{"id":62770,"date":"2024-06-05T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koiquestion.com\/4-presidents-talk-about-the-challenges-in-koishowland\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:30:00","slug":"4-presidents-talk-about-the-challenges-in-koishowland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koiquestion.com\/en\/4-presidents-talk-about-the-challenges-in-koishowland","title":{"rendered":"4 presidents talk about the challenges in Koishowland"},"content":{"rendered":"

In conversation with chairmen Ben Smit (Koi2000<\/abbr>), Dirk de Witte (Belgian Koi Society), Theo de Vliegh (Koi Cave) and Patrick Beld, European Koi Show (Koi Club Nederland)<\/h2>\n

A new name and growth<\/h4>\n

The European Koi Show has just changed its name. Now that Germany’s Interkoi is no more, they have taken over all the barrels and expect some growth. They have already more or less promised the community that they want to grow to 100 match vessels by 2025. It is very annoying then for Patrick Beld and his mates, who have been organizing the show for more than a decade in the eastern part of the Netherlands, to learn that the KoiCave, the youngest koi association in the Netherlands, will hold their Koi Show next year on the same date; on the weekend of May 25\/26, 2025.<\/p>\n

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Aerial view of the European Koi Show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A challenging situation<\/h4>\n

“If that’s the way it is, it’s no different. Just too bad they’re going to sit at the same time as us,” Patrick Beld said. We are blessed with it; Koi Shows. Hey, just look at Germany, a Koi-loving country, bigger and also with more money involved, yet where there is no support anymore to keep a healthy Koi Show afloat.<\/p>\n

Man, how much I enjoyed going to Berlin and Kalkar and before that Rheinberg. At the latter location, I even met my wife-to-be there 12 years ago. Me as a journalist, her as a koi dealer; but that’s a story for another time.<\/p>\n

Communication and collaboration<\/h4>\n

Theo de Vliegh, president of the KoiCave, indicated to me in an interview on the Sunday of the European Koi Show in Oldenzaal that they assumed that they would work it out together and that they both understood that it would not be good for the hobby to schedule both their shows on the same date. A little too optimistic in hindsight, De Vliegh writes to me a day later.<\/p>\n