Press release
IDSF changes her position
concerning Open Competitions, not her intentions.
On the IDSF website it read until yesterday,
“IDSF Couples are not allowed to participate in the above mentioned competitions! “
As of today, 22nd of June, it reads:
“IDSF Couples are strongly advised that if they compete at any of these
competitions, they may loose their athlete's licence in their own IDSF Member
Federation, and thus may be stopped from competing in any country in the IDSF
World Sporting System! “
Since the foundation of the WDC Amateur League a lot
has happened. From day 1 organisations
have entered the WDC AL.
At this moment we have already over 30 different organisations and thousands of individual registrants.
And every day more are joining in! By the hundreds………
One of the major reasons to join our WDC AL is the
defense of the right of freedom to dance.
Lots of declarations of support were and are streaming
in, very often from IDSF-members or “IDSF-competitors”.
The first fruit of this defense is now highlighted by
IDSF itself! Thanks a lot!
Was the attitude before that IDSF would forbid “her” couples to dance open competitions, now
this has changed and it is no longer IDSF, but maybe (only maybe) some of her national member-organisations
may take action against a competitor!
Was the IDSF
only days ago taking a strong position against participation in open events
like Assen and pressing her members to the limit ( even to the point of exclusion) to comply, now it strongly
advises her couples not to go because her members
might take action. Isn’t that the world upside down??
It’s obvious that the IDSF has got more lawyers than
dancers. Hence the change of position, not a change of intention!
It tells us that IDSF knows that it cannot forbid a
competitor to dance where he or she wants to dance.
Instead of frankly admitting that they were wrong and taking away the fear of a
competitor, IDSF prefers to maintain the pressure by strongly advising
competitors not to go because of her national member who might take action.
Thus leaving it to someone else (the national members) to do the dirty job that
IDSF is no longer prepared to do and by doing so, also take the legal
consequences.
Whilst IDSF knows that in
How clever and what a lack of respect for her own
members! And what a disregard of interest in the competitors!
So much for
IDSF-policy: do not change your intentions, but just change your own position
to be legally safe
and let somebody else do your dirty work and take the blow. In
the mean time putting as much pressure on the competitors as you can.
A second interesting observation is that the system of
IDSF is no longer “
All in all, we are glad to have this good news for you
that it is no longer the IDSF that does not allow you to participate in truly
open events, but maybe only your national federation. Bear in mind however that
IDSF is still holding the position to bring mortal fear over the competitors
that they feel are “their” competitors. No change of heart there!
Any respectable international body would advise her
own member-organisations not to go against the law.
Not the IDSF, they prefer to address the competitors and maintain the pressure,
now by involving her own members as possible threat against competing.
We will take a stand against this policy of spreading
fear on behalf of thousands of competitors that have joined the WDC Amateur
League and the thousands that haven’t done so yet, but are of the same feeling.
For everybody in doubt before, the WDC Amateur League
has already proven her right to exist. By virtue of the
change of tactic of the IDSF regarding her policy on open events. If
only the member-countries of IDSF would see the truth behind this all!
Sammy Stopford.
Chairman WDC Amateur League.