Jibe's Beach Club, Mui Ne in the Fun Cup 10
From the story of Pascal Lefebver, the president of Association of Professional Windsurfing International PWA (Professional Windsurfers Association) Jimmy Diaz and many athletes in the top 20 windsurfing world subject is in Mui Ne for evaluation Award last for windsurfing world that PWA intends to give to Mui Ne in 2011.
With Pascal Lefebver, this is the 16th year he has been in Mui Ne, since it was a fishing village to become a kingdom at the resort.
From club moon ...
Pascal's Dream
"Last year the championship windsurfing world is a Hong Kong woman. Why not Vietnam? ";" A lot of professional athletes world-class were from poor families, very poor. Now they travel the world to perform and only surfing competition. Why not be the Binh Thuan children? ".
Over the past 11 seasons wind, Pascal and Jibe's Beach Club has witnessed the ups and downs as well as the maturity of the sport on the coast of Mui Ne. Pascal said: "I am directed to children for 20 years from now we will be champions of Vietnam. We will again be guests of the Jibe's Beach Club. "
Black and tan skin because roots in colonial Africa but born in France, Pascal Lefebver foot drop to the tropics Mui Ne in 1995 and stayed relaxed, got married and lived with Vietnam Mui Ne thermal winds situation.
After the wedding Pham Thi Hong Phuong, Pascal Full Moon resort open and welcoming many international tourists. However, as many tourists to Mui Ne, visitors to the Full Moon will bring relaxation mood after days of traveling across Vietnam. They just relax a few days and then hurry away, little while back.
Also this time, many people stay at Full Moon frequently asked for by Pascal to surf boards. The capital was set up windsurfing when 10 years old, Pascal is not the habit of exercise and play with the wind so at Full Moon skiing equipment are also available. Pascal does not hesitate to recommend to our customers, "Mui Ne is a mecca for wind across Asia this." Pascal then painstakingly enter windsurfing, sailing, parasailing. The Jibe's Beach Club was born from the passion of Pascal with sea sports.
In 1999, Pascal basically advertises the winds of Mui Ne while releasing windsurfing Fun Cup Award held at Jibe's Beach Club. Only with only four athletes, including Pascal and three friends, but the images from Fun Cup was soon flooded with web sites, online forums of people playing windsurfing. Pascal bit frustrated: "I do not have much money to buy air or the pages should all just advertising online advertising. But Mui Ne, then have it all: beautiful beaches, warm winds blow throughout the year that oblique hand windsurfing all love. "
The story of Mui Ne, the club Jibe's Beach is spread very quickly as a few foreign correspondents happened to Mui Ne has written articles about the club and the game is published in the journal European . Not long after, the client component to Jibe's Beach Club has more athletes professional windsurfing. Pascal breeze excited to have guests here a few weeks to play. Several Singapore athletes, professional European vacation here every year for three months to train. Some consignment of equipment to come back to surfing equipment.
Proliferation and growth of this sport on the Mui Ne coastline associated with affluence and the growing reputation of the Jibe's Beach Club. Jibe's Beach Full Moon and constantly appearing in newspapers such as Surfing, kitesurf and New York Times fame ...
Pascal Lefebver - Photo: Lan Phuong
... Go to World Cup dream
Fun Cup in 2010 was the 11th, from an award-skiing only four athletes now up to 60 professional athletes and amateurs from 15 countries competed in Mui Ne. And this will be a professional sailing first in the presence of Chairman Jimmy Diaz and the upper hand windsurfing surplus as Chris Pressler (world rank 26), Cyril Moussilmani (world rank 8) or Remi Vila (French windsurfing champion) ... The difference was the story of ancient sailing between Mui Ne and today is Chris Pressler has written on his blog prior to Vietnam: "The 11th Fun Cup in Vietnam would be a solution difficult "and" Maybe I will have a period of great competition there. Let's hope the wind will rise, but the northeast monsoon season is usually very good ...".
The efforts of Pascal now has been assisted, in the Fun Cup this time the Department of Culture - Sports and Binh Thuan tourism budget of nearly half a billion support. Mr. Do Van Ba, deputy director of facilities, said: "It's time to Pascal alone can not tell the story of Mui Ne wind again, by the benefits of sailing is becoming a strength of Binh Thuan tourism" . He said the actual three facilities in Mui Ne is slightly smaller, in addition to Jibe's Beach Club has just added four other resort rental windsurfing. However, Mui Ne has the natural advantage. "Pascal is trying to put this competition on the PWA system of competing associations. The next goal will be organized the sailing world "- he seemed very confident Ba in Pascal.
Vietnam has a love attachment in the Mui Ne Pascal feet. And that love has fascinated many visitors come and go back to listening to Pascal, Mui Ne Vietnamke hear stories about the wind and the charm of this land.
