ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

hey claude
hotel mercure is aprrox 3 boardmins from the tracks at the expo,basically across the street to say so
there will be plenty of guys to share the car with when we go to the gs course.
so stay relaxed everything is cool and stop wondering,eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

I was born relaxed.

I'm so relaxed I put you all ASLEEP, eh!

We leave in a few hours, Yee Haw!

See you all soon. So how's the surface for the races on the Expo site? Like the GS from last year?


was mache ich, wenn der kajak kentert?

last year we organised a race on the expo site as a part of the expo summer festival. it was cancelled 3 weeks before.
this year we organised a race on the expo site as a part of the expo summer festival and they cancelled the race three days ago.
for this year we find a new location with a steep slope (see pics before)
this place is 5 minutes by car from our mercure hotel.

we decided to move the whole world cup to this place. it´s called sarstedt. they will welcome all skaters and organise food and drinks. we will have a stage after the finish line.

all disciplines will be on a slightly downhill course. tight will be same distance betwenn the cones but in a wave line. special will be spezial, different. giant will be really giant (and 300 meter long) tight and special will be on the same road as the giant but in the lower section.

we where in the local newspaper a few days ago.
for skaters without a car, we will organise a shuttle service from the mercure hotel to the race site.
we are looking forward to organise a good major race. thanks in advance to christoph baumann, he is working on some special trophys and to donald, he will help us with the t-shirts. there will be a little money from carhartt and eastpak.
free food and drinks as last year and a nice pool session in the campo arena on saturday night.
if it will be rainy, we will move on sunday to the expo area. there is a big parking house under the ikea warehouse (but only possible on sunday)

that are the latest news. i will be in paris the whole weekend. feel free to ask me more about the hannover race. hope to see you all next week

Dete, please tell us more about the giant.

The sign on your photo indicates a 15% slope. How long is this section? How steep is the rest? What maximum speed can be expected? How is the runout? Will Amateurs and Pros race the same course?

Further detailed information would be appriciated, thanks in advance.

Dete! Thanks for the extra work. I know it must have been a tough time with 3 days notice. Looking forward too seeing you Paris.

hey steve,
the giant course is about 300 meters long. first 150 meters are steep, we will set the course very wide so you don´t get too fast. the fastest section will be the last 40 meters of the steep section. after that we pass a road that is flat for 20 meters. no chance to jump off the board here. after this road we enter the tight course. it´s about 6% here and we set the course more technical here (and fast) for about 70 meters. the rest is easy and the runout is flat and long.

maybe we build a special giant ramp for this hill.

Thank you for the quick response, Dete.

pls. post a map or a description of the new location in Sarstedt.

Thx.

Does anyone know how to get from the HBF in Hannover to the Mercure hotel? I leave tomorrow and will be there thursday evening.

Karl

Karl Floitgraf wrote:Does anyone know how to get from the HBF in Hannover to the Mercure hotel? I leave tomorrow and will be there thursday evening.

Karl

take the subway, it's pretty fast and cheap !

chek on the hotel site's to find the line and station...

must go to work, see you on friday morning !

YEAH !

Karl,
go to the Hannover Topic from last year ! As far as I know there was a detailed description of a local guy how to get to the Mercure by train.

Hi there,

I will be leaving for Hannover Friday very early in the morning. Would you have an address for the place where the competition is going to be held at?
Is it near the EXPO? Just give me the name of the street and I can get there. Thank you.

and..
I will be staying at the Formula One hotel. I am driving so I can help you guys with transporting racers to the competion site or anything else, just let me know.
See you all soon.

We made it and Gary and Dave arrived later last night.

Messe/Laatzen 1 seems to be the best and closest stop near the Mercure - Expo site. There is no FREE internet at the Mercure. SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're doing laundry and we are at the internet cafe accross the road.

Dette if you have a chance can you drop us off some cones. There is plenty of space on the Expüo site to run some cones.

It's probably a good time for me to start practicing

Looking forward to seeing everyone here.

We are a few french leaving tomorrow evening to fly to Hanover, arrival at HLX airport: 22:50.

I was to share the room with David who finally didn't book as we said as he doesn't know if he will come...
I hope it's still possible to share a room booked for one person, or to book at the same price!

But my real question is: who will be there on friday with a car to go to the indoor skatepark during the day (Detlef said it's free for us)? The wooden bowl is great but you need a car to go there.

Vinzz, why do you need a car to go there? You can easily get there by Strassenbahn....I'll probably join you.

rmn

Ramón Königshausen wrote:Vinzz, why do you need a car to go there? You can easily get there by Strassenbahn....I'll probably join you.

rmn

I was thinking it was far away and not easy, but if you know how do go easily that's great.
Lookin forward to skate the bowl with you

Access to Hotel Mercure:



http://www.mercure.com/mercure/fichehot ... tion.shtml

Vincent Berruchon wrote:

Ramón Königshausen wrote:Vinzz, why do you need a car to go there? You can easily get there by Strassenbahn....I'll probably join you.

rmn

I was thinking it was far away and not easy, but if you know how do go easily that's great.
Lookin forward to skate the bowl with you

It's not right around the corner; you have to change the Strassenbahn once, takes approximately half an hour or so...we'll see. Otherwise we gather a few people


rmn

Detlef -- Can you please post driving directions or the address of the race location since it is no longer to be held at the Expo please? We'll be driving in later this evening and are not staying at the Messe. Staying at the Mitte instead. Thanks and see ya soon!

That's what I found out.....

Departure: Mercure Hotel / EXPO Hannover
Destination: Sarstedt

but I don't know where to go in Sarstedt !

hey Claude, i will bring you some cones to the hotel today, but i´m not sure at what time.

Sam, thank you for posting the location of the hotel.
and thank you Carsten for posting the sarstedt location.

Maybe someone can post a map. i´m not firm with that and no time to post.
i post the way from the hotel. it´s easy in sarstedt. just ask for the Kipphut (the only hill in sarstedt)

now working.

Which S-Bahn line do you take to which stop? Shouldn't be hard info for the organizers to post but one hell of a pain to figure out on this end. That hotel website doesn't give very good instructions.

i post it few days before.
you can go from the airport to the hotel with the s-bahn directly.
the stop is messe hannover.

from city or mainstation or whatever take the underground number 1 to sarstedt.
the station of the hotels is called
Laatzen Bahnhof / Eichstraße

from there you go to the last station of the number 1, called sarstedt.

you will find more informations under
http://www.uestra.de

link to map& adress:

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&q= ... iwloc=addr

So, is it Am Kipphut as mentioned before or Paul Gerhart Strasse as Lennard sais?

kipphut is the name of the hill and paul gerhard straße is the name of the street.
hey claude, yesterday i was in the mercure hotel at the messe, but at the reception they told me, you don´t checked in this hotel. so i try to bring you some cones. anyway. today we start preparing the race course. you will find me in sarstedt.
you can call me on mobile phone. my number is 0049-177-3090001

Just read this on another site (seems he doesn't know about this forum):

On 5/31/2007 clingfilm wrote in from United Kingdom (80.43.xxx.xxx)
What a nightmare.
4 hour plus drive to the airport and they closed the gate.
I am now booked on Ryan air at 6.45am to Duseldorf, however you spell it (its 2 am already)

If anyone know where the event is please phone the hotel for me and leave details.
+49 (0)511 / 87 57 30

Hopefully they have kept my room and easyjet have kept my return flight from Bremen. This could not get more complex.

IF ANYONE HAS A NUMBER FOR SKATERS OUT THERE ALREADY PLEASE CONTACT THEM. I should reach the hotel by midday or I give up.

Having a bad day, hopefully it can get better.

Chris

i called the hotel. they hold the room for chris.
all the details of the hotel you will find on the website of the event
http://www.skateboardworldcup.com

.... the BERLIN BATTLESHIP for this years hannover race contains only KONGOOOOOOOO AND PETE "STICKERHUNTER" JACHMANN. starsky, marky and svenne have to stay at home for different reasons. we are sad about the situation but anyway it is how it is.
we wish you guys nice and fast races and GOOD WEATHER CONDITIONS !!!!!!

CHEERS AND OI ! FROM BERLIN
svenne

oh sorry CONFUSION - STARSKY IS WAVING THE BERLIN FLAG IN THE PRO DIVISION

good luck mates ... i`m locked here in circle town

It's 6:00pm on Sunday in Hannover. Anyone care to post some results?

back to cologne after an challenging weekend in Hannover ! The GS was faaaast, and for the next time I 'd like to race a GS w/o a huge starting platform in the middle of the track ! The Special was fun to run, the straight was kind of a bowling festival !

Thanks Dete for the organisation! ....and....pls. put an air refreshener in the toilette !

I have never seen such a strong pro field before ! It was very interesting to meet all these guys (again) !

WAKE UP guys !!!!!! Pictures, results, PDF's.........!!!!

Whooohooo!! I had a great weekend in Hannover!

Thanks Dete!!!

...and what can you give all of us that couldn't be there?
We're curious to know the results!

/Jani

as far as I remember........

PRO GS:
1 Jason Mitchell, USA
2 CBark, USA
3 Steve Olson, USA

AM GS:
1 Brad Jackman, USA
2 Manfred Koffinke, GER
3 Frank Beste, GER
4 Carsten Pingel, GER

Special Pro:
1 Luca Giammarco, ITA
2 Ramon Königshausen, SUI
3 Henrik Wadsten, SWE ??? as far as I remember

Special AM:
1 Kongo
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5 Carsten Pingel

Straight AM:
1 Frank Beste
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8 Carsten Pingel

Straight PRO:

no clue ! I was already on the Autobahn !

Hope the listing is ok so far !

HELL YEAH, BRAD. Good show bud.


This is a good start, thanks, but we neeeeed complete results!!!!

How did my Canuck buddies do? I hear winston got 6th in the gs??

STR PROS

1st LUCA
2nd ME
3rd WADSTEN
4th PIRNACK

OVERALL PROS

1st LUCA
2nd ME
3rd CBARK

awesome weekend, big crowd (locals, lots of impressed kids => junior generation!!!), feedback coming (constructive criticism)

Thanks Dete for setting up the event, well chosen location though!

rmn

Pains me to post this first one:


Am Special Slalom (hybrid)


Am Straight (taken from qualifying times)


Am GS


Pro GS

Thanks Dete! Scariest Damn GS I ever tried. Lucky we didn't need those crash cushions.
Oh yeah. I saw one kid swap five of my autographs for a torn one of Ramon's and half a bottle of Radler.

Great courses!

sam

And here are some snaps.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 311514606/
Review on slideshow at full speed.

Results provided by Detlef Rehbock:

Special slalom

Giant slalom

Tight slalom


Overall:

AM:
1. Brad Jackmann, USA
2. Manfred Koffinke, GER
3. Frank Beste, GER

Pro:
1. Luca Giammarco, ITA
2. Ramon Königshausen, SUI
3. Chris Barker, USA
3b. Maurus Strobel, SUI

Women:
1. Kathrin Sehl, GER
2. Olga Kiseleva, RUS
3.Joyce Wheldrake, CAN

Can someone please post the complete pro results?

We left early sunday and I would like to know how (badly) I did in the tight...

Patrick Allan wrote:Can someone please post the complete pro results?

I just did with the links above.. Look at the tabs (bottom of the screen) in the Excel spreadsheet.

/Jani

I didn't see the tabs... however I still don't see any rankings... all I'm getting are raw times and cone counts...

here are some snapshots......

http://www.cruisin.de/de/kat_item.php?i ... 3c8c5c1bae

happy that the results are online. my favorite pick is ed and the small skater.
big man, big board, samll kid, small board.
i will post our photos later. thanks for coming to sarstedt.
they asked me, if we come back next year.

what do you think? small town, big contest. is taht o.k.? or should we try expo area in hannover again?

hey patrick, take a look down left when you open the results. you don´t have to scroll. just look.

yep, that is also my favorite ! "big guy, small guy"

This picture should be an advertising for slalomskateboarding ! old school, new school.....

Detlef Rehbock wrote: they asked me, if we come back next year.

what do you think? small town, big contest. is taht o.k.? or should we try expo area in hannover again?

I think if the Expo festival takes place, then make it on the expo area because a lot of those Sarsteder people might come also to the race site in Hannover to watch again. (Makes it "Expo visitors + Sarstedter = even more spectators" )

rmn

hehe I like sarsedt girls...




Sarsedt was actually a really nice place to race. I myself have worked to bring slalom events to suburban venues and the people really do get into it.

One of the people I met was Georg. He's 19 and a street skater who lives two streets over from the race hill. He came out all weekend to pick up cones. He told me he was the only skater in Sarsedt and how incredibly stoked he was to see all of us- he could feel the positive vibes. He was really stoked and wanted to try slalom himself. So when I won an AXE for third place in TS I gave it to him.

I remember myself in Boston on July 4th 2003 picking up cones at John Gilmour's race. After watching him and Vlad race head to head TS I decided I wanted to do slalom... four years later from my point of view (on the amatuer podium sometimes) I couldn't think of a better use than to give him that board.

He's going to order stuff from Heiko's webshop this week and at next year's Hannover WC, there will be at least one Sarsedt local, maybe more.


NEEDHAM-SARSEDT SLALOM CONNECTION hehe.