Region EA Wakeboard
Chairman: Florian Butty
32 route de la Ferme, 1470 Estavayer-le-Lac,
Switzerland
E-mail: [email protected]
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
[email protected]
Roberts Linavskis
Latvia
[email protected]
Oskars
Kruze
Latvia
[email protected]
Karim
Solimann
Egypt [email protected]
Kaspars
Bebris
Latvia
[email protected]
Alexey
Filippov
Russia
[email protected]
Arturs
Kruze
Latvia
[email protected]
Rudolphs
Gulbis
Russia
[email protected]
Nikola
Zukrcvica
Latvia
[email protected]
Klavs
Ozolins
Latvia
[email protected]
Mohamed Youssef
Egypt
[email protected]
Matas
Duksta Lithuania
[email protected]
Davis
Lazdins
Latvia
[email protected]
Jonas
Duksta Lithuania
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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