International Infantry-Craft Federation

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 The International Infantry-Craft Federation is the governing body of the Recrelympics Infantry-Craft disciplines, and of several non-Recrelympics Infantry-based events. The IIF serves as the regulator, organizer, and the main authorized body for the sport of Infantry-Craft. It was formerly a part of the International Shooting Sport Federation but later detached itself from it due to its success and expanse disciplines to manage, thus it became a subordinate than a subsidiary.

Originated in 1909 as the Dueling Association but was founded in 1920 as the International Dueling Union, and then changed its name in 1950, the IIF affiliates over 180+ National Infantry-Craft Federations from across the globe.

## History

### Aftermath of the Olympic Dueling

The concept of an International Federation for "Safe Dueling" was added to the interests of the Olympic Committee after the 1906 Intercaleted Olympics Games.

This specific competition caught the attention of Konstatinos Oikodómos, one of key persons behind the Elliniká Fotiá Viomichanía, one of the famous Federation-sanctioned Infantry Arms Industry.

Since Oikodómos and Dimourgo are associates, when they sponsored the 1908 Olympics Demonstration Event, they tried to use the experimental "sucker sensors" in between the layers of the competitors' protective equipment, and the prototype indicator choker. The demonstration of the 1908 duel involved two male competitors firing at each other with duelling pistols loaded with wax bullets.

The results of the event was satisfactory, as competitors were unharmed during the event and no malfunctions were observed during the dueling. But since the technology of Dimourgo was still in its infancy, the dueling event of 1908 did not became a legitimate event of the Olympics due to safety issues.

### Forming the IDU

The events of the 1908 resulted the formation of the Association de duel, Dueling Association in English, it was a subsidiary association that formed in 1909 under the ISSF (whose name is the L’Union Internationale des Fédérations et Associations nationals de Tir) which was recently formed in July 1907. Though as the years progressed and many members were being added to the board, the decision to create a separate entity to manage these activities led to the creation of the International Dueling Union in Paris on 16 April 1920.

Unfortunately, even though the Union detached itself from the ISSF, it was still small enough that the Olympic Committee didn't declared their regulations and disciplines as official events for their next Olympic Games.

The IDU remained relatively quiet in decades to come. They maintained their relations to their former parent organization, and continued their events in many regions across the globe. This is the time where the "Infantry" term was used and soon became their official term for IDU's athletes since the ones who were participating these events are soldiers from the Army.

### The Birth of Recrelympics

The aftermath of the historical demonstration sport of the "Armored Joust" during the 1948 Olympics in London, reignited the idea of an "Infantry-based" sport with the use of Dimourgo's ground-breaking technology, the "Dimiourgoenergy".

The IDU, during that time was already in cooperation with Elliniká Fotiá Viomichanía, in which they already have the finished product of the Gunilda Software and its associated equipment for Infantries to be used.

On 1949, the IDU was invited into the IRC, and by 1950, after a year-long process of getting the necessary prerequisites, the IDU was renamed into the IIF (International Infantry-Craft Federation) and became the second International Federation that joined the Recrelympics. The IRC recognized and declared that the IIF regulations were to govern the "Infantry-based" in the next Recrelympic Games.

The IIF made its first debut as the organizing body for "Infantry-Craft" on the International Stage during the 1952 Amsterdam Recrelympics, in which they continued the Recrelympics Dueling, and soon added more as the years advanced.

## Affiliated Organizations

List of affiliated Organizations of the International Infantry-Craft Federation

* International Shooting Sport Federation
* Society for Creative Anachronism
	+ SCA's Pell-mell Guild
* Regional Infantry-Craft Federations (RICAs)
	+ The Asiatic Infantry-Craft Association [In Asia] (AICA)
	+ The Oceanic Rim of Combantry Federation [In Oceania] (OCF)
	+ European Combantry Union [in Europe] (ECU)
	+ The Arabian League of Infantry [In the Middle East] (ALI)
	+ The Pan-American Combantry Federation [In the Americas] (ACF)
	+ The African Infantry Union [In Africa] (AIU)
* Plethora of National Infantry-Craft Federations (NICAs)
	+ Japan's Hohei-dou Federation [In Japan] (JHF)

## Trivia

* The reason why the current Location of the IIF is in White City is because the Olympics Dueling of 1908 was performed in the Franco-British Exhibition, which the site of it was located on the White City.