World Obstacle, institutional name Fédération Internationale de Sports d’Obstacles (FISO), is the international governing body for obstacle sports and related events. Disciplines include Ninja (similar to American Ninja Warrior), Obstacle Course Racing (OCR), and Adventure Racing (AR). Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, it sanctions world and continental level events.
The Fédération Internationale de Sports d’Obstacles (FISO) members are composed of National Member Federations administering Obstacle Sports and it’s related Disciplines (sub-sports) and Events. Each National Federation (NF) belongs to one of the five Continental Confederations; OCR Africa, OCR Asia, OCR Americas, OCR Europe and OCR Oceania.
The Congress is the General Assembly of the member National Member Federations and the highest authority of World Obstacle. The Congress meets every two years at a date and venue specified by the Secretary-General and is the platform for representation of the needs and interests of the athletes.
Established in 2014, the International Parkour Federation (IPF) assists in the formation of National Parkour Governing Bodies (NGB’s), mentors young parkour athletes around the world, and supports initiatives that exemplify the Parkour philosophy, “Be Strong to Be Useful.” In recent years, IPF has focused largely on the conflict-torn countries of the MENA region, and together with local athletes in Baghdad helped to open Iraq’s first Parkour school which now provides a safe place to train for more than 350 young athletes. IPF steadfastly supports gender and racial equality, and human diversity in all its global initiatives. The Mission of IPF is to promote the practice of Parkour and related disciplines through community building, world wide and local competitive and non-competitive events, charitable initiatives for underserved parkour communities, and the creation of affiliated Parkour National Governing Bodies in countries around the world. IPF is committed to partnership with like-minded people of good will, with the goal of filling our 15 member executive council and 30 member board with a diverse group of global leaders who share our vision inclusion and equality regardless of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. We will continue our pro-parkour, pro-social initiatives around the world, which we believe represent the best of the parkour philosophy, “Be strong to be useful.” IPF is a not-for-profit, independent, international organization made up of volunteers representing the diverse needs of parkour athletes and communities around the world. Members of our growing and diverse Executive Council include representatives from Mexico, the US, Mexico, Egypt, Iran and the UK, among them Ryan Doyle and other world-renowned parkour athletes.To view IPF’s Constitution and By-Laws, including our Conflict of Interest statement, please CLICK HERE.
The World Freerunning Parkour Federation (WFPF) is an international federation or organization that was established in 2007. Its focus is to bring together patrons of Parkour and Freerunning and aims to bring the sport and philosophy to the mainstream audience. The World Freerunning Parkour Federation (WFPF) was founded in January 2007 as a partnership between Ruff Magic Entertainment, a New Jersey limited liability company, and eight Parkour and Freerunning athletes. The athletes, Daniel Ilabaca, Ryan Doyle, Tim Shieff, Oleg Vorslav, Victor Lopez, Gabriel Nunez, Paul Darnell and Richard King, and the company principals, Victor Bevine, David Thompson and production partner Francis Lyons came together with the stated purpose of bringing the sport of Parkour to mainstream American audiences through television and other media and live formats. Other member athletes of the WFPF include Brian Orosco, Miguel Southee Jr., King David, Michael Turner and Daniel Arroyo from the U.S. Pip Andersen, Philip Doyle, Ben Jenkin from the UK, Marcus Gustafsson and Filip Ljungberg of Sweden, and Justin “Jet” Sheaffer from the U.S.
Obstacle multi Stage Sport (O-Sport):
World O-Sport Federation (WOF) founded 15th December 2005 in Hamedan city in accordance to the amateur goals of sport with humanitarian aims. It consists of various competition disciplines equally for both men and women which have become popular in many countries.
The Obstacle multi Stage Sport technical structure of O-Sport is formed of: traditional arts and games, such as dooz, Slingshot, Ley ley, Crossing of water and land and traditional Martial Arts tribes. during a process of deep studies and modernization with benefit of science relief and rescue as well as fast response techniques, these sports include
- Aqua O-Sport,
- Combat O-Sport,
- Mind O-Sport,
- Artistic O-Sport,
- Precision O-Sport.
- Aqua O-Sport (is the combination shooting with Slingshot, crossing the obstacles on the water and the land with acrobatic movements in the fastest possible time).
- Combat O-Sport (is combination of shooting with Slingshot, crossing the obstacles on the water or the land with acrobatic movements in the fastest possible time and finally fighting on the competition platform or Ring in order to showcase combat capabilities of athletes).
- Mind O-Sport (is the combination of mind skills with geometric equations in order to link 3 people or stone in intersecting lines on a 24-dot screen in three types of Groups and physical skills, rhythmic and balanced movements which is done as group with music and instruments).
- Artistic O-Sport (is the combination of shooting skills, passing through the barriers with acrobatic skills).
O-SPORT Registration & Recognition in Olympic Movement:
- Registered at physical education organization of I.R. Iran (28/01/2007)
- Registered at instruments and landed property registration organization of I.R. Iran (09/06/2009(
- Registered at youth & sport ministry of I.R. Iran (16/08/2014)
- Registered at national Olympic committee of I.R. Iran (26/04/2011)
- Member of world anti-doping agency WADA (25/09/2010)
- Member of association for international sport for all TAFISA (08/09/2010)
- Member of International sport for all games (2008)
- Member of international humanitarian games (2016)
- Member of world sports games WSG (2017, 2019)
WOF Official Letter for representative
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