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Slalom St. Louis X
38 Registered Contestants.
Event Date and Time: Saturday, May 26, 2012  00:00
Event Duration: Two days
Location: Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, MO
Entry: Open
Helmets: Mandatory
Divisions: Open
Women
Junior
Organizer: STL Daggers
Map: Click here for online map
Entry Fee: $50.00
Contest Info:
Slalom St. Louis X has received a MAIN status from the International Slalom Skateboarding Association. Thank you, ISSA!



Click "Pay Now" button to pay online via PayPal. "Early birds" who pay before May 1 get a $5.00 discount! If you pay on or after May 1, or at the race, it'll be the full $50.00.




RACE LOCATION
Tower Grove Park in South St. Louis. Saturday’s race will be at the northeast corner of the park (see map). Sunday’s race will be the same hill as in past years, an S-shaped street with a mellow slope but plenty of speed. 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.

COURSES
SATURDAY SINGLE-LANE: somewhere between 40 and 60 cones. Standard start ramp, but those who need it will be allowed a limited push start.
SUNDAY DUAL-LANE: 100 cones, baby! Just like the first Slalom St. Louis way back in 2003.

NOTE: The race hills are NOT steep. This race will reward anyone who can generate his/her own speed. So practice your pumping skills, cuz you’re gonna use them!

FRIDAY, MAY 25, we plan an afternoon/evening outlaw session at "Spot 2," a slightly steeper hill at the other end of the park. Single lane, no timer, just for fun. If you wanna work out the kinks after your travel or just hang out, stop by any time after 5:30 p.m.

This is what it will look like on Friday afternoon:
Friday evening course

SATURDAY, MAY 26, we plan a single-lane jam. Course will be a sort of loose-ish slalom, with spacing anywhere from 6 feet to 20 feet, emphasizing speed and fun--makeable for newbies, challenging for experts to go fast on. 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.

SUNDAY, MAY 27, we plan a dual-lane 100-cone race (in honor of the race's 10th year). Cones will be set straight (no offsets) but will follow the natural curves of the road, which goes straight, then bends right, then left. Cone spacing will be somewhere between 6 feet at the start and 7 feet at the end, perhaps with a couple of "mystery" cone spacings.

Here’s a brief video of what the Sunday hill looks like:



TIMING
Trackmate timing system, using RANDOM beep for dual-lane racing.

AMENITIES
Free food for racers on both Saturday and Sunday! Thanks to Taytro’s Bar & Bistro! Or you can make your own PB&J anytime at our DIY sammich table! Plus there will be ice water and Gatorade-type drinks. Public restrooms at top of course on Saturday; portable restroom (with sink) at top of course on Sunday, 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
There's room for about 8-10 cars near the barricades at the top of the course, and there's 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--little or no footbraking required. The streets are very slightly crowned and not particularly steep, but you won't be hurtin' for speed.

CASH & PRIZES
Top three Pro finishers on Saturday and Sunday will win ca$h money as follows:
1st place: At least $200.00
2nd place: At least $100.00
3rd place: At least $50.00

Top three OVERALL*** finishers in each division will receive a custom ceramic cone trophy, handmade by Paul Graf. And of course we will have numerous other prizes from many amazing companies that support slalom and other forms of skateboarding – and maybe even a surprise or two. Stay tuned...

***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
Closest hotel: Water Tower Inn. This former hospital (yes, you read that right) is at Lafayette & I-44. Rates are about $79/night. Click the link above or call 314-977-7500.

Next closest: Red Roof Inn. About $89/night.

If you wanna go cheap(er), try Motel 6 in Fenton, about 12 miles away but a super-easy 15-20 minute drive on I-44 to get to the race location.

A small number of racers may be able to find a place to stay with one of the Daggers. 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; Option #2 is pretty darn unworkable, so it's not REALLY an option. 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) - or, more likely, to the Kingshighway skatepark about a mile away, where we would set up a course through the flat areas of the skatepark. 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:
Uncle Cliffy and torch--thanks!


OTHER STUFF
Free BBQ at the Old Playground Shelter (see map) after Saturday's race. If you're lucky, you may get to witness something like this:
Jeff Goad, grilling after the Saturday outlaw race

Awards ceremony after Sunday’s race will be held at the Turkish Pavilion at the top of Sunday’s race course.

Turkish Pavilion

Assorted images from previous years:

2010
Deron Rehma, Slalom St. Louis 2010
Deron “D-Ron” Rehma. Photo: Scott Spaeth


Paul Price and Chris Doan. Photo: Kevin Kissel


David Tolley (almost) gets a trim from his son Evan.

2009

"Best Beef" trophy with its owner, Tom Mangelsdorf

2008
2008 Trophies
2008 trophies

2007
2007 1st Place trophy, made by Paul Graf
2007 trophies

2006
2006 Trophies
2006 trophies

Lots of other cool stuff for 2012 – stay tuned!
1st Place Finisher: Chris Barker
2nd Place Finisher: Jonathan Harms
3rd Place Finisher: Ethan White
Overall Results:

Registered Contestants (38) -- Slalom St. Louis X
Name Home City Division Sponsors Bio Comment Date Submitted
1. Lou Statman TX  Open  JSM, Texas Outlaws, Axe Army, http://entropyskateboards.com/, http://www.sandwichtechboards.com Sandwe  Ok so the year didn't start off the way I'd have liked. Time for St. Louis.  I'm here to have fun. Lets ride!  4/14/2012 9:08:41 PM 
2. Humberto s Houston, TX.  Open    2nd time at St Louis and stoked to be back, its like playing skateboards with friends at the park the whole weekend.  Texas Proud!  4/14/2012 11:17:42 PM 
3. Paul Adams Dallas  Open  Team Prius, Texas Outlaws and my mom  Obviously, best damn looking fella on 4 wheels  First 3 registered are Outlaws... yes, we intend to bring it this year!  4/15/2012 10:52:12 AM 
4. tom mangelsdorf Sun Prairie, WI  Open  Doreen  1st race after a 2 year break.  I am so ready for this!!!  4/15/2012 1:40:26 PM 
5. Jeremy Coffman Louisville, KY  Open    He has 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 heads and no brains and an ordinary amount of guts and the balls to use them for riding skateboards.  HOSS! 25 lbs lighter and ready to race.  4/15/2012 3:03:56 PM 
6. Lenny Poage Huntington WV  Open  HOSS, Marc's Board Shop, Skatebearings.com  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXnfQkmDLCY  Looks like it's finally going to happen! STOKED!!!  4/15/2012 3:41:58 PM 
7. Dennis Blevins Kenova, WV  Open  Marc's Boardshop, Sk8bearings.com, Prophets Skateshop  Just like to race...That's why they call these meetins'  Bringin' the retarded monkey style to St. Louis  4/16/2012 6:47:50 PM 
8. Lisa "BailDog" Scott Minneapolis, MN.  Women      Great race, great city, the best people.  4/17/2012 5:27:03 AM 
9. John Ravitch Oaktown, California  Open  JBH prototypes and Axe in training   Off the couch and into the fun  Thx, JBH. First timer to this event, bringing my wife Adisa so everyone be on good behavior (except Goad)  4/17/2012 10:20:30 PM 
10. jordan sharpe Rochester, Michigan  Junior    2011 ISSA Rookie OF THE YEAR, I skate for TEAM CoSmIC  Can't wait to get back to St. Louis, Last summer was a blast, Now we know how to get it done and just have FUN!!!  4/18/2012 8:14:33 AM 
11. Jacob Dodman Rochester, Michigan  Junior    I skate for TEAM COSMIC,   We had a ball last summer and it and it all started in ST. LOUIS, Thanks Jonathan & Jeff  4/18/2012 8:25:33 AM 
12. JEREMY FUGATE ROCHESTER, MI.  Junior    I SKATE WITH TEAM COSMIC  We had a ball last summer and it and it all started in ST. LOUIS, Thanks Jonathan & Jeff   4/18/2012 8:32:29 AM 
13. Rog Ue Hell TX  Open    Yep  Lucky number 13.

Disavowed.  
4/18/2012 3:03:50 PM 
14. Dave Larson Minneapolis MN  Open  Geritol    whatever  4/18/2012 6:29:59 PM 
15. Keenan Thompson MPLS  Open  Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.   One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
 
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
 
4/20/2012 9:29:18 AM 
16. Steve Pederson Minneapolis, MN  Open  P A V E L      4/22/2012 8:13:15 PM 
17. Jonathan Harms St. Louis, MO  Open  JBH/PG boards, precisionspacers.com  I'm a friend of Jeff Goad!  Ten years deep for Slalom STL. Get your pump on.  4/26/2012 11:22:31 PM 
18. Eddy Martinez Harlingen,Tx  Open  PAVEL,TEXAS OUTLAWS, MY WIFE  Well they said it wouldn't last. 10 years later. Here we are. Pretty Cool!!!  I too am a friend of Goad.  4/28/2012 2:19:39 PM 
19. Nacho Huevo Those rollin' smoky hills of old Juarez  Open  Who?  All will be revealed at the event.   ¡Órale!  4/30/2012 8:49:52 AM 
20. Zack Levitt bellaire  Open  Me  I have no idea why Eddy calls me the "Joker" Me, never.     4/30/2012 9:46:13 PM 
21. Peter Metzger South Bend, IN  Open  Envision Skate Collective    All of you should come to my race in June, too. Just saying. race.envisionskate.com  5/1/2012 8:58:34 AM 
22. Alex Kwiecinski Lansing, MI  Open  Bees Knees Skateboards, Go Green Longboarding  Haven't been to a sanctioned race in a couple of years, really looking forward to it.  I'm ready to get schooled by the Yerkes this time around.   5/2/2012 9:20:10 PM 
23. Ethan White Columbus,OHIO  Women  i dont think anyone anymore.. do snowboard companys count?  winning  fuck you  5/6/2012 5:17:45 PM 
24. Paul Graf Alton, IL  Open        5/9/2012 11:39:15 AM 
25. Derek Yerke Lansing  Open  Go Green Longboarding, Bees Knees Skathletics, Envision Skate Collective  Been losing to these old fuckers for years  Daggers Rule!  5/10/2012 6:38:49 PM 
26. Chris Favero CHIxILL  Open  Freak Bros racing  Stay rad  its all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out.  5/11/2012 5:50:58 AM 
27. Nathan Favero CHIxILL  Open  Freak Bros. Racing  too tall    5/11/2012 5:53:08 AM 
28. Jason Yerke Lansing, MI  Open  Go Green Longboarding, Bees Knees Skathletics  too lazy to sign myself up, so my little brother did it for me. What a great guy  "nothin"  5/13/2012 4:48:45 PM 
29. Keith Hollien Gainesville, FL.  Open    Keith Hollien Signature Series, Radikal Trucks, SK8Kings - AXE ARMY & Oust Bearings  I won the 1st St. Louis race at age 43 and now I am almost 53! Oh No!  5/14/2012 11:41:45 AM 
30. Dustin Stillings Fort Worth, TX  Open  Texas Outlaws  Second slalom race. First time to St. Louis.  Hope the weather is cooler up there.  5/14/2012 2:26:24 PM 
31. Ryan Widman Columbus, Ohio  Open  Mollica & Fifer Inc.  I love Tile and Skateboards. First Race Ever.   Fifer filled this out. She will be there also (not racing, but cheering).   5/17/2012 11:55:27 AM 
32. Brandon Lockwood East Moline, Illinois  Open  JBH's Basement      5/17/2012 6:46:23 PM 
33. Chris Barker Longmont, ColoRADo  Open  Off-The-Couch Racing    Faster Than Your Father  5/19/2012 1:54:56 PM 
34. scott kamins vernonhills il  Open  hobbylobby  Racin at rocket speeds  Ready for yhe hundo cone coarse. My sympathy goes out to all the families of the cones that will be injured or dead.  5/20/2012 7:53:24 AM 
35. Sixty Motherfuckingsix Dirty, South  Women  Cheap beer, good weed.  Who is this guy?  Ain't no doubt.  5/23/2012 2:31:04 PM 
36. Dan Jones St. Louis, MO  Open    America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936    5/24/2012 10:42:35 AM 
37. brenden 'pirate eye' cerney libertyville, il  Open  kg!b, a2b boardshop  Desperatly hoping to avoid a pie to the crotch. Watch out for that first cone  Kennen sie gnar? Ich kenne gnar sehr gut!
Nothin like registering midnight before race weekend 
5/24/2012 11:45:22 PM 
38. Jeff Goad's Neck Bolts STL  Open  gOAd don't need no stinkin' sponsors  OG STL Dagger  JBH did this sign-up, so don't blame gOAd if it's wack  5/24/2012 11:49:11 PM 


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