Mr. VIVEK MONTROSE

Vivek Montrose is the Founder President of India’s first registered Boomerang association INDO-BOOMERANG ASSOCIATION. He also happens to be the first Indian to learn and throw the Boomerang both Nationally as well as Internationally. 

He has been in awe of the Boomerang since the age of 13, when he first got it as a gift, and at the tender age of 15, under the guidance of Australian Aboriginal Guru Ken Colbung, learnt to throw as well as carve one, and first took part in a friendly challenge at the Jamboori, an international scout festival in Perth, Western Australia, in 1994-95. He felt really honored to be at the side of his Guru to throw open the Australia-India Hockey series in Bhopal in 1997.

Vivek Montrose is Ken Colbung’s only Indian disciple, started his Boomerang career in 1991 at a young age of 15. He is the first Indian who can not just throw but even carve a Boomerang, His Guru, Mr. Ken Colbung, was an Australian aboriginal. He was the one who introduced and taught Vivek the Boomerang.  Vivek Montrose made his first international appearance at Jamboori, in Perth, Australia, in 1994, with his Guru Ken Colbung. There he played with the then Western-Australia champion in a friendly match, resulting in him being widely acknowledged by the media. After his return to India, in 1996, he got the opportunity to participate in a workshop on Boomerang and Aboriginal traditions    and    tools    with   Ken Colbung, at IGRMS Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. His interest in this rare sport got him printed in the INDIA TODAY magazine back in 1997. Since then he never looked back, and has continued and still continues to work hard to make this sport a household name.

In 2019, Vivek Montrose became the first Indian to be invited by the Boomerang Association of Australia in their 50th Anniversary celebrations and became the first Indian to represent the country internationally in this sport. In the same year he founded the Indo-Boomerang Association (IBA), which is recognized by the International Federation of Boomerang Associations (IFBA). He has    been awarded the Member of the Year award-2020 by The World of Boomerangs, an international Boomerang community. Team Brazil honoured him with a Boomerang in the Tricolour with his name written on it, and threw it across the World’s most beautiful Copacabana Beach.

 Presently, IBA, under the leadership of Vivek Montrose, has reached approximately 18 states in India, including Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and so on. The aim of the IBA and Vivek Montrose is to promote and establish the sport of Boomerang as a Tribal sport in India. 

Vivek Montrose, under the banner of IBA, has successfully organized several district and state tournaments, five National tournaments till 2024, and an International Boomerang tournament in India with the Australian team.  In 2022, he formed the Indian Boomerang   team    and represented the country with the first Indian Team at the World Boomerang Championship-2022 (WBC) in France, which he was able to achieve on his own.