CONDOLENCES

The executive committee of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family of the late Mr Govindasamy.

Govinda, as he was more popularly, known has been an integral part of the association since its inception.

He would be sorely missed by all of us.

The funeral is expected to take place on Friday from Kg Panda.

MOVING

We are moving to our new website from January 1, 2011. The new website is currently under construction and we hope to continue disseminating news on kabaddi more comprehensively.

Please log on to www.kabaddi,my from January 1, to get your latest news on kabaddi.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

The Executive Committee of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur would like to extend our Best Christmas Wishes to everyone.

Festival Greetings

DEEPAVALI WISHES

The Executive Committee of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous Deepavali!!!!!

CONDOLENCES

The executive committee of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur would like to extend our deepest condolonces to Mr L. Anbarasu and his family on the demise of his father earlier today morning.

The funeral is scheduled to take place tomorrow.

BLESSED WESAK DAY!

The executive committee of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur would like to extend our wishes to all our Buddhist friends on a Blessed Wesak Day.

GREETINGS !

From the Executive Committee of the Kuala Lumpur Kabaddi Association.

New President for Nepal Kabaddi

The All Nepal Kabaddi Association president Sunil Rajkarnikar and his committee has been sacked for their failure to develop the game in Nepal.

Wishful thinking but can it also happen with incompetent sports officials in this country.

Read more about it here.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

The executive committee of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur would like to say a big THANK YOU to all who contributed to the success of the KL International Inter City Kabaddi Championships.

Kabaddi Presentation

For those of you who missed out on the KAKL Kabaddi presentation during our annual dinner, here is a youtube version.

CONDOLENCES

The executive committee of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur (KAKL) would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the family of Nagalingam, who passed away earlier today.


The funeral is scheduled for tomorrow and will update the details as soon as we get.

Naga was a gifted kabaddi player and was among the first names the selection committee came up when the Federal Territory team for SUKMA was being made.

Naga is a key raider in the Sri Devi Tigers squad and would have been a great asset to the state.

His untimely and demise at such a young age is to say cruel.

Our prayers are with him and may his soul rest in peace. He will be remembered by all of us.

Members are requested to pay their last respects to Naga at 30-1-5 Rista Villa, Putra Perdana, Puchong.

OCM Congress

Officials from the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur were among many who attended the Olympic Council of Malaysia Conference today.

The conference was to discuss the strategic planning of the OCM from 2011-2016.

KAKL's president S.T. Arasu, deputy president L. Anbarasu and member S. Ganeson represented the KAKL at the conference.

The Kabaddi Association of Malaysia were among the national sports associations that failed to send any representative to the conference.

New appointments

Two new appointments were made in an effort to improve the management of the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur.

S. Chandran and Gunasegar Manickam have been appointed to the vacant vice president posts by the president yesterday.

Both are qualified Technical Officials and their background in the sport would be an added boost to the KAKL.

The coaches and managers for the SUKMA in Melaka were also confirmed. R. Balamurugan was appointed as the chief coach. He will be assisted by K. Siva in the men's team and A. Kavitha in the women's team.

The men's team manager is L. Anbarasu while the women's team manager is Mogan Kumar Raju.

KAKL has also submitted their team lists for the Federal Territory squad to the Majlis Sukan Wilayah Persekutuan. The final squad would only be named at a later date.

During the meeting yesterday, the Kuala Lumpur International Inter-City Kabaddi Championships organising committee was also set.

Deputy Foreign Minister YB Senator Tuan Kohilan Pillay has consented to be the patron of the event.

Former national Tehnical Committee Chairman V. Chandran is the advisor while KAKL President S.T. Arasu is the organising chairman.

The other appointments are
Secretariat: R. Balamurugan and Mogan Kumar Rajoo
Finance: R. Sivanesan
Competition/Technical: Anbarasu Letchumanan
Sponsorship: Narayanasamy
Media and Publicity: Ramanathan
Protocol: Chandran/ Mohamed Said
Security: L. Sukumaran
Accomodation/Transportation: N V Rajah
Medical: James Krishnan

The tournament is scheduled from March 5-7 at the Stadium Titiwangsa in Kuala Lumpur.

PSP Game on kabaddi

For those of you who have a PSP, Sony have recently launched Desi Adda Games of India is completely based on the traditional games of India.

This game features among other kabaddi and gilli-danda. The reviews for the game has been favourable.

Document Downloads

We have created a new section to upload important documents for the use of our members and other kabaddi enthusiasts.

The Document Download Centre located on the right side of this blog, would be updated whenever there are relevant documents we want the members to read. All this documents are printable.

As of now, we have uploaded several documents including history and rules of kabaddi.

We hope you will all benefit from this new feature.

Goodbye 2009. Welcome 2010!

It was the best of the times and it was the worst of times. That somehow sums up what 2009 was for the Kabaddi Association of Kuala Lumpur (KAKL).

It was indeed an eventful year with the KAKL going full steam in developing the sport in the city. Many landmarks were set over the last 12 months. The recognition of the second place in the Best Sports Association category for the KAKL by the Federal Territory Sports Department at the Mass Sports Sports Award was the highlight of the associations endeavour.

The initiation of the Premier League Kabaddi was a gamble that KAKL took and it has paid its dividends in unearthing many young players. The PLK also had its fair share of disappointment with some teams dropping out even before the season was over.

This was only an indication that the sport is still at its infancy and the march towards a more professional set-up is strewn with many hurdles and obstacles.

KAKL also organised a number other tournaments with the assistance of the Rakan Muda and City Hall. The Arasai-Kings of Kabaddi was another milestone, although, it too bared the ugly truth that we need to put discipline at the top of any programme.

KAKL also assisted various other groups including the Selangor Tamil Bell Youth CLub and the Malacca Multimedia University with their tournaments.

All of these competitions would have been even more exciting had we had better cooperation from the Kabaddi Association of Malaysia (KAM).

The KAKL was also at the forefont in initiating the inclusion of kabaddi in the Traditional Sports Carnival. KAKL officials not only fought for the inclusion but also travelled the country to conduct kabaddi introductory course for the Ministry of Sports Malaysia.

Unfortunately, KL were denied the right to play at the finals of the carnival by some unscrupulous manipulation by some officials.

With the KAKL being denied their rights of membership by the KAM, the KAKL lodged complaints with both the Olympic Council of Malaysia and the Sports Commissioners office. Both complaints are still pending but KAKL were also denied the chance to send a team to the national juniors championships in Johor Bahru.

Despite the issues with the national body, KAKL can take pride that it is still the best team in the country. And KAKL are prepared to take up the challenge with any team in the country to prove our worth.

KAKL also decided to create a state level Technical Officials course and the first course conducted this year yielded six new officials.

KAKL is looking to expand the course in 2010 and also start the KAKL Level One Coaching Certification.

The association also decided to honour the best players and officials with awards at a year ending annual dinner.

Despite the improvements, there are still many aspects that the KAKL needs to look into as the new year comes. We still have some outstanding financial issues that need to be settled as soon as possible.

We still need to ensure the standards set in 2009 is improved upon.

The KAKL would be organising the Second International Inter City Kabaddi Championships in March. We already have confirmation from teams from India, Nepal, US and are expecting teams from other countries to confirm their participation soon.

We are also in the midst of preparing our team for the Faridabad Gold Cup tournament in India as well as the Sukma in Malacca. We are the defending Sukma champions and are pretty confident of retaining the crown in June.

Our website has also shown steady increase in readership and we are proud that we have surpassed the 10,000 mark earlier this month.

We are planning a number of new things for the new year and would announce them soon.

As the year ends, we would like to thank all the KAKL members, players, officials, teams, clubs, the FT Sports Department, the Ministry of Sports, the FT Sports Council, KL City Hall and all the various individuals that made 2009 a year to remember.

Happy New Year from the president and council of the Kuala Lumpur Kabaddi Association.

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We would like to wish all our friends a Merry Christmas!

Beware of Trolls!!!

This entry is dedicated to the individuals who have trying hard to create animosity between the clubs affiliated to the KAKL.

They have actively attempted to do so by making unwarranted statements in the comment pages of the blog claiming to be members of the KL clubs. Their attempts to pit KL clubs against each other has so far failed.

These individuals have also been actively making prank calls to kabaddi teams outside KL claiming to be KL clubs and insluting them.

The KAKL is not too concerned with these Trolls, who have no interest whatsover in the development of the sport.

But it always better to be wary of this unsavoury characters.

Comment Moderation

We have always believed in open discussion on all matters related to the KAKL and its activities and we will still believe for the need of open discussion.

That was the reason why we had left our comment features in this blog unmoderated.

However, the KAKL is concerned by the spate of abuse by those leaving comments. We believe that these type of abuse is being engineered to create unnecessary problems.

As there are many youngsters also actively reading this blog, we are now forced to put in the safety features. All comments will now be moderated before being published.

We will continue to publish all comments regardless of whether it was in favour or criticising the KAKL. However, any comments with four letter and other abusive words would be deleted immediately.

We hope to unmoderate the blog in the near future once we find these abusive readers have learnt some decorum and manners of using public forum.