Every year Jibe's organize Fun Cup, simply slalom running start competition open for everybody, just having fun.

Binh Thuan Province a Jibe's club are proud to announce details for the coming 8th Vietnam FUN CUP

2nd and 3rd February 2007

This year again we will be giving the competitors a taste of Beach Life at Mui Ne beach.At Jibe’s Beach we will have the opening ceremony and opening party. After that the usual high-wind Slalom racing at Mui Ne Bay for two days, once again the Official referee from Binh Thuan Province sport department will be ruling the event thanks in advance for their great support.As usual we will have many great prices and a lot of fun thanks to our faithful partners

1st Feb :
   10:00am : Free practise day at Jibe's club

2nd Feb : (Registration until 9:30am)
   10:30am : Figure 8 Slalom Racing at Jibe’s Club
   12:30pm : Snack for competitors
   07:00pm : Chill out at jibe’s Club with our partners

3rd Feb :
   10:00am : Day 2 figure 8 Slalom racing at Jibe's club
   12:30pm : Snack for competitors
   7:30am : Prize presentation
   8:30am : Mad beach party at Jibe's Club with our resident and our partners

Registration and equipment rental, contact Pascal to get the form, to reserve equipment in advance : jibe@windsurf-vietnam.com, Equipment is available on a first come first serve basis.
Accomodation at Fullmoon and transportation from Ho chi minh available, please contact Miss Diu : reservation@windsurf-vietnam.com

About the last Fun Cup (february 2006) :

35 competitors from 12 countries entered the 7th edition of this fun event on the 10th and 11th february at Jibe’s Beach Club on Mui Ne Bay.On the first morning the event was officially opened with a ceremony attended by the Vice Chairman of Binh Thuan People’s Committee, the Chairman of Binh Thuan Tourism department, the chairman of Binh Thuan Province sport department just to mention a few.

This years winds over 30 knots made it very challenging for all on the first day, specially the running beach start. Second and final day races were in 20 to 30 knots.15 slalom races were run, 8 racers at a time, with a couple of broken mast as the start.The ladies race had an epic start with biggest set of wave of the day as they were starting, they all made after all. Per Anderson (Starboard Severne) took the first place, 2nd,3rd and 4th had a nice fight on the final race, finally Hoa from Jibe’s beach Club, after and excellent start, took second place, after having been windsurfing for just over one year, the Vietnamese competitors are getting more and more efficient on the race field and have numerous friends and relatives on the beach supporting them.The referees from Binh Thuan Province Sport department made a great job on running a smooth event. As usual there was a huge Beach Party at the Jibe’s beach club, for the award giving ceremony, the Vice Chairman of Binh Thuan People’s Committee handed the prices to Per and Franzi, they both went with fabulous watch from NOA watch, their was prices for all the competitors including a Starboard Isonic Wood, 2 Nokia phones, Severne Sails, QuickSilver and Roxy clothing as well as Reef, and Hotel voucher in Ho Chi Minh City.

During the dinner there was some Traditional Vietnamese dance the the DJ started to make people dance: the party went on till really late for some with Foster’s flowing all night.

The 8th edition of this fun event will be on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2007 at the same location.

1 : Per ANDERSON, Sweden
2 : Bay NGUYEN QUOC, Vietnam
3 : Bong NGUYEN NGOC, Vietnam
4 : Cheol LEE JAE, Korea
5 : Gunter REICHENECHKEV, Germany
6 : Ho NGUYEN HOÀNG PHI, Vietnam
7 : Loic CHIMIER, France
8 : Kang SIN HO, Korea
9 : Daniel DEPRAZ, Swiss
10 : Alexey TRUSON, Russia

1 : Poness FRANZI, Germany
2 : Deborah KHOO, Singapore
3 : Rachele MOREILION, Swiss

More information about Fun Cup contact us at jibe@windsurf-vietnam.com.