The 2008 ISWC AGM was held during Fuerteventura Grand Prix, 25.07.2007 in Sotavento, Fuerteventura, Spain

Votes of 32 riders were representeted.

Members of the board present:
Peter Davis, president ISWC
Christian Conrad, secretary
Orlando Lavandero, sailors rep.
Markus Schwendtner,
Alain De Gendt,

Were absent;
Morten Knutsen; excused (marriage of his sister)
Jan Cas smit; excused, (decided to step down)

Points on the agenda;
*chairmans report
*secretary’s report
*financial statement
*elections
*other matters

What follows is a summary of subjects that were brought up and discussed at this meeting.

*chairmans report

-presents the members of the board to the racers.
-sums up all racers that set new national and world records the past year.
-informs about the new rule the WSSRC plans to implement(ground effect)
-talks about the efforts made by members of the board to find new speed spots.
Mauritius, Cabo Verde, Ireland.
-explained what went wrong in Tarifa (event had t be cancelled).
-explains the difference and the relation between ISWC and the tour operator.
The contract, financial situation, structure of ISWC/IWA/ISAF/tour operator, will be put on the new website speedwindsurfing.org as a download later in the year.

*secretary’s report

Explains switch from ISA to ISWC and relation towards ISAF and IWA.

*financial statement

There is 2475 euro on the account.
All pay-pall paid membership fee’s are already transferred to IWA.
The amount of money paid here in cash for the membership fee, will be transferred asap.

*elections

Alain/Morton/Markus/Jan Cas are  the members that need to be reelected or stepped down;
Candidates are
Alain/Morton/Markus/Philip Adamis

Remark made by Sarah Davis; conflict of interest concerning Markus as both member of the board and tour operator.
Christian speaks in favor of Markus. This situation has proven in the past season that it has no negative effect. On the contrary it facilitates things.
Anders Bringdal speaks out of his own experience with PWA and sees no problem in this situation.

Alain/Philip/Morten get reelected by majority with no abstentions nor no-votes.
Marcus got reelected by majority with 2 no-votes and 3 abstentions.

*other matters

#Markus proposes change of rules for 2009-2012 according weight jackets.
-10kg max and positive buoyancy = accepted by voting (majority)
#Pete explains and asks for feedback on the factors used on the different championships.
He wants to find out what criteria we need to look at.
#Jean Baptiste wants to know why we have a one off world championship and a world tour. Markus explains we have more inscriptions by using this system and it is being used in other sports as well.
#Valerie asks via Zara to have a reduced event fee for women due to the lower price money.
#10% of Price money, of this event is kept for the tour. This rule doesn’t change, it’s an extra motivation to do the rest of the tour as well.
#we demand a written promise by Egli that the speed strip will be set up “around the corner”, for next year, if he fails to produce this statement, we don’t come back here anymore.
#Martin explains his idea of working out a new structure of competition. Emphasizing on the  smaller national events and continental events. Top racers out of these events could be send to a one-off WC
#Christian Bornemann proposes to make the AGM mandatory, witch makes decision making a lot easier and direct (voting).