WAF EXECUTIVE PROPOSALS (Results) March 22nd 2012

 

 

 

A Word from The World Armwrestling Federation President Fred Roy

 

 

 

March 8th 2012

 

There are barely 7 months left before the WAF World championships in Brazil in September. It feels like we just finished the Worlds in Kazakhstan which were pretty awesome and Brazil is ramping up to try and out do them.

 

An official website manned by the Brazil federation will be up and running this month and through that all the information required should be readily available. You should be able to link it through the WAF website.
We are also getting WAF involved in live streaming of our events which will have many benefits down the road for our athletes, the fans and WAF in general. Hopefully an added revenue will take pressure off of our members and allow WAF to continue to develop better technology as we grow. We also want to see if we can double up with the video taping and assist in the smooth running of our tournaments. As it stands we don’t allow camera replays to assist our referees during “protested matches” and we run into long delays at tables which in turn slows down the flow of the tournament. By request from several countries we are testing the “instant replay” at several major tournaments in Canada to see how this would work in assisting the referees and keeping the tournament flowing smoothly. Please understand we are not undermining the discretion of our referees as we are very proud of our referees and the job they do, we are trying to expedite the flow and quality of the tournament.
We have several new countries requesting membership to WAF form the African side, Asian side and the North American side, such as Uganda, Jamaica and Panama. Hopefully the trend will continue.

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The biggest and most important goal in WAF’s future is to belong to the Sport Accord. Many of our members and fans of armwrestling think that this should be a no-brainer. Apply and we are in! Not the case! The protocol that we have to follow, although not that difficult, is very intense in detail. The details we need from our member countries. We continuously ask for the details of each national federation and for whatever reason we fail to get it from them. We are presently looking at measures to obtain this information. We realize that not all countries are in their national Olympic programs which is not important at this point.  A new member country may have no affiliation to a national sporting body which is also OK because not all national sport bodies want to accept a new sport right away probably because of funding and such, but, all of these members must be able to give us the list of their officials, the minutes of their annual meeting and election results as well as personnel contact numbers, contact e-mails and land addresses. Does this sound very hard to do? Hardly, but for whatever reason it sure seems difficult for some.

 

Our continental bodies should all be on board on this matter and help obtain this information but believe it or not, not all of our peers share this goal with the majority of us. It is like having a broken cog in a large gear. We go around and drive the sport of armwrestling but we have a rough spot that has to be repaired. Hopefully that will all take care of itself this year being election year for all positions both on the continents and the world body.

 

I hope everyone is training hard and aiming for the 2012 Worlds in Brazil. Until next time I remain yours in armwrestling!

WAF President

Fred Roy

 

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