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The Seismic Skate Systems World Championships of Slalom Skateboarding
Hood River, Oregon July 17 - 19, 2009
Hood River, Oregon - World-class athletes, speed, adrenaline, danger, and gorgeous scenery will collide in Hood River July 17 - 19 for the Seismic Skate Systems World Championships of Slalom Skateboarding, the biggest slalom skateboard race of 2009.
The busy downtown main streets of Hood River Oregon are going to replace cars with slalom skateboarders as Hood River rolls out the red carpet for this event. Past races in Hood River have been so well received by the skateboard racing community that this year's event was awarded the World Championships by the International Slalom Skateboard Association (ISSA).
This year's event - the biggest slalom skateboard race of 2009 - will start on Friday morning, July 17, 2009,at the Mosier Tunnels east of Hood River with the Giant Slalom. Racers will wind along the half-mile long, single lane course where speeds can often exceed 35 miles per hour.
Saturday sees the event move to Columbia Street in downtown Hood River where the qualifying and preliminary rounds will be held for the Tight and Hybrid Slalom events. Racers will be competing head to head with the winning times calculated down to the thousands of a second.
Sunday the races move to Oak Street, one of the most popular downtown main streets in Hood River, Where the finals of the Hybrid and Tight Slalom events will be held. The top racers in each event will be racing for a large cash prize purse.
The Title Sponsor for the 2009 World Championships, Boulder, Colorado - based Seismic Skate Systems, is a 16-year-old manufacturer of advanced boards, wheels, and trucks for high-performance long boarding, cruising, racing and beyond. Seismic products are sold worldwide through specialty retailers, sporting goods retailers and distributors.
"We've actively supported slalom skateboard racing in myriad ways since 1986, and we're absolutely committed to leading the industry in engineering race-performance equipment," said former pro skater Dan Gesmer, founder and owner of Seismic Skate Systems. "After three years as Title Sponsor of the U.S. Nationals, we're extremely pleased to serve this year as the Title Sponsor of the World Championships."
This year's event is being coordinated and hosted by a group of volunteers from the Cascade Slalom Association (CSA). CSA was originally formed in 1980 to promote slalom skateboard racing and was resurrected in 2002 with the world-wide resurgence of slalom skateboarding. Cascade Slalom Association annually hosts slalom skateboard racing events in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
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