Infantry-Craft

Infantry-Craft is a sport under the classification of both the Recrelympic Committee and the International Infantry-Craft Federation. It is a generalization form of games which feature Infantry-Weapons and/or Firearms as a means of play. Participants of this sport is called "Infantry", but terms such as "Soldier", "Footman", "Trooper", and "Combatant" are also but rarely used.

The first discipline of Infantry-Craft is Recrelympics Dueling, the successor of the Olympics Dueling that was a demonstration sport during the 1908 Summer Olympics. Though the most prominent discipline of Infantry-Craft is Combantry.

The Organization that oversees the entirety of Infantry-Craft is the International Infantry-Craft Federation, often abbreviated as the "IIF".

## Etymology

Infantry-Craft is a compound word formed from two different words; "Infantry" and "Craft". When combined it forms the meaning of "Making the Infantry". When writing the word, a hyphen (-) is always used.

As to reason why the "Infantry" term was picked is because of its early involvement with the creation of the IIF. In which the participants denoted themselves in these events as "Infantry", thus to commemorate their competitors, they picked the term "Infantry" as the name of the sport and its participants of that said sport.

## Overview

Infantry-Craft is one of the four Recrelympic sports that reshaped the planet, and is responsible for maintaining peace throughout the world. This sport is considered to be an integral part of the Deterrence Theory, in which it stated that these four Recrelympic sports are meant to "deter" international crises and conflict.

The first discipline under the Infantry-Craft, is the Recrelympics Dueling, formerly known as the Olympics Dueling. It is a sport which involves two competitors and engaged against each other in a duel, with the use of a dueling pistol and protective equipment.

## International Infantry-Craft Federation

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The **I**nternational **I**nfantry-Craft **F**ederation (abbreviated as "IIF") is the international governing body of Infantry-Craft that affiliates the **N**ational **I**nfantry-**C**raft **A**ssociations (NICAs) that recognized by the International Recrelympic Committee (IRC).

The main and governing authority committee of the IIF is called the "Infantry Council".

The IIF is responsible for creating the rules and regulations, promoting its participants, business, and its specific field of sport. The IIF is an associate of many "Infantry-based" and "Shooting" organizations, such as the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), and many more.

It was the Second International Recrelympics Federation to join the IRF after its creation in 1948.

## Infantry-Craft and Deterrence

Alongside the 3 other Sports of Recrelympics, Infantry-Craft is considered to be the epitome of a modern deterrence. This idea was concluded by the Researchers from the **Center for Strategic and International Studies** (**CSIS**) in Washington, D.C, after the end of the 1990s. The concept stated that the balance of power of all nations correlates to their Recrelympic sports, such as the Infantry-Craft, in which this evades international conflicts and encourages worldwide Peace.

## List of disciplines of Infantry-Craft

Below this are examples of the disciplines that were instated by the IIC, along with their brief description.

* Recrelympics Dueling - The successor of the demonstration event, the Olympics Dueling. The sport is about two contestants who engaged themselves in dueling using federation-sanctioned Dueling Pistols.
* Combatry - It is a sport that involves two or more factions in a simulated skirmish. This sport emphasizes teamwork, doctrine, technique, and skills. Combatry is widely recognized the staple of Infantry-Craft's discipline.
* Hohei-dou - The Japanese form of the worldwide recognized Combatry. It is a martial arts that derives from Hojutsu, an ancient martial arts that involves the use of Tanegashima guns, the musket guns of the Japanese during the 16th Century.
* Pell-mell Combat - Also called as For Honor, is it a martial arts that uses melee weapons as a means of play under a simulated skirmish between melee wielders.
* Blading - Often referred as Blademanship, is a form of Military sport that is a mixture of following the premise of fencing while using the rules of Recrelympic Dueling. Blading involves two Bladist in a duel with the use of their preferred melee weapon.
* Jousting - A type of hastitude between two horseriders wielding lances with blunted tips. This hastitude was revived as the results of the introduction of the Pell-mell Combat and Blading.
* Bullseye - A bunch of shooting sports.