Published:  11:08 Tuesday - December 11, 2012

Jibe’s Beach Club in Mui Ne – Phan Thiet, Binh Thuan Province in Central Vietnam is a great place to go on a sunny, windy day to take-in the spectacular scenery with colourful kites flying against a solid blue back and starched white sails fluttering across the sea surface. The owner of this resort is Pham Thi Hong Phuong and her French husband, Pascal Lefebre, who have been recognized as trailblazers in developing the natural potential for sea sports in Vietnam.

Pham Thi Hong Phuong is the owner of the Full Moon Resort and Pascal is an avid water sports enthusiast as well as a professional in hotel management. He has worked for resorts belonging to Novotel and Victoria Corporations in Vietnam. His love for Vietnam cemented their love.

They decided to establish Jibe’s Beach Club, a sea sports club in the vicinity of the Full Moon Resort, and invested in building material facilities and expanding different forms of marketing, service and trade. Since 2002 their Club has become a centre for sea sports including surfboarding, boarding, wind and kite surfing, kayaking and many more water related activities.

Pascal and his wife have retained services of professional sea sport instructors from the US, Australia, France and Canada to Vietnam travel, whose contagious enthusiasm gets even the most novice water sportsperson controlling a surfboard or other piece of equipment in a few short hours.

Pham Thi Hong Phuong and her husband,
Pascal Lefebre .

Pascal is the manager and sole distributor for Starboard Group sea sport products and has invited many world-ranking professional athletes to Mui Ne to compete and perform. He has acquired the sponsorship from some great brand names for the annual windsurf competition entitled Vietnam Windsurf Fun Cup which has been acknowledged in the system of tournaments under the Asian Windsurf Tour (AWT) and Professional Windsurf Association (PWA).  

Jibe’s Beach Club has attracted a large number of sport enthusiasts of different nationalities to participate in surfing. Many tourism and sea sports magazines in developed countries have featured the Club as a new attractive address on a tropical bay to visitors.

Source: Vietnamvnanet