The perverted thinking of the International Dance Sport Federation and their members

The Sports Director of the Malaysian Dance Sport Federation (the IDSF Member for that country) has his own "blog". In his opening address we can read these words -


MYDF is a Sports Body for both Amateur and Professional, and like any Sports Body we have rules to follow. That is reality


This to explain the IDSF policy of bans, boycotts, threats, denying dancers the right to dance, and coaches/adjudicators the right to work.


We then read his blinkered view on the serious developments in dance. Displaying outrageous hypocrisy he accuses the British Dance Council of Double Standards!! What was their crime they wrote a letter asking was an event to be run under BDC Rules and if not reminding the organisers of the Rules of the BDC. These wotds appear from our Sport Director :
BDC is behaving like the Orwellian "Big Brother" a veritable dictator and a pathetic school yard bully. All fair minded and thinking people would say change BDC to IDSF and you have it spot on. IDSF intend to impose their rules their values on every country in the world.



Shock horror! How dare they do something so outrageous!! IDSF Rules must be obeyed but any rules IDSF do not like must be ignored !! That truly is the convoluted thinking of the IDSF.


We read a lot of words about Freedom to Dance and how the BDC show double standards in this area. It is very apparent that the BDC are in fact fighting to retain Freedom to Dance in the United Kingdom. They know full well that as soon as you have IDSF events Freedom to dance is the first casualty. It becomes a closed event denying any person the right to dance unless they embrace the IDSF dictatorial regime..


What our MYDF Sport Director ignores is that many countless English dancers have rejected the IDSF way. When EADA was the Amateur Body within the IDSF they found countless couples rejecting invitations to represent their country in IDSF competitions/Cups/Championships. Now Dancesport England is the IDSF member and they have exactly 64 people registered. Many of these are are far from happy that in the intended first IDSF event in England there will be no events for them.


Now that English Amateurs have been provided to register with other bodies - the BDC direct, the Ballroom Dancers Federation, the Dance Promoters Association and the WDC Amateur League - there is little doubt members ship of EADA will decline in 2012. So the IDSF have worked their own brand of Black Magic to damage yet again a once respected Association.

Our Mr Sport Director has the audacity to write about Moral and Legal Rights. This coming from an organisation where in 2010 The IDSF member for Russia lost 4 Court Actions brought against it by Dancers and Judges. Their bans were delared illegal. He writes about BDC sinking into the gutter and why, they wrote a letter reminding an organiser they have rules. The logic from the IDSF sewer.

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MYDF Sport Director 2nd April, 2011
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I am indeed surprised by the contents of the letter below, what is more shocking to me is the letter comes from a Dance Body based in England. A country that have stood and fought many wars against tyranny and dictatorial regime. A country that gave the world West Minister Parliamentary democracy to many nations not only the Commonwealth. A country that up holds basic commonsense and fair play.
Could it be true that the British Dance Council (BDC) that has endorsed WDC AL call For "Freedom To Dance" are now finding it hard to live by that slogan after all. Now the President of BDC, Mr Bryan Allen appears to be curbing this Freedom.
He claims that acting on the instructions of the Board of Directors, BDC are asking Nick Kreminchenski and Olga Komarova to confirm that their "Crystal Palace Cup 2011 IDSF event will be held under BDC rules and not under any rules of any other organisation. Does that makes sense to you? An IDSF competition running under BDC Rules? I suppose a sane Englishman would say, what a load of poppycock.
Before we get into the legality of the acts of BDC, you can safely assume that there is an underlying threat made by the Board of Directors of BDC against the organisers probably to scuttle the Crystal Palace Cup 2011, should the championship be conducted under IDSF regulations.
Two Rules were quoted; BDC Rule 82(b) and Rule 57, where the sanction is disciplinary action. This bunch of Merry Andrews comprising the Board of Directors may perhaps suspend the organisers or terminate their membership, but we know that by that same BDC Rules, BDC will put out a message to boycott the event.

Are not the BDC being hypocritical, on the one hand they espouses "Freedom To Dance" but in the United Kingdom that Freedom to Dance no longer exists. This is a case of what is sauce for the Goose is not the same for the Gander. So I beg to ask what is so different about Competition in the United Kingdom that this Freedom to Dance concept is not applicable there? BDC is behaving like the Orwellian "Big Brother" a veritable dictator and a pathetic school yard bully.
BDC no longer have the moral or legal rights to criticize IDSF or any Dance body in the world for implementing their Rules. For a body that has existed since 1929, it is indeed sad to see it sinking into the gutter!