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*Ecoflag Flies at TUBE Event

 Ecoflag Flies at TUBE Event  Ecoflag Flies at TUBE Event
 Ecoflag Flies at TUBE Event
SEASIDE TUBE TOWN's next tour stop was Fukuoka on 5 June 2010. Organizer, Nobuteru Maeda, from the band TUBE, is a GSA Navigator, and in addition to beach volleyball workshops, the Ecoflag is flown at the events in conjunction with beach clean ups. Pro beach volleyball players and GSA Navigastors, Kazuyuki Takao and Koichi Nishimura also took part in the beach volleyball workshop.

Future events will be held in Aichi (12 June), Osaka (19 June) and Hokkaido (26 June).


*12th Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009

 Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009  Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009  Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009
 Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009  Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009  Okinawa Sports Recreation Festival 2009
The Sports Recreation Festival is aimed at promoting health and an interest in sport, and this year's event was again popular with 42 events taking place across 13 towns and cities in the prefecture.

The volleyball competition in the festival took place at Nishihara KiraKira Beach on 8 November, with Men's, Women's, Mixed and Schools categories.

The Ecoflag flew at the event and announcements made calling on participants to become Ecoplayers.

Takeshi Shinshiro
Okinawa Beach Volleyball Federation


*Beach Volleyball AQUA Cup 2009

 AQUA Kisarazu   AQUA Kisarazu
 AQUA Kisarazu  AQUA Kisarazu
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


GSA Dakar Celebrates GSAfs 10 Years

GSA Dakar  GSA Dakar  GSA Dakar
GSA Dakar  GSA Dakar  GSA Dakar
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


15th Moon Cup in Onjuku

15th Moon Cup in Onjuku
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


SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 2009

SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
The SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour came to Osaka from 20-24 May at specially constructed arena in Nakanoshima. There is no natural beach in that area, but this event helped to not only promote the sport, but demonstrated that you can enjoy beach sports anywhere.

The Ecoflag was lined up with all the national flags that adorned the arena and information on GSA and the Ecoflag Program can be accessed on the FIVB website, as well as the FIVB Beach Volleyball Handbook.

GSA Hyogo Team Captain, Kazuto Morita


*4th Beach Life in Odaiba

Beach Life in Odaiba
Beach Life in Odaiba
Beach Life in Odaiba
Beach Life in Odaiba
Beach Life in Odaiba
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.


Yamamoto Yuji Cup

Yamamoto Yuji Cup Yamamoto Yuji Cup
Yamamoto Yuji Cup Yamamoto Yuji Cup
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


Shin Onsen Youth Tournament

Shin Onsen Youth Tournament Shin Onsen Youth Tournament
Shin Onsen Youth Tournament Shin Onsen Youth Tournament
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


*AQUA Beach Volleyball School

AQUA Beach Volleyball School
AQUA Beach Volleyball School
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.

*Ecoflag at The Cuban Volleyball Tournament

The Cuban Volleyball Tournament
The Cuban Volleyball Tournament
 
The Cuban Volleyball Tournament
The Cuban Volleyball Tournament
 
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

*World Aids Day

World Aids Day
World Aids Day
World Aids Day
World Aids Day
World Aids Day
World Aids Day
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

Burwood Beach Volleyball
Burwood Beach Volleyball
Burwood Beach Volleyball
Burwood Beach Volleyball
 
Burwood Beach Volleyball
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 on BBVT '07.

*Volley for a Better World

 
GSA Cuba
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

*2007 Madonna Cup

Madonna Cup Madonna Cup
Madonna Cup
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)

AQUA
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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