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the governing body for the water sport of dragon boat racing in Europe.Hungarian Dragon Boat Federation case against Hungarian Canoe Federation clarified
03 February 2012 - Further to my email of 18 January 2012 headed "Hungarian Dragon Boat Federation Win Court Case", I write to explain that this heading was somewhat misleading due to a language misunderstanding. In fact the Court case was actually "dismissed" for procedural reasons. Nevertheless, in the Court´s reasoning the status of the HDBF was fully justified.
That is, in the reasoning of the Court as disclosed in the HDBF Press Release attached to my earlier email, the standing and mandate of the HDBF as the sole National Governing Body for Dragon Boating in Hungary was confirmed. This was the main aim of the HDBF in bringing such a case in the first place.
Given such rulings and as the HDBF had not asked the Court to ban the HCF from practicing Dragon Boating, they decided not to appeal against their case´s rejection.
For the HDBF the rulings by the Court in confirming their status as the legally recognized governing body for the Sport in Hungary, was the most important thing.
All the details in the earlier HDBF Press Release have been re-confirmed by the HDBF as correct and the reasoning which formed part of the Court´s judgment, is now the basic reference for any future court case concerning the Sport in Hungary. Please make the above facts clear to your own Members (including the email heading) and also through the same medium of distribution that you may have given to my email of 18 January 2012.
Mike Haslam
IDBF Executive President
Your opinion matters!
27 January 2012 - The EDBF is there for the paddlers, not the other way around. And so is this website: It is here for you. Because we want to know if we are doing our job well, or if we can improve, we would like to invite you to participate in a little survey about the EDBF Website. Its just three questions, that will take less than 5 minutes to answer, but it will help us to improve the website so that it gives you what you need.
Please help us improve our services to you and fill out the survey here.
Thank you very much for your help from the EDBF Web Team!
Information Bulletin 1 for the 2012 EDBF European Nations Championships
17 January 2012 - Information Bulletin 1 for the 2012 EDBF European Nations Championships (ENC) and the Nottingham International Regatta for Clubs and BCS Crews, to be held from the 26-29 July 2012, at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham, England, are now available for download.
The ENC are restricted to EDBFMember Countries but the Nottingham International Regatta is open to Club and BCS Crews from all IDBF Members around the world and crews from Countries where there is not an IDBFMember are also invited to Race the Dragon in Nottingham.
Please note that for the European Nations Championship, all team selection and registration processes must go through the EDBF-member national federation.
I apologize for the lateness of this Information Bulletin, due to some technical difficulties in its distribution.
Mike Haslam
EDBF President
2012 Edition of the IDBF Competition Regulations
17 January 2012 - The 2012 Edition of the IDBF Competition Regulations as notified to the 13th IDBF Members Congress in Tampa in August 2011 are available for download.
Please note that the IDBF Competition Regulations also apply to ADBF and EDBF Championship Regattas in their entirety, unless shown otherwise within the said Regulations.
Dragonboat news and information in your own language!
28 October 2011 - We've added a Google Translate button to the website. If you have difficulties reading English, select your own language from the Translate menu on the right and Google will provide a translations of the EDBF website for you.
The EDBF goes Mobile!
27 October 2011 - If you are using a mobile or handheld device that we are able to recognize, you probably already noticed it: m.edbf.org is now live and accessible for handheld devices with small screens and little resources.
Not everything that you can find on the regular website is available through our mobile pages, but the most popular pages are available:
- The latest news
- The Calendar
- All European Championship results
- Documents and lists of licensed Paddle- and Dragonboat suppliers
- About the EDBF and the contact information for the board
- A contact form, usable on small devices
- Our list of links to other websites
On every page you will also find a link back to the main site for your convenience. We do try to detect if you are using a mobile or handheld device, but we will not actively redirect you: we will only display a notification on the top of every page, it is up to you to decide which version of the website you want to use.
Oh, and rest assured: both versions of the website use exactly the same data, so both versions will always show exactly the same!
IDBF Race Officials Course
21 October 2011 - Putrajaya, Malaysia
29 September 2011 - On behalf of the IDBF, the Malaysian Dragon Boat Federation will be hosting an IDBF Race Officials Training and Assessment Course (National Officials Level) on Friday 21 October 2011, prior to the Putrajaya International Races on 22/23 October 2011. The course team will be headed by Mike Thomas, Chairman of the IDBF Competition & Technical Commission (C&TC).
You are invited to send people to attend this important training course, which is the first step for those who wish to become Grade 1, IDBF International Race Officials. For those with the required experience at National level, assessments for the Grade 1 award will also be carried out during the Putrajaya International Regatta over the weekend 22/23 October 11.
If you have any interested people then please contact Angelina Ong, Chairwoman, IDBF Marketing & Media Commission (M&MC) at angelina![[at]](images/at.gif)
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for further details of the hosting/accommodation package for the course. Personal invitations will then be sent to those people requiring visas to enter Malaysia. Nearest airport is Kuala Lumpur.
All students will be required to pay an IDBF Registration Fee of USD 20.00, per person, to cover IDBF administration and paperwork costs.
The lateness of this notification is regretted but hopefully not too late for you to action. An outline course programme is attached for your information.
With best wishes,
Mike Haslam
IDBF
IDBF Web News bulletin - september 2011
20 September 2011 - IDBF released the September 2011 Web News bulletin, which can be downloaded here.
In this bulletin the following articles are published:
- Ravenna and Welland win the bids to host World Championships in 2014 and 2015 but Szeged replaces Tehran in 2013!
- Honorary membership proposed for the Duke & Duchess of cambridge
- USA regain the Nations Cup at the Tampa World Champs
- IDBF web site undergoing reconstruction
- Revised Comp Regs - no competitors wrist straps to paddles allowed
- New IDBF treasurer and new chair for the marketing commission
- IDBF launches live web tv coverage of dragon boating in Tampa & links up with web based belief radio
- Executive president sets the scene for the years to come
- Statutes & Bye Laws change - only one IDBF president from 2014
- IDBF gains new basic & full members.
- 3 June 2012 - Another Royal occasion for dragon boat
- 10th IDBF World Dragon Boat Racing Championships - Tampa 2011 Premier Division results
The bulletin is available here.
Dragons Come to Antwerp
18 September 2011 - The first Port of Antwerp Dragon Boat festival took place on 10 September with 44 teams from local businesses, clubs, neighborhood associations, cafes and schools.
The weather was perfect at the Kattendijkdok where the festival took place near the center of Antwerp, and the festivities were opened by the Honorable Donald Tsang, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Mr. Tsang reflected on the cultural and business ties between the two port cities and welcomed paddlers to come to Hong Kong where the IDBF World Club Crew Championship will be taking place in July 2012.
Belgium was one of the founding members of the EDBF back in 1990, but has not been active in the sport for the past several years, so it was nice to welcome Belgium back to the world of dragon boat racing. But it wouldn´t have been possible to stage such an event without plenty of sponsors and the hard work of the Rotary Club Antwerpen-West and Rotary Cofra, who organized the event, recruited teams, arranged facilities and publicity, and provided a wonderful crew of helpful, friendly volunteers to keep things running smoothly and safely.
Peter Joos, chairman of the Rotary Club Antwerp-West, said this year´s festival is just a small start to something big for Belgium and promises next year´s festival will have even more teams and activities. Proceeds from the festival will go towards restoring the three-master ship the Belgica, which will eventually be berthed nearby.
The festival also signals the re-birth of racing teams in Belgium, as KookeenY (pronounced like coke-n-aai), a group of sports fanatics stemming from a management training business of the same name (and first place winner of the mixed team races), purchased a dragon boat and is hard at work training for other European races. Hopefully we will see them on the European scene soon!
For more information on the festival, visit their website: www.antwerpdragons.com.
Stay in touch with the EDBF!
12 September 2011 - You may already have noticed it, there has been a bit of work going on at the EDBFwebsite. If you want to stay up to date with the latest news about dragonboating in Europe, and check out when your favorite dragonboat events take place, you can now use your favorite way of keeping in touch with the EDBF. If you are on Facebook, check out our Facebook page. If you use Twitter, start following us on Twitter. Or if you have an RSS Reader, ad the News Feed or the Calendar Feed to your favorites.
For our fellow webmasters
Do you want to show the latest EDBFheadlines on your website? Or the next 10 events in Europe? Of course you are free to use our RSSFeeds, but now it is even easier: Use one of our widgets! It is really easy: select what you want to show on your website, click on "Generate HTML Code", and copy and paste the code in your own website. And now you can show the latest EDBF Headlines for example, or the next events from the EDBF Calendar. If you have any questions about this, would like some help, or have ideas that you would like to see at the EDBFWebsite, feel free to contact us.
Final results from European Club Crew Championships in Kiev available!
01 September 2011 - The final results from the European Club Crew Championships 2011, Kiev, Ukraine have been published. You can find them here, together with almost all of the previous results.
