Hi ALL,
CMAS will have a big vote in there General Assembly in 10 days, the 26-28 of MAY - There is a proposal (and YOU can read it here under) that CMAS athletes should compete in AIDA competitions without any problems/punishmen from CMAS or there National Federation.
How will your National CMAS vote in this question, and is there anything you can do to make sure we have as many YES as possible?
Regardas
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Proposal for C.M.A.S. General Assembly 2007
Non conflict between CMAS and AIDA sport disciplines CMAS members, federations or individuals, are permitted to affiliate to AIDA (Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée), and/or its local associations. In spite of both organizations sharing very similar disciplines »dynamic apnea«, CMAS Board of Directors and General Assembly do not find the conflict of interests.
Explanation:
Last year's GA voted on Affiliation of CMAS members to organizations different from CMAS. It was clearly stated that CMAS will not tolerate its members to be member of organizations that, among other things, organize sports events in disciplines, registered in CMAS sports commisions. This decision is, in general, correct. It is to protect the efforts of those who invested a lot into development of certain sport, and to assure the best athletes to win one and only title.
In case of »dynamic apnoea«, which was explicitly mentioned, it turns out that the case is quite the opposite. In last year's GA most of you probably did not know that CMAS dynamic apnoea world championships and records have been held for the past 2 (two) years only, while AIDA (International organization for development of apnea) is organizing dynamic apnea competitions for over 10 (ten) years. The first recorded AIDA dynamic apnea world record goes back to 1995 (source: www.aida-international.org). It was in the years of CMAS' absence in apnoea, when AIDA was established, to regulate the group of enthusiasts' perpetual desire of exploring human's underwater limits on a single breath. As it is not the fault of current BD nor GA that CMAS retreated from apnoea, so we should not punish the competitors that kept the progress and interest in apnoea alone, and the people that regulated their competition performances. AIDA competitors survived years without CMAS apnoea competitions, and meanwhile achieved top results that currently exceed CMAS top results by nearly 25 %. Prohibiting affiliation to AIDA is establishing a gap in which AIDA members try to protect what they have accomplished, and we, CMAS, want to protect what we have acquired. This widening gap causes the biggest damage to apnoea, as a sport. It is therefore in the interest of apnea to vote on proposed agenda, and to at least work by AIDA organization, if the agreement can not be reached to work with AIDA. Voting against, is denying our right to claim authority over sports disciplines that we developed, and thus in conflict with our integrity. Proposed and supported by (on following page, in alphabetic order):
AUSTRALIA - CROATIA - DENMARK - FINLAND - IRELAND - NORWAY - SLOVENIA - USA
CMAS will have a big vote in there General Assembly in 10 days, the 26-28 of MAY - There is a proposal (and YOU can read it here under) that CMAS athletes should compete in AIDA competitions without any problems/punishmen from CMAS or there National Federation.
How will your National CMAS vote in this question, and is there anything you can do to make sure we have as many YES as possible?
Regardas
/B
Proposal for C.M.A.S. General Assembly 2007
Non conflict between CMAS and AIDA sport disciplines CMAS members, federations or individuals, are permitted to affiliate to AIDA (Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée), and/or its local associations. In spite of both organizations sharing very similar disciplines »dynamic apnea«, CMAS Board of Directors and General Assembly do not find the conflict of interests.
Explanation:
Last year's GA voted on Affiliation of CMAS members to organizations different from CMAS. It was clearly stated that CMAS will not tolerate its members to be member of organizations that, among other things, organize sports events in disciplines, registered in CMAS sports commisions. This decision is, in general, correct. It is to protect the efforts of those who invested a lot into development of certain sport, and to assure the best athletes to win one and only title.
In case of »dynamic apnoea«, which was explicitly mentioned, it turns out that the case is quite the opposite. In last year's GA most of you probably did not know that CMAS dynamic apnoea world championships and records have been held for the past 2 (two) years only, while AIDA (International organization for development of apnea) is organizing dynamic apnea competitions for over 10 (ten) years. The first recorded AIDA dynamic apnea world record goes back to 1995 (source: www.aida-international.org). It was in the years of CMAS' absence in apnoea, when AIDA was established, to regulate the group of enthusiasts' perpetual desire of exploring human's underwater limits on a single breath. As it is not the fault of current BD nor GA that CMAS retreated from apnoea, so we should not punish the competitors that kept the progress and interest in apnoea alone, and the people that regulated their competition performances. AIDA competitors survived years without CMAS apnoea competitions, and meanwhile achieved top results that currently exceed CMAS top results by nearly 25 %. Prohibiting affiliation to AIDA is establishing a gap in which AIDA members try to protect what they have accomplished, and we, CMAS, want to protect what we have acquired. This widening gap causes the biggest damage to apnoea, as a sport. It is therefore in the interest of apnea to vote on proposed agenda, and to at least work by AIDA organization, if the agreement can not be reached to work with AIDA. Voting against, is denying our right to claim authority over sports disciplines that we developed, and thus in conflict with our integrity. Proposed and supported by (on following page, in alphabetic order):
AUSTRALIA - CROATIA - DENMARK - FINLAND - IRELAND - NORWAY - SLOVENIA - USA
