ASRA - Australian Skateboard Racing Association

New Future for Downhill Skateboarding

Welcome to the new future of downhill skateboarding. Over the last five years ASRA has run both World Cup and World Championship downhill events under the banner of the IGSA. While we have had many successes in this relationship we have also had many struggles in the way we believe the international scene should be headed.

At this time and with the growth in our sport, ASRA needs to affiliate with a group that is more closely aligned with the democratic and accountability structures of a real international sporting association. We could no longer adhere to an international company that had complete control over our sport without any accountability to its stakeholders. Without our voices being heard we continued to battle from the inside to reform and modernize a body that refused to change. This has made it very difficult and very expensive for us to give our sport the dynamic and exciting future it deserves. Considering ASRA has had so much skin in the game over the last five years we felt it imperative that Australian voices are heard at the board level of a legitimate internationally elected body - a federation more closely aligned with the structure and principles that govern ASRA. The Australian Skateboard Racing Association has now aligned with a new international structure under the banner of the International Downhill Federation (IDF).

We have come to a stage in our sports development where ASRA believes our sport at an international level must become more rider focused. It must support and give voice to event organisers, and it must be fully accountable and transparent both in decision making and financially. This new structure will create a body elected by its members, a legitimate association that responds to its stakeholders and gives voice to its riders. This will not be a one-man show, but a body elected by the riders, event organisers and other stakeholders that have put so much into this sport. It will promote events that can stand on their own two feet and support new growth in our sport. It will be a body looking to innovate, respond, and change to develop our sport into the exciting product we all know it is. With this ASRA has joined with the IDF to take World Cup racing to a new level.

Australia's two World Cup events at Mt Keira and Bathurst will now move to this new structure and form a core part of the 2013 World Cup circuit under the IDF. We are super excited about the future of Downhill Skateboarding both in Australia and internationally and believe the IDF is the positive next stage to the sports development.

There are many more details to be worked out but I can promise you this; ASRA with the IDF are working hard to take downhill skateboarding to a new level of growth and accountability internationally and we look forward to an awesome year of racing in 2013

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Tags: IDF, International Downhill Federation


ASRA Admin
Comment by Bugs on November 6, 2012 at 14:55

I like to avoid personal insults, and while Robbo did have a go at you, you responded in kind. If you want to talk about the future of luge, fine, it's a reasonable subject. But I have to say you're making some big assumptions about the IDF which simply aren't true, while confirming the (possibly unfair) perception that the current crop of lugers are a noisy whinging bunch. I don't think you're aiding your cause.

Comment by Robbo on November 6, 2012 at 15:00

ASRA has a great future Andy we don't see ourselves as being cornered, you are the extreme minority and both you and now everybody in the entire world seems to know that. You hold no respect and no weight within international opinion. What you have proved to the IDF is your greatest contribution here is to get the whole community to dislike you and by extension and because none of your brethren pull you into line, it becomes a reflection on your entire luge community which is a shame as you bring dislike onto the people around you. What you have proved to the IDF is there are 3 old luges in Australia absolutely resistant to change.

Like I have been doing for many years Andy, I have been growing and contributing to my sport domestically and internationally. I have personally put on more events than you are years old, I have been the vice president of the national body that runs our sport for 5 years and I manage the biggest longboard skate brand in Australia. While I have been getting the job done you have spent all your time vomiting all over the web.


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Comment by Trav on November 6, 2012 at 15:11

Let's clear some things up:

The Australian scene has a bad political view because of a very vocal few and the arguments between them online. I for one are always seen as hating luge because i spend most of my time arguing your stupid warped view on the way things work.

I don't hate luge at all, i hate you as an individual Sakamotto. Unfortunately for that discipline the guys that actually turn up to events and support them don't speak up enough to pull you into line and truly represent their sport. Ask any of the Luger's at this years races if I gave them a hard time on the startline or took any track time off them - no, just the opposite.

I could go on and list the problems you have cause but i only need to refer everyone back to every so-called "luge hating" discussions on this site and they will see that you are the common dominator and the root cause to this entire problem.

Lastly i'm not officially affiliated with ASRA. Although I spend huge amounts of time helping them i'm just a skater and a volunteer that is tired of witnessing the undue stress and hassle put on by the core guys that put Australia on the map for world class races in the first place. 


Premium Member
Comment by blackwood on November 6, 2012 at 15:41

I also have some concerns with the IDF....The coloured lines need to be a bit smoother, and maybe a light outline of black around the INTERNATIONAL to make it pop a bit.

 


Premium Member
Comment by Jacko on November 6, 2012 at 15:43

"because your view of gravity sports is only through the eyes of a skateboarder who works in a shop, not the the eyes of gravity riders in general."

 

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

im pretty sure Robbo was out riding Mt Keira the first time i ever bombed that hill. He was there showing me the ropes, i followed him down the hill the first time i rolled it. He also had a pretty rad bail n KO'd himself infront of me on that same day but thats beside the point. the bloke knows whats up dude, you obviously do not. he IS a gravity rider, but maybe has dedicated a little more of his time to support THE ENTIRE COUNTRY of gravity racing....

 

what a kook. go away man. for real. just go away. no one wants u here anymore hey Skatamoto.... never before have i seen so much dribble!


Premium Member
Comment by Jayden Mitchell on November 6, 2012 at 15:44

Blackwood Wins...


Premium Member
Comment by Jacko on November 6, 2012 at 16:17

this Sakamoto guy seems to hate ASRA so much, i wonder why he continues to post on this website? it seems kinda silly... dont like it how bout ya piss off eh

Comment by Sakamoto on November 6, 2012 at 17:11

You all have just proved my point...Cheers  :)

Although Trav, I'm extra devo'd with your comment....No Christmas card this year?


ASRA Admin
Comment by bernie on November 6, 2012 at 17:34

take the heat out of this will ya's

Every sport needs to have passionate debate about where it is taking itself, specially given that there appears to be a batten change from one team that used to make all the decisions(liked or not), to a new team that will make all the decisions(liked or not).

If someone wants to make a case for luge or skateboard or even scooters, thats fine, if anyone else wants to propose an alternate view, that is fine also.  Focus on the views not the history or the people.

If you want a say on a world stage, act like the world is watching!


Premium Member
Comment by David Evans on November 6, 2012 at 17:40

You have dug yourself one fucking big hole mate. Enjoy.

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