[Event] BattleUS (Sept 8th & 9th 2007)

[jlacivita]

Bonjour!

BattleUS is officially scheduled for Sept 8th & 9th in New York City!

The event will be held at Riverbank State Park, which is fairly close to Central Park. Its a large outdoor skating rink, similar to the one used for the Bremen Slalom Festival.

You can register online (please do, as it will help us plan the event if we know how many people are coming!!)

Riverbank State Park Map

BattleUS Website

Over hear in the states, we're all very excited to have visitors from Europe and Asia coming to skate with us, and we're hoping to learn a thing or two from you all

[Naomi]

Schedule - better late than never!

Wednesday 5th September
9:00 - 12:00 Naomi Grigg & Seba Laffargue workshop session 1
13:00 - 16:00 Naomi Grigg & Seba Laffargue workshop session 2

Thursday 6th September
9:00 - 12:00 Naomi Grigg & Seba Laffargue workshop session 3
13:00 - 16:00 Naomi Grigg & Seba Laffargue workshop session 4

Friday 7th September
Practice, chilling

Saturday 8th September
9:00 - 10:00 warm up time
10:00 - 11:00 Qualifications (up to 25 competitors)
11:00 - 12:00 Speed Slalom (each skater goes twice, take fastest run, no pyramid)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 15:30 Freestyle Battle
15:00 - 17:00 Freestyle Mini Workshops (Battle may run into this a bit)

Sunday 9th September
9:00 - 10:00 open skating
10:00 - 12:00 Consolation Battles
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00 Consolation Battles cont.
14:00 - 15:00 off-cones show-off session
15:00 - 16:00 Fun Activity (TBD)
16:00 - 17:00 on-cones show-off session

[Seba]

Full results :

http://battleus.com/results.html
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Seb.

http://www.universkate.com
http://sebastienlaffargue.free.fr
http://worldslalomseries.com

[Naomi]

Here is some more information about the contest.

BattleUS video - includes clips of slalom AND the off cones battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMS6tgZVF9w

6 different countries represented (USA, Canada, UK, France, Taiwan, Malaysia), and 5 USA states:

Washington (state, not DC)
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Ohio

The USA national results are:

1 Jeremy LaCivita
2 Evan Weremeychik
3 Stacy Schlutsmeyer
4 Dennis Palmer
5 Doug Persons
6 Robert Sikorski
7 John Whitley
8 Chris Dorman


the International competition went as follows:

1 Igor Cheremetieff
2 Chloe Seyres
3 Olivier Herrero
4 CJ Lee
5 equal: Jeremy LaCivita & Evan Weremechik
7 equal: Nicolas Ratthe & Olivier Fortier

There was an "No-Cones" Battle:
'USA' Vs 'Non USA'
Winners = USA team.
Individual winner: Evan Weremychik (Union Square Crew, NYC)

Judges: Naomi Grigg, Sebastien Laffargue