The American Volkssport
Association (AVA) may have never happened if a 40-something Knopp had not
visited his aunt and uncle in Rome and taken their advice that regular walking
was the best all-around thing he could do about his being overweight and out of
shape.
When he returned to the U.S., he
wrote to the president of the IVV in Germany (the International Federation of
Popular Sports) about putting on a walk in Fredericksburg as part of the
celebration of the American Bicentennial. Kenn was a member of the town’s
bicentennial committee and placed an ad in the local newspaper that a
volkssporting club was being formed and a volkssport festival was scheduled. That
local club, Volkssportverein Friedrichsburg, conducted the first IVV-sanctioned
volkssmarch on June 13, 1976, and still today holds the designation of Club 001.
Knopp also was instrumental in
forming the U.S. governing body and named it the International People’s Sports,
United States of America or IPS-USA. And on April 20, 1976, the IPS-USA was
incorporated in Texas with charter number 379672. The IVV accepted it as the national
organization of volkssporting in the U.S. with associate member status on April
30, 1976 and the role of serving as the regulatory body to oversee the
development of additional fests and walk organizations in Texas as well as the
other states.
Obtaining full membership in IVV
meant that IPS-USA had to have active representative member units in at least
five states with functioning events. To assist in the promotion of
volkssporting and to attract other states, Knopp developed and became the
editor of The American Wanderer (TAW) with the first issue published in January
1978. The first five states to qualify were Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, California
and Florida.
The first national convention of
volkssporters in the U.S.A. was held June 15-17, 1979. Its purpose was to
ratify a constitution, elect national officers, consider a name change and
fulfill requirements to become a member nation of the IVV. It was here that AVA
was established as a member nation of IVV.
Thanks to Mr. Knopp’s insight and
efforts, the first two years (1979-1981) of the AVA saw substantial growth from
approximately 17 clubs at the first convention to about 72 clubs by the second
convention in June 1981.
The American Wanderer printed a
tribute to him in their October 1981 issue. They had this to say: “If any
single individual can be credited with bringing volkssports to America, it has
to be Kenn. It was his contagious enthusiasm and his great vision that got us
started. Kenn was the driving force behind the first American volkssmarch…it
was Kenn who got the clubs organized; it was Kenn who was the National Coordinator,
and the Editor of TAW.
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