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	Jef Buffat, a life marked out for the sport At 11, Jef started to play basketball in the club of Champel, in Geneva, where he did all his juniors' classes untill he reached the adult team, which palyed in the second national division of the Swiss championship. It is in the same club that he made his first steps as a coach, being a 18 years old juniors' trainer. In 1981, after being the best scorer of the Swiss second division, he was spotted by the SF Lausanne with wich he signed his first contract, reaching a status of professional player he had never dreamed. His career will bring him to the national team, 1985, to the title of the swiss championship, 1987, with Pully, to 3 participations in the Euroleague, he never missed a participation to the play-off. First experience as trainer/player at 24 years with the BC Monthey, in the Swiss first division and Euroleague. He did it again in 1992 with the BC Epalinges which will go up unbeaten from the 1LN to the LNB. He only missed one game during all his carrer, beacause of a university ski examination. Practicing faithfully beach volley since the begining of the eighties, playing as much as he could in the summer time, he hanged up his basketball shoes, when in 1995, he decided to emigrate to Brazil. In Cumuruxatiba, where was born his first son, Ioane, he set his first sandy ground and started to introduce the youngs of the village to this new olympic sport where the Brazilians just knocked down the supremacy of the USA. Leading a group which he practices dailyy, he turned up allways more to the beach volley. Those has been the first steeps of the Beach Volley Center. In 2004, Jef specialised definitively himself through a trainer course he made with the Brazilian Confederation of Volleyball, getting an international beach volleyball coach degree. A central ground with spotlight, which allows to play at any time, the acomodation and alimentation are in the same place at the Hospedaria Cumuruxatiba , this is the perfect spot to welcome the fanatics of beach volleyball who look for a different experience throughout a inovated methodology. Until today, it is the only training center in the world, where you will practice, eat, and sleep at the same place, and which is open and activ all year long.