August 8, 2010 @ 08:11
In attendance
OEA
RM
SH
BP
LS
JM
CW
OM
MH Rules Committee Member, Web Master, Guest
REG and AV will be late due to team familiarization. Both arrive 08:25
Brian Heeney WBC Scoring Program, Guest
Eddie Wilson Awards Committee Member, Guest
Dan Cummings Guest
Website
Holtzy gives interactive demonstration of web site and outlined methods to add or change data. We need to monitor more closely and follow through with updates. MH offers to archive data on his business server as an alternate site. OEA suggests we start a facebbook page. We need to update WBC directory, committee lists and confed names. MH demonstrated the use of the study guides and on-line testing.
ACTION ITEM All council members to email MH email lists to be added to WBC news lettermailing list
ACTION ITEM distribute skier survey at Team Captains meeting. MH, JM
LOC report
Stefan Worple explains the advertising, official’s lunches, on-site security day-night, TV and radio coverage
Saturday. Fireworks, opening ceremony, Oktoberfest, live band, VIP reception
Sunday. Officials boat tour,
Monday. EA BBQ and auction,
Wednesday. Kindertag- Childrens day. 2000 local children have been invited to the site to learn water ski
Thursday. Live band
Friday. Caribbean Night
Saturday. Live band, Night Jump
Sunday. Awards Banquet
BP asks for more information to be provided re functions
BP raises the issue of on-site safety and safety officer.
OM tables the safety plan
Current Championships
OM diagrams courses
The challenges we face include stopping tournament every 90 minutes to allow river traffic to pass. Running dual sites may prove problematic for this. Dual entry skiers will be moved in the running order if event conflicts arise. 07:30 start time to 20:00 shut down is available for all days. We will be testing the Boettcher video judging system during the elim rounds with the hope to use it exclusively for semis and finals. All boats meet speed requirements. 2 boats are slightly faster than the third. At this time Lewis McNab (AAO) was the only driver to attend on-site training. (CD and PA driver arrived late Saturday. EA driver Jan Ter Wee abandoned the championships.) CJ will undertake to watch as much video review as possible throughout the championships and will view 100% of finals to ensure proper outcome. Roll back on site 1 from sailboats is a minor problem.
Andy Harris, EA appointed judge, sends apologies but due to his mothers hospitalization he will not attend the championships until later in the week
There is only one region with a reserve judge, PA.
Plans were discussed in the event wind forced a stop to the championships. The prelimanary goal is to finish the elim round and the WBC will need to address any weather issues at that time. MH suggests we develop a gauge to measure wave chop so we have a quantitaive method of ensuring equal conditions. REG suggests not starting when water is rough unless we have lost time and cannot avoid it. There are 3 courses available. Skiing is planned for course 1 and 2 and we may use course 3 if necessary.
Running orders cannot be generated until end of registration due to random draw
A few reserve skier substitutions are taking place during registration. Brian Heeney and BP to investigate why
RM offers $1500 cash for any Open world records set during championships
REG- Council function
Reviewed committee structures and methods. Council is not for micro managing committee decisions. Committees should be experts who do the hard work to present info with recommendations to council and while rubber-stamping is not expected it is expected that the council not rehash all committee work. All council members who feel strongly about committee issues should be involved with the committee before the committee report is tabled for consideration. All WBC members should be working on committees. Council members should be reviewing website for errors or out of date info and updating MH and through REG. ACTION ITEM REG to update dossier and records procedures. Approval or denial of WR to be posted on the web site. On-line records are not working for WR yet but work continues to advance to that goal. ACTION ITEM JM. To assist MH in a workable on-line record process. Record submissions still need improvement. Lots of poor submissions that are time wasters for RRC committee members. RRC is working well and getting the submissions reviewed in less than one week. 2 current records pending. JM requests details of refused records be posted on web site.. No support. ACTION ITEM JM. Submit template for denied record details. All WR set at WC need quick adhoc review. Temporary RRC member may be necessary to accomplish this.
OEA leaves for team training, Short break @ 11:00
Brian Heeney Demonstrates the WBC program and the information available on-line @ heeney.net. This includes officials and skier performance tracking. New program is available based on Windows 7. Must uninstall old prog and reinstall new. Very easy to install. Data can be imported from various formats to be installed previous to the start of tournament. Most common issue with data is misspelled names and incorrect birth dates. Not all data fields necessary but should be filled with accurate information. ACTION ITEM REG. REG to develop entry form templates. Discussion of requiring homo info to be filled in before RC accreditation can be accepted by program. BH will test. PPG ITEM. Starting Jan 01,2011, RL results to be submitted to confed RL officer within 3 weeks following tournament or they will not be included on RL.
JM. Officials training DVDs were well received. JM has learned much about making these DVDs. Moving forward with review sheets for training and further DVDs. Need to define hesitation between tricks and during multiple turns. Practical exams to be administered by Federations. This officials program is endorsed by all council members and will be introduced to all feds in hopes of a universal system.
OEA returns 12:34
Lunch break @13:00. Resume @ 13:55
BP speaks on officials recruitment, training, retaining. BP will join Officials committee and develop plans to accomplish these goals.
Future World Championships discussion. REG rasied several items for discussion and will further discussion on the forum. OEA said he spoke with a lawyer and thinks jump proficiency requirements may be introducing liability issues. Allow scores from non-RL tournays for WC qualifications. These would need a positive score and qualify skier for lowest group. Eliminate random seeding in elim round. This found favor for future WC but not for this one. remove limit of reserves and follow the method used by Trad. Drop the team event form Seniors. Introduce more age divisions for Senior. WC records will prove to be difficult to reconstruct. Previous WR set at WC are a starting point. This is a goal for next WC. WBC WC sanction fee and we take on some LOA responsibilities.
Discussion on ways to grow the sport. Missionaries to more non-BF feds was thought to be necessary. AAO has been doing this and it has been paying off with Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia. Difficult to accomplish due to costs involved and the time commitment for the volunteer coach. PA needs to establish a BF community presence in Columbia to assist with 2013 WG. OEA suggests we take an extra day on biz trip and seek local skiers and help them with barefoot. OEA also feels events like X games and Splash of Titans is a method. This has not proven to work in past years due to many factors.
No bids have been presented for 2012 WC. PA and AAO have possible LOCs
Meeting adjourns 17:30
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