NESRA Notice of Race - Burlington, VT 5/15/2010

Announcing the launch of the Northeast Skateboard Racing Association (NESRA).

We have a website at www.sk8racing.com that should be live by late Monday 5/3/2010 for sign-ups and more info.

We will be holding a series of skateboard racing events around the Northeast United States and possibly in Canada, this spring, summer and fall.

Right now the venues include Burlington, VT, Antrim, NH and Holyoke, MA, but we hope to add at least one or two more races if possible. Contact us at info@cloudtenweb.com if you think you have a good race venue and want to see about us helping you host a race in our series.

The Burlington, Vermont race is scheduled for Saturday, May 15th, with a rain date of Sunday May 16th. Registration is from 9:30AM - 10AM, racer's meeting at 10:15, GS practice at 10:30. This is an "outlaw" race so there is a bust factor - for that reason, you must contact us at info@cloudtenweb.com for more info and directions to the event venue. Disciplines will be Giant Slalom, Super-Giant Slalom and a Sport Downhill.

All races will be single-lane, electronically timed, with each racer getting three runs per discipline. The course is 900 feet long. The GS course has 40 cones, the Super-G 20 cones, and the Downhill will use "cone features" to make extra turns in what is already an "S" shaped road. All races will use the Green Mountain Bomb Squad 5-foot high start ramp - with a transition suitable for even the lowest and longest of Downhill boards. The race road is fairly steep in the middle, with top speeds in the Downhill expected to be about 40mph, about 35 for the Super-G and 30 for the GS. There is a beautiful runout around a roundhouse right turn and up an incline - no foot braking required. A "B" push-start (all races) will be available for those who find the ramp and entire hill too daunting, or you can push-start from the top if you choose. Classes will be Open A and B only, with trophies for the top three places in each.

There will be a season points series. To qualify for the points series, you must contribute a minimum $5 donation at each event - all these funds go to the event organizer's choice of charity. You must also attend 2 of the 3 currently scheduled events (or 2 of 4, or 3 of 5 if we hold more races) with each racer's four highest finishes, no matter which discipline the finishes are in, counting towards a season championship and prizes. Stay tuned for more info on this!

If you have never raced a skateboard before, come see what it is all about. You will have world-ranked skateboard racers to talk to about equipment, techniques and where other races are being held.

The mimimum $5 donations we gather at the Burlington race will to go to the Downhillbillie's own Mr. Marion Karr's "Surf 2 the Surf" skateboard push-trip across North Carolina this coming summer, to raise awareness of brain injury victims and to benefit "Hinds Feet Farm", an organization that provides "Unique and Innovative Programs for Adults with Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injuries and Their Families".

Ok, let's ROCK!
-Rick

OK - www.sk8racing.com is live...and the sign-up for the Burlington Bomb is on the NCDSA site here:

http://67.139.161.195/contest_registration.asp?ContestID=460

Come on down!

-RF

Good job rick!
I will try to make it, but it's not approved by my pregnant boss...

I'm very interested Rick.

NESRA!! I LIKE!!

Good job brahh! Unfortunately I'll be sherding some waves that week-end down in CR.

Have fun!

S.

seb a écrit:

NESRA!! I LIKE!!

Good job brahh! Unfortunately I'll be sherding some waves that week-end down in CR.

Have fun!

S.

Yeah..."unfortunately"...LOL...rip that CR water Seb!!

See you in QC?

-RF

Mig a écrit:

I'm very interested Rick.

Cool! We decided to call it "Northeast" instead of "New England" SRA so we can add events in Canada, NY, Jersey, even DC. I know that technically you guys are "Southeast" Canada, but you are still Northeast North America. )

I hope to eventually have vids and photos of NE races on the website, pro sk8er written "tips", full schedule and results, links to other sk8 sites - like www.fullbagskates.com - and also use the site to promote bigger regional races like Antrim / Ottawa / Farm.

-RF

Bravo Rick

A lot of us remember how fun the Farm Series was, this sound like the same thing, just better organized

I hope the Frenchies will include it in the series, we can include the Farm too as long as I don't have to track the points.

Also, if you can manage a kids race as part of any of these, Fatty has promised sponsorship.

Joe

Fromage Y'all a écrit:

Bravo Rick

A lot of us remember how fun the Farm Series was, this sound like the same thing, just better organized

I hope the Frenchies will include it in the series, we can include the Farm too as long as I don't have to track the points.

Also, if you can manage a kids race as part of any of these, Fatty has promised sponsorship.

Joe

Thanks Joe! Don't judge the organization until we actually have an event....we'll see...I expect a learning curve. )

Dan, Dave and I discussed combo race/clinics at these events - our location is not good for that, but we hope to do it at Antrim and Holyoke. Need some kids first.

Let's talk more by phone about how to work in other races.

I got a big box of broken boards/wheels/trucks from a local skateshop last night - we are having a trophy-making party in Tom's garage this weekend.

We thought about putting a single can of beer in the middle of the road and having everyone race to it at once...but we thought it might be too dangerous. ;-)

-RF

wavechasseur a écrit:

We Thought about putting a single can of beer in the middle of the road and everyone HAVING race to it at once ... but we Thought it Might Be Too dangerous. ;-)

-RF

You need to work your way up to that level of jack assedry

Who grabbed the bouncing beer last year? Was it Brian Peck or Duquette? I can't remember...

Duquette was first to the cone, but since his hand has never held a beer before, he dropped it. It bounced into Peck's third place hands. I think I invented this new finish line and I'm really proud of it.

If any of you have evidence to the contrary, keep it to yourself, I'm going to ignore it anyway.