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Minutes of the IBSSA OPEN Board of Directors meeting 26th June 2004, Budapest / HUNGARY

 

Attendees

On the occasion of the Knight Investiture of the ‘Federation of Autonomous Priories of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta’ the IBSSA Board of Directors held an extended meeting to discuss the most important matters concerning IBSSA and IBSSA-ISF.

Prof. Dr. George POPPER - President of IBSSA welcomed the Board members and other guests, he officially opened the meeting and gave a detailed report about his visit at the Headquarters of IBSSA Czech Republic (CZ).

The president informed the present leaders that H.R.H. Prince Michael James Alexander Stewart of Albany (Scotland) -Honorary President of IBSSA, Sir Dr. Levente Gyenes, KCM (Hungary) - International Coordinator of IBSSA in Europe and himself accepted the invitation of Dr. Alexandr Cach (Czech Republic) - Country Representative of IBSSA for Czech Republic and they travelled to Zlin on the 25th May 2004. All meetings and discussions with Dr. Alexandr Cach were very successful and fruitful for future cooperation. Prof. Dr. Popper reported that IBSSA CZ and Graddo with their new Headquarters in Zlin are ready to organise the forthcoming Congress of IBSSA with a spectacular and professional Bodyguard Demonstration World Championships in March 2005.

Dr. Tony Brown (USA) - "Man of the Year in 2004" in the USA, organiser of Heavyweight Boxing Championships - was handed over recently the IBSSA Honorary Membership diploma by Dr. Alexandr Cach. Prof. Dr. George Popper - President of IBSSA informed the leaders that during their visit in Zlin they contacted Dr. Tony Brown on the phone in order to discuss several things on future cooperation. Numerous other meetings took place in Zlin in connection with collaborations in the fields of Economy, Culture, Sport, which affect the future development of IBSSA as well, since big international events will be organised in Moscow, in the USA and all around Europe - such as the Mike Tyson vs. V. Klicsko heavyweight boxing championship.

Prof. Dr. Popper also reported about the discussions with Rev. Philip J. Cascia (USA) - Honorary Vice President of IBSSA for American continent, who is pushing a big IBSSA event in the USA and also proposed to organise an IBSSA Congress - possibly the 11th Congress of IBSSA in 2006 - or other events either in Las Vegas or in Florida.

The IBSSA leaders agreed that during the INEOA International Drug Conference between 17 & 22 October 2004 an OPEN IBSSA Board Meeting would take place in Miami in order to discuss, plan and prepare the forthcoming (10th) Congress and other events of IBSSA.

Concrete proposal

The Board discussed the dates and subjects of all the forthcoming events of IBSSA:

Prof. Dr. George Popper - President of IBSSA reported shortly about his visit at the 4th WKC European Championships between 4 - 6 June 2004 in Caorle / Italy. Prof. Dr. Popper was invited by Dr. Fritz Wendland (Germany) - President of WKC as honorary guest of the championships. The European Championships was a great success; good fights with high level and professional organisation and with a great many of participants. Our congratulations for the great results and success to WKC President - Dr. Fritz Wendland, who is Honorary Founding Member of IBSSA, and also to Mr. Carlo Henke; and our compliments to Prof. Giacomo Spartaco Bertoletti and Dr. Daniele Lazzarini - Honorary Members of IBSSA - for the professional organisation of this event.

The following topics were discussed and important decis ions were taken by the IBSSA leadership:

  1. IBSSA International Sport Federation (ISF) is more and more active and developing by leaps and bounds. There is an easy registration procedure with low fees and the members will receive IBSSA-ISF diploma and ID-card. IBSSA-ISF has numerous cooperation agreements with large sport federations, such as WKC, WJJKO, IBA, etc., and now ISF has its own professional staff with the leadership of Prof. Giacomo S. Bertoletti (Italy), who is also the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance.
  2. Dr. Eriks Grinsbergs (Latvia) signified that the IBSSA Latvian Team intends to organise again the next World Martial Arts Festival (WMAF) in Riga / Latvia. The IBSSA leaders accepted and supported this proposal and appointed Dr. Rony Kluger (Israel) as responsible person of the Festival, who helps the Latvian Organising Committee. The leaders agreed to organise the Festival in November 2005 as several other events take place this winter and time is too short to organise a professional event.
  3. The leadership of Education and Qualification Department of IBSSA has changed and active members, professionals -such as Mr. Eddie Stone (England) (former S.A.S. sergeant, expert) - joined the department in order to contribute to its development and efficient work.

The Board gave brief information on the forthcoming events of other organisations:

Closing the meeting Dr. Rony Kluger emphasized the importance of IBSSA as being a professional and family team. All members have to be loyal and should have the ability to work together, help and support each other. Prof. Dr. George Popper expressed his thanks to the present leaders for their active work and officially closed the meeting.

9th July 2004, Budapest
IBSSA HQ