Event Registration

Slalom St. Louis 2017 23 Registered Contestants. Event Date and Time: Saturday, May 27, 2017  09:00 Event Duration: Two days Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA Entry: Open Helmets: Mandatory Organizer: KHVT and the STL Daggers Map: Click here for online map Entry Fee: $60.00 Contest Info: Slalom St. Louis XV has received a MAIN status from the International Slalom Skateboarding Association. CLICK HERE for Facebook event RACE LOCATION Saturday's race will be held on the "Turkish Pavilion" hill at Tower Grove Park (RED line on the Google map). It's an S-shaped street with a mellow slope but plenty of speed. SUNDAY's races are at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley (GOLD line on Google map). This is a steeper hill (about 7 degrees) with a top speed of about 25 mph. On Friday, May 26, we’ll also have our usual Friday late-afternoon fun session (not a race, just a session for those who are interested) for anyone who just wants to meet up and hang out. Friday's fun session will be on a different hill, a little further east in the park (AQUA line on map). COURSES DUAL-LANE TIGHT SLALOM (Saturday): Tight-ish slalom, approx. 70 cones. SINGLE-LANE GIANT SLALOM (Sunday): approx. 30 cones. SINGLE-LANE HYBRID SLALOM (Sunday): somewhere between 40 and 60 cones. All races on both days will use a standard start ramp, but those who need it will be allowed a limited push start. FRIDAY, MAY 26, for those who are interested: An afternoon/evening outlaw session at "Spot 2," a mellow hill near the east end of Tower Grove Park. Single lane, no timer, just for fun. To work out the kinks after your travel or just hang out, stop by any time after 5:30 p.m. View of Friday hill (from top): SATURDAY, MAY 27, we plan a dual-lane 68-cone race. Cone spacing will be tight-ish, between 6 and 7 feet. This hill is NOT steep, so the race will reward anyone who can generate his/her own speed. Practice your pumping! Here’s a brief video of what the hill at Tower Grove looks like: SUNDAY, MAY 28, will be single-lane GS and single-lane Hybrid. Courses will emphasize speed and fun—makeable for newbies, challenging for experts to go fast on. In each race, you’ll get a minimum of three runs; the combined times of each racer’s two fastest runs will be used to determine the winner. TIMING Trackmate timing system, using RANDOM beep for dual-lane racing, NON-random beep for single-lane. AMENITIES Free food for racers on both Saturday and Sunday! As in the past couple of years, we'll have a DIY food spread where you can make your own PB&J sammich, or grab a donut, a banana or other fresh fruit, ice water or Gatorade-type drinks. We'll have a portable restroom (with sink) at top of course, plus public restroom about 300 yards away; plenty of shade from the park's many trees; event-only pavilion with picnic tables and water pump 50 yards from top of the course. PARKING At Tower Grove, there's room for about 8-10 cars by the barricades at the top of the course, and plenty more room to park on South East Drive, just on the other side of Central Cross Drive. See map for details. SURFACE Decent asphalt, good runout at the bottom--no footbraking required. CASH PRIZES & SWAG Top three Pro finishers in each event will win CA$H money. Top three OVERALL*** finishers in each division will receive a custom trophy, handmade by one of the Daggers. And of course we'll try to provide some swag from some of the amazing companies that support slalom and other forms of skateboarding. ***OVERALL placing (total of both Saturday and Sunday) will be calculated by official ISSA rules, which assign a point value to each racer’s placing. LODGING There is no "official" race hotel. But there are plenty of other hotels in and around the area, including the following: Only a couple of miles from Tower Grove Park is Red Roof Inn. About $100/night. Another option: You can often get a really nice hotel within 5 miles of the park for less than $100 on Priceline or Hotwire. Just specify downtown or Union Station as the area. Finally, if finding a place to crash will make the difference between coming and not coming, let us know, and we'll try to work something out. WEATHER In the event of the "R" word, we have three options: 1) Cancel the race (nooooooo!) 2) Race anyway (rain or shine), or 3) Move the race to an "undisclosed location" somewhere out of the rain. In the race organizers' opinion, Option #1 just totally sucks, and Option #2 can be tough to pull off. Which leaves us with Option #3: If we get dumped on, we will attempt to move the race either to a parking garage downtown (location TBA). It would result in a much different race than at Tower Grove, but we’d give it a shot. No guarantees, though. If we get just a little rain, we may be able to dry the course with some help from Mother Nature--and a propane torch, as shown in this photo of the one and only Clifton Jennings: OTHER STUFF Free T-shirt for every racer! Free BBQ immediately after SATURDAY's race. All you'll have to do is walk over to the Turkish Pavilion, sit down and chow down! Turkish Pavilion Assorted images from previous years: Trophies from 2015 race 2012 2011 2011 trophy 2010 Deron “D-Ron” Rehma. Photo: Scott Spaeth Plus other cool stuff – stay tuned! 1st Place Finisher: Jonathan Harms 2nd Place Finisher: Lou Statman 3rd Place Finisher: Lynn Kramer Overall Results:

Registered Contestants (23) -- Slalom St. Louis 2017
Name	Home City	Sponsors	Bio	Comment	Date Submitted
1. Jonathan Harms	Saint Louis, MO	JBH/PG, with generous help from Venom and Dont-Trip	Co-organizer of race ...	... which makes for a great excuse if I get beat.	4/21/2017 1:35:17 PM
2. Lynn Kramer	San Diego, CA	Sk8Kings, Khiro, ABEC 11	LCB!	Can't wait to see the T-shirt.	4/22/2017 5:50:51 AM
3. Joyce Wheldrake	Toronto, Ontario	non of that..	Womans Legend in my own mind...	Another Skateboarding Road Trip to U S of Eh...	4/22/2017 7:49:57 PM
4. Jeremy Coffman	LOUISVILLE	yeah right. ha!	this particular heap of dna helixes is a complete waste of genetic material and perfectly good chemicals that could have been used to make wheels or something.	yeah. what the bio says. perfectly good waste of whatever. and getting slower and slower and slower and slower.	5/9/2017 3:39:10 PM
5. Brad Burnell	Rockford, IL	Don't Trip			5/9/2017 9:17:10 PM
6. David Tolley	Huntington WV	Sasquatch inc.	Skating since I wuz a wee feller. Never any good at it.	I sure hope more people sign up.	5/17/2017 4:03:36 PM
7. Tom Weisenbach	Lexington Ky				5/18/2017 3:08:32 PM
8. Lou Statman	Austin, Texas	HelpUHome	I'm here, let's skate!	See above	5/18/2017 9:04:20 PM
9. Keenan Thompson	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Idk about "sponsors", but these guys give me stuff: Rolling Tree, Liftboard, MXK	I was a young up-and-comer but now I'm a old has-been-arounder	I'm brining my new pup, her name is Winnie, You guys are going to love her. ❤️	5/19/2017 1:40:48 PM
10. Keith Hollien	Gainesville, FL.		Keith Hollien Signature Series, Radikal Trucks, FreeRide Skate & Surf Shop, Sk8Kings-AXE ARMY & Oust Bearings.	Skateboarding for 53 years and Slalom Skateboarding for 41 years.	5/19/2017 3:01:37 PM
11. Jon Seeger	St.Louis Mo				5/19/2017 4:59:36 PM
12. Aliera Soulsby-Monroy	League City				5/20/2017 4:54:07 PM
13. Marcos Soulsby-Monroy	League City			Disavowed	5/20/2017 4:54:50 PM
14. Paul Adams	New Orleans, LA			Mary made me do it	5/21/2017 1:43:27 PM
15. Madison Prez	New Orleans, LA				5/21/2017 1:44:56 PM
16. Shawn Hughes	Belleville Illinois	Jolly Roger skateboards 1984 skateboards	Skateing for 21years First slalom race		5/22/2017 6:24:36 AM
17. chris Favero	Chicago	FBR/ChiXill	shit, still rollin'	Thanks, cannot wait to see you all	5/22/2017 6:33:26 AM
18. natron the giant Favero	Chicago	FBR/ChiXill	grew up skating this race	woot	5/22/2017 6:35:01 AM
19. Steven Lewis	Stl	Me myself and I			5/22/2017 12:57:01 PM
20. Murph Rueter	Belleville il		Skated a couple times, first slalom		5/23/2017 3:18:04 PM
21. Scott #1 Shark Attack Kamins	waucondDa	you know	Prolly the best racer to ever race in a race!	There will some day be books written about this dude	5/25/2017 11:42:04 AM
22. Brendan not first But last Cerndizzle	Bumf@#$% ILL	Da Green Rom	Prolly the worst racer to ever race the race	There will be no books written about this foo!	5/25/2017 11:44:12 AM
23. Glenn Bukowsky	San Antonio				5/26/2017 4:38:30 AM