Hello Guy,
I will inform the German pilots at your list. No problem!
About an international selection contest in Germany; We have still
the same pity situation with the two different national clubs here.
They both runs their own national championships and they are not
able to work together:(
For sure, the DMFV-championship would be a great stage for a
selection contest, because it is almost a European championship with
many international competitors. To make this happened you should
talk to Jürgen Heilig. (I know;)
Maybe you can talk to the DAeC as well. But I don't know if they are
able (and willing) to do so.
Cheers,
Martin
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Von: ciam-f6-wg-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ciam-f6-wg-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Guy Revel
Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011 16:52
An: ciam-f6-wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: [CIAM-F6-Working_Group] Re: World Artistic Games - Again
Dear Jiri,
Don't bother for the location, it is obvious that the host city will
take care of providing a suitable sports arena for the various
sports involved. Such multi-sports event involves a whole city and a
lot of preliminary promotion as well as TV contracts, a prime
receipt to find sponsors. SportAccord created theses multi-sports
events to promote other sports than the few that benefit from TV and
money up to now. One of the aims is to provide money to the sports
federation involved so that they can, in turn, promote and finance
the sport at their national level. For instance here, while artistic
cycling is part of the cycling international federation - rather
powerful and apparently not lacking for money - artistic roller
skating belongs to the roller skating federation which does not have
a very powerful status, the WArtGames should allow more internal
promotion. The same should happen with us. At the FAI level, or
course, but also at the national level - provided the national
federations/association take the opportunity - and at the personal
level by showing evidence that our sport is attractive to spectators
and media, including TV. I can bet that we could receive more
attention from TV than artistic cycling at WArtGames (based on the
videos you have seen) it is then up to every pilot to act and not
simply wait for everything to come miraculously from above.
About specifically the World Artistic Games, I am being told that
the final contract with the host city should be signed by the end of
August and that we should wait until the official announcement to
tell NACs, so I will refrain to send the final document to the CIAM
Bureau until I get the green light. However, due to the short time
remaining then before the beginning of the indoor season, it is
probably necessary that you and the other members within this
Working Group already prepare for it It would be fine to know well
in advance the international AeroMusicals contests (that will also
be selection contests for the 2013 World Air Games), so I expect at
this time Lituania, the Czech Republic, Belgium, possibly Germany
(Martin ? ), England and France.
It may also be a good idea to tell some of the expected competitors
we mentioned earlier about their possible nomination. Donatas,
Martin and Fabien, can you do that ? I am especially thinking at the
pilots from Belarus, Latvia, Poland, Finland, Israel and USA. Also,
who can ask for a video of Ido Segev's indoor performance ?
Now I really need your sponsorship questionnaires as I want to see
what needs to be done and how to provide you with the best arguments
to find sponsors outside the model area. This may well be useful for
the WArtGames and even more for the World Games in Colombia.
Guy R.
At 09:18 21/06/2011, you wrote:
Dear Guy,
You are perfectly right, our indoor free style flying is
definitely more attractive than artistic roller skating or cycling.
For majority of people are aerobatic models much more unusual than
skating or cycling and I hope we have a chance for good popularity
of our discipline ? providing that we will find proper place, time
and spectators.
Best regards
Jiri
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:23 PM
Dear all,
If you have a look at the WArtGames draft schedule, you will see
that we will share the hall with two other sports on the first day
and with only one on the second day.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to know more about these sports:
- Artistic roller skating is roughly identical to ice skating and
apparently uses the same size area, so we don't need to bother on
this matter, it will be wide enough for us. As for the ceiling, on
second thought it depends upon the number of seated spectators - the
more seats, the higher the building must be. So most certainly no
fear on this matter.
Videos are not that easy to find, a sign that the sport is as
obscure as ours ;-) . Here are a couple of them:
http://youtu.be/5v-yzEYG7aM
http://youtu.be/voSOg9iTBco
Note spectators are few, the sport needs multi-sports games at least
as much as we do.
- Artistic cycling shares the same anonimity and, actually, I would
call it acrobatic rather than artistic. Here is a video from a championship:
<http://youtu.be/TIdP1qfI5Yo>http://youtu.be/TIdP1qfI5Yo
Here again, spectators are visibly mostly just friends & family.
However, shows and demos can be quite interesting :
<http://youtu.be/bhjYQFDNXps>http://youtu.be/bhjYQFDNXps
Quite frankly, I believe we can be at least as attractive as thse
two sports and probably much more, it will remain for us to be
somewhat more professional in the presentation area (competitors
behaviour and attire).
So. What do you think ?
Guy R.
