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2005
FEI/PSI Freestyle Forum
Cees Slings and Victor Kerkhof Reveal the
Secrets to their Success
 Figure
skater Daniel Weiss was the concluding speaker of the
first day of the 2005 FEI/PSI Freestyle
Forum. In the
evening,
all guests were invited to a formal dinner at the
Steigenberger Remarque hotel in Osnabruck, Germany.
Busses picked up the guests at different hotels
and drove us to the Osnabruck Town Hall for a small
reception, where the mayor of Osnabruck and Mariette
Withages toasted to the success of the forum. Ullrich
Kasselmann, foreman of PSI and renowned Osnabrucker
citizen, was
thanked
for his wonderful services in the organization of the
freestyle forum. The formal dinner at the hotel was
truly wonderful. The atmosphere was pleasant, the food
was great and the company (at least at my table, i.e.
Claartje van Andel, Kenneth Dyrby, Linda Kennan, Bo
Jena) was exceptional.
The formal dinner was a good ice breaker for many
attendants at the forum. Consequently, day two of the
forum started off in a much more relaxed and settled
in atmosphere. Some important changes were also made
in
the execution of the organization. Because there was
only a select group of attendants, chairs were put
inside the
arena
closer
to the big screen
making the distance between the addresser and addressees smaller and more personal.
Another fact attributed to the success of the second
day of the forum, namely the brilliant presentation
of Cees Slings and Victor Kerkhof. This Dutch duo is
world famous for being the composers of Anky van Grunsven's
double Olympic gold medal winning freestyles and in
Ankum they revealed the secrets to their success.
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