International standardization (Closed for comments)
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Even if the rule of IUF was changed so far, a domestic rule wasn't affected at all in my country.
Or it may be the one which is only my country, but I think it's to be difficult to think by other sports.
I think a unicycle is more necessary for international standardization of a rule to bring it close to a major sport.
It's understood that IUF can't do the compulsion which uses a rule of IUF for each country. But is it possible that IUF requests to use a rule near a IUF rule for each country to the utmost?
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In many sports, the rules from the National organization are not the same as the rules from the International organization. For example with (bi)cycling you have the UCI and USAC. For Track and Field: IAAF and USATF. There is really nothing the IUF can do to force a country to use the IUF rules in my mind.
In Japan, you do not use the IUF Rulebook. If we added a section in the IUF Rulebook that says countries should use IUF rules, this does not change anything because Japan does not have to follow this new section.
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Atata has a valid point: I agree that more international standardisation in the rules would help unicycling to become more of a serious/major/credible sport. Although the IUF Rules are only mandatory for Unicons, we as rulemakers are trying to make the rules apply wider than just Unicons. Indeed, I believe that many national and local unicycling organisations try to follow the IUF rules insofar possible in their situation.
Japan does not, and I think a request/recommendation by IUF wouldn't make a difference. And like Scott says, the IUF cannot enforce its rules onto other organisations.
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For the IUF rules to be applied/forced to other events than Unicons, such event would need to be sanctioned by the IUF.
And the only way an event organizer with a different point of view/conception of unicycling rules would accept to have it's event sanctioned by the IUF and it's rules, would be that the IUF provide this person something in return...which right now, is not the case.
This "something" in other sports normally take the form of, for example, allowing the event strategic and popular days in the international calendar year, sponsoring from the federation, official titles given to the athletes attending the event, administrative and material support to the organization, etc.
If I can express a personal point of view here, as an event organizer, it seems that the IUF is not yet in position to offer a strong "package" to other events for those organization to accept an IUF sanction and the rules that would come with it. Most event organizer like the simplicity of their own sets of rules, or absence of rules, as the IUF rulebook would require them a whole lot of additional work and resources. The IUF would indeed need to present any organization with a lot of good arguments and "goodies" for anyone to accept to go trough such complications...
I know that many things are moving and that the actual IUF board members are doing a lot to be able to offer new systems and administrative support to the unicycle community and event organizers in particular. Looking forward to see that happen and thank you to all the IUF board members :)
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