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| Q&A: Slalom Pro Mike Maysey (2489 Posts)
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Wand starts vs. tape switches
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On 4/3/2003 Wesley Tucker
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Someone asked earlier this week the difference between a wand start and a tape switch. I know that currently the tape switch arrangement CANNOT register a false start. (ALthough I do understand TrakMate is either working on or has accomplished getting over this hurtle.)
Do the wands behave differently than the tape switches and record and announce in some way a false start? I know with the gates a false start is pretty much impossible, unless you have the muscle to push your way through the door.
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Pasoed out wearing only his Robles...
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On 4/3/2003
Miko
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Yeah it's late and I'm tired, but stoked... I have the big GO on racing with you all at Paso!!! Can't wait...
Boy Mike... after your slippery Avila story, I'm staying on Avalons for now as well. Sorry that qual placement didn't pan out. Paso should be another story!
Are you riding anywhere sunday? Want to come down to S.C. and try a couple little experiments with pass-thru-gates on some cool fast hills? Maybe do a combo slalom-carve tour of my top-secret S.C. hills?
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coffee on race day?
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On 4/2/2003
john airey
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agent-orange, fast is not the same as sticky, right?
hamm, maybe too much coffee?
I find if I drink coffee on any day that has any
stressfull stuff, I am out of control and spastic.
well, more than usual anyway. adrenal glands work
well enough for me although I have a friend whose
heart would probably stop beating if his caffeine
got too diluted with blood. he drinks some coffee,
goes back to bed, when it wakes him up, he has
another couple cups...
Mike, when you got going too fast and blew out, is there
anything else you can do, like decelerate or are you
just toast? I was afraid of this on the little GGP hill,
so I spent most of my turns slowing down so that I would
make the turns up ahead. kind of lame, I know.
check arab's subject. he is busting out the wit on us,
not just the bombast. next it will be indoor 4' slalom.
will wanders never cease?
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Bury Your Heart at Wanded Knee
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On 4/2/2003
Arab
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Hamm-I didnt know that happened to you, I think if you miss the wand in qualifying you should beable to redo it, but not in racing. Sorry that happened.
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Wand
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On 4/2/2003
Hamm
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Mike,
Your 'wand' issue's were minor compared to mine. I didn't even get to race on Sat. Missed the wand 1st qual run, got pissed, overcompensated and HIT THE WAND STAND on 2nd qual run. ARGH! What a way to start my 1st FCR race. I was feeling really embarassed and humiliated and was more or less hiding untill Tiger told me that WesC. pulled a similar stunt at last years Catalina Classic in his 1st FCR race. It kinda messed with my head a little that the right start box was about 6 feet wide and the left start box was about 4 feet wide. Anyway, we live & learn, right? I learned I need to be more prepared for push starts. I also learned I need to try to not be so amped up. I think waking up @ 2am and drving 6 hours will help calm me down for Paso. I'll be too spent to be over-hyped.
Cya @ Paso, lets have beer Sat night!
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to soft?
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On 4/2/2003
david
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if wheels can be to soft, then how come my 72a flashbacks are the fastest wheels i own? mayble the avilas were just made to wide.
mike, mayble you should take those 80a avilas and trim them down with that angle grinder you have to something like the width of a avalon or flashback.
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75/76 too soft
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On 4/2/2003
john airey
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cool story!
maybe more area is not always more traction. I bet there is
some optimum contact patch for each durometer and
pressure(weight) that is different for top speed and top
traction.
Somebody had some of those special order
75a avalons (not avilas)
and he let me use them at GGP once. they kind of slithered
and squirmed underneath me. Too big and/or soft I think.
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Setup for Elsinore
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On 4/2/2003
mike maysey
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John,
On Saturday I rode a GS/Hybrid with 80 Avila's. I had a Tracker RTX in front with TTC in the rear. The wind was a HUGE factor at the race. if you got blasted in the face as you ran, it would slow you to a crawl. to compensate, you could take extra hard pushes and hope you didn't blow out. i got lucky on the qualifier when I ended up in 3rd. I just ran a good race I guess and/or got lucky. I had that 3rd place time with had something like 3 cones down.
On Sunday, I rode the same board with the same short wheelbase and the same big wheels that I couldn't keep in the ground. Actually, come to think of it...the wheels worked great until I tried to dramatically change direction on them. On Saturdays course, they worked pretty well because the course didn't move very much across the fall line. On Sunday, the course was a different story. With offsets set way off the fall line, the big wheels didn't stick. Especially when the surface got hot, the wheels gave on me many times. There were big black slide marks on them from the hot tar. Early in the day, when I was practicing, I slid the big wheels out and went down. HARD. It was realy weird because in the morning, when the tarmac was cool, the 80's hooked up pretty well...as the temperatures came up, they no longer stuck anymore. Luckily when I fell it wasn't far from the start line so I wasn't going as fast as I could have been going. After the fall...I was frazzled but I got up and tried to come back. We were given 4 runs in the GS...I only made two runs. My last two runs were runs that I pushed extra hard into because I knew Chicken was up by almost a second on me. I needed to pull one out but I blew it. I was counting on the wind to blow me back and it didn't so with all that extra speed, I blew it.
Those Avila's are good wheels, just don't use the 80's in the rear unless you weigh more than me and the surface you're riding is cool. I couldn't keep them down. Maybe some of the 76's would have hooked up better, I don't know...I don't have any.
So anyway, on my third run I pushed in too hard and ended up blowing out of the course. On my fourth run, I slid those wheels AGAIN and was out of the race. I still had a pretty decent time to throw into the mix with a 30.2...but it was something like a second slower than Chicken.
Chicken rode Avalons as did many of the top guys last weekend. I'm going to go back to Avalons and save my Avilas for my downhill board.
Looking forward to Paso.
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mike what board what went right/wrong
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On 4/2/2003
john airey
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mike if you are done drowning your sorrows,
what setup did you use @ elsinore? was it the right one?
what did you do right to qualify 3rd (congrats btw).
other than missing the wand, what did you do wrong?
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Tape Switch over Wand?
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On 4/2/2003
mike maysey
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I wish I knew.....
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wand or tape switch
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On 4/1/2003
GlennS
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Why use a wand over a tape switch?
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wand
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On 4/1/2003 Gary
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John...think snow ski racing...the wand is something about shin high that you run into...it kinda opens like a door...when it opens..the clock starts in your lane. It replace a IR or Tape Switch.
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what is this wand thing?
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On 4/1/2003
john airey
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mike,
what is this wand thing? it trips the timer to start
or something?
maybe bill evans will fill me in at van's pool tomorrow
but if I am wondering a lot of other people could be
too.
beer is always a good idear.
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Elsinore
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On 4/1/2003
mike maysey
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I qualified 3rd and missed the wond on my second run against Brent Kosick...DQed, drank beer...
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3 pushes
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On 3/31/2003 Gary H.
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I still remember my 1st slalom race at GGP...Henry Hester was amazed that I got three pushes in as most riders only got two. The way I do it is one small push followed by two bigger ones. The key is making sure you get that rear foot in place right when you plant it...if you don't you are late for the next few gates and you'll DQ. I think the night before that GGP contest I practiced something like 50 starts...it must of helped because I took 3rd behind Cross and PD.
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gary's pushing it.
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On 3/31/2003
john airey
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sgt. holl, the idea occurred to me after watching
you get three pushes in. I didn't watch where you
stopped pushing, I'm sure it was behind the line
but I probably assumed it was not and reasoned from there.
you are right your foot wasn't back on the deck
until the second cone.
Listen? no, I don't do much of that I'm afraid. Too much
school for me, I used up all my listening abilities way
back when. At least I was quiet and pretending to listen,
that's more than a lot of people trying to tell me
things get.
still seems like criddling the second cone might be a
win... I wonder if somebody will try it next time.
Mike what happened to you at elsinore? qualified third
then gone, I assume you DQ'ed or fell or something?
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SAS Midtown#1
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On 3/31/2003 Gary H.
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No pushing was allowed past the 1st cone (did you guys listen to the racers meeting? We explained that...or I should say I explained that multiple times)...this means you could be passing the 1st cone with only one foot on your board.... but you had better be sure you could have it placed in the right spot by the second cone or you would DQ...that's what I did on one of the qualifying runs.
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SAS 3 CONE DQ
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On 3/28/2003 JULIUS
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YO MIKE AND JOHN AIREY.
THE SAS WAS UNLIMITED PUSH TO THE FIRST CONE ONLY!
iF YOU WERE TO ENTER ON THE LEFT ( WHICH YU WERE SUPPOSED TO ) CRIDDLE THE 2ND CONE AND HAVE A STRAIGHTER LINE TO THE 3RD, YOU WOULD BE PUSHING PAST THE FIRST CONE ( I THINK ) .
If you entered on the right side of the 1st cone
= D.Q. ( even if you criddled it ) .
Almost everyone had 1 D.Q run including Gary and
Mike Maysey. The 3 cone D.Q was decided upon to encourage a higher level of riding, and to improve all of our riding skills. John, you did well on the 1st round ! Congrats.
Stay tuned for the next race.
Good luck Mike @ Elsinore !
Oh yeah, this is a Q&A forum,
Q. When will you be sporting the Mohawk or Moe cut again?
J.
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Good Point John
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On 3/28/2003
Mike Maysey
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...I'll try that out at GGP for the next race.
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another question for mike...
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On 3/28/2003
john airey
wrote in from
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Since we had a three cone DQ rule, no penalty, did you
consider criddling the second cone to get a longer
push?
how about this scenario:
You could have gone left of the first cone, pushed
right through the second cone then entered the
course on the left of the
third cone with about 7 pushes
leaving you two more free cones for the remainder of the
course...
I think you would have beat gary if you did that.
It occurred to me, but it seemed like cheating in spirit
if not in letter.
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Kenny's PINKIE...
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On 3/27/2003
Miko
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My *point* exactly Wesley... Kenny's scared enough small animals and children already. We don't want his castaway boards haunting us.
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What hasn't already been mentioned ad nauseum?
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On 3/27/2003
Wesley Tucker
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Which of Kenny's parts is unmentionable? Christ, who in the Western Hemisphere hasn't seen them, discussed them freely over pizza and offered some advice on how Nature Boy could improve upon the situation?
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ICK...
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On 3/27/2003
Miko
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Oh yeah... I didn't paint my Catalina Blue Carrera. It was Kenny Mollica's custom PINK jobber... It just reminded me too much of Kenny's unmentionable parts. (Nothing personal Kenny!)
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Black, black, black...
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On 3/27/2003
Miko
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Hey there Mr. Henry J.
My mini is black cause it makes my sponsor's logos AND the huge ICK I stenciled on it look awesome. It's also facing downwards all the time anyway. All our decks have BLACK grip tape on them anyway, with the sun beating down on them all day. My mini is doing just fine, thank you! Can't wait to get my FLATTIE!
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Retro Flattie
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On 3/27/2003
Hamm
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Mike Gormans Retro Flattie is one of the most beautiful skateboard decks I have EVER seen
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