BAN!
Maharishi Trophy
Conducted by so called Field Archery Association of Chennai District, an inter CBSE school meet for Indoor Field Archery Championship 2014.
Information and Warning!
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Parents of all participants of the above mentioned competition are herby informed that the above competition is not authorised and all students participating in this tournament will be banned from participating in any mainstream archery competitions conducted in the district, state, country and world.
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The World Archery is the only body in the world to authorise and conduct any archery tournament in the world which includes Target Archery, Field Archery, Clout, Indoor Archery, World Championships, World Cups, Asian Grand Prix, Asian Games Archery, Common Wealth Games Archery and all tournaments leading to, and the Olympics.
World Archery has affiliated and authorised only Archery Association of India (AAI) under the able leadership of Prof. VK Malhotra as President and Shri. Anil Kameneni as Secretary General to conduct all archery activities in the country. The AAI has 45 state member units in the country which are affiliated and recognised and authorised to conduct events in archery.
In Tamilnadu state, The Archery Association of Tamilnadu (TAAT) is the only body which is authorised by AAI to promote, control archery and conduct competitions for any and all forms of archery in any part of the state.
To teach, coach archery anywhere in the country, the coach needs to be properly trained and certified by Sports Authority of India (SAI) or must be trained by World Archery and needs to be a level 1, level 2 or level 3 certified coach.
Any one and everyone cannot become a coach by reading books or watching YouTube.
Students trained by such people run the risk of unscientific training - totally ruining their shooting form, archery technique and destroying their future in archery.
Any organization conducting an archery tournament needs to have World Archery or AAI Certified National Judges and Trained Scorers to supervise safety arrangements and fairness to international rules and regulations.
Any tom, dick and harry can't be a Director of Shooting (DOS), Judge or Scorer.
Any competition conducted without such trained personnel can be dangerous to the person and life of participants as one arrow shot recklessly can cause serious or fatal injury.
By conducting an unauthorised competition, the organiser puts the life and well being of several humans to risk and becomes directly responsible for the accident.
As such it is a potential law and order problem with groups of untrained and unauthorised people wielding potentially dangerous equipment if handled improperly.
Vill Archery Academy is not a recognised archery club as the trainer Mr. Vasu is not a qualified archery coach. He has neither been trained by SAI or has a certification by World Archery, by AAI or by TAAT.
Field Archery is an unrecognised body and is not part of the Olympic Games. AAI had issued a warning that any body participating in competitions conducted by them will be banned from all mainstream archery.
The principal of Maharishi Vidya Mandir School had been misguided by Mr. Vasu and has been made president of field archery who in his unrecognised new avatar is promoting and organizing this unrecognised tournament and in turn is misguiding innocent students and parents.
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TAAT hereby announces that all participants of this event will be video graphed and their names and schools are being noted. These students will be banned from mainstream archery events.
Parents of participants are warned of the grave risk of ban they are putting their children to.
YOU are requested to withdraw your participation from this event immediately.
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Shihan Hussaini
General Secretary
The Archery Association of Tamilnadu (TAAT)
Ph: 98416-18386
