Another cool park in Switzerland, not too far from Basel, with bowl, small ramp, street area, sand beachvolley and climbing with the same ticket (16 Swiss F for the whole day). With more $$ Karting is possible too!!! From Bernhard, more infos about the part here . I love the bowl, quite smooth, not too slippery from wax (max 95a), with plenty trajectories to discover!!!! Other riders are cool. Here are some vids:
Planned to test Strasbourg outdoor vert ramps on that day, but rain was heavy, so we drove south to Basel (1h15 from Strasbourg). Easy to find by following Bernhard instruction, but finding a place for parking the car without the special swiss card is hard!!!! Fond a tip, places with with marks are free, blue one not.... From Bernhard, more infos about the part here . The park is very nice and cheap (4 Swiss F!!! for 10h session). The indoor wood halfpipe is nice, it looks a bit less than 4m, minus are that the wood is a bit irregular, and the ceiling is low, about 2m above the coping, but it's not a problem for me ;-). There is a small ramp on an another room, nice too, but quite noisy!!!!! The street area looks nice too, with a very smooth floor!!! Here are some videos:
Luckily, sun was there!!! Beginning to find the lines and having fun!!! This place is special for me, as it was there that I learned half-pipe Rskating 30 years ago. At the same place was the first park ever of this city, with fiber glass quarters and half pipe, with no coping nor plateform....Plate stalls were tricky, as in place of the coping, the ramps were rounded, with a 20 cm radium, and we had queue for using them, up to about 20 riders waiting for few seconds runs, crazy 1979!!! In those time, there was a guard in charge of the park, filtering people, no pedestrians, nor moto... skateboards, roller skate only, BMX didn't exist yet, all tricks had to be invented!!!! Now it's a smooth public concrete park, with bowl and street parts, max 2m deep, with plenty trajectories and transitions to discover and share with skateboard and BMX!!!! It's a pleasure to share this equipement new generations!!
It's one of the biggest outdoor crete park in France!!
Still wondering if I go there or not after having my back aching the full week before, it was with a bit of fear that I finally got there. My back was a bit stiff, but we had a very cool night session!!!! The 3rd edition of this rollerdisco night was with the theme of the sea, many nice disguises and dance on the street area. Quad skaters were here!!! The bowl part got some animation too!!! Many thanks to Quader and his club and to all the quaders from Paris!!! Enjoy:
End of september, last year there was a big event at Champigny, with nice demos in skateboading, rollerskating and BMX: this year was added a contest during the 2 days!!!!
Satuday stated cool and sunny, wake-up at 7, (temp was 7°C too), a bit warm up when I lost my visa, then I picked up Major, and by 9 we were at Champigny !!! Whith Guy THECLAN staff was ready: we set-up the juge tent, computers, clean and dry the ramp from last night dew!!!! and by 11-12, the ramp was ready for riding !!!!! Then the day passed too fast, competitors arrived, like Greg, Aurore, or Marc. For Rollerskating, the event was organized as a 2 jam sessions, pro and am together, the 2 first riders of each jam qualified, plus one session for qualifying 2 from the loosers for the sunday finals: so 6 riders were qualified for sunday. Was lucky to qualify ... On saturday night the ramp was illuminated for free session and best tricks!!! It was really nice!!!! at 10pm the site closed! Sunday was a bit cooler, sunny as possible, we arrived by 12 at Champigny. The timing was a bit tense, as all the comp had to be finished by 15h30 for the podium with officials....At 16h30 everything was done.
For rollerskates: Qualif JAM sessions: - 1st session : Taylor LATOUCHE, Grégory MAURY, Nicolas COLLIAUX, Kévin COSTABILE - 2nd session : Aurore COSTABILE, Lucien ’LULU’ CAUSSE, Loïc ’ZORG’ MARTINEZ, Tony JACQUOT
JAM final : - AMATEUR : 1st Tony JACQUOT, 2nd Loïc ZORG, 3rd Aurore COSTABILE - EXPERT : 1st Gregory MAURY, 2nd Taylor LATOUCHE, 3rd Nicolas COLLIAUX
BEST TRIKS : Gregory MAURY,“ Fat Flat Spine 540°”.
A big thanks to the organizers: -Nico and CG94 -Skate: THECLAN -Roller: PMG, -BMX: BRST
Trying to learn soul.... First I try to do stalls with my rigth feet front, left behind (it's the reverse from my 50-50 grinds), then grind like this on 3 trucks, then soul!!!! Still need to learn how to get a better control of my back skate.... Movement and position of the hands is very important, hands forward helps (specially the left one) Cool sites to learn tricks and thier names: - Animations - Names - http://www.highrollaz.org/
First try of this cam with my rolleskates (hope to try it windsurfing, snowboarding or cycling too). Tried it on the side of the helmet, but balance is not good and confusing for me, as riding in a ramp the head anticipate all movements and non balanced inertia is tricky to cope with. Placed on top of the helmet, inertia is better balanced and it seems to be good compromise for quality and security (mine and the cam). As the top of my head seems (up to now) less impact attractive, and lateral impacts with the cam on the side could be really dangerous for my neck.....
Hope I can do better quality next time on a bigger ramp or on trecks ;-)
Welcome to Doc Zorg corner!! As used to say my grand-father, a good drawing is worth long explainations... so to make it short, here are some picts of my second version: heavy metal!!!! 3kg each, with iron sliders, 22cm inter axes (BTW, just seen the movie IRONMAN, some parallel could be done, huhu!!)
With a perfect blue skie, I planned to go skating on my nearby ramp, aka Bures sur Yvette. So I went there as usual, starting with cleanning the ramp as usual, then I put my skate and protecs, finishing by my whrist guards.....Damned, forgot them at home... So I pack everything, go back home, take the damned whrist gards, come back to the ramp, pad up again full armor this time: ahaha, that's it, I'm ready to skate!!! Start to pump up, ouch!!! why are my skates so slippery .... go down, I touch the ramp and dang, spots of grease (butter may be?), too many of them to be removed: end of session.....exactly like some of my soft nightmares (on hard ones, w(h)ell the ones I can told here, I fall hard from 10m miss airs...) So I pack everything for the second time, and driving back home, thinking about this sunny day without skating, humm, why not trying Guyancourt ramp, I've not tested it yet, only seen it once a rainny day: it's wide, not very high, 15min driving, perfect to try long long slides without the fear of vert!!!! So finally it worked out!!!! So finally, a perfect 2.5h good session (after cleaning again a ramp...from dust and cherry cores)
Not vert skating, but stil much fun!!!! And this time, finally, after having communicated several years on internet, I met Xav from rollerquad.net and other cool quad skaters from Paris!!! I miss city skating!! Here are some picts from Roller et Coquillage (tons on their web site) and vid from me. Try to catch me on the picts: I am on all, just try to find a yellow spot....
Spring holidays!!! Some french "verte" skating on "Voies vertes", as "verte" in french means green, aka green ways... Time to have some trecks on Re island: it has many flat and smooth "green ways" for bikes, rollerskate only!!!! Swann did his first 40km trek (on quads)!! Of course Nantes skatepark is on the way back home with its vert..... As Swann, now Tanguy and Timothée also take picts:
For me vert is like Whisky or Ti' Punch: dry without ice!!!!!!! And due to bad cold wet winter weather, had more aperitizers than good ramp sessions, so this was my first session of the year at Champigny since december... Nevertheless, the ramp is still in good shape, waiting for abuse and I had 4 hours alone in the ramp, getting back my tricks and testing my new Rainskates wheels (Hornets 65mm 98a). These wheels are really fast and accelerate really well. yayaya!!!
Express session in Lyon with Bombe, Nelo and all madrilans quad vert rollerskaters!!!! It was really good to skate together again. Hope next year we can meet again !!! Sorry, no picts from me, I spent my time chatting/rollerskating this time!!! Some Picts from Buba:
Express session with Swann after soccer match of Tanguy... Cool picts from Swann, he tried some nice new angles. Had some fiever this day, so slides were sticky.....
Cold winter session (0°C), Champigny vert was too much frozen, so we tried Chevilly spine ramps. No ice, but lot of dust and some water..... The coping of this ramp is very nice and wide, so nice grind seesion and transferts!!!! Santa was here also with his skates!! Swann took all the picts:
Thanks to my friends, I have 2 new wheels sets to ride: -Rainskate Hornets 65mm 98a (1kg for 8 wheels, 1.15kg with bearings and spacers, 10mm spacers), hard core, 100% Ketchikan, Alaska product. -Cortech disc 60mm 98a (700g for 8 wheels, 10mm spacers), gravity molded at ambient temp: hard disk core is bonded at molecular scale!!!!Wheels are lathed to 60mm and come from Sidney, Australia!!!! Brand Cortech from 1978 by Tim Dawe. For comparing, Powell Bomber 68mm 85a are 1kg without bearings (10mm spacers), Powell Bowl Bombers 64mm 95a are 1.35kg with bearings and spacers (10mm). All these wheels have bearings centered, Powell ones don't have core!! More news after 25 december..... Here is how they compare (in shape) to the Powell Bowl bomber 64mm, PF:
A really nice animation made by my son Swann, "how he see his father..." . Note that it's sidestance rollerskating ;-). Made with a whiteboard and an erasable marker pen, shot with his digital camera and edited with The Gimp. Enjoy:
Cool 4 hours session with Will, Barnabé and Joanny. Tried to gain speed and learn new curves: slides last much longer and fun too!!!! Quader was there too and enjoyed the park too
Session with William and Major, my skateboarding buddies. The ramp was like a swimming pool in one corner. Lukily we could empty it by removing dust from the evacuation holes with our screwdrivers... then cleaning tools and the 12°c temps with 5 BF winds dried it in half an hour!!!!! This let us to ride from 2pm to 4:45pm time, closing time in winter (sunset time too ;-)) It's so good to rip vert!!!! Here are some vids and picts:
