<<If I'm not mistaken, hockey is represented in 34 countries, which means that we should easily get the support of 34 presidents in the annual meeting if we play our cards right. If everybody says the same. And if all presidents that represent hockey say the same thing, the others will assume it must be so. Maybe I am naive, and yes Carol, I know you will agree to it, but at least we would have a collective attempt.>>

Last time I looked, there were about 25 fedrations registered in uw hockey. That means 25 countries, who pay dues to Sports Committee, then also pay dues to uw hockey commission. This membership gives these countries the right to vote at and for uw hockey commission, nominate to the commission and play in CMAS sanctioned events for uw hockey.

Now then, NOT all the 25 member feds play uw hockey in the international level or at all - ie Cypress belongs. It appears a few federations just join all the uw sport commissions on general principles.

New then, we come to a CMAS General Meeting. How many hockey persons are there?????? well, me, perhaps Graham, maybe someone from Canada. All other reps are federation presidents.

Yes, some of those presidents know their underwater hockey teams exist, some even ask their uw hockey exec about agenda items that may impinge on uw sport, but most do not. Holland is a good example of a responsible president. Ok there's one.

AND many many uw hockey federations do not attend General assemblies. I and others try and push to get proxies from, say, S Africa, NZ, Canada (they are not regular attendees), and I am usually succsssful, but remember the proxy must come from the fed president, not the hockey exec.And, for many such as those I listed, it is a damned long way to travel for a 2 day meeting, costing big bucks in time and money.

And how many federations are in CMAS? how many are our 25 up against? or in actuality, our 10? The other feds do not care about uw hockey concerns, why should they?

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