Region EA Wakeboard Chairman: Florian Butty 32 route de la Ferme, 1470 Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland E-mail: f.butty@wakeboardcouncil.com Phone: +41 (0) 79 279 7968 Fax: +41 (0) 860 79 279 7968 IWWF EA Wakeboard boat council 2013 ANNUAL REPORT Council members 2013 Judges and Calculators seminar 2013 Coaching Seminar 2013 EA wakeboard boat championships 2013 IWWF Wakeboard boat championships 2013 EA wakeboard boat ranking list 2013 EA wakeboard boat riders of the year 2014 EA wakeboard boat Judges and Calculators seminars 2014 EA wakeboard boat rules 2014 EA wakeboard boat championships 2014 EA wakeboard boat projects Dear Admincom Members, Dear Councils Members, Dear Deleguetes, On behalf of the wakeboard boat council I’m pleased to submit you my annual report regarding the EA wakeboard and wakeskate boat council. COUNCIL MEMBERS The council once again spent two full years of work, on both side, administrative and technical level, shoring and continuous of the improvement of the calculation program, revision and alignment of the rules with the IWWF rules, controls and changes on the heat-system were also in the program, the manual edition of the EA ranking list. Finally a close collaboration with the development commission, we’ve been running two coaching seminars during the last two years. I’m very proud and happy to have been able to count on the members of the council with which collaboration has been very fruitful and led to progress again in the evolution of our sport. However, after lengthy reflection, in early December two of my colleagues took the decision to step down and to not be any more council members since this congress. Claes Scheffer (SWE) was the secretary of our Council for 9 years, he has honored his function with great professionalism and seriousness, he was also responsible for updating official documents and rules. Also during the first five years he has represented the wakeboard boat council to the Admincom, representation he did brilliantly. Claes today leaves us with the desire to offer the time he spent for us to date on development of a local club loan he resides in Sweden. We wish him full success in his new challenge and thank you very much Claes for all the work you’ve done for the EA wakeboard boat council. Remi Breivik (NOR) was elected in January 2006, his specialization within the council was the calculation, the heat-system and the management of the calculation part at the annual seminar. He was so efficient in the heat-system controlling than he was able to prove that some heat-system utilize in other regions were wrong and needed to be changed! Remi was very methodic and professional and brought a lot for the development of the calculation software for our council. Today he leaves us to devote more time to his family that just got bigger! the entire council joins me to warmly thank Remi for his investment and to wish him all the best for the future! For many years, we had many problems of communications with the president of the IWWF World wakeboard council, on Wednesday 28th August 2013, a big change happens, Nuno Almeida Eca (POR) was elected President by the majority of the World wakeboard council members. The first effects of this election were already felt at the last World congress in Chile, it was since many years that the Executive board had not seen the wakeboard boat representative been that much involved and expressing himself during an EB meeting. The entire wakeboard boat council joins me to congratulate Nuno for his election and wish him full success in his new function. for the future, the current members of the Committee, Maria Bulgakova (UKR), Florian Butty (SUI), Nuno Eca (POR), Colin Hart (GBR) and Simona Valerio (ITA) are all candidates for the 2014 elections to continue the work in progress. 2013 JUDGES & CALCULATORS SEMINARS The 15th Annual International Wakeboard Judging & Calculation Seminar was hosted by the Latvian Waterski and Wakeboard Federation and organised by Oskars Kruze. The E&A Wakeboard Council would like to thank Oskars for his hard work preparing the seminar for the delegates. This was the first International wakeboard judging seminar in Latvia with 28 people attending from 10 countries, including 5 council members. It was encouraging to see officials attend from the new wakeboard coaching seminar. As all of the delegates know, the annual seminar is an important event on the wakeboard calendar for the development within the region. The seminar was aimed at bringing judges up to a medium to high level, on this occasion with 1 delegate taking International Level 1 (E&A highest level) also incorporating the introduction of the new Calculation Program. Results will be produced for judges element and are detailed below, a separate report and results will be posted for the calculation section. JUDGES SESSION The purpose of this report is to give a brief summary of the results, unfortunately we cannot evaluate each individuals examination paper. There was a good number of people that had judged competitions but this was the first official seminar that they had attended and, for a selected few, the first experience of wakeboard judging and calculating. This was most encouraging but all delegates must remember this was an International Seminar that is only run once a year for the region Europe and Africa. Most of the individuals that took the examinations were well prepared on the written examination and this clearly showed within some of the results. However, there were a number of errors/issues that arose, as follows: JUDGES EXAMINATION RESULTS CALCULATOR SESSION Again this year the calculation session was held for both calculators and judges to make sure that also the judges know the basics behind calculation of scores, the heat system and how to perform seeding of riders. There where a total of 14 people standing for the exam where 11 where trying for the national calculators exam and 3 trying for the international level 2 calculators exam. CALCULATORS EXAMINATION RESULTS Name Surname Country email adress Arvids Zarins Latvia arvidszarins@gmail.com Roberts Linavskis Latvia roberts@17.lv Oskars Kruze Latvia oskars.kruze@gmail.com Karim Solimann Egypt karimsolimann@hotmail.com Kaspars Bebris Latvia bebris.kaspars@gmail.com Alexey Filippov Russia alexph@gmail.com Arturs Kruze Latvia arturs.kruzz@gmail.com Rudolphs Gulbis Russia superpetrol81@gmail.com Nikola Zukrcvica Latvia nicosha2000@inbox.lu Klavs Ozolins Latvia klavs.ozolins@gmail.com Mohamed Youssef Egypt mo_syou@hotmail.com Matas Duksta Lithuania m2sta@gmail.com Davis Lazdins Latvia davislazdins@gmail.com Jonas Duksta Lithuania Jonas@xteam.it Average Pass 95% 94% 90% 82% 82% 80% 80% 70% 68% 65% 61% 60% 58% 58% YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO Calculator Level International 2 International 2 International 2 National 2 National 2 National 2 National 2 Not Classified Not Classified Not Classified Not Classified Not Classified Not Classified Not Classified There were given a different value to each question, considering those regarding schedule, the timing, development of the heat system and seeding of riders more important than other questions. Several of the people taking the exam had problems to explain a calculator’s job prior, during and after the competition and to explain the calculators needs during a competition. Seminars reports were established by Colin Hart for the Judges session and by Florian Butty for the Calculators session. 2013 COACHING SEMINAR From the 18th to 21th April 2013 it was held in St. Petersburg the annual coaching seminar, under the organization of Jean-Michel Cau, we gave a coaching seminar for tournament and wakeboarding. Once again a good number of people attended the seminar and not less than 21 people who essentially came from Russia participle to the wakeboard session. Here is the list of participants: Terskov Aleksandr ters2002@gmail.com Sergeev Daniil Ryanzina Natalya Moiseenko Anton Glukhova Tatiana zinoviev vycheslav Alexander Turkin alexander Chernykh Utkin Pasha Vyashin Taras Marina Arkhipova Prishchepa Pavel Gints Rungis Krinetskaya Svetlana Yuriy Berezhnoy Denis Moiseenko Beloysov Stanislav Mednikov Anna Khilmi Ilya Sapitskiy bf1332@yandex.ru Natalia_ryanzina@mail.ru canggu@mail.ru Tatiana.glukhova.spb@gmail.com Casper_slava@mail.ru Waker3@yandex.ru Chernikh82@mail.ru zinovievaksenia@rambler.ru wake.leto@gmail.ru dusshtrud@yandex.ru winchslip@gmail.com gintsru@inbox.lv sc-fenix@mail.ru info@moswake.ru patrikbej@mail.ru bump-club@mail.ru a.mednikov@mail.ru a.hilmi@mail.ru ilyasapitski@mail.ru 2013 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2013 EA wakeboard and wakeskate boat championships were held from the 14 th to the 18th August 2013 on the countryside of Radom in Poland, it was again a great successful event with at the end 95 wakeboard boat riders from 17 countries and 19 wakeskate riders from 9 countries. The media coverage was really impressive, TV, Radio or News-paper were on site for the weekend, we really enjoyed a great interest from the medias. Once again, a great success with the live scoring, always available on www.iwwfed-ea.org. Please find herewith the individual podiums for each divisions: Please find herewith the final team classification: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Italy Great Britain Spain Switzerland Ireland Russia Sweden France Ukraine 525 points 500 points 380 points 325 points 320 points 315 points 260 points 250 points 208 points 10. Netherlands 11. South Africa 12. Poland 13. Belgium 14. Egypt 15. Latvia 16. Luxembourg 17. Austria 165 points 140 points 138 points 108 points 52 points 43 points 35 points 20 points All detailed results can be found at the following link: www.iwwfed-ea.org I take this opportunity to warmly thank the Polish motorboat and waterski federation, the RSSW Polish wakeboard association and Marius Gajewski from Sotop Agency, all of them made the EA wakeboard and wakeskate championship in less than 90 days. 2013 IWWF WORLD WAKEBOARD BOAT CHAMPIONSHIP The 2013 IWWF World Wakeboard boat championships were held from the 27th August to the 1st September 2013 in the city of Busan in South Korea, it was a successful championships with at the end 135 wakeboard boat riders from 28 countries. For the very first time we were using the calculation software made by Manu Lion and approved by the IWWF world wakeboard boat council to be used during the 2013 Worlds in Busan and at the upcoming edition, this agreement permitted to have also Live scoring during the entire competition. Everybody on site were enthusiastic to this new scoring system and to be able to have direct live scoring on site, Athletes, Officials, Medias, Partners and Organizers enjoyed a lot the live scoring during the Worlds in Busan. All the individual results are always available on www.iwwfed-ea.org. Please find herewith the final team classification: 1. Australia 2. United States 3. South Korea 4. Italy 5. Argentina 6. Great Britain 7. Switzerland 8. Russia 9. Ireland 10. Japan 11. China 12. South Africa 495 points 465 points 354 points 313 points 208 points 202 points 178 points 175 points 167 points 135 points 124 points 118 points 13. Mexico 14. Netherland 15. France 16. Columbia 17. Brazil 18. Singapor 19. New-Zealand 20. Indonesia 21. Ecuador 22. Belgium 23. Thailand 24. Hong Kong 109 points 94 points 82 points 68 points 45 points 44 points 37 points 18 points 15 points 4 points 4 points 2 points The following teams: Canada, Spain, Latvia, Sweden and Chinese Taipei were not classified, they only had individual riders. 2013 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT RANKING LIST The EA Wakeboard boat ranking is still growing more and more every year. The 2013 edition of the ranking has just been finished; it’s based on 35 competitions from 13 countries and including close to 400 riders that participated to wakeboard boat homologated competition last year. We are now doing a final control on it and It will be published on the wakeboard council website www.wakeboardcouncil.com since the 1st of March. Since 2014, the EA Wakeboard boat ranking list will be made in a totally different way and will follow new criteria, something similar to what they do in the Cable Wakeboard Council. All the informations regarding the ranking list will be available by the next summer on the council website, www.wakeboardcouncil.com 2013 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT RIDERS OF THE YEAR During the last session of the EA wakeboard boat council meeting held in Kiev last November, the majority of the council elected: MEGAN BARKER GREAT BRITAIN 2013 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT FEMALE RIDER OF THE YEAR Megan (Junior Ladies in 2013) became 1st in Open ladies (1/6) at the EA wakeboard boat championships held in Poland and became 7th (7/17) at the IWWF World wakeboard boat championships held in South Korea. MASSIMILIANO PIFFARETTI ITALY 2013 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT MALE RIDER OF THE YEAR Massimiliano (Junior Men in 2013) became 1st in Open Men (1/13) at the EA wakeboard boat championships held in Poland and became (5/44) at the IWWF World wakeboard boat championships held in South Korea. Congratulation to both of them for their elections and for all the fantastic results they’ve done in 2013 and for all the efforts they’ve made to get this high level and knowledge of wakeboarding. The EA wakeboard boat council can only encourage them to continue on this path for the coming years! 2014 JUDGES AND CALCULATORS SEMINARS On the 8th January, I had the great pleasure of receiving from the French Federation a written confirmation that they will organize the 2014 Judges and Calculators seminars in Paris. The seminar will take place from the 9th to the 11th May 2014 in the following hotel: Hotel Holyday Inn Paris Orly Airport 4 Avenue Charles Lindbergh 94656 Rungis France We still have to arrange some small administrative and technical details but I believe it will be sorted out very soon. 2014 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT RULES During our last session in November we reviewed all the wakeboard boat rules with the ambition of the EA wakeboard boat council to head toward one set of rules in the world. The EA rules will have to be changed to get closer to the worlds rules. All the corrections made during the November session will be available on the council meeting minutes and on the published set of rules. We started to work closer with the world council to make corrections in the world rules and on the regional side, we will only produce regional guideline and small technical regional rules. We expect that in 2015 (Year of the next worlds) the unique worldwide wakeboard boat set of rules will be 100% established and also all the regional guidelines produced. The 2014 EA wakeboard boat rules will be available on www.wakeboardcouncil.com since the 1st of March 2014. We will also distribute it through the EA office. 2014 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT CHAMPIONSHIPS Unfortunatly we still not have received an official bid for the 2014 EA wakeboard boat championships, we still under discussion with federations and boat partner to find the best solution for 2014. Soon as we will get informations or confirmations, we will communicate it to the EA office. If one of the members of the EA confederation is interested to host the wakeboard boat championships this year please contact us. For 2015, we received the 17th January 2014, an official bid from the Dutch federation. 2014 EA WAKEBOARD BOAT PROJECTS The Wakeboard boat council is actually in contact with organizers and partners to organize again the EA wakeboard boat Pro Tour, it will be a new competitions format, easy for the organizer, very important for the riders with cash prize provided by the EA partners, more informations will come out before the spring 2014. Other projects regarding social networks, wakeboard application for competitions and riders are still under construction, we hope it will come out during 2014! Many Thanks to all the Admincom members and to the EA bureau for the confidence this year. This is the final report of the wakeboard boat council for 2013, this report can be distributed to all the members of the EA confederation. Best regards and all the best for 2014. Faithfully yours Florian Butty Chairman of Wakeboard Boat Council Confederation Europe & Africa
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