ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

There are a bunch of us from the UK who have booked flights for the World Indoor Champs in Gothenburg on the 23rd February 2008. We were just wondering if there was any news or information regarding travel from the Airport (we arrive on Friday 22nd @ 21:25). There were rumours of free accomodation too...we would love to know more (we are all house-trained!) Also the location of the venue, so we can work out whether to rely on public transport or we should rent a car.

Thanks,

Martin.

ps. We also realise that Team Sweden is based in these garages all winter training and you guys are going to win everything, but what the hell, its a cheap weekend away!

i chek it out,maby i got a 7 seated car,,, be back soon

Martin Drayton wrote:There are a bunch of us from the UK who have booked flights for the World Indoor Champs in Gothenburg on the 23rd February 2008.

Oops, you won't end up in the right town then...

It's in Stockholm as far as I know! Or did I miss something?

/Jani

Maybe he wants to hitchhike across Sweden and stop by in its capital, which is Switzerland.

rmn

Jani Soderhall wrote:

Martin Drayton wrote:There are a bunch of us from the UK who have booked flights for the World Indoor Champs in Gothenburg on the 23rd February 2008.

Oops, you won't end up in the right town then...

It's in Stockholm as far as I know! Or did I miss something?

/Jani

I hope not, I got an e-mail from Klangster telling me it had moved to Gothenburg....but haven't heard anything since. So far 5 of us have got seats on a flight to Gothenburg.

The contest calendar tells us something else:

World Indoor Championships
Format: Straight Tight Slalom and Special Slalom
Date: 23 February, 2008
Location: Stockholm, SE
Sanction: to be determined
Contact: Peter Klang, theworldindoorslalomskateboardworldchampionship2007@ettsexett.com
Thread: http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/phpBB ... sc&start=0
Notes: Signup required by 17 February. Entry fee of 100 SEK, payable at race.
Posted: 8 November, 2007

rmn

I really hope it will be in Gothenburg ( because I live here).

I don't think you should trust everything you read on the internet.

From what I have heard the race will be held in GBG, in their 'new' training facility which is flat but tres grande from what I have seen on pics. So - it's not the greasy garage of EC '05 and its not the fantastic garage of Winter Clash '06. But something in between.

And what do I know. I'm just a poor sailor, lost in the winter.

Ramón should I pick you up, I might take the car from the capital (Switzerland)?

Phew!...
This is what Peter sent me:

From: "peter klang" <peterklang@telia.com>
To: "martin drayton" <martindrayton@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: SV: World Indoor Champs.
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:18:39 +0100
Martin good news, we will move the comp (straight, tight special and Cyber) to Gothenburg.
I will post more detail soon.

date is the same.

Peace
PK



Should be a blast, can't wait! It'll be nice after the weather we have had in this country since May to know you are going to skate somewhere dry!....Even though the Swedes are going to smoke us

It's really a mess, but probably it's in Gothenburg then. Too bad for those who booked a ticket to Stockholm early. I'm thinking of Michel Dupont, for example, but maybe he never got his ticket.

Good luck to everyone, have fun!

/Jani

Well as a matter of fact, we did buy our tickets to STOCKHOLM as mentioned on the contest calender !!!
Nice job guys, with excellent update information. When it comes to organisation, finally, it looks loke more of a mess than even in France.

Michel & Christopher

Don't throw them away yet...One of our guys got a phonecall and it may move back....again, so the 6 of us might have the wrong tickets!

Not throwing them away, just thought until now, that they would llive up to their reputation and be more orginezed than us messy french...

Michel Dupont wrote:Not throwing them away, just thought until now, that they would llive up to their reputation and be more orginezed than us messy french...

Don't trust to much reputations from Internet!! It depends mostly of who is crying louder than other and trolling on the forums!

if you got wrong tickets so let us sveds help you out and we all go together from stockholm.. sounds good?

Pelle Gustafsson wrote:if you got wrong tickets so let us sveds help you out and we all go together from stockholm.. sounds good?

Whether its a crowd of us going from G'burg to Stockholm or the other way, I'm sure we'll cope...ROADTRIP!!!!!!!! Yehaaaa! Life is an adventure, you either get on the bus or watch it roll on by.....

It's all just speculations and no words from the organizer(s).
Shall we start a round of betting?

/Jani

I'm betting I won't make either location.

PS-I don't normally bet but it's a new year that could be full of surprises, EH! and that is a pretty safe bet.

C-U folks in Aucust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Swedes have this http://www.dubliner.se/ in both towns, so us Britskis are just fine. Begorrah.



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Porter/Stout is the highly fermented and very dark brown bitter beer brewed from charred or browned malt. The stout is less sweet, and could be considered as dry, especially the Irish. However, it has a full, black fruity taste with a strong hop flavour. For best flavour it should be served at room temperature.

10 euros on Gothenburg.

Pelle wrote :

if you got wrong tickets so let us sveds help you out and we all go together from stockholm.. sounds good?

Tack Pelle, sounds not only good but excellent (don't exactly have any experience in driving around with one meter of snow)..

PS Didn't get the wrong tickets, on january 5th Stockholm still was the location on the contest calander