Minutes of 81st Meeting of Region E&A Cable Council Meeting
Held at Klima Hotel, Milano, Italy on 25th/26th January 2014
In attendance
Marie- Anne Persoons (MAP)
Nicky Caine (NCC)
Maoz Tal (MT)
Joost de Leyer (JDL)
Michal Mos (MM)
Elena Kunert (EK)
Aliaksader Isayeu (AI)
Martin Graw (MG)
Juergen Pitz (JP) – Saturday lunch meeting and beginning of Sunday meeting
Meeting held during lunch break of E&A Congress 25th January
MAP thanked JP for all his hard work over the years and was very happy that he had agreed to stay
involved and would act as an advisor to the Council. She also welcomed Martin to the E&A Cable
Council and congratulated everyone on receiving maximum votes in the election that has just taken
place at the Congress.
MAP reminded everyone that we work as a group and that our nationality must not be allowed to
effect any decision.
MAP confirmed that the meeting allowance was 250 euros per meeting and that MG should forward
his bank details to Dominque.
It was agreed that the following people would fill the positions listed below
President of E&A Council
MAP
Secretary to E&A Council
NCC
Treasurer to E&A Council
NCC
World Council President
MAP
World Council Representatives
MT
EK
MG – Substitute
World Council Reserve
HP (Heidi Pauen)
Meeting held on Sunday Morning 26th January
1.
Approval of the Minutes
In Section regarding “Additional Rules…” there needs to be an amendment made regarding the
speeds which should read Slalom and Jump 20 – 62 and Tricks 25 – 35. With this change made
the minutes were approved and duly signed by MAP and NCC.
Minutes of the 81st meeting of the Confederation E&A Cableski Council
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2.
Seminar 2014 in Tel Aviv
The Cable Council Meeting will be held on Thursday 27th March with the meeting starting at
9am and the seminar will be held on 28th/29th in Tel Aviv.
Subjects to be covered in the Seminar will be Trick Writing/Setting up a Video Jump
System/Homologation. Also the work of a calculator at a competition such as setting up start
lists etc.
MT will invite skiers to attend and learn how to write tricks. The shorthand can be explained
and so they have an idea how to start with writing the tricks down then some of the symbols
that judges use will be shown. How to recognise good/bad tricks will be explained. We will need
to demonstrate both high and low level tricks as some of the skiers may recognise them but not
be able to write them down quickly enough.
If anyone wishes to sit an exam then they will be able to do so on Friday.
MM will bring a back-up Jump system with him but we do need to be able to put together the
system MT has.
There will be a small/”test” competition with 10/12 skiers. We have the water between 7 -10 in
the morning to run this competition. During this competition we can demonstrate how the
cameras are set up and used.
This seminar will be open for everyone and will probably be fairly low level. After the
competition held in the morning there will be feedback and discussion as to what happened
during the competition .
The hotel has 2 meeting rooms available so if the group needs to be split it will be possible.
MT will try and find out exactly who will be attending and that way we can work out exactly
what sessions will be needed at the seminar.
3.
World Council
MAP confirmed that Sherm Shraft had resigned from the World Council and therefore we need
to find someone new from that region/confederation. MT will contact the owner of OWC
however they tend to have host Cable Wakeboard competitions but not many 3 event
competitions.
We also need to ask Colin Ellison to set up a Council in his region/confederation. We will contact
Stuart Marston (World Cable 3 event Skiers’ Representative) to see if he has any suggestions to
who may be interested in getting involved.
JP will forward all his “World” files to MAP
4.
Allocation of Work
President/Secretary/Treasurer already agreed.
JDL – Homologation
MT – Website and Technical Officer
AI – Skiers Representative
MM/EK - Technical Rules
MM – Technical equipment
EK - Officials
MG – Rules (he will take over from JP)
MAP & MG – support for the new federation licence program
Vladimir Ryanzin had offered to stand as Skiers’ Representative however it was confirmed that
the “election” is carried out at the Cable 3 event E&A Open competition and the skiers
representative is voted in by the skiers and not the E&A Cable Council nor E&A Congress
delegates.
Minutes of the 81st meeting of the Confederation E&A Cableski Council
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5.
Officials
MAP will send out by the end of February a form to all the Cable officials so that they can
complete which competitions they wish to apply to officiate at.
6.
Calculation/Standings List
EK will be the liaison with Manu for changes in calculation programme and it was agreed that
there should only be one person for contact with Manu and therefore MAP will contact Heidi
to find out how Manu ‘s assistance in setting up “Who beats who” Rankings List is progressing
so that EK can follow it up.
Qualification rules – should it be worked out as a percentage of total skiers on rankings list or
number of skiers based on position within list? The Rankings List is based on the top 2 scores.
Concern expressed that some skiers only attend “Titled events”
Should we try and limit entrants from one country? The qualification scores to be discussed
again at the council meeting in Tel Aviv
A query has been raised by Alexander Vasko, Chairman of Slovak Waterski Federation regarding
the position of Kamil Borysewicz’s position on the Jump Standing list. He is currently shown to
be first in Junior ranking list but it is believed that Kamil did not perform this jump until correct
conditions for Juniors as it was achieved at the E&A Open Championships in Poland.
After a long discussion whether skiers can be positioned in the rankings list of their age,
although the performance was not necessarily achieved under the right conditions for their age
category. There were concerns expressed that if the scores had to be executed under strict
conditions then probably the only results that could be verified to have been achieved under
the current conditions would be at the E&A “Age Categories” competition and this would result
in the Junior/Senior rankings list being very short.
Therefore we need to make it clear that the Age Categories list is based on the age of the
competitor and not the “age” conditions that the score was achieved. In this context the Senior
women Ranking List needs to be updated
7.
Worlds 2014
By the middle of February we should have confirmation that the Worlds is going ahead. We are
aware that the organisers are looking for sponsors, The obligations will need to signed by the
German Federation with approval of the Dutch Federation.
There has been suggestions for possible candidates to be Chief Judge at the Worlds but MAP
will wait until confirmation that competition is going ahead before contacting them.
8.
Competitions 2014
5 – 7 September – Veendam – World Championship – still to be confirmed
18 – 20 September – SchlossDankern – E&A Age Categories
18 -20 July – Kosice – Grand Prix
25 -27 July – Havirov – Grand Prix
1 – 3rd August – Asten – Grand Prix
22 – 24 August – Augustow – Grand Prix
24 – 25 October – Tel Aviv – Nationals/Open
9.
Competitions 2015
It now appears there is a clash of dates between E&A 3 event Open to be held at Alfsee Rieste
on 11 – 13th September 2015 and the Tournament Worlds to be held in Milan. This would cause
problems as there will be skiers/officials that will wish to attend both competitions. MAP will
contact Marcus Hoernschemeyer regarding this.
Minutes of the 81st meeting of the Confederation E&A Cableski Council
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10. New Sites
MT will be in contact with Uwe Goldstein regarding Laguna (site name), a new site in Egypt. The
local Federation of Egypt needs to be involved if we are going to have a competition there.
New cable site in Miami is also being build, this will be a similar set up as the OWC in Orlando
and thus owned by Correct Craft.
11. Budget
Last season we spent 4803 euros in total of which 3010 euros was on officials travel, 455 euros
on seminar and 1338 on the new website.
As this season is a “Worlds” year therefore there will only be one competition that we will need
to pay for officials travel.
Discussion whether we should we put up our entry fees?
Agreed that we would leave the entry fees the same for this season so 160 euros for
Open/Seniors and 120 euros for Juniors.
Last season there was 235 euros generated by E&A Cable Council in relation to
Homologation/Late Entry fees. We still need to work on getting income from advertisement on
our website.
12. Website
At the moment it appears that the Grand Prix competitions are not on E&A webpage and MT
will contact Brit to sort this out.
Cableski.org is still the registered to JP as the owner. JP will send invoice through to NCC for
settlement.
Cableskiworlds.com is to be kept and MT is to organise that this domain name is transferred to
him. However we will check the cost of this domain and then will come to a final decision
whether to keep it in Tel Aviv.
13. Additional Rules for all size Cables
This will be discussed at length again at our next meeting in Tel Aviv.
Michal Mos has changed his email address and will send it to everyone.
MAP thanked everyone for coming to Milan and confirmed that the next meeting would be on
Thursday 27th March in Tel Aviv.
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