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| *Ecoflag Flies at TUBE Event |
| *12th Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009 |
| *Beach Volleyball AQUA Cup 2009 |
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The Beach Volleyball AQUA Cup 2009 took place at the AQUA Kisarazu home beach on the Onjuku Central Coast.
The Ecoflag flew throughout the event and a beach clean up also took place.
Our events for this year are over, but we'll br flying the flag again next year as we represent Chiba Prefecture in competition.
Report by Teru Takeshita
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GSA Dakar Celebrates GSAfs 10 Years
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This year, 2009, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GSA, Fayda Sports Center, in collaboration with GSA-DAKAR, performed several activities which are:
For schools: The "Environment Discovery Class" offered to students in Dakar accompanied by their teacher for a period of four to five days, far from major cities, in a rural area (Toubacouta Foundiougne in the region of Fatick) offering a variety of landscapes, educational activities and relaxation. For five days, students and visitors visit areas of reforestation and sites rich in biodiversity, as well as art workshops, sports activities, and introductory classes to plants, birds . Some nights we sit around a fire, telling wonderful stories to the children before bedtime.
- A bit of science - A little civility, - A little relaxation
In sports: The Fayda Sports Center persuaded a national championship volleyball team--Volleyball SSC--to fly the Ecoflag at all their games. This team is a double champion in Senegalese volleyball (senior ladies and men). This year's tournament on 02 August 2009 brought together 650 participants.
World Environment Day: Every year, we organized a week of the environment from 01 to 07 June 2009 or we have carried out cleaning of schools, neighborhoods, and beaches. At the end we wound up with a Beach Volleyball tournament at the Thiaroye beach.
Circuit Beach volleyball: From July 19 to August 16, 2009, every Sunday from 09h to 18h, 30 volleyball teams and schools from Dakar are found on the beaches of Dakar (Diamalaye and BCEAO) to clean the beaches, to educate people about protection of the environment, ending with a game of beach volleyball.
This year the Ecoflag was flown a lot in Senegal. We are preparing for the 2009-2010 school year and the World AIDS Day.
Report by Gerard Sambou, GSA Dakar Team Captain
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One of Japan's top Beach Volleyball events, 320 teams took part in the 15th Moon Cup in Onjuku, which took place from 22-24 August.
The Ecoflag was flying at the event and we are trying hard as Ecoplayers.
Report by the beach volleyball team AQUA Kisarazu
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SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 2009
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| *4th Beach Life in Odaiba |
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Beach Life in Odaiba has become an annual fixture on Odaiba beach, Tokyo, during Japan's spring holiday (Golden Week).
The event, which took place on 5 May, showcases a wide range of beach sports, including beach volleyball, beach flags, beach sumo, and beach yoga, and participants are offered the chance to take part as well as watch.
GSA Navigators also take part in the event and beach clean ups are a regular feature. There is no shortage of garbage bins throughout the event area, each marked to allow proper separation and recycling, and participants are asked to "keep the beach clean".
The theme for this year's event was "reuse" and this year's event took part in a program to collect and recycle plastic bottle caps-an item commonly discarded at beaches.
The highlight of Beach Life in Odaiba is the Phiten Beach Volleyball JVB Tour 2009 competition and a number of GSA Navigators were competing. Satoko Urada, partnered with Chiaki Suhara, and Kentaro Asahi, partnered with Katsuhiro Shiratori, both racked up victories in the event.
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12 women's teams and 19 men's teams took part in the annual FOVA Series amateur beach volleyball tournament, which took place on 15th November 2008. Beach volleyball has been played on Genuma Beach for 20 years and this year's event was as crowded and lively as ever.
This year looks like it will be a great year for beach volleyball and we're grateful all the sponsors that are supporting the events.
Yuji Yamamoto
GSA Komazawa Team Captain, GSA Navigator
Yuji Yamamoto website
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Shin Onsen Youth Tournament
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The Shin Onsen Youth Tournament took place on 22 November with the goal of nurturing a healthy generation of young people. Pro beach volleyball player (and GSA Navigator), Koichi Nishimura, appearing as a special guest, alongside former national team player, Kaoru Sugayama.
For the event's second half keynote speech, the special guests took to the stage with Hamasaka High School's volleyball team, and the students fired questions at the athletes.
After the event, the volleyball team, who are members of GSA Hyogo, took a commemorative photo with the guests and the Ecoflag, and promised to keep flying the Ecoflag on the beach and at future events.
Kazuhito Morita, GSA Hyogo Team Captain
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August 2008--The AQUA Kisarazu Beach Volleyball team is based in Onjuku Chuo Kaigan and they are busy developing Ecoplayers as they run a BV school and conduct beach clean ups.
On 27 July they held a workshop for high school students on their home beach at Onjuku Chuo Kaigan with 50 participants sharing 6 courts.
A morning of practice drills was followed by a competition dubbed the "AQUA Cup" and the day should be a provide a fond summer memory for all involved.
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| *Ecoflag at The Cuban Volleyball Tournament |
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The Cuban Volleyball Tournament took place at the November 19th Sports Facility on Pinar del Rio.
The event took place as an official meeting of the best of the Senior Volleyball players on 20-25 January. This time the tournament was quite different as the Ecoflag was flying in the center high seats, calling the attention of spectators, athletes and trainers.
GSA Team Captain Lic. Fernando Emilio Valladares Fuente seized the chance to talk about the need of preserving fair play and the sustainable management of sports in the territory.
This event is carried out yearly. 14 teams participate each time. They are played in 3 provinces (The western: Pinar del Rio, the Central: Villa Clara, and the Eastern: Santiago de Cuba). This tournament was sponsored by the Cuban Federation of Volleyball.
In the photo appears Lic. Ariel Sainz Rodriguez, the Technical Director of the Federation and our Cuba GSA Captain as a symbol of compromise between the practice of sports and the environmentfs care.
Report by Lic Fernando Emilio Valladares Fuente |
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We started the 2007-2008 season at the World Aids Day on 01 December
2007 at the ISD (International School of Dakar). There were 100
participants. After an awareness on AIDS session, we played volleyball
all day.
We will continue our program on 09 December 2007 with the day under
the theme "Sport Environment," where we will have 1,000
athletes (football players and volleyball players).
Gerard Sambou, GSA Dakar Team Captain |
| *Burwood
Beach Volleyball Tournament 2007 |
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The 4th annual Burwood Beach
Volleyball Tournament took place on October 20th. The event is organized
by the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency. 18 teams from across
Jamaica competed in 3 separate categories; men's professional, women's
professional, and amateur.
Proceeds from tournaments have provided for the construction of garbage
containers in an effort to keep this public beach clean. Traditionally,
the event is coupled with a beach cleanup where students from local
high schools come for a day to rid the beach of trash and debris.
This year a newcomer to the tournament, All Out (Westmoreland), took
the championship beating Garden Boys (Ocho Rios), as the sun set
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| *Volley
for a Better World |
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In a Volleyball
preparatory class, in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, some athletes gather
to express their
concern about the environment and engage themselves in carrying out
some actions to contribute to the Ecoflag mission. They have kept
their
court clean and safe from pollution and work to keep the grass in
good condition, after they were adversely affected by the long rains.
The members of this group are : Aniuska, Roxana, Victor, Zulena,
Jose Raul, Marisel, Leyisel, Eyenis, Frank, Livan, Osniel, Osmel,
Yasmany, Jose A, Ernesto, Wilker, Maideyis, Yariel, eddie, Yamir,
alejandro and Rolando
Report by Fernando E. Valladares Fuente |
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A women’s beach volleyball
competition took place at the Goshikihime Coastal Park volleyball
courts in Iyo
City, Ehime Prefecture on 9-12
August. The Ecoflag was flown and environmental messages shared with
spectators and players.
Aichi Beach Volleyball Federation |
| *Beach Cleaning (AQUA Kisarazu) |
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Our team took place in
a beach clean up on the Onjuku Central Coast on 25 August, sponsored
by the Onjuku Tourist Association and Japan Tobacco.
Joining a host of beach-goers, we flew the Ecoflag and combed the beach
for garbage under the slogan “You’ll love your town if you
clean it up!” |
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