| Rye Airfield Throwdown |
| 46 Registered Contestants.
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| Event Date and Time: |
Saturday, January 08, 2005 21:00 |
| Event Duration: |
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| Location: |
Rye Airfield Skatepark, Rye NH |
| Entry: |
Open |
| Helmets: |
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| Organizer: |
Terence Kirby, Derek Smith
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| Map: |
Click here for online map
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| Entry Fee: |
$10.00 gets you entry for both days!! |
| Contest Info: |
The first Rye Airfield Throwdown, January 8th at 9PM. Course will be set primarily on the street course with a focus on the larger banks. Intermediate park /bank skills will be needed along with slalom skills. Professional timing, Ho down after, good times. We'll have the park to ourselves so if you get bored racing, go skate the rest of the park!
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The Venue: http://www.ryeairfield.com/inside(skate_map).html
UPDATE: Rye Airfield is giving us free reign of the "pro street" area on Sunday from 9-Noon and we will be holding the "deathrace" portion of the event then. Saturday night will feature the more technical slalom related courses.
Course info detail: The park slalom courses will be just that...Park Slalom. This means you will have to be at least an intermediate park / bank rider to make the courses. You do not have to be able to do grinds, air, ollies, 50/50's etc but you will have to be comfortable negotiating a bank.
Slalom racing skills will come into play in terms of picking a fast line and setting up early for cones.
There will be two courses around 30 to 35 sec long. One will favor goofey one regular footers. Each will have a winner. Overall winner will have the lowest combined score.
Equipment : Myself(TK) rode a GS slalom set up with hard avalons or cambrias (94a) and tracker Darts 139mm. I consider my self to be a decent park rider but nowhere near the league of a Brad Edwards, Chicken, Wahl, Mollica Type.I am a slalom geek.
One of the better pool skaters here rode his stock pool deck with hard wheels and was 3 seconds faster than me. I could never make the course on his set up so... RIDE WHAT YOU ARE COMFORTABLE ON. The course can be made on both style decks.
Death Course... This will be a real deal, balls to the wall death races with vert, slides, grinds and mabey air. I will be watching this one. If you rule the pools this race is for you. This race will be on Sunday at 9am Sharp.
Entry Fee. Rye Airfield just dropped the fee to 10 bucks.BOTH RACES this is less than what you would pay for a regular session.
Any questions please call me at 603 235 6429. Thanks, TK
DIRECTIONS:
From the South via Interstate 95
- Go through the Hampton Toll Booth.
- Take Exit 3 about 2 miles after the Toll Booth.
- Take a left at the end of the ramp, it is a light.
- Go through 3 sets of lights.
- At the 4th light (about 2 miles) take a left onto Ocean Road. You will see a McDonalds on your right and a truck stop diagonally to your left.
- Ocean Road is about 2 miles long and it dead ends into Route One.
- Take a right onto Route One South, we are about 1 mile South on Route One.
- The facility is on the left immediately after 'The Rosewood at Rye' sign.(Northbound side).
From the North via Interstate 95
- Take Exit 3B just South of the Portsmouth traffic circle.
This is the last exit before the toll.
- Take a left at the end of the ramp, it is a light.
- Go through 1 set of lights.
- At the 2nd light (about 1/2 mile) take a left onto Ocean Road. You will see a McDonalds on your right and a truck stop diagonally to your left.
- Ocean Road is about 2 miles long and it dead ends into Route One.
- Take a right onto Route One South, we are about 1 mile South on Route One.
- The facility is on the left immediately after 'The Rosewood at Rye' sign.(Northbound side).
LODGING!!:
Rosewood at Rye Inn
Located at the top of the driveway into Rye Airfield. 300 yd walk.
Phone 603 964 9700
59.00 a night two double beds and kitchenette up to 4 people.
Super nice people , local owned . Call now and book.
Bars and resturaunts right down the road.
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| 1st Place Finisher: |
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| 2nd Place Finisher: |
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RESULTS |
| Overall Results: |
SATURDAY
1st Paul Ohara
2nd Bill Wahl
3rd Derek Smith
4th TK
SUNDAY
1st Bill Wahl
2nd Steve Ohara
3rd Blake from Atlanta Ga.
4th Paul Ohara
5th Stewart Passmore
6th Terry Whalen
7th TK
8th Derek Smith
*Saturday night we didn't have time for a "great 8" like we did on Sunday. Troy Smart definitely got 5th though I know, and Stewart Passmore 6th if memory serves me. Noah ripped on a Hosoi longboard and took 7th. Everyone ripped, DC, VA, CT, Canada, NY, NJ, RI, everyone. |
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