We are not against merger but a few serious reasons creating doubts if the administrators are capable to carry ALL OF US as a united organisation, or if they are biased.
Till now it is proved that they are biased, a selected organisation is targeted and kept out of this merger, are they really uniting?
I take this move (IJRU formation) as a second division. The first division was the formation of WJRF on the name of Rules and now the second division is the formation of IJRU on the name of unity and Olympics.
Both times FISAC-IRSF was weekend by dividing its players and coaches. Who gained out of all this? – just think about it.
We (our skippers, our coaches) gave our time, money and energy to this sport. It is not the a private property of someone or a group of people.
Why do you expect from us to stay silent? Our silence would be an injustice to our skippers and officials.
I am vocal because I am feeling the pain, you are not vocal because the heat is not reached to you but keep it in mind if may reach to you too, if not now but maybe sooner or later.
If you are a leader you should not be biased. If you are biased you should not lead. It is not only you who care about the sport we were also in the same boat, we too gave our best and still contributing.
MERGER means merging all the stakeholders, UNITING means uniting everyone, MEDIATION means the honest effort and find an amicable solution.
Kindly do not hijack the whole Rope Skipping world.
I do not see honest MEDIATION, it creates doubts in our minds that if you are UNITING the sport and its stakeholder through this MERGER or your intention is to takeover the sport on the name of so called OLYMPIC recognition.
False uniting Claim
It is crazy that WJRF President or his execs would claim that they are uniting the Sport or want to unite the Sport of Rope Skipping / Jump Rope while they are the ones who saw divisions from the first place. Pre 2011 there was only one international federation Fisac-Irsf and all the jumpers United under this international federation.
One of the founders of WJR/F attended fisac -irsf AGM in Hungary and it was there where she had demands which we not met and threaten to start WJR organisation which was indeed established with only one purpose to saw divisions and create an environment conducive enough for a hostile take over of fisac -irsf.
Some of us who were serving on the fisac board as none execs we always warned the execs of this possibilities and pushed them to work hard to thwart them. But are please and advice fell on deaf ears as instead of preparing Fisac-Irsf to be more strong and positioned to defend itself they the execs of Fisac-Irsf allowed or create a more better environment for wjr to grow and thrive. This was done in many ways from rules, to championship and membership applications worse being unaccomodative.
With the ground on their favor wjr organisation started poaching more and more of Fisac-Irsf members so that they can have more countries represented under their umbrella. Still the Fisac-Irsf execs did nothing to curb this instead just sat iddle and watched as these events unfolded. The wjr organisation either changed from organisation to Federation when they saw that they were gaining more steam on their goal to dismantle Fisac-Irsf. I suspect even that by this time some of Fisac-Irsf execs had already given a green light or blessing to Wjr which will later be know as WJRF.
More disappointing is that Fisac-Irsf execs started removing all of us who warned and cautioned of what was going on and about to happen from the Fisac-Irsf board in an illegal manner under the leadership of TK the president who gave Fisac-Irsf away without even following the bylaws of the organisation. A lots of these merge arrangements and negotiations happened behind close doors of high secrecy !!! Why was it done in such secrecy? All those who tried to question the circumstance under which the merge agreement was concluded got suppressed or ignored completely.
we were not questioning this because we were against the merge however we were concerned over the way this shameful merge came about. This is no merge but a hostile take over as done on corporate world. To prove that just have a look on IJRU website and see which organisation of the two supposed merging is represented more!!! Look at the rules of the game !!! By the way ijru is not a separate organisation from WJR it is the same organisation just the name change from WJRF to IJRU now think about that for a second.
But what sadness me the most is the fact that Fisac--Irsf execs were so in a rush to have a seat on the IJRU table that they did not care about you and I who have been members of Fisac-Irsf for more than a decade counting. They just signed off and said to hell with us member countries whether we are accepted by ijru or we are not it not their problem because they already have a seat on the table. TK, Jennet, Silke and Ron for them it was about that seat.
When I sent them an email asking them about the measure they put in place to ensure that all Fisac-Irsf member countries were included as ijru members they could not tell me. When I asked them what is to happen to those refused membership by ijru which claims to unite the Sport they could not tell me. Now this tell me that the Fisac-Irsf execs really went into this merge unprepared , illinformed, neglegable and not considering the member countries. Nor was this merge entered in to for the benefit of all the member countries rather for the selected few individuals and their countries hence there no detailed minutes of a special meeting or AGM where this merge was discussed point by point in terms of what it meant for members.
WJRF has saw more divisions than any other organisation that has existed under the rope skipping or jump rope name. In Africa , Assia , Europe , Americas there are divisions because of WJRF which claims to unite the Sport yet they exclude any one and everyone who speaks against their ways of doing things or questions their methods. If your country has been accepted to ijru don't just be happy rather question the ijru board and execs what about the ones left behind ? What must they do ? Must they just disappear from the Sport ? Must their go do a different sport ? Or must they start a new World Body That will be INCLUDING and INCLUSIVE to all and for all.
Democracy and freedom of speech guarantees all of us the privilege to ask , question , argue and agree to disagree without supresion or intimidation or fear of being excluded or victimised.
TK and your Execs fix this mess you have created for all of us please :-)
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