SOUTH AFRICAN TOURNAMENT ADDITIONAL RULES 2003
INDEX
Section 1 - Introduction 4
1 IWSF Rules 4
2 REGION EAME RULES 4
SECTION 2 - CURRENT INFORMATION 4
3 LIST OF WORLD, EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN RECORDS 4
3.1 Tricks records 4
3.2 Slalom records 5
3.3 Jump records 6
3.4 Overall records 6
4 SOUTH AFRICAN RECORD REGULATIONS 7
4.1 General Rules 7
4.2 Verification of SA Records 7
4.3 Video review 7
5 South African Tournament - Directory of OfficiaLS 8
5.1 Judges 8
5.2 Homologators 8
5.3 Calculators 8
5.4 Drivers 9
5.5 Technical Officers 9
5.6 Committees 9
SECTION 3 - South African SUPPLEMENTARY TECHNICAL REGULATIONS 10
6 COMPETITION REGULATIONS 10
6.1 Interpretation of the Rules 10
6.2 Rounds 10
6.3 Familiarisation 10
6.4 South African Tournament Event Scoring 10
6.5 South African Tournament Overall Scoring 10
7 South African Tournament Ski Age Categories 11
7.1 Divisions 11
8 TOURNAMENT ENTRY REQUIREMENTS 11
8.1 General Qualifications 11
8.2 Inter-Provincial Tournament Qualifications 11
9 Jump – South African Tournament Competition Regulation 12
9.1 Jump Height / Speed regulations 12
9.2 General Jump Conditions 12
10 Slalom – South African Tournament Competition Regulations 12
10.1 Slalom Starting Speed 12
10.2 Slalom Rope Shortenings 13
10.3 Special Slalom Option for Senior 4 skiers 13
10.4 General Slalom Conditions 13
10.5 Definition of a Miss / Riding Over 13
10.6 Scoring 14
11 Tricks – South African Tournament Competition Regulations 14
11.1 Tricks List 14
12 Region EAME variation from World Rules 14
12.1 Fall in Jumping 14
12.2 Safety Helmets 15
12.3 Handle Recoil Devices 15
12.4 50 Metre Buoy for Tricks Event 15
12.5 Boat Timing 15
12.6 Alcohol 15
12.7 Official Punctuality 15
SECTION 3 – TOURNAMENT ORGANISER RESPONSABILITIES 16
13 South African CHAMPIONSHIPS 16
14 South African SANCTIONED COMPETITIONS 17
15 Secondary Positions 17
SECTION 4 – GENERAL INFORMATION 18
16 South African Water Ski Tournament Competition Licences 18
16.1 Exemptions 18
16.2 New Licences 18
16.3 Licence Renewals 18
16.4 Use of the Competition Licence 18
16.5 Penalties 18
16.6 Foreign Skiers 18
17 South African Standing List 18
17.1 Competitions Qualifications 18
17.2 Publication Date 19
SECTION 5 – OFFICIALS QUALIFICATIONS 19
18 Rules for Judges 19
18.1 Regional Judges 19
18.2 Third Class Judges 20
19 Rules for Tournament Boat Drivers 21
19.1 Qualifications 21
19.2 Regional Driver 21
19.3 national Driver 21
20 Rules for Homologators 21
20.1 National Homologators 21
21 Rules for Calculators 22
21.1 National Calculators 22
22 Rules for Technical Officers 22
SECTION 6 - Directory 2003 23
Section 1 - Introduction
These Additional Rules set forth here govern competitions sanctioned by the South African Tournament Water Ski Criteria and must be read in conjunction with the International Water Ski Federation Rulebook (for World Championships events) and the Region EAME Additional Rules (for all European Title events)
1 IWSF Rules
The IWSF Rulebook can be downloaded from the official website at http://www.iwsf.com
2 REGION EAME RULES
The EAME Additional Rules governing the EAME Title events as well as the IWSF (EAME region) Officials can be found at http://www.eame.be/waterski/VademecumDownload.nsf
SECTION 2 - CURRENT INFORMATION
3 LIST OF WORLD, EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN RECORDS
3.1 Tricks records
WORLD / 12120 / Nicolas LeForestier FRA / Lacanau, FRA 7th July 20018630 / Tawn Hahn USA / USA 1999
EUROPEAN / 12120 / Nicolas LeForestier FRA / Lacanau, FRA 7th July 2001
7940 / Marina Ameljanchik URS / Italy v Russia 1984
SA OPEN / 7610 / Mark Griffioen / FS 1998
5090 / Cheronne Botes / WC 1998
BAMBINO / 3130 / Matthew Blumberg / VIR 1989
1020 / Kerry Jane Leppan / KNTL 1991
DAUPHIN / 4940 / Matthew Blumberg / VIR 1992
2240 / Kerry Jane Leppan / SA 1997
JUNIOR / 6030 / Mark Griffioen / SA 1996
3710 / Samantha Martin / SA 2000
MEN / LADIES / 3120 / Alan Carmichael / WC 1994
2050 / Lizette Bekker / Sa 1994
SENIOR 1 / 4550 / Brett Nieuwstad / SA 2001
4980 / Cheronne Botes / ACC 1998
SENIOR 2 / 2140 / Tomasz Jekot / SA 2002
2490 / Lisbeth Plotz / Inter 1992
SENIOR 3
SENIOR 4
3.2 Slalom records
WORLD / 1.00 / @ 9.75m / Jeff Rodgers, USA / Charleston, USA, Aug 971.00 / @ 9.75m / Andy Mapple, GBR / Miami, USA, Sep 98
1.00 / @ 10.25m / Kristi Overton, USA / Okahelee, USA, 1996
EUROPEAN / 1.00 / @ 9.75m / Andy Mapple, GBR / Miami, USA, Sep 98
3.00 / @ 10.75m / Irene Reinstaller ITA / Fosso Ghiaia, ITA 7 Oct 2001
SA OPEN / 4.00 / @ 11.25m / Frtiz Joubert / MPUM 2000
3.00 / @ 12.00 / Cheronne Botes / INTER 1997
BAMBINO / 4.25 / @ 14.25 / Matthew Blumberg
Julian du Preea / WC 1989
SA 1992
3.50 / @ 14.25 / Gabriella Viljoen / SA 2003
DAUPHIN / 2.00 / @ 11.25 / Sean Bezuidenhout / EAME 1997
3.50 / @ 14.25 / Sophie Tomashausen
Kerry Jane Leppan / INTER 1992
EAME 1994
JUNIOR / 3.00 / @ 11.25 / Sean Bezuidenhout / MPUM 2000
1.00 / @ 12.00 / Marion Hermann
Samantha Martin
Angelika Schriber / SA 2000
KNTL 2000
SA 2003
MEN / LADIES / 2.00 / @ 13.00 / Robert Alexander / SA 1997
4.00 / @ 16.00 / Tamara Scribante / SA 1995
SENIOR 1 / 3.00 / @ 11.25 / Brett Nieuwstad / MPUM 2001
3.00 / @ 12.00 / Cheronne Botes / AAC 1998
SENIOR 2 / 3.00 / @ 12.00 / Rodney Topham
Don Shead / AAC 2002
AAC 2002
2.00 / @ 14.25 / Lisberth Plotz / EAME 1997
SENIOR 3 / 4.50 / @ 14.25 / Max Gmur / WP 2001
SENIOR 4 / 2.50 / @ 16.00 / Dereck Jardine / WC 1998
3.3 Jump records
WORLD / 71.7m / Jaret Llewellyn (CAN) / McCormick Fall Open, Sep 200256.6m / Elena Milakova (RUS) / Malibu Open, California, Jul 2002
EUROPEAN / 67.6m / Jochen Luers GER / Amberg, GER 1st Jul 01
56.6m / Elena Milakova, RUS / Malibu Open, California, Jul 2002
SA OPEN / 52.1m / Mathew Blumberg / EC 1996
38.3m / Terry vd Merwe / GAUT 1984
BAMBINO / 18.5m / Julian du Preez / SA 1992
13.3m / Samantha martin / SA 1995
DAUPHIN / 38.7m / Mathew Blumberg / EAME 1992
28.0m / Samantha Martin / VIR 1997
JUNIOR / 44.6m / Mathew Blumberg / EAME 1995
38.4m / Angelika Scriber / SA 2003
MEN / LADIES / 40.1m / Alan carmichael / SA 1994
32.7m / Tamara Scribante / SA 1995
SENIOR 1 / 40.6m / Bertus Bekker / SA 1994
33.3 m / Cheronne Botes / AAC 1998
SENIOR 2 / 29.4m / Mike Plotz / INTER 1984
SENIOR 3
SENIOR 4
3.4 Overall records
WORLD / 2741.75 / Patrice Martin FRA / Okahumpka, FLA 21 May 012854.01 / Elena Milakova RUS / EAME Champs Lincoln 29 Jul 01
EUROPEAN / 2741.75 / Patrice Martin FRA / Okahumpka, FLA 21 May 01
2854.01 / Elena Milakova RUS / EAME Champs Lincoln 29 Jul 01
SA
4 SOUTH AFRICAN RECORD REGULATIONS
4.1 General Rules
a Skiers licensed as competitive skiers with other Federations are not eligible to set any SA or Provincial records, but may set "allcomers" records.
b An International, National or Inter-Provincial tournament, will not be eligible for the setting of any provincial records.
c South African National records are from homologated performances only.
d Any performance exceeding the existing Region EAME or World record will not be accepted as a South African record unless it was performed at a Record Capability competition and the record is accepted by the Region EAME or World Tournament Council.
e If a skier breaks a record it is up to that skier to inform South African Water Ski of the performance.
f Should a Bambino, Dauphin or Junior skier compete in an older age category or open competition, the performance will count for South African record purposes as the category in which he/she competed and not his/her actual age category.
g Should a Senior skier compete in a younger age category or open competition, the performance will count for South African record purposes as the category in which he/she competed and not his/her actual age category.
h For competitions where South African Tournament Water Ski Selection Committee selects the entry, the category in which the skier is entered will be at the discretion of that committee.
4.2 Verification of SA Records
For a performance to be recognised as a new SA Record, the following procedure must be followed:
· The Chief Judge or the Organiser may apply to the Tournament Committee for a record performance to be ratified. The following documentation is required:
o Application must be made within a period of 3 months.
o Copy of the homologation results (hard copy of digital format) – The competition shall ideally be run under Standing Homologation.
o Judges panel.
o Recorded boat time (for Slalom and Ramp).
o Video jump data (jump setting, picture of jump)
o Actual trick runs in questions (must have been recorded on a video camera in VHS format) which must be reviewed by a panel of the Technical Committees choice for verification.
Although the record verification cannot change the score recorded in the tournament, the score may be changed for record acceptance
4.3 Video review
A skier or his representative will be entitled to request that the Technical Committee review the video of a trick performance, if the total score of the actual tricks performed would have exceeded a current National Record, prior to disallowance’s.
5 South African Tournament - Directory of OfficiaLS
All officials must be current members of South African Water Ski Federation in order to officiate at competitions.
5.1 Judges1st Class Judges
Callow Leslie
Griffioen Marcel
Heuer Sue
Nieuwstad Brett
Polome Louis
Quinn Peter
Smart Len
2nd Class Judges
Carmichael Terry
Cornhill Eric
Dewar Don
Polome Cathy / 3rd Class Judges
Carmichael Kevin
Jagoe Sean
Shead Don
Smart Brett / Regional Judges
De Jongh Dennis
Hartman Paul
Klein Richard
Martin Ian
VD Westhuizen Martie / Other Officials
* Denotes Judge unable to operate as Boat Judge.
5.2 Homologators
International
Griffioen Marcel
Nieuwstad Brett
Polome Louis
Smart Len / National / Regional
Shead Don
5.3 Calculators
International / National
Gaze Sally / Regional
Quinn Linda
All qualified 1st, 2nd are deemed to be National Calculators
All qualified 3rd are deemed to be Regional Calculators
5.4 DriversInternational
Heuer Ken / National
Ashley Keith
Carmichael Kevin
Martin Ian
Moore Dereck
Temple Hennie
Shead Ursula / Regional
Quinn Lee
Lee Ann Shead
George du Preez
5.5 Technical Officers
5.6 Committees
Tournament Committee
Coetzee Etienne
Moore Sharon
Ashley Keith
Smart Len
Polome Louis
Brent Sender
Richard Levey / Selection Committee
Ashley Keith
Smart Len
Polome Louis
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SOUTH AFRICAN TOURNAMENT ADDITIONAL RULES 2003
The addresses and contact numbers for all the above listed officials are printed at the back of this book.
SECTION 3 - South African SUPPLEMENTARY TECHNICAL REGULATIONS
Wherever feasible the current International Water Ski Federation Technical Rules and any amendments applicable to Region EAME (Europe, Africa and the Middle East) will apply at all South African Tournament Criteria Calendar competitions, except as amended in the following South African Tournament Criteria Rules.
South African Water Federation and Tournament Criteria Rules concerning competitor behaviour, official’s behaviour and Doping Rules apply to all persons taking part in Tournament water skiing. Copies of these rules are available and are published on the South African Water Ski Web pages
6 COMPETITION REGULATIONS
6.1 Interpretation of the Rules
Interpretations of the rules should be referred to the Technical Committee when possible. In the interest of expediency, the Chief Judge, after discussion with his panel, may give his own interpretation which shall be binding until the Technical Committee has been polled. This shall serve however, only as a temporary interpretation until the question has been referred to the entire Committee. Such a poll shall take place as promptly and in the most practical manner as possible.
6.2 Rounds
Each event shall consist of two rounds: A first round and a second round. All skiers qualified to ski in an event must ski in the first round of that event.
6.3 Familiarisation
Familiarisation (official practice) shall be offered by the tournament organiser under the authority and responsibility of the Chief Judge based on the principle that each skier shall receive an equal opportunity for familiarisation.
6.4 South African Tournament Event Scoring
Each contestant's score for both the first and second rounds shall be totalled to yield his total score for determining placement in the event
Slalom: The skier will be credited with the number of buoys effectively passed (from 0 to 6). Six buoys will be added to the results of the competitor for each pass between the actual starting speed and the minimum starting speed as defined for the particular category as long as the first pass is successful
Tricks: The sum of the two passes.
Jump: The longest jump of each round.
6.5 South African Tournament Overall Scoring
The better result in either the first or second rounds will be counted towards calculating overall.
The following amendment will be used at all national competitions and is recommended for all other competitions:-
Tricks and Slalom / Skiers scoreScore of SA Open Record / x 1000
Men’s Jump / Skiers score
Score of SA Open Record / x 1000
Ladies Jump / Skiers score
Score of SA Open Record / x 1000
7 South African Tournament Ski Age Categories
7.1 Divisions
Competition for the three major events shall be separated into the following divisions as determined by the contestant's age as at midnight of 31 December prior to the Tournament.
Men (Open) / Any ageLadies (Open) / Any age
Bambino / Under 11 / (up to & including year of 12th birthday)
Dauphin Boys / Under 14 / (up to & including year of 14th birthday)
Dauphin Girls / Under 14 / (up to & including year of 14th birthday)
Junior Boys / Under 17 / (up to & including year of 17th birthday)
Junior Girls / Under 17 / (up to & including year of 17th birthday)
Men / 25 - 34 years old inclusive / }
Senior 1 Men / 35 and over / }ages for these categories
Senior 2 Men / 45 and over / }
Senior 3 Men / 55 and over / }
Senior 4 Men / 65 and over / } are at 31 December
Ladies / 25 - 34 years old inclusive / }
Senior 1 Ladies / 35 and over / }
Senior 2 Ladies / 45 and over / }
Senior 3 Ladies / 55 and over / }
Senior 4 Ladies / 65 and over / }
During any one competition, any skier competing in a particular division may not ski in any other division.