight Slalom, 6 feet= 1,80 meters, 60 cones.


This is how its going to look like if the racers of Europe wants it.

Let us know how you feel. All comments are welcome, don't be shy.




13 Jan 2005 17:10

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If no other claims the European Championships for 2005 until Saturday January 16 I propose we officially announce Stockholm. It's important for us as organizers to know. We want to get started contacting sponsors and it will help towards the local authorities. As Chris mentioned it's also good for the racers to know as soon as possible to be able to plan ahead and getting cheap tickets.

I would say, this was long and clear enough by Peter Klang and the Swedes. In our unorganized (somehow) situation, this was absolutely correct and well done in my opinion. I am really looking forward to the event.

Thank you Chris,
WE did not feel like stepping on any ones toes. WE have allot of respect for all, and WE have a dream of a global world cup, including the U.K.

I hope the dust will settle down and I will be able to show Mr. Stride my behind in a nice tight slalom race once again. I hope the Uks will come and all this b+++it will stop. I don´t like it.

Let´s skate........

Peter,

how did the representative-voting-thing come out? I think it was a good idea....

Well,
Chris Hart seems to be popular. Others are Heiko, Kenny, Gilmore and Pierre.

Keep letting us know, WE are listening up till the contest.

Ok, that's it. Let's go official.

4S (the Swedish Skateboard Slalom Society) represented by Peter Klang, Marcus Seyffarth and myself welcomes you all to the...

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2005 European Championships homepage
euro2005.dinstudio.com
</center>

We wanted to get it out early so have patience with some links not implemented yet and that some info is still to be written. Go have a look and if you plan to come then the registration is open for you to register on site.

Welcome/Välkomna

nice page Corky !!!

I'm in for the Euro 205...

great so far as I saw it, but very slow (at the moment)

Perfect website. I´m already registered and paid via paypal. I can´t await to get into the pool...

is it only slow for me?

he guys - last year i had a lot of fun during the esc in cologne - this year there is not much space in my contestcalender except from hannover cause of several reasons - no worries its okay for me - i wish everyone who i know and maybe knows me especially mark, ramon, steve (PAVEL), donald20 (PAVEL), chris, heiko (KALIBER) a lot of fun, fast and clean runs. perfect weather, dry pavement and a hot and rad pool-session.

shit it sounds like it will become a great event - so what i can not get everything i want ...

what about my BERLIN MATES : peter, dani, stefan, marky, starsky do anyone of you will raise the "PAPE-BRATS FLAG" down in stockholm ... i hope so

Behind the Euro2005 homepage
- Main structure and layout: Corky
- Information: Peter Klang and Corky
- Registration section: Marcus Seyffarth
- Design: Henrik Madsen

Our designer Henrik had to work under very hard limitations and could not do exactly as he wanted but I think it turned out quite good. For our site development we used the slalom slogan: "Better fast than pretty!".

I think there is enough to read for most people. But more will come. Now, go register yourselves.

- Maximum limit of racers in total: 100

what is the limited number of racers good for?

It is to be able to give you more racing for your money. The more racers the less time for you to skate. Maybe 100 is too much... maybe we should lower it.

We plan for 25 pros, 50 ams, 5 girls and 5 juniors. That only makes 85. We will do some kind of Jam qualification. So the less racers we have the more runs we can do.

More detailed info about how the jam will be done later. There are some interesting variations to use. Finals are Head to head (except for the GS).

peter klang wrote:Well,
Chris Hart seems to be popular. Others are Heiko, Kenny, Gilmore and Pierre.

Keep letting us know, WE are listening up till the contest.

To vote, should we send a private message with three names (only 3 not more in case one was not there) to you Peter?

It would be great to have a more precise list to know who think to be at the competition.

Hey Vincent,
There are votes on you as well, you can post them here or mail me at peter.klang@seb.se
Three names. looking forward to here from you.

Cheers
Pierre-Marie

Check out the web-site.

http://euro2005.dinstudio.com/

//Sören

Mollica, Strobel and Hart are registered for the European Championships.

Are you?

Check out the Euro 2005 Registration.

I haven't a Paypal account weither a credit card...so what can I do?

rmn

Ramon, you say "Please Chris can you pay for me and I'll pay you back, like later. Like when I become a millionaire on slalom skateboarding". He will probably laugh as much a those who did the same with Tony Hawk once. I don't hear them laughing anymore. So it may be worth a shot.

Ehm okay, you're right...lalala....

rmn

We have lowered the fee for women and juniors.

1/4 of the maximum 100 places are already registered.

We will soon look over how many participants are possible to give everybody enough racing for their money. The more racers the less time for you to skate. Maybe 100 is too much... maybe we should lower it.

We plan for 25 pros, 50 ams, 5 girls and 5 juniors. That only makes 85. We will do some kind of Jam qualification. So the less racers we have the more runs we can do.

<center>
2005 European Championships homepage
euro2005.dinstudio.com
Registration directly
</center>

Guess who have just registered for the European Championships?

Only two major countries on this side of the Atlantic missing in the registration list. England and Russia. Have anyone seen them? They seem to be lost.

WRONG
one country

paul will be there,gear up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

besides that,i still have my british passport,so i'm a crossbreed?
hahahahahaha

A couple of questions regarding the Euros:

Is this the right airport (as it appears on Ryanair): Stockholm S. Skavsta (NYO), and what time does the GS start on Friday 15th?

I'll be riding my bicycle over the Pyrenees earlier in the week (yeah fascinating) but am hoping to make it to Stockholm for a bit of skating if the body and wallet hold out.

By the way, crossbreeds are fine. Three's a team.

All Stockholm airports are just fine.

The biggest is Arlanda. Bus ca 45min, fast train - big bucks will get you to the central in 15 minutes.

Skavsta (south of Stockholm) and Västerås (north of Stockholm) are smaller airports. Bus 1.5 hours. These are Ryan Air airports. Paul Price got a ticket from London to Västerås last year for peanuts.

Current plan is we will start GS qualification at 11. If there are many Am's we might split the jam in two groups. One early and one a little bit later. If so the world ranking will decide the groups. Top Ams can sleep another hour, Lower placed Am group will go first. All just early ideas. Check out the euro 2005 site now and then.

Current time schedule plans

I thought so. There are so much good information at the homepage for those who do take their time to check it out. See also the travel info page.

The European site is well designed, but does take a while to check out on the computer available. Each window takes 4'00" to open. Each wrong turn means a minimum of 12'00" before fresh information is received. I thought that it might be best to do a direct posting request whilst simultaneously checking the site. Use the tools available. Due to work parameters I cannot afford to allow buffer time for transport errors and therefore like to get the relevant details ratified before committing.

Thanks Corky!

ah another one, see Corky, Peter?
I have a very fast connection, but the site takes forever to load........

Kenny Mollica here. How's it hanging Euros? Robin and I are planning on coming to Stockholm for the race and are excited. I have had a lower back problem (damage disk) which I have been working hard at getting better. It feels better, so we are coming. No Latvia as we are not bringing our son Ryder and don't want to be gone more than 5 or 6 days.
We are 90% sure, but have not purchased plane tickets yet. I think I am going to see how the first three races go in San Diego (Pump station III), Athens, Georgia and Paris.

This back thing sucks and I might also, so cut me some slack. I may have seen my best days.

We are really pyched and will probably come no matter what. I just don't know when I will get the chance to check out one of the coolest places in Europe. Thats what they say.

It will suck if I can't get on the podium like the past two years, but not as bad as staying home. I need to hang with my Euro brothers and sisters and mid-july in Sweden sounds like the ticket.

I dont know what the voting is about, but please vote for me.

Peace, love and Donald Campbell

How do I get my picture to post up with my emails? can I use a different one every time ?

Kenny Mollica wrote:How do I get my picture to post up with my emails? can I use a different one every time ?

Kenny, send a picture to Glenn@slalomskateboarder.com. The site was set up so that it has to be done by an admin. We should open it up, but haven't had the time.

See you at the races!

/Jani

hey kenny,sucks to hear about your damaged disc.
trust me-it ain't over yet.
keep on working out your lower back,keep it warm and keep up the spirits!!!!!!!!!!!
all thumbs up for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kenny,

Sad about the back problems. Whether you can skate or not in Stockholm, don't worry, we will take care of you and Robin so that you both get a nice stay either way. Stockholm is a nice town.

Funny this thing about the site being so slow for Chris and Sam. Are there others having the same problem? What I understood from Chris it was slow at work but ok at home. All computers I have tested works fine. Would be nice to be able to figure out the problem. There are programs that can track the internet route and list the times between each node. That could be a first step. Anyone that knows something about this?