Ordinary AIMS AIMS Monza, March 3, 2007 Report of the President
Dear colleagues,
I thank you all for your participation this House and, increasingly, for the support continue to give us. I also thank those who are absent, many called me apologizing, and I can hardly understand them. Even today many of them are engaged in the race: we have a calendar that does not give us pause.
A special welcome goes to our Honorary President, Niccolo Perno, who has just turned 97 years, and would certainly be welcome among us. He is not possible, and we understand why. But I salute you and always remember him with affection.
has only been a few months after our previous meeting, in which we have substantially modified the statute. But many things have happened, and tell them briefly soon. But first I want to remember our colleagues died recently, but still alive in our memory. We know how much love and passion they put into their work, and we join the regret of their students, in memory: after Armand Ruffo Giuseppe Zumbo and junior, have left us in recent months also Carlo Zumbo and Joseph Talarico.
Let us rise up, and pay homage to them with a minute of silence. Thanks.
hours Here is a quick guide of dell'Aims in recent months. Alfonso Gentile, our Vice President and Treasurer, has prepared with the usual care our budget, we ask you today to approve: I thank him on behalf of all for this.
2006 was the year of the world: twice. The first, for samples Masters of the world, that you read a broad guide to our newsletter. We applaud our champions again, and we thank them for having recognized the FIS gratification: some modest when compared to those receiving the national amateur, but still significant and welcome.
The second, for the absolute world of Turin: an extraordinary organizational success, and an opportunity to update our master. Aims And he invested most of its resources to support them.
During World Turin, in a different location, but prestigious (Palace Cistern), AIMS has successfully organized the exhibition "The touch of the sword" means weapons, pictures fencing and accessories of the period of transition from the duel sport. We thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Longhi and the Pro Patria of Busto Arsizio, which have provided the material, the province, for the seat, the Organizing Committee FIS World Cup and, for your cooperation.
during the World Cup in Turin we have also organized a dell'Aims stand, where we exhibited books and articles representing a shame that, in the confusion of the post-World, someone has the opportunity to get rid of much of what was left. We have also reserved a space AAI, the International Academy, the President invited to some events, Mike Bunke. Among our successes in recent months, we must also remember the election of the CD Roberta Giussani AAI, as Vice-President, occupied the place until four years earlier by Robert Piraino. To our colleague, who also sits on the CD dell'Aims, our congratulations and the wish for a fruitful work.
training and refresher courses: first, those of Norcia. Have you already read the newsletter, so I will not repeat here. The courses have always been a great success, but unfortunately almost the only opportunities for training, we would like to do more, but it must be said that the main obstacle, after the economy, is the difficulty of identifying periods free from commitments fencing. Stiamo cercando modelli alternativi, e credo che sarà presto necessaria un’approfondita discussione, in proposito.
Stanno dando frutti, anche se non dovunque allo stesso modo, i corsi regionali e quelli per animatori, dopo il decentramento. Il numero di tecnici è in aumento, con beneficio delle sale di scherma: ce ne accorgiamo agli esami, quando siamo in difficoltà per l’elevato numero dei richiedenti. Qualche problema c’è per la qualità, che non può migliorare se non con un costante e qualificato tirocinio.
Oltre ai corsi ordinari, abbiamo organizzato corsi di specializzazione, o stage di aggiornamento. Desidero qui ringraziare, accomunandoli, tutti i nostri Docenti, a livello national or regional share their unconditional love and the fruit of their efforts, we can not say them properly compensated. We do our best, which is unfortunately not.
An interesting experiment, regardless of which could have happened, is the proposal of a fencing master at the University of Cassino, where I was invited to speak at the opening of the academic year. We do not know how things go, and the company is not easy, but the feeling is of great interest in the academic world with which we must necessarily relate. That, indeed, already is successful with courses for animators.
examinations were saying: in Norcia, to the National Instructors, and Naples, including the Masters. A very challenging marathon, also in preparation: just think of the thesis. But the result repays us: only, you will need to have greater collaboration.
sorry to see the plight of the Academy, remained practically without a seat: the promises of the Administration is not missed, but between what is said and done, there is half of the sea. We hope that the situation will unlock as soon as possible, and by our cooperation and collaboration so that the NSA might exceed the critical moment, thus saving an important piece of our history.
of this History is witness to the book you received as a gift. The History of Fencing Prof. William Gaugler, Fencing Master degree at the American NSA, will be the reference text for a new subject, which we must add to those that form the cultural background of the teacher. The translation, initially, as for many other texts and treatises, was a diploma thesis: in this case, the teacher Roberta Giussani, who then completed and perfected the work. To have him here today, in time to make you free, you and members of the FIS, was a small miracle, I'm proud of. The Aims
was present in the world of fencing publications, even by its own newsletter, as well as articles on the new magazine, Passion jab, and websites at home and abroad. The newsletter is a quarterly basis, despite the earlier decision to make it annual. We considered it unnecessary to give a more precise our presence, even to help support our Federation, at a time is not easy.
many episodes, often wrongly taken by the press, or websites that are lit at times furious and futile discussions, give a picture of our world is not beautiful, nor untrue. It is not that missing the problems, or who has always agree on everything, but find only the negative aspects, ignoring the good that has been done and continues to do, despite all the difficulties, it seems self-defeating and therefore not very intelligent. The fencing is a heritage of us all, and we should preserve it with care.
addition to issues of training, we are particularly close to heart and will soon have some interesting developments, I would like to recall some issues on which the interest dell'Aims appointment, although not all are unable to progress as one would like.
proceeds within experimentation Schermalab, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Interesting data have emerged, which we hope will soon translate into useful information for engineers.
Mark Sportass step the issue, mainly per la persistente politica dilatoria dell’Ente, anche dopo che ha rinnovato i suoi vertici. Ci attiveremo in nuove direzioni, ma è il caso di dire che siamo fortemente delusi da fatti, Enti e persone. Non molleremo la presa.
Procede a rilento anche il settore della Scherma Storica, che sembra suscitare sempre maggiore interesse nella base, dentro e fuori il nostro mondo; e, proporzionalmente, altrettanto timore di coinvolgimento nella dirigenza federale. Insisteremo, anche se, non cesso di ricordarlo, la Fis ha fra i suoi doveri statutari (art. 1, 1° capoverso) quello di “... praticare, promuovere, sviluppare e diffondere la disciplina della scherma in tutte le sue forme.”
Fra le questioni that remain open, and we expect a reply by the FIS, the federal body technician, or AIMS, which has been artificially opposed in the past, the technical list. We have taken all the steps, including statutory, to dissolve any remaining nodes, and allow for a single membership, which does not discriminate, in fact, those who subscribe to AIMS. Now we wait for the FIS, whose elected leaders had included this issue in the election program, and hope. But there are positive signs in this regard.
The two-year, marking the end of our mandate is, in my wishes and my hopes, a period of elaboration of the role and prospects of the Association.
Molte barriere sono cadute, il mondo cambia sempre più rapidamente, e anche noi dobbiamo saper stare al passo, rinnovandoci profondamente: al nostro interno, e con la collaborazione della Fis, di cui siamo parte. Questo sarà possibile solo con la vostra partecipazione. E’ un invito che rivolgo soprattutto ai giovani, da cui dipende il nostro futuro, e quello della scherma. Fate che la mia speranza si trasformi in realtà.
Grazie.
Il presidente dell’Aims
Giovanni Toràn
A sad news today hit the fencing national. 
