RESULTS SEMINAR 2003

Thank you for attending the recent seminar hosted by the Belgium Waterski & Wakeboard

Federation. It was good to see so many people attend and the level of involvement within the class

was its highest yet with 45 people present from 9 different countries.

As mentioned at the seminar, the examination is set at a particular level to encourage judges and

offer assistance.

The purpose of this is to give a brief summary of the results. Whilst we can all learn rules world for

word, practise is the key and I encourage each of the participants to gain experience in the boat over

the summer.

National Level 2

Generally the results for the multi-choice examination were excellent, however, the video analysis

proved to be problematic for some. During the seminar over the weekend it was clear that most of

the attendees recognised the tricks, but when coming to analyse this in a video examination this

proved more difficult.

People seemed to know most of the inverts, however, it was clear that numerous individuals did not

correctly state the grabs.

It was also noted that individuals did not write down when a fall occurred. During the weekend we

commented that it was not just knowing the tricks that counted but how they were performed -

poorly executed, low intensity, landing on top of wake – these are the deciding factors that one

needs to deal with at an actual event to decide which rider is the best under subjective scoring and

many candidates failed to make sufficient notes.

National Level 1 (International Level 2)

Excellent with recognising the tricks, however many did not recognise a back roll to blind and this

was common with almost all of those that took this level of exam.

A number of people did not write down the Double-Up trick and some missed out the next trick

after a difficult manoeuvre. Clearly one’s mind was still thinking of the previous trick.

Recognising a Moby Dick was also an issue that some people missed.

As with National Level 2, and as mentioned before, practise in the boat is essential.

International Level 1

Congratulations are in order to the couple of individuals that spotted the Big Worm – front side

Whirly Bird 540 - and also the person that spotted the Switch off axis 540 to blind.

Back Roll to Blind for some still seemed to be a problem and caused confusion. A number of

people put this down as a Handle Pass KGB.

Unfortunately some missed the Double-Up manoeuvre and there are no excuses for not writing this

trick down at an International Level 1 standard.

As you can appreciate we cannot evaluate every candidate’s examination paper on an individual

basis and so I hope you find these general comments constructive.

I would like to personally thank you all for attending and would also like to thank Iris van der Voort

(EWA Committee Member) for assisting and Alain Nieles (EWA President) for organising and

helping with the whole presentation.

If you have not been successful in the examination do not be discouraged, just like riding -

experience and practise is required to achieve results.

I look forward to seeing you all in 2004.

Best wishes and have a great Summer.