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[2010] GANG OF GERMANY - GERMAN OPEN, AUGUST 21/22

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:18 am
by Donald Campbell
so here we go with another gog race
what do we offer?
2 days hybrid and gs with extremely fast starting ramps and good!!!!!!! courses
gs is supposed to be around 2 mins long on a new venue close to duesseldorf
day 1 is duesseldorf
day2 is close to duesseldorf

big pool party in the evening at our factory-you will see something indoor that will remind you
of a bigger skatepark,free beer in the evening too
during the days we have rockstar sponsoring free drinks for the racers too
free shirt
sponsors so far:
pavel/gog
octane sport
concrete wave cologne
longboardz.de
rockstar
frankenheim
carhartt
more are likely to follow

entry fee is 30 euros

since this is the official german championship for this year we will crown the german champion for the year 2010 there and since this is an open championship somebody else might take 1st place international.
open class,loosers brackets....






racers attending: 41 and counting

countries so far:brazil,england,usa,swasiland,germany,sweden,france,czechoslovakia,netherlands
(9 different countries)
sebastian bandtholz(ger)
thomas rustemeier(ger)
peter jachmann(ger)
sven lippert(ger)
henrik wadsten(swe)
michel dupont(fr)
christopher dupont(fr)
petr novotny (cz)
martijn nijs(nl)
alex dehmel(ger)
olli dehmel(ger)
gunnar peitz(ger)
markus roch(ger)
martin hoppe(ger)
frank beste(ger)
kako max(br)
steve pederson(usa)
dominik kowalski(ger)
martin boehmfeldt(ger)
axel kleinhans(ger)
christoph baumann(ger)
oliver otten(ger)
daniel vogt(ger)
ramon königshausen(sui)
steve hinzen(ger)
markus kaffke(ger)
paul price(uk)
sam gordon(uk)
louis selby(uk)
rob ashby(uk)
holger kindler(ger)
peter klang(swe)
frank sommer(ger)
chris schütz(ger)
heiko schöller(ger)
carsten pingel(ger)
thiago gardenal(br)
flavio badenes(nl)
ernst jan de boom(nl)
kathrin sehl(ger)
thomas rustemeyer(ger)

we also expect heavy traffic from sweden and from the netherlands

so more to come soon




if you want to participate just post here on the follow ups and i will put your name on the list.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:09 pm
by Ramón Königshausen
Yay, I've been defending German Champion for the past 7 years (there simply hasn't been a German Championship since 2003). It's about time someone gets to fight for the crown, Dominik ;)

rmn

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:01 pm
by Bart Brunninkhuis
good to see you guys still want to organize something after the cancelled brixlegg!!

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:22 pm
by Aivars Karklins
If I get a place to stay then most probably you can coun't me in :D

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:45 am
by Carsten Pingel
I am in, too!

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:23 am
by Donald Campbell
ramonski
kowalke is in the house,say goodbye to german champion,you are from swasiland anyway,but in your heart you shall remain a kölsche jung forever.

what's up with the dutch fraction?
french?
eastern boyz?
spanish?
italian?
nobody coming?
are you scared?

c'mon
we got people coming from the us and from brazil-kako is no hoax,he booked his flight and he will comepete-so you better not miss the chance to race against 2 brazilians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
your chance of a lifetime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gog is back in full swing,expect trashtalk,fun,and lots of gnar to come from us.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:46 pm
by Peter Pletanek
I am sure some czech boys will arrive !!!
Me unfortunately not --> Family Holidays.

Have a fun and perfect race!!!

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:25 am
by Flavio Badenes
Me and Ernst-Jan will be there.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:26 am
by Flavio Badenes
Thiago Gardenal (from Brazil) also told me he will go.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:42 am
by Donald Campbell
just updated the list-thx for the dutch support flavio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:17 am
by Thomas Rustemeier
Hi,
i will take part,too!
best regards
thomas

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:22 am
by Donald Campbell
as an axtra bonus we will have a medical tent at the race track with an experienced physiotherapist to help anybody with issues or just the hunger to see a sexy lady privately!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:04 pm
by Michel Dupont
Count me and Christopher in. I have a revenge to take on the "German bear"...

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:15 pm
by Petr Novotny
Hi Donald,
I´ll be in there also.
Petr Novotny

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:58 am
by Donald Campbell
no spanish skaters?
come on it's not that far away....

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:46 pm
by Michel Dupont
No trip to Germany for us. My shoulder is still "out of order" after Hradec Kralove with no hope of skating before 3 to 4 weeks. Hope you all have fun.

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:34 am
by Donald Campbell
sad to hear that michel heal well best wishes from here

updates:

new ramps are finished 6ft awesome ride

new riders confirmed
we even managed to dig out vince hell yeaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

there is a video production company at the race

they will film everything and use the video material to fish for big sponsors for next year

this is a very interesting opportunity for the sport as finally companies such as-you name it-will be approached by professionals.

that company is something like a consulter,so the production will be awesome and chances are good that we will have different names in sponsoring next year,names we never had before.

i am very optimistic about the whole deal

news and pics every day in the evening here.
so check this thread sat eve and sun eve

thanks

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:09 am
by Rob Ashby
Sounds good Donald - always good to hear of a bit of media interest - good for the growth of slalom.
Would there be any chance of getting a copy of the footage once it is edited etc. to show on our stand at X in the City?

See you in a couple of days.

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:14 pm
by Paul Price
Sam, Rob, Louis and me are flying from London - looking forward to the event. Cheers!

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:17 am
by Vincent Berruchon
Let's go!!
I'm getting out of my lair

see you in GOGland!!!

PS : On sunday after the event I'll have to be at Dusseldorf airport around 18:00 (take off 19:15)- Donald will probably be quite busy after the race, I hope to find a good soul to help to get my plane.

The tussel in Dussel

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:57 am
by Sam Gordon
Packed and ready. We'll be there whatever the weather!

See you later,

Sam

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:53 am
by Vincent Berruchon
saturday should be :
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sunday is more uncertain

but hey it's good to come to see all of you slalom pirates!

G.O.G.

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:38 am
by Sam Gordon
Is there a schedule or rendez-vous point and time for Saturday posted anywhere?
We need to know when to get up!

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:17 pm
by Ernst-Jan de Boom
Yes Sam, the only thing I know is that we have to go to dusseldorf.......but its not a small "dorf" its a city!
Please give us some advice!

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:57 pm
by Paul Price
Saturday's race is on the west side of oberkasseler brucke Düsseldorf.

Registration 10am for 11am start

Put this GPS location into google maps '51.229315,6.764016'


http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s ... 06516&z=14

I am the factory, will go pick up Team UK 8.30pm

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:19 pm
by Gustavs Gailitis
Good luck to all the racers - looks like there will be some fierce battle for the German title ;)

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:37 pm
by Ernst-Jan de Boom
thnx Paul!

entry

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:22 pm
by Rob Gerlings
I'm in See you tomorrow.

please put me on the entry list Rob Gerlings from Holland.

flying dutchman ;-)

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:12 am
by Cat Young
How's the contest going?

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:10 pm
by Rick Floyd
You better be ripping it up like there's no tomorrow....Pederson :-)

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 8:50 pm
by Dave Larson
Yeah Stevie. Go Yank

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:03 pm
by Carsten Pingel
A-group:
1st: Dom Kowalski
2nd: Heiko Schöller
3rd: Homer
4th: Chris Schütz

B-group:
1st: Sam Gordon
2nd: Carsten Pingel :-)
3rd: Steve Pederson
4th: Peter Jachmann

C-group:

I can't remember!

Does it mean that I am the german amateur champion due to the fact that Sam is British? ;-)

- nice sunny 1st day
- very close and fast final runs
- relaxed athmosphere

I think Don will post the official PDF's later this evening.

let's see what's happening tomorrow !?

good night everybody!

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:26 pm
by Daniel Gesmer
At the request of Donald Campbell, I am posting the following results -


Hybrid Finals
OFFICIAL RESULTS


Group A
1 DOMINIK KOWALSKI
2 HEIKO SCHÖLLER
3 CHRISTOPH BAUMANN
4 CHRIS SCHÜTZ

Group B
1 SAM GORDON
2 CARSTEN PINGEL
3 PETER JACHMANN
4 STEVE PEDERSON

Group C
Spreadsheet data incomplete.


…Dan

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:43 pm
by Donald Campbell
thanks dan
it would be nice to see the complete spreadsheets with the times,if you can't link those to a server i have to wait til mondy to post em up.
i will resend group c in roughly 8 hours

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:37 am
by Márcio Benevides
Thanks Daniel...

How did Kako and Thiago do?

Regards!!

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:30 am
by Dave Larson
Nice goin Steve .You have come along way baby.All the way from Minnesota USA

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:52 pm
by Jani Soderhall
Any results yet?

/Jani

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:50 am
by Donald Campbell
all results and spreadsheets are in your mail jani.
check out who won for the people who can't wait
here he is:
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or better said part of him

more in a few

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:44 am
by Donald Campbell
next is a few pics i received from an old skate-buddy tom lorenz,thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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heiko schoeller against his new teammate markus roch,he picked up racing 2 months ago,keep his name in mind for next season!!!!
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killer kowalski on his way to victory
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homer vs chris schütz from berlin another raw talent
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another shot of heiko wih his new(white not black) helmet
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here is one with cocoa thiago in the lead,hahahaha-only we know the secret cocoa story
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another BIG surprie from france,vinnzzzzzzzzzzzzz came to our contest after a long absence from racing,he vinnzzzzzzz big love and hugs from your buddies-you're a killer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:49 am
by Donald Campbell
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og gog member frank th bank checking the course
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sam gordon doing he eagle flappy flappy yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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steve pederson who came all the way from the usa powering through the course
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a view from the back with sticker peter charging through the course
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the timer guys,it was a good weekend with only 1 mistake we made,again we wan to apologize for this to martin hoppe.
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another shot of our newbie markus roch

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:07 pm
by Donald Campbell
day2 super hybrid single lane
best out of 3 runs

1 dominik kowalski 13,621
2 vincent berruchon 13,875
3 thiago gardenal 14,112
4 christoph baumann 14,143
5 chris schütz 14,157
6 frank beste 14,223
7 daniel vogt 14,375
8 markus roch 14,397
9 ernst de boom1 14,429
10 kongo 14,514
11 kako max 14,521
12 kathrin sehl 14,784
13 louis selby 14,920
14 paul price1 14,972
15 steve pederson 15,084
16 ferdinand lindner 15,237
17 sticker peter 15,244
18 jeroem steggink 15,503
19 martin hoppe 15,666
20 sam gordon 15,920
21 benjamin klatt 16,001
22 dirk jonczyk 16,229
23 rob ashby 16,282
24 philip enzmann 16,353
25 maxiliano reggi 16,605
26 fränky sommer 16,873
27 sebastian bandholz 16,937
28 markus kaffke 17,400
29 gunnar peitz 18,887
30 nancy schwade 19,107
31 felix buchholz 20,174
32 linus enzmann 20,283

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:24 pm
by Donald Campbell
day 1 qualifying times:


1 Dominik Kowalski 13,338
2 Chris Schütz 13,693
3 Heiko Schöller 13,709
4 Frank Beste 13,840
5 Christoph Baumann 13,848
6 Ernst-Jan de Boom 13,892
7 Thiago Gardenal 14,018
8 Vincent Berruchon 14,038
9 Paul Price 14,108
10 Kongo 14,186
11 Louis Shelby 14,238
12 Daniel Vogt 14,278
13 Ferdinand Lindner 14,281
14 Markus Roch 14,284
15 Holger Kindler 14,330
16 Kako Max 14,364
17 Steve Hinzen 14,445
18 Sam Gordon 14,601
19 Petre Nowotny 14,606
20 Kathrin Sehl 14,715
21 Carsten Pingel 14,750
22 Steve Pederson 14,835
23 Manfred Koffinke 14,952
24 Peter Jachmann 15,159
25 Benjamin Klatt 15,319
26 Starsky 15,328
27 Jeroen Steggink 15,360
28 Martin Hoppe 15,363
29 Rob Gerlings 15,394
30 Rob Ashby 15,841
31 Dirk Jonczyk 16,156
32 Philipp Enzmann 16,564
33 Sebastian Hertler 16,866
34 Maximiliano Reggi 16,985
35 Sean Monroe 17,255
36 Gunnar Peitz 17,957
37 Sebastian Bandholtz 18,041
38 Franky Sommer 18,536
39 Anna Vackova 21,274
40 Andreas Schumacher -
40 Alex Dehmel -

afer qualifying we separated he starter field into 3 groups A B C
we had a total of 40 racers,here is the breakdown
group a 16
group b 16
group c 8
then we continued as follows

group c merged with the last 8 of group b and battled it out

top 8 c group went ino the finl b group and battled it out the regular way


a group remained as it was

so we ended up with more racing for the not so good racers,it seems that this was good and encouraging for the slower ones.

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:05 pm
by Aivars Karklins
That's the thing slalom needs to keep the stoke alive! Donald, you know how to make events happen :)

P.S...Nice pics by the way! :)

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:08 pm
by Donald Campbell
forgot to add the overall ranking
#1 dominik kowalski
#2 christoph baumann
#3 chris schütz
#4 thiago gardenal
#5vinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
#6 frank beste
#7 ernst jan de boom
#8 kongo


summarizing the whole event dominik kowalski is his years german champion
thanks you's go out to:
heidi kitzhöfer for being the physiotherapist for the weekend-her services were for free

markus kaffke:helping with the ramps and with the timing
kako max,markus roch and his wife,steve hinzen,andy leistner,carsten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-hey all helped wih he ramps
frank hulshoff from the video production company for showing interest in this sport
käthe and christoph for the excellent trophies.
anybody else i forgot to mention right now...
heiko and fränky for sponsoring the event.

all the riders who showed up from across the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:59 pm
by Chris Schutz
many thanks to the pavel-gog-crew from the Berliner Kurvenrollsportverein for the nice and fast event!
it was a great weekend with a lot of new people i met!

hope to see u all in Amsterdam!

chris

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:25 pm
by Ernst-Jan de Boom
What a beautiful pictures!

Thnx Gang Of Germany for the hardcore races! It was a great event and you guys have got a strong army!

Aloha.

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:33 pm
by Paul Price
Always a pleasure, there was some exciting racing over the weekend, and the weather stayed good for us. Thanks to Donald at Pavel for a fun event. More racing soon!

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:13 pm
by Rob Ashby
A big thanks to Donald and the GOG crew for a top weekend of racing. I look forward to racing on that GS hill next year - with permission :o)

There are some photos from the weekend here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 9ef2c1cfa4

See some of you in Amsterdam in a couple of weeks time.

Cheers

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:17 pm
by Jani Soderhall

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:07 pm
by Steve Pederson
Thanks for the fun race!
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