Please find below a brief about the Mauritius Kite
surf competition - first edition which will be held from 23 September
to 10 of October 2006 .
21 September 10h00 Press conference at Indian resort
21 & 22 September - Preliminaries before starting of competition
23 September Official launching of competition in the morning around 10.30 am
List of participants
1. Martin Vari Argentina
2. Jaime Herraiz Spanish
3. Sky Solbach American
4. Bertrand Fleury French
5. Grant Baker South African
6. John Amundson American
7. Peter Peterson South African
8. Felix Pivec Australian
9. Will James British
10. Jeff Tobias American
2 Mauritians will also form part of the participants.
Media-Photo
Photographe Freelance / Mr Stephane Fournet
Journaliste Freelance /Miss Leena Ballack
Media Film
Mr Elliot Leboe - Hawaii
The
competition will be based on kite surf wave riding in different styles
namely front side, back side, hooked, unhooked, strap and strapless.
The participant will be divided in 2 batches.
Every
evening around 7.00 - 8.00 pm a video session will be programmed in our
beach restaurant to vision the highlight of the day. The participants
will be noted over the period of the competition and the winners will
be proclaimed on the 8th of October during a beach party which will be
organised in their honour.
A video film and pictures will be
produced for that event of the best waveriding in all styles and sold
in specialized magazine and surfshop around the world to promote
Mauritius.
Partners for the event are MTPA (Mauritius Tourism
Promotin Authority), White Sand Tours, Habit Clothing, ION, DHL, La
Sentinelle ltee and Indian Resort /Apavou hotels.
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Organisers and their background
Mr Patrick
Desvaux de Marigny & Mr Laurent Le Bolloch have been organising
& sponsoring Kitesurf competitions & events for over 5 years.
Starting
with the Shandrani crossing & freestyle competition, this takes
place every year in July, where the top kiteboarders from Europe &
Hawaii have attended giving the event a real boost concerning
international media coverage, putting Mauritius on the international
kitesurfing map.
The organisers run a local competition called
The kite League which started in Sep 04. Tourists & residents have
participated in these contests which have been held around the Island.
They
imported the Number 1 kiteboarding brand; encouraged & help to set
up kitesurf schools around Mauritius 4 here & 1 in Rodrigues. One
of these schools has helped to train Mauritian with an IKO certificate
(kitesurf teacher).
Recently, the organisers met Mrs Valerie
IMBERT, responsible for marketing APAVOU HOTELS, M. Kris ARMOOGUM
(Director for Indian Resort) and Felix NOLLMANN (responsible for club
mistral at Indian Resort) and decided to work with them on a unique
wave contest : Mauritius Kite Surf International Competition 2006
Advantages for Mauritian destination
Further
to the « Assises du tourisme » and various conversations with the MTPA,
it has been noted that the ministry of tourism wants to diversify its
“sea, sun and sand” tourism and to incite people to travel during low
season. Organizing low season events was one of the strategies put
forward.
Mauritius already has a very good reputation amongst
kite surfers (One Eye spot at Le Morne) We, currently, aren’t able to
attract them because of the security infrastructure which isn’t
sufficient. This is why we came up with these propositions namely the
contest and the setting up of a special security at Le Morne on a
longer run.
Our goal when organizing this contest is to
promote Mauritius on a different point of view, to flatten low season
by also arousing the need for kite surfers to include Mauritius in
their annual world tour later.
Participants: Will take part = 10 of the best international wave riders + 2 Mauritian.
Description of proposed contest: Mauritius Kite Surf International Competition 2006
The
Wave contest is planned for Sep 2006 (from the 20/09/06 to the 10/10/06
– because for proper conditions, we need a waiting period), located at
Le Morne. The kiters will choose the best days according to the weather
conditions to ride.
This contest will be the first of its
kind. The location Le Morne already has a reputation for being in the
top 2 kite surf destinations, in the world.
The
competition will take place on the “one eye” reef where the surf is the
best, there will be no judges only 4 TV Video camera men who are
filming & after a good amount of filming the riders will judge
themselves, at the end announcing the riders who did the best in each
category. We need to install 4 chairs in front of the reefs.
This
Wave contest will have a huge impact in the kitesurf community all the
Kitesurf media will be interested in this contest making Mauritius a
must for every kitesurfer. |