Kitesoul Magazine #12 English Edition

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IKA Kiteboarding World Championships 2016
Mirco Babini – IKA President
It’s a duty of the IKA to deliver the freestyle and
big air championship and after the disaster in
2015, we started to work hard to organize events
and schedule the world championship in round.
During the winter the judges crew worked pretty
hard to have the new judging system and the
software working properly; we all worked together
to implement new rules and format and
organize a great media coverage, a new web site,
a new tour stop and so on.
The first grand slam round in El Gouna has been
great and all the riders gave us an amazing feedback,
the location and the local team involved
did a nice job.
The Iconic location of Leucate also went well with
more than 60 riders has been a great success too.
We’re close to announce few other rounds around
the world and we’re stoked to have the world
championship rounds all around the globe and
manage them with the best team ever.
Ika gives all the riders and the organizers the
proof of how to properly manage the sport side
of the competition and nobody managed to do
the same in the past.
We were happy to know about the riders union
(KRU)and we give them all the support. We’ve
opened the door and signed a m.o.u. (memorandum
of understanding) and agreed with them
to deliver a contract and let them manage their
commercial rights; unfortunately the vision from
few of them is not in line, we still believe they will
understand and we’re helping them as much as
possible.
We are in contact with many riders and they help
us a lot how to deliver all what they need.
Our goal is to deliver the best events and announce
the Freestyle & Big Air IKA world champion at
the end of the season.
Keep in touch for great hot news coming soon.