ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Dear Mikael Emrik and rest of organisers,
Many thanks for putting on a really well organised, good vibe contest. Can't wait for next year!
best wishes
Pat Holden

thank you!






Gothenburg Slalom World Cup June 15-17

We want to thank all the racers, officials, sponsors, wives, girlfriends, kids, and everyone else who helped out and made this weekend a very special one. The competition, and racing was great throughout the whole weekend.
Everybody came with a smile on their face , and left with a smile.
Hopefully we'll be able to pull off an even bigger, greater, and more efficient event next year.
If you have video-footage, photos etc.. from the competition and wants to share, please send copies, photos, videofiles to:
info@slalomskaters.com, send small files directly, and bigger ones through www.yousendit.com for example, be sure to put your name on the mail etc...
We will put everything here on the website in due time. So from all of us, a big thank you.. until next time!


By the way, i know we've had some trouble with the website, but hopefully it's up and running now, so check for all results etc.. at www.slalomskaters.com

I'm still in Sweden enjoying my kind of vacation on a small island now. We've just been cruising around in a small boat.
Nice landscape.
Nice funpark. (The five-man-family-boat splash)
Nice food. (Mmmh yoghourt! Mmhh fish!)
Nice girls. (blond?)
Nice accommodation (;-))
Nice nightlife (right Dom?)
Nice organisation. (good decison have been made*)
Nice courses. (fast, technical stuff!)
Nice prizes. (Decks for every amateur, cash for 7 out of 12 pros.)
Nice mice rice.

Those who didn't show up really missed something!

Thanks a lot Emrik, Henrik, Mika and crew!

rmn


*Some decisions were hard to accept because some things that would have needed to be under a kind of hierarchy were not clear from the beginning. Like not counting the 1. final round of the GS after it had started to rain as the final results even though everyone had his run...

Great riding with everyone in Sweden. The level of competiton gets better every race!

Good results all round, very close racing, photos of the race, the rain and others here.

Thanks for the hard work to the Swedish guys, and Ramon enjoy your vacation while the rest of us are at work

photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39089904@N ... 392106989/

use the 'view as slide show' setting on fast.

hi there paul , is it ok to download a couple of your best pics and put on our website?

peace EMRIK

PS:

Good media coverage (TV&Newspaper)
Good results publishment (quick and on the official homepage! Plus info mail!)

Furthermore:
Asking for feedback right after the contest. Very progressive.

Waiting for the pictures.

hej då

rmn

Thanks to all who helped making this event, and in special Emrik, Micke, Henke, Yoda and Corky. In my opinion the best this far!

To name a few thing we had great courses, fast surface, super ramps, exciting competition, lots of very close racing, trusty coneheads, available results, super nice park, media coverage en masse, lots of audience, racers area, entertaining speaker (great PA), schwag/cash to most, smart position of the start tape, great events around and lots of other things that made it a super event.

Those who missed it hopefully get to experience it next year!

Two things that could be even better next time is the weather and the tempo between rounds/races. Sometimes the racing was down too long for people in the audience to understand what was going on. Still we got in so much racing that we got to do special qual two times and a whole day of just bonus racing

I haven't got to many pics, and close to none slalomrelated,
but here they are.

I wonder if the racers know that there is no beam to reach for... And Janis if you should lift the front wheels, do it at the start

thanx

the swedish weather. especially in Gothenburg is better in august, so maybe.. next years contest should be held later during the season?
I agree on speeding up the rounds etc...
I would like to see a big sponsor like Swatch or Longines.. so you'll be able to use the same system as slalomskiers, and track and field athletes use...that might speed things up, even though Corky is fast with his fingers...
and also e better communication system between starter, cone-officials etc...
but I still think the audience understood and had a good time watching the racers.. etc..


Emrik

here's a link to Tv4 Goteborg with an interview with Dominic etc..
In the last part of the show.. I'll put just the skate-bit on the website soon as well.

http://tv4nyheterna.se/2.139?videoId=1.124564

Yeah, why had my voice to be so f***ed up they didn't inlcude my interview?

rmn

Ramón Königshausen wrote:Yeah, why had my voice to be so f***ed up they didn't inlcude my interview?

HAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! lala la!!!!

oh shit....just missed my train. I'll be back at night, maybe by then I have sorted my memories of this trip, because there is sure more to tell about this event. Well, all in all it was a wonderful one. I try to get through all the pics as soon as possible, but for now i would like to say:

THANK YOU! THANK YOU THANK YOU THaNK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanx MIKAEL, HENDRIK,CORKY,EMRIK (Hopefuly your knee will be god and you will compete soon too)
This was the best competition this year-safety,courses,media,prises, corect decisions from organisers about discutable things,atmosphere all around....
I see a lot of perspectives for Goethenburg next year.
Marcus you catch me (how), sory for every body plese let me my third place in special, i know that was ilegal to made all course on the back wheals.

Thanks a lot, emrik, micke, henke and all others for the best competition in sweden so far!

anyway, i found some more photos here:)

http://niklas.fotopic.net/c1304636.html

Looks like a great race in many, many ways.

Hey, Dom, if you do any more interviews you'll need to get a press agent!

First thanks a lot Mikael and all the others who hade organized this greatest event!
Second thanks a lot who included junior group. Baby’s is our future in slalom, too!
Third hope you have motivation to organize competition next year too.
And welcome to Jurmala!

There's a bunch of photos from saturday at my website: http://www.surf.exponering.se/
(it's in swedish, but choose 'Blandat' and you will find the link to the pix).

To the racers and organizers: Thank you for the show!

/Christian

TRY emrik@emrik.nu

I also wanted to say BIG THANKS to all organizers ! It was the best race I have ever entered! Yesterday me and my father we were in radio and we spoke about Gothenburg event (results,emotions etc.). There were also few posts about latvian slalomer results in Gothenburg Slalom World cup.
I hope that there will be also big event in Gothenburg next year because this year it was FANTASTIC. I think that I don't need to write all good things about this event - EVERYTHING was perfect !
Hope to see you all in Jurmala and I hope also next year in Gothenburg!

Stats from the race

http://www.ettsexett.com/gallery/img/Stats/

Maybe not the most beautiful, but pretty interesting.

But it says paris world cup?

EMRIK LARSSON wrote:But it says paris world cup?

The first few are for PSWC 2007 and the second half is for Gothenburg. I had the same initial reaction. Those titles are not very large.

Cool stats Marcus!
We need to build that into the timing software!

/Jani

My belated chance to say thankyou to all of the organisers for making sure that we were looked after and catered for at every turn. From large scoreboards for the public to view racers' progress to remote monitors for enthusuiastic finishers; from a competitors' tent for racer kit which included water and bananas, to external facilities including stalls catering for food, equipment and WCs; from well made ramps and fully railed-off race area, even collection from the airport, reasonably priced onsite accommodation and post-race hostelry; right down to excellent challenging courses and fast, tough decisions as to race layout given the constant threat of poor weather, not forgetting the provision of a great website and broad marketing and media coverage so as to spread the stoke. Great work from the Gothenburg team!



http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 398880761/

And a special thanks to Ingo who not only attempted ramps and a fast GS course on his first race, but also ferried the UK team around Gothenbug and rescued us in the rain. He'll be a big race threat next year!

Thanks again,

Sam

P.S. Yes, the Liseburg Park did scare me senseless. And I only went to Burger King.

well said, sam.
a good statement about what made that contest so special.

honestly, no flume ride for you?

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Flume, Holger? No. I wanted to try it out, but under the instruction of Team Leader Price and Wing Commander Reiss we had to try out the four most extreme rides in twenty minutes before heading to the airport. Bragging rights, apparently.

Not wanting to do any of the rides, I was duped into a weird queuing system for the fast food store:



These Swedes have the most rapid damn Drive Thru' I ever seen.

By the way, don't tell Peter, but in the UK it would appear that a certain Mr. Kindler gained the Numero Uno position in Gothenburg:

http://www.ukslalomskateboarding.com/

Sam

How about wheel stats?

What I rode

rmn

KLICK ON THE LINK..

Har lagt upp lite bilder från lördagens tävling här http://www.stefano.se/images/GBG%20Skat ... index.html

Om det är några av bilderna som är intressanta så hojta till så kan ni få fullsize versionerna av dom.

MVH/Stefano Strömberg
"aka McSpace"

jag vill ha hela bildserien när jag slår Strobel.

Kan betala för mig om det är så.

PK

Salve,, maila vilka bilder du vill ha till mig på stefano@stefano.se så fixar vi det!!

McSpace

Paul price very kindly gave me a shirt from the event and it is my favourite shirt to slalom in! I was wondering if you had any left from the event in medium that you would be willing to sell or swap for a large "Showdown on Main Street" Race shirt from the Park City race graphics designed by Judi Oyama? http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/phpBB ... php?t=4178 see poster.
I am going to Grenoble so could do the swap/purchase there....
Thanks,

yeah we have a couple of the shirts left.. what size do you have..
I'll tell Mikael hadestrand to bring som tee's , peace emrik

allright medium.. yeah i think I have a couple here at home..

Thats wicked, if you like I'll bring the Park City shirt too and Michael can decide for you then if you want it or just cash or a combo....The Showdown shirt (never been worn) has the full colour poster on the front and all the sponsors logos on the back!
Thanks again Emrik,

Martin Drayton wrote:Paul price very kindly gave me a shirt from the event and it is my favourite shirt to slalom in!

Yeah that's so true! I like that shirt very much, too!


rmn