Silambam Highlight

World Silambam Association

Persatuan Silambam Dunia

உலக சிலம்பம் சங்கம்

Topic: Silambam Sports Rules SSR Book

Author: Guruji Murugan Chillayah
Published Date: 20 March 2023
Last modified: 30 October 2024

Silambam Sports Rules SSR Book

ARTICLE 01:   PURPOSE / PROPOSAL

1.1 Proposal and Sustainability of World Silambam Association (5-R Program)

5-R Program – Research, Revive, Rejuvenate, Retention and Restore

The 5-R Program (Indian Traditional Martial Arts) consists of Silambam (Silambam Long-Stick / Weapons-based self-defense), Kuttu Varisai (Unarmed – Hand-based Indian self-defense), and Varma Kalai Arts (Indian pressure points and treatments), which are practiced by every member of men and women, boys and girls (of both children and youth), who are all interested in the Indian Traditional Martial Arts and Sports.

ARTICLE 02:   THE PURPOSE OF THE SILAMBAM SPORT REGULATIONS

Silambam Sports Rules (SSR) are intended to ensure that all tournament matters are handled fairly and orderly at World Silambam Association (WSA) tournaments, following the principles of Indian traditional roots. The World Silambam Association (WSA) organizes the Silambam games at the national, regional, and international levels without bias at the highest professional level possible. All Silambam games organized shall abide by the Silambam Sports Rules (SSR), created for strategic action for systematic training, athletes' achievements, and sports development.

Silambam Sports Rules (SSR) also helps to provide standardized rules for all levels of tournaments, which are promoted and recognized by the World Silambam Association (WSA) for the following organizations:

● SILA for Silambam Asia
● SILE for Silambam Europe
● SILO for Silambam Oceania
● SILP for Silambam Pan America
● SILF for Silambam Africa

● Silambam Organizing Committee (SOC) of the respective country
● National Federation (NF)

ARTICLE 03:   WORLD SILAMBAM ASSOCIATION OFFICE

The World Silambam Association (WSA) (Tamil: உலக சிலம்பம் சங்கம் / Malay: Persatuan Silambam Dunia / French: Association Mondiale de Silambam) is the official international body of Silambam for Worldwide and a recognized Non-Governmental Organization.

The primary name of Silambam, which originated from the ancient Tamil Nadu State of India, was documented by Guruji Murugan Chillayah on November 22 1999 to become the official organization name to provide Indian traditional arts and sports for education, health, fitness, culture, nature, climate change, recreation, and dissemination work. The primary name Silambam was legally registered and recognized as a formalized organization after receiving security clearance approval from the Regulatory Authority.

It was followed by the formation of Silambam Asia, registered with members from twelve countries on the Asia continent and officially recognized by the United Nations in 2019, which has expanded and grown further throughout the Asia continent and worldwide.

World Silambam Association (WSA), which was established and registered with the JPPM of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Malaysia, has members from more than 25 countries on five continents worldwide and is rapidly expanding to preserve and safeguard the essence of Silambam worldwide. World Silambam Association (WSA) was officially recognized by the United Nations and is in partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGS).

World Silambam Association (WSA) also involved with governing for Silambam Sport by become member and participate with the following establishments:

● IWG– International Working Group on Women Sport (signed Brighton Declaration),
● GAAPSF– General Association of Asia Pacific Sports Federations (previously known as Sport Accord Asia-Pacific),
● ICSSPE– International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education,
● TAFISA– The Association For International Sport for All,
● FIEP– International Federation of Physical Education.

– and many more.

3.1 SILAMBAM BOARD COMMITTEE (SBC)

The World Silambam Association (WSA) is a non-governmental organization for traditional arts, education, culture, and sports, with 14 board members (management) in total:

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World Silambam Association

GOVERNING BODY FOR SILAMBAM in the effort of preserving intangible Indian traditional arts, culture, sport, and education around the world.

ANNUAL EVENTS

World Children's Day

World Children's Day
Date: 20 November 2024
Start Time: 8:00am
Location: Worldwide

ANNUAL EVENTS

World Silambam Day

World Silambam Day
Date: 22 November - Every Year
Countdown start:
Festival Week: 18 to 24 November
Start Time: 8:00am
Location: Worldwide
To Innaugurate: The purpose of World Silambam Day is to commemorate "the birth month" of Shiva's son, named Murugan/Skanda/Kartigeya, the pioneer reason of Silambam creation, who led Sage Agastya to become his disciple, and thus document the historical moment of Silambam's birth. Murugan in disguise also taught Sage Agastya, made him to compiled three texts on palm leaves including Kampu Sutra (Staff Classic) which has record of advanced fighting theories in verse. The fixed day falls on November 22, which falls within or between the Kartika Month கார்த்திகை மாதம் (mid-October to end-November).

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Sustainable Development
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Most sport-based health interventions are attempts by organizers to educate and empower participants to help prevent health issues. There has been a worldwide embrace of the use of sports to address health issues and sensitive health subjects because of its flexible, engaging and educative nature. Many sports programs are used to tackle different communicable diseases, sexual and reproductive health, and substance abuse.

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High-quality physical education is critical to the developing ‘physical literacy’ in young people. According to International Physical Literacy Association, ‘physical literacy’ is the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life.” It also enhances educational outcomes for young people when they relate with the targets of this SDG through sports.

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End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere. It is not hard to see the relationship between discrimination against women and girls and its extrapolation into sports. However, even though this same expression of gender discrimination and disparity appears within the sporting community, sports present a very strong avenue to combat the scourge. Sports can be a powerful platform for advocacy and raising awareness, leading to the abolishment of all forms of discrimination against women and girls. The human rights-based rules of a sport can help to replace culturally discriminative norms that exclude women and girls from sport. Sports and sports-based community programs in particular can, if designed inclusively, cause positive shifts in gender norms and promote gender equality.

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The growing scale of the sports industry, and its links with other sectors, offers opportunities for economic growth and decent employment. From sports merchandizing to sporting products development, sports advertising to sports branding, sports journalism to commentary, just to name a few, there exist boundless opportunities for young people to explore and make a living from the sporting industry. Apart from the natural resources of a country or a city, sport events provide the next best opportunity to improve its international image and act as a stimulus to develop tourism infrastructure and revenue over time.

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One area where the power of sports is most visible and where it has the greatest potential to effect global change is in fostering peace. Equally, sustainable development, peace and security are dependent on universal access to justice and the effective implementation of good governance principles by institutions that are transparent and accountable. The high profile of sports athletes, teams and events gives them significant symbolic status with respect to the promotion of peace, inclusion and social cohesion. National teams and athletes can serve to cultivate collective identities within countries that have suffered from societal divisions. Sports has been used in a variety of ways towards different objectives associated with peace, violence reduction and inclusion. Community-based participation and volunteering in sports can engage otherwise marginalized groups and allow the development of shared identities and social ties.

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The contribution of sports to development is extremely important to the point that it is at the root of the Action Plan. The Action Plan is an evidence-based consensus amongst stakeholders from governments, sport and other civil society organizations, which consists of two main components:

Policy effectiveness: Five priority actions that are worth focusing on by international cooperation’s (including advocacy and the development of indicators to measure the contribution of sport to the SDGs);

Policy coherence: Sports policy follow-up framework facilitating the convergence of different stakeholders around three main policy areas and 20 specific policy areas, the main ones being:

• provides universal access to sport;
• maximizes the contribution of sport to SDGs;
• protecting the integrity in sport.

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STATUS FOR TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY

This status report on Silambam activity for physical, health, sports, and education is the first dedicated assessment of global progress on country implementation of the Global Action Plan 2018-2030 to improve activity levels, strengthen coordination, international development, foster partnerships, and reinforce the urgency on safeguarding the Indian traditional arts worldwide.