NASS British Open Slalom Championships
This will take place as one of many events happening at this years NASS Festival at the Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset. This year’s festival is under completely new management, Sports Vision, who are also responsible for The Rip Curl Board Masters Series. The main event-planning meeting was held last Thursday at their offices in Hammersmith. Clingfilm, Louis Selby and Nutsac, myself, and latterly Paul Price (who incidentally undertook the initial site visit) attended.
The event will feature vert and street skating, inline, BMX, FMX and a host of other attractions, rides, stalls and try-outs. There are also a host of music acts including Pendulum and The Subways performing on stage. We have been invited along to showcase slalom racing to the 10,000 strong capacity crowds.
The event runs from Friday 13 – Sunday 15 June.
The format for our racing will be:
Friday – Practice/Demo races
Saturday – Dual Special Slalom
Sunday – Dual Hybrid Slalom
(We will probably be able to cram in some additional races as well as we are not limited to a particular finish time on Saturday!)
Camping will be away from the main public campsite in the separate competitor area.
Access will be limited to those wearing competitor wristbands (issued on signing into the showground) and will have 24-hour security.
Relentless, one of the main sponsors, will be providing an “Athletes Lounge” serving food, courtesy of “Nandos”, twice daily at 1pm and 3pm to ensure we all get a chance to eat. Again access to this area will be by wristband.
Due to the erection of crowd fencing vehicular access will be severely restricted after the event starts on Friday, we will however have use of the competitor car park.
There will also be medical teams on onsite with 24-hour cover.
What we ask from all of you is that you sign up as soon as possible (
http://www.ncdsa.com/contest_registration.asp?ContestID=379#) sign upand make your payment by PayPal, £10 Women and Juniors, £25 for one day or £35 for the weekend (All proceeds go to UKSSA). We need to submit a list of all registered racers to the organisers at the beginning of June – if your name is not on the list you don’t get in! We know this is very short notice but urge you not to miss out on this event – this could be the start of something big!
This will be a fun weekend and as such our racing will be more of an exhibition of slalom racing, people may ask you questions about racing and types of board etc. We will also be allowing other skaters etc. to have a go. The Sports Vision guys have already thrown gauntlets down with each other!
The main sponsors Vans and Relentless have donated some very large purses for the main arena events this year, who knows next year – Prime Status and muchos £?
We need to put on a really good show here and are asking for everyone to pull together and support this event.
Important![u][/u]Thursday night we will have full vehicular access until 9am when the barriers arrive.
Please note: Cars are not allowed onto the site after Friday morning. You will not be allowed to park next your tent.
On arrival go to the main entrance, your name will be on a list (but only if registered), then go to the event office, past the shopping village, to get your competitor wrist band.
You will need to carry your camping stuff to the athlete camping area, which will have security so should be safe and quieter.
More information on the NASS Festival and band line up can be found at
www.nassfest.com Cheers
Rob (LSD)
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