ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Flavio Badenes wrote:Michael Stride has just joined the riders list.

Now you lot are for it. Go Michael, win this one for Blighty! Show them how good you really are - Euro Champ!

Spike.

I always look forward to visiting my motherland, but to race there as well is even better!
I hope there is an Albert Heijn nearby as I have to bring some goodies back home for the the folks, stroopwaffles & hagel mostly!

Team GB are staying at The Bastion.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Now you lot are for it. Go Michael, win this one for Blighty! Show them how good you really are - Euro Champ!

Hardly likely. But I will enjoy the Chocomelk.

Last time I went to Amsterdam the streets were flooded. Same happened in Venice I must be some kind of jinx.

Anyway, as I used to live in Holland it wll be nice to come back, via Bruxelles, so safe trips everyone,...


Success! as the Dutch say.

Weather looks perfect!

Maybe sunday evening some rain drops! (20%)

There is a HA and a Dirk van der Broek ten minutes away from the contest site.

Chocomel rules

The weather is good. T-shirts on. Very light wind.

Oliver Otten is on the list and the others are out.

I will be at the location from around 5 PM on.



I wish you all a safe trip to Amsterdam

Good luck Flavio! I hope it all goes perfectly for you. Wish I could have been there.

Martin.

Go Team 161 - Go Antonio!!!
Good luck and have fun - ALL OF YOU!

It is beautifull evening in Amsterdam, bright moon in the sky. Don and his crew were working hard until late to prepare the courses.

Many riders are camping.

We are ready to go

1. Janis Kuzmins
2. Ramon Konigshausen
3. Henrik Wadsten

nice job Janis

Ansis Rudzats wrote:1. Janis Kuzmins

YEEES! Congratulations Janis - Team ConeRacing!

/Jani

Go Janis!! Awesome -- you are on a roll!

AXE Army Salutes You!

It was great weather and wonderful slalom boarding!
Nice vibe (most of the time anyways) and great people!

Some nice photos from a friend of mine:

http://www.edwindillen.nl/slalom2008/

I didn't get the results for the round of 8 in the pro hybrid so I skipped the elims in that until I get those, but everything else should be up on the worldcupranking.com

http://www.worldcupranking.com/live

Congratulations to Janis, Ramón and Dominik! Seems like Ramón was just 0.09 seconds from taking a triple...

Marcus Seyffarth wrote:I didn't get the results for the round of 8 in the pro hybrid so I skipped the elims in that until I get those, but everything else should be up on the worldcupranking.com

http://www.worldcupranking.com/live

Congratulations to Janis and Ramón! Seems like Ramón was just 0.009seconds from taking a triple...

Thanks a lot, Seyffarth...

The site is updated with the pro elims from round of 4. Also a small error that mixed up the heats in round of 16 for the ams hybrid is fixed so hopefully all should be ok by now.

http://www.worldcupranking.com/live

Thank you Donald for the quick update - the hardest working man in slalom today!

I think you mixed up also the women?!

WO HYBRID FINAL - Kathrin has a faster time than Sandrine, but is on 2nd place ?

Today in one of the national free newspapers (Dag):


The caption shouldn't be to difficult to understand right?

And more:

Some more photos:
http://www.sportfotografie.nl/show.php? ... :AMSTERDAM

The following is all in Dutch, not really worth to translate. But great to see that there was a lot of attention for this event!

http://www.mijnnl.nl/amsterdam/agenda/e ... elen/11005

Dutch National news on commercial tv station!!
http://www.rtl.nl/(vm=/actueel/rtlnieuw ... _plain.xml

http://www.echo.nl/ww-ba/sport/lees/793 ... teboarden/

Carsten Pingel wrote:I think you mixed up also the women?!
WO HYBRID FINAL - Kathrin has a faster time than Sandrine, but is on 2nd place ?

You are so picky one second this way of that way, does it matter?

Its the DQ's that have been the problem, the women hybrid finals are now updated and the pros didn't have any DQs so they should be fine. Thanks for letting me know!

Hi there,

I apologize for the late post but after getting home at 23:45 last night after the contest and waking up at 6 AM this morning to go to my regular job for a series of meetings during which I had no access to a PC I finally find sometime to:

First of all thank everybody that came to Amsterdam to compete and to help us organizing this event. Donald did a great job on the mike. The GOG crew took care of the course very well. Shame we had minor problems with the timing system.

I also think that it is better to bear the burden of organizing AND running the event myself next time. I do think this way I can prevent misunderstandings that up to this moment were not made clear to me.

But DONALD THANK YOU!!! I could not have do it withou you guys help.

I could not have done it without these guys help neither:

Wouter van der Hamburg, thank you for using your days off and time after work to put this contest together

Cyrril Schardijn: Same as above and time out of his holidays.

John Deurholt for the website and promotion

The support of the city of Amterdam

The sponsors: Hardcore Supplies RULLED. Pavel, GOG, The city of Amsterdam, Stroom Vormgeven and Vans.

I wish I could have forseen a few problems with more antecipation, however I must say my vieuw of slalom skateboarding has changed. I see it better now, I think I needed to put my glasses on.

The contest will happen next year again, that is a sure thing.

Congratulation to all the winners.


Now it is time for me to go to bed and try to sleep, tomorrow it is another working day.

Oh yes....before I forget

I also want to thank my wife Margareth and my niece Aline for staying up until late on Saturday and Friday making 480 sandwiches. You are very brave. THANKS!


See you all next year.

http://www.rtl.nl/(vm=/actueel/rtlnieuw ... _plain.xml



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Flavio,

To start with, thanks for a great weekend!

Secondly, you mentioned yesterday that video of the competition would come available on-line, can you say anything with regard to the timing (when can we expect it) and the location (Where can we find it) of this video?

Martijn

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 814083746/

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/2775012173/" title="DSC01202 by samg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/277 ... feb20d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC01202"></a>

Thanks Flavio, Donald and the Dutch team!



http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 814083746/

Sam

http://www.iskateboard.eu/

go there then click on Vidcast number 69.....

Sam great pictures, thank you!

Sam Gordon wrote:http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 814083746/

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/2775012173/" title="DSC01202 by samg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/277 ... feb20d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC01202"></a>

Thanks Flavio, Donald and the Dutch team!



http://www.flickr.com/photos/samg/sets/ ... 814083746/

Sam

CONGRATS ANTONIO AND VIKING!!!! (and Selby too)

Not having been to a European race since Paris I was amazed to see how much faster everyone has got since then. It was just a shame both my ability to skate and negotiate cones took most of the day off only returning in the latter part of the day!

It was good to catch up with everyone again though, especially Paul, Bart and Cyril. I will look forward to racing with Martijn next year when he has GOG’s on his new DK model!

A big thank you to Flavio and the Dutch Crew and of course Donald and the GOG for all of their hard work and ensuring that everything happened.
I would also like to pass my thanks on to Joop and his wife from the Café Rooseboom (?) for keeping us supplied with coffee, beer, chips and croquets over the weekend!

There was some really good close racing over the two days and it was good to see some of it make it on to RTL, TV coverage is good for us.

Congratulations to all the winners, and of course well done to Louis who took home a “Bronze medal” for Team GB – although I didn’t hear anything about that one on the BBC, ha, ha!

Here’s the link to my photo’s from the weekend:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robs_galle ... 814690548/

Enjoy!

Pictures from Gints Gailitis:

Did anyone notice one of the multi-talented Hadestrand boys leading out the peleton amongst the framed photographs in the cycle track cafe?



In another world I'd suggest that Berlin Ollie is just over his left shoulder, with Ramon and Carsten on his right.

And the office says I'm rubbish at looky likees.

Sam

Sam "Sherlock" Gordon has definetely found out why I was so slow at the Euro's in Amsterdam!
From Cologne to Amsterdam it's about legburning 250km!!

Well, seems like for me it was great preparation: 853km from Samstagern, Fälmis to Amsterdam, Sloten.

thanks to the best humoured slalomer out there!

rmn

He he!

As a matter of interest, have I missed where the European overall Pro and Am results are listed, or are these still in the process of being worked out?

Sam

Sam Gordon wrote:He he!

As a matter of interest, have I missed where the European overall Pro and Am results are listed, or are these still in the process of being worked out?

Sam

Here are the PRO's results

PRO - Hybrid:

1 Dominik Kowalski 12.851
2 Christoph Baumann 13.146
3 Ramón Königshausen 13.184
4 Janis Kuzmins 13.306
5 George Pappas 13.356
6 Mikael Hadestrand 13.444
7 Henrik Wadsten 13.449
8 Paul Price 13.863
9 Michael Stride 14.658
10 Gints Gailitis 15.525


PRO - Special:

1 Janis Kuzmins 14.232
2 Ramón Königshausen 13.541
3 Henrik Wadsten 14.431
4 Christoph Baumann 14.603
5 Mikael Hadestrand 14.246
6 Dominik Kowalski 14.363
7 George Pappas 14.633
8 Paul Price 14.843
9 Michael Stride 15.052
10 Gints Gailitis 16.407
11 Peter Klang 0.000
12 Simon Feldmann 0.000

PRO - GIANT SLALOM:

1 Ramón Königshausen 14.585
2 Dominik Kowalski 14.908
3 George Pappas 15.061
4 Janis Kuzmins 15.380
5 Henrik Wadsten 15.471
6 Christoph Baumann 15.492
7 Mikael Hadestrand 15.666
8 Paul Price 16.506
9 Gints Gailitis 17.011
10 Michael Stride 17.214

Overall:

1 Ramón Königshausen

2 Dominik Kowalski

3 Janis Kuzmins

Congratulations to Ramon for the European title.

AM's results

AM's Hybrid:

1 Viking Hadestrand 14.330
2 Frank Beste 14.035
3 Robert Thiele 14.376
4 Michel Dupont 14.309
5 Antonio Saluena 14.120
6 Ainars Jermacenko 14.302
7 Carsten Pingel 14.565
8 Sam Gordon 14.958
9 Guillaume SAINT-CRIQ 14.813
10 Gustavs GAILITIS 14.871
11 Oliver Otten 14.884
12 Louis Selby 14.901
13 Holger Kindler 15.095
14 Viktor Hadestrand 15.097
15 Simon Feldmann 15.133
16 Skip Marcotte 15.176
17 Lars de Boom 14.302
18 CHRIS SCHÜTZ 15.195
19 Jean-sébastien Dennebouy 15.306
20 CHRISTOPHER DUPONT 15.338
21 Petr Novotny 15.405
22 BART BRUNNINKHUIS 16.304
23 Pete Scheerer 16.501
24 PAUL BRUNNINKHUIS 16.567
25 JAN MOOSLEHNER 17.188
26 Adrea Just 17.380
27 Ricardo DAMBORENEA 17.384
28 Kaj Gustafsson 17.905
29 ROB ASHBY 18.213
30 Jeroen Steggink 18.231
31 Borja Muñoz-Cuéllar Pérez-Plá 18.368
32 Ernst de Boom 20.362


AM's Special:

1 Antonio Saluena 13.690
2 Viking Hadestrand 13.800
3 Louis Selby 13.835
4 Sam Gordon 13.863
5 Robert Thiele 13.872
6 Michel Dupont 13.935
7 Viktor Hadestrand 14.070
8 Frank Beste 14.139
9 Oliver Otten 14.184
10 Gustavs GAILITIS 14.271
11 Skip Marcotte 14.444
12 Carsten Pingel 14.524
13 Guillaume SAINT-CRIQ 14.552
14 CHRISTOPHER DUPONT 14.732
15 Holger Kindler 14.751
16 Jean-sébastien Dennebouy 14.903
17 Donald Campbell 14.976
18 Simon Feldmann 15.483
19 Petr Novotny 15.600
20 Pierre Hazera 15.600
21 CHRIS SCHÜTZ 15.633
22 Ricardo DAMBORENEA 15.658
23 BART BRUNNINKHUIS 16.061
24 Pete Scheerer 16.317
25 PAUL BRUNNINKHUIS 16.756
26 FLAVIO BADENES 17.218
27 Kaj Gustafsson 17.271
28 JAN MOOSLEHNER 17.386
29 Juoel Bossmann 17.614
30 Jeroen Steggink 17.635
31 Jose Antonio Muñoz-Cuéllar 17.772
32 Ernst de Boom 19.543


AM's GIANT:

1 Viking Hadestrand 16.033
2 Frank Beste 16.171
3 Skip Marcotte 16.204
4 Robert Thiele 16.253
5 Gustavs GAILITIS 16.323
6 Antonio Saluena 16.420
7 Carsten Pingel 16.441
8 Oliver Otten 16.451
9 Sam Gordon 16.727
10 Viktor Hadestrand 16.729
11 CHRIS SCHÜTZ 16.810
12 Holger Kindler 16.913
13 Simon Feldmann 16.919
14 Guillaume SAINT-CRIQ 16.991
15 Pete Scheerer 17.010
16 Petr Novotny 17.033
17 Louis Selby 17.114
18 John Derhoult 17.226
19 Ainars Jermacenko 17.377
20 Donald Campbell 17.402
21 BART BRUNNINKHUIS 17.514
22 CHRISTOPHER DUPONT 17.576
23 Adrea Just 17.638
24 JAN MOOSLEHNER 17.809
25 PAUL BRUNNINKHUIS 17.917
26 Jean-sébastien Dennebouy 17.957
27 FLAVIO BADENES 17.996
28 Ernst de Boom 18.758
29 Martin Nijs 18.841
30 ROB ASHBY 19.056
31 Kaj Gustafsson 19.430
32 Juoel Bossmann 19.841
33 Jeroen Steggink 19.969
34 Mike Rutten 20.297
35 Lars de Boom 22.299
36 Peter Freme 0.000
37 Jose Antonio Muñoz-Cuéllar 0.000
38 Gints Gailitis 0.000
39 Michel Dupont 0.000
40 Borja Muñoz-Cuéllar Pérez-Plá 0.000
41 Ricardo DAMBORENEA 0.000
42 Cyril Schardijn 0.000

Women GS:


1 Kathrin Sehl 17.136
2 Joy SPEARING 17.929
3 Sandrine FERREIRA 18.131
4 Verena Völkl 18.655

Women Special:

1 Kathrin Sehl 14.935
2 Sandrine FERREIRA 15.626
3 Verena Völkl 0.000
4 Joy SPEARING 0.000

Women Hybrid:

1 Kathrin Sehl 15.673
2 Sandrine FERREIRA 16.563
3 Joy SPEARING null.0
4 Verena Völkl 21.130


Overall:

1 Kathrin Sehl

2 Sandrine FERREIRA

3 Joy SPEARING

Congratulations to Kathrin Sehl Overall European Champion




I will post the overall results for AM´s from home later.
I am kind of demotivated after having worked hard, very hard, for this contest and having to put up with all the sarcasm and unfounded gossips. But I will be sorting things out eventually.

Cat - all results except the overall could be found at:

http://www.worldcupranking.com/live

Pro hybrid results are wrong. The list Flavio show here is qualifing times. Not the final standing.

Cat Young wrote:Women's results please Flavio.

I believe Kathrin kicked a$$ again!

Done!

Henrik Wadsten wrote:Pro hybrid results are wrong. The list Flavio show here is qualifing times. Not the final standing.

Thanks Henrik, it is been fixed now.

The AM´s will be on later this eve.

want to say thankyou for trying to make competition posible. Still did not understend why one no money competition change to other one no money competition?

ps.
overall for pros is wrong. 1+3+4=8 and 1+2+6=9

Sandrine and I would like to thank you all for making possible this 3 weeks of slalom racing across Europe.

It was nice to see all of you again, and it was a real pleasure to meet George, Cat, Skip and all racers we did not see before in Europe.
We are already planning our US trip for next year

Thank you Flavio, Dutch & GOG crew for Amsterdam Euros!
Maybe everything was not what we can expect for a main slalom event, but races were fair and competitive (even with timing system issues) and we had fun. We hope to come again next year.

Thank all the Czech guys too. Policka is also a place we want to come back in 2009.
You guys were really friendly and organisation was perfect.
Maybe you just need another race place for the special slalom (eg giant place, with parallel races)

And last but not least thanks to the Gothenburg crew for holding the Worlds : for sure one of the biggest competiton ever. You deal with rain issues and make everything happen.
Just a thought : 80 euros is pretty expensive for racers when there is no meal in the package.

Another general thought : women category should always be consider as PRO. We can't ask for more ladys to come racing, when this is often this category wich suffer from schedule & timing issues. It must always be Women finals, even for 2 or 4 racers ! it take only few minuts.

Hope to see most of you in Grenoble

Guillaume & Sandrine

Thanks Guillaume & Sandrine
and
See you next year here in Amsterdam. (and in Grenoble in September)

Because my computer crashed on the day after the championships I could not put my photos on line. But the problem is fixed and the album is online,
Just follow the link:

http://picasaweb.google.nl/zierill/EkSlalom

And on behalve of my daughter and her girlfriend I had to post this picture especially for Viking, Viktor and the cute German guy with the beanie....

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.nl/zierill/EkSl ... 0354"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/zierill/SLwyK5nS3L ... 1.JPG"></a>
congratulations and we hope to see you next year

Nice pics! Thank you!

on a final note i want to say THANK YOU to the one guy whole stole a board from me right when we loaded things up into the car.
it is always nice to see how people feel about me after having done 2 days work for them for free not asking for anything and then being the victim of a theft.
i really hope you will break all your bones on that board!!!!!

I will send some "break your ass-vibes" in his direction too!!!! What a looser.

Unbelievable.

Don please describe the board and we will keep an eye out for it. I do think we can find this asshole.

@ the Dutch skaters:

Dit kunnen we niet accepteren.
Er zijn heel niet zo veel Pavels in Nederland. Zo dit is makelijke te vinden.
Als julllie die klotezak zien. Pack de board van hem.

it was one of the alva pool decks
antonio won it and traded it for a pavel pool deck
i traded that board for henrik since it had such a long wheelbase and henrik loves those.
sadly the board never made it home
i know it won't come back either but i was so frustrated about this i had to post it


no worries

don