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Org: CSA (1772 Posts) Topic Post State Games.WSU Sunday! On 1/23/2007 Brad"Jackhammer"Jackman wrote in from United States  (65.101.nnn.nnn) Saturday night was cool,Pizza,Pool,Hanging with the crew,and a parking garage.Thanks Corey and all who showed.Hey Pat,would be cool if we could do both.Doing a park slalom sounds like a great idea to me. Also,I will supply a sound system for the state games and a little extra cash for timeing gear. Corey,saterday session in tacoma sounds sweet......SUNDAY WSU SESSION???..Supposed to be decent and dry this sunday,ANY TAKERS???lets ride Brad     Rate post 264875 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Aumsville Park Slalom (State Games) On 1/22/2007 Pat Chewning wrote in from United States  (15.252.nnn.nnn) Just got off the phone with City Administrator for Aumsville. Permit in the works to add Park Slalom to the State Games. June 1st (Friday) night. What I need is some pictures of park slalom race events to include in the application. Stay tuned.     Rate post 264748 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) cell pics On 1/21/2007 peters wrote in from United States  (24.18.nnn.nnn) hopefully patrick's got shots from Temple last night! great times, and the years just gettin started-- here are just the trophy shots from this morning ...and Jackhammer wielding his weapon!     Rate post 264690 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Garage seshh On 1/21/2007 corey wrote in from United States  (67.170.nnn.nnn) Thanks Shane, and James, 2 great garage sessions this weekend. I hoping next weekend we will hit the hills. Dancin Dan Fever found another spot over in Tacoma, maybe a Saturday morning session.. Who's in? Good to see everyone at Temple Saturday night. We recognized some of 2006 skater accomplishments with some trophies. Congratulations to 2006 CSA Series Champion Brad "The Jackhammer" Jackman on his domination throughout the season. Also congratulations to "Ironman" James Peters on his long distance pumping endurance from Seattle to Portland back in July. James please post some pics I can't get them out of my camera phone. Looking forward to the new 2007 season, can't wait til Salem in March.     Rate post 264689 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Fo sho On 1/21/2007 shane wrote in from United States  (24.16.nnn.nnn) For sure James, that was a blast! definetley the most people that ive ever ridden with in a seattle garage. we'll have to do it again soon!!! it was great to meet everyone to. good times. also, i told a couple people last night, but just so everyone knows. im working on my website right now www.NORTHWESTLONGBOARDING.com . its not done except for the forum. anyways, if some of you guys could go there and make some posts/threads on the forum, that would really help me to see if there any 'bugs' that need to be worked out. let me know what you think to! I'd also be down if the CSA wanted to have their own forum category on the site.     Rate post 264675 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) 14 floors of burnin quads On 1/21/2007 peters wrote in from United States  (24.18.nnn.nnn) shane and tad, thanks for the intro-- that rocked! i'm sure it'll feel special in the morning- and just think CSA will be skatin another garage seven hours from now!?     Rate post 264640 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) hooray. On 1/20/2007 Shaner wrote in from United States  (24.16.nnn.nnn) sweet. hopefully Dennis will come too, and we can hit up some garages. theres 14 storys of fury 2 blocks from temple. you'll have to wait till after 10:30 for that one though.     Rate post 264601 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Garages!!!!!!! On 1/20/2007 Dancin' Dan wrote in from United States  (63.229.nnn.nnn) I'm SOOO up to do some garages! I'll be bring a new toy or two for ya all to try out, aswell.     Rate post 264598 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) garage sat night On 1/19/2007 peters wrote in from United States  (64.236.nnn.nnn) always got boards in the car!     Rate post 264557 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) garages?? On 1/19/2007 shaner wrote in from United States  (24.16.nnn.nnn) whats up? any of you guys bringing boards on saturday night?     Rate post 264548 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) POW On 1/18/2007 Tim wrote in from United States  (71.227.nnn.nnn) Dude, Did u change your phone# again? Call me.     Rate post 264519 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) mama MIA On 1/18/2007 here i am wrote in from United States  (64.236.nnn.nnn)     Rate post 264507 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) MIA On 1/18/2007 Tim wrote in from United States  (130.76.nnn.nnn) Stryker, Where RU?     Rate post 264504 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Salem/State Games On 1/12/2007 Paul Howard wrote in from United States  (65.122.nnn.nnn) Pat, I'll see what I can do making some phone calls to Aumsville's City peaple about the proposed Friday night June 1st Skatepark slalom. It may take me a little while to get to it but I'll put it on my list of things to do. Prime Vs Northwest Newbie: 2 issues here: 1)Hood River is only one month and one hundred miles away. That's 2 prime events a little too close in time and proximity by most people's thinking. I'm assuming Hood River is still happening. Gareth did entertain the idea of putting on the "West Coast Championships" in Salem last year but decided not to because Fluitt and Pirnack and a few others wanted to make a family vacation out of Hood River and do tourist things around the Gorge and MT Hood. If that is not a factor this year, it might be a good idea to contact Gareth and collaborate on that. 2)If newbies aren't brought in with smaller local events, there will be less future interest in bigger events down the road. Plus, there's almost too many big races on the national level in my opinion. Catering to newbies locally makes slalom bigger globally. Other than that, I'm not oppossed to making it a "prime" race, especially since my events in Salem are pretty low-key and newbie-friendly usually. That's my 2 cents. Adios-P     Rate post 264183 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) State Games: newbie or go PRIME? On 1/12/2007 Pat Chewning wrote in from United States  (67.189.nnn.nnn) I need some input from my good buddies in the CSA regarding the Oregon State Games. I am struggling with going 2 different directions with this. Direction #1 -- Geared towards new racers, young racers, local racers. Advantages: Fits well with State Games charter. Easier to run. Smaller. Brings in new people. Direction #2 -- Go PRIME, go Big. Try to attract slalom racers AM and PRO to the Salem hill. Get ISSA PRIME status (World Ranking points). Fit it into State Games as best we can. Advantages: A 2nd "bigger" race for CSA. Shows off the Salem hill to other slalom racers. Attracts more and better racers from outside Oregon. What do we say? Do we want this to be a bigger/better event for the slalom community (Direction 2) or do we want this to be for newer/local people mostly (Direction 1)? Can it possibly be both? The most immediate thing that this affects is whether or not I try to get a PRIME status assigned to this race. (If it does not get that status, we probably won't see anyone from outside of CSA -- Washington/Oregon/B.C. ) -- Pat     Rate post 264124 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) More wire. Help me Oregon State Games On 1/11/2007 Pat Chewning wrote in from United States  (67.189.nnn.nnn) Yes Dave, I agree that more wire would be good. I'll get 2 reels and beg for more $$ later ..... Yes, I can definitely use the following help. Anyone who wants to, please email me with your interest and I'll coordinate (so we never have one job undone, or 2 people working on a 1-man job). Jobs (sorted by chronological need): A) Sponsor coordinator: Beg sponsors for merchandise or whatever, seek new sponsors. Gather merchandise. Give it away at event (raffle, whatever). Thank the sponsors after the event. B) Skate park slalom coordinator: Try to arrange for Aumsville skate park slalom event. Talk to parks people. Talk to organizers of other park events. Coordinate thru me with Oregon State Games. Target date is Friday evening June 1st. C) Advertising: Take the posters that I can print and send them to skate shops, parks, sporting goods stores, snowboard stores, ski areas, etc. Any place we can reach skaters who are not yet in the slalom family. D) Set the courses and clean the hill. E) Bring a PA system, set it up. F) Find and train some coneheads. Other races have used: Boy Scouts, Hooters girls, spectators, etc. Maybe do this more professionally this year with the "flip charts" of numbers rather than holding up cones.... G) A race anouncer ... (for the PA system) In case it is not obvious, I plan for the event to be bigger and better this year. Help and suggestions are very welcome.     Rate post 264123 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Tape switches, Oregon Games and Brad On 1/11/2007 Dave wrote in from United States  (69.30.nnn.nnn) Pat, the tape switch solution will give us enough for 2 complete sets of timing equipment, sounds perfect. Do you want the switches I have for rewiring? Is one roll of wire enough? I can come up with more cash for another reel. Let me know. Thanks for making the Oregon Games happen again! Let me know what help you need, it's yours! I agree with Paul, we need to set some cones and soon. Rumor has it that Thor is turning left and right at WSU on occasion. Keep an eye out for dry pavement.     Rate post 264118 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) The Jackhammer On 1/11/2007 Pauliwog wrote in from United States  (65.122.nnn.nnn) Quick! Somebody, Anyone, set down a course of cones before Jackman explodes! Hey, good to hear the elbow healed well, nothing worse than a joint that doesn't heal right. Well, there are worse things but that's bad enough. Sorry to hear about your friend Greg Tai(sp?), I assume you knew him to some extent at least. It was good seeing the pictures of Greg(Rene Carrasco posted) with you in the picture and your "fro" back in the 70's. I think you and Mollica are related, same build, same height and weight, similar riding styles, same hair back then and now. Adios- Paul     Rate post 264116 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) CSA RULES!!!!!!! On 1/10/2007 Brad"Jackhammer"Jackman wrote in from United States  (65.101.nnn.nnn) So thats how you turn this thing on!...its been a while...I hope everyone had a wonderfull holliday season and an even better new year..Last season was awsome,lots of new racers,lots of great races,but best of all is the great group of people involved in CSA. A big THANK YOU to the Oregan crew,you guys are awsome,To my Washington Bros,you guys are the best!!,and to the Canadians,,,,Welcome to the CSA! Looking forward to the the Knew season and hangin with the CSA Bros.. The elbows healed,got some new toys,lets ride...CSA RULES!!! Brad.     Rate post 264039 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Info for PAT On 1/10/2007 Paul wrote in from United States  (65.122.nnn.nnn) TAPE SWITCHES AND TIMER STUFF - Sounds good to me, Thanks for the effort. NIGHTTIME PARK SLALOM - If you are thinking about doing it as part of the State Games event, the best choice is to hold it at Aumsville, Oregon because it is illuminated at night and a big interconnected design. The best people to contact would likely be the Aumsville Parks-n-Rec (if they have one, it's a small farming town), or the Aumsville City Council. I know that the City of Aumsville is supportive of skateboarding and the skatepark and giving kids something to do and is VERY burned out on dickweed dumbs#@! kids that start fights and do stupid stuff around town and at the skatepark so they might view a night time Park-slalom event as a good thing.     Rate post 264030 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) CSA timing equipment purchase On 1/8/2007 Pat Chewning wrote in from United States  (67.189.nnn.nnn) I propose to do the following with the $225 we collected for timing equipment: 1000' Silver-Satin wire $32.50 Wire reel $15.00 Wire reel $15.00 RJ 11 connectors 100-pack $5.85 RJ 11 connectors 100-pack $5.85 131A 2ft tape switch $27.10 131A 2ft tape switch $27.10 131A 2ft tape switch $27.10 131A 2ft tape switch $27.10 131A 2ft tape switch $27.10 131A 2ft tape switch $27.10 Shipping $30.00 T OTAL $236.80 I propose to bond the tape switches to a sheet-metal backing plate to protect them. They will be taped down to the road surface on the sheet-metal only, so that the stress of taping/untaping and storing cannot kink them. I propose to rewire the existing tape switches for easier connection. I propose to do all of this by the end of February. If I don't hear any better suggestions or objections, I will start this in 1 week. NOTE: The tape switches will all be 2-feet long. Does anyone see a problem with this? NOTE: some of the costs are estimates only (shipping, reels). I'll update with actual costs later. -- Pat     Rate post 263900 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Oregon State Games On 1/8/2007 Gareth wrote in from United States  (24.18.nnn.nnn) Pat- With regards to the Park Slalom - Thor, Stryker and others locally have put on Park Slalom events are sure to lend a hand! Also, Chris Barker and the other COSS guys would be a good source of information. The Park Slalom at the US Nationals in Longmont. CO last August were a great event and there were tons of people watching! Let us all know what we need to do to help with the Oregon State Games. Last years event, while under-attended, was still one of my favorites. Can't wait to do it again! Thanks for doing all the hard work and making the State Games happen again in 2007! Gareth     Rate post 263896 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) 2007 Oregon State Games Plans On 1/8/2007 Pat Chewning wrote in from United States  (67.189.nnn.nnn) I am meeting next week with the Oregon State Games people to plan 2007 slalom race. Due to several factors (Son getting married end of june, Hood River, other races, etc), I propose the following: 1) Races on June 2nd and 3rd 2) More advertising in skate shops, etc. to get beginners. 3) 3 races again: GS (best X runs single-lane), tight straight (best X runs single lane), Hybrid dual (qualify, head-to-head). 4) Perhaps a Full-Moon nightime park slalom on Friday June 1st Please let me know of any conflicts with other races or events. Can someone point me to a knowledgeable person that I could talk to about getting a park slalom for the Friday night? Any other ideas or suggestions? -- pat     Rate post 263895 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Salem Motels On 12/30/2006 Pskiiwog wrote in from United States  (65.122.nnn.nnn) Hey John, I also got some info from Corey. I'll probably approach the Motel 6 first, and if they don't bite, then I'll walk around to the other motels nearby. I want to stay in that area specifically because it's close to where the Hut Shuttle does Pickup/Dropoff for the Portland airport just in case anyone actually flys out to either of my events. Thanks - Paul     Rate post 263415 ! Best-Of Ncdsa (0)   Informative (0)   Abuse(0)   Flag Moderators (0) Salem Hotels On 12/30/2006 Stryker wrote in from United States  (207.175.nnn.nnn) Paul, We have stayed at different Hotels. Pretty much the cheaper ones Like Travel Lodge and Value Inn or Motel 6.I haven't tried to get a group rate at any of them. Good luck. Happy New Year. Se Ya in Salem. John     Rate post 263413 ! 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