World Kickboxing Federation Oceania president Robert 'Thunderlegs' Glasson-Wilesmith

World Kickboxing Federation Oceania president Robert 'Thunderlegs' Glasson-Wilesmith claims he left Queensland because of steroids

• 12 hours ago January 28, 2014 1:00AM

Robert 'Thunderlegs' Glasson-Wilesmith says steroid use in Queensland gyms is rampant. Picture: News Limited Source: News Limited



THE Oceania president of the World Kickboxing Federation says he moved out of Queensland because steroid use in gyms was rife.

Robert "Thunderlegs" Glasson-Wilesmith retreated to Sydney a year ago as he claims some gyms and kickboxing competitions became fronts for the sale of steroids and other illicit substances.
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Mr Glasson-Wilesmith lived in Queensland for 12 years, spending time in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and north Queensland before moving to NSW in 2012.
"It is a huge problem, there are steroids everywhere,'' he said.
"You can have a young fella in a gym who wants to get better and they say to him: 'to be really good you've got to get on the juice'.
"They then think they are better than they are and get on the party scene in the Valley and mix it with other stuff. It just doesn't work.''
Mr Glasson-Wilesmith stressed not all gyms were pushing steroids, but said the issue was far more rampant in Queensland than NSW.
"The sport is not regulated in Queensland, any cowboy can put on a kicking boxing show and use it as a front for other things,'' he said.
"The bikies often infiltrate the gyms and use them as a front.''
Mr Glasson-Wilesmith ran dozens of gyms in Queensland for more than a decade. With degrees in sports science, he now trains many clients in parks across Sydney rather than in gyms.
He said many in the sport of kickboxing ended up in bikie gangs to make "easy money''.


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Steroids are the devil. Funny how in thr uk the issues is neverraised, ever. It is still legal to poses steroids for persoanl use. Yet here its a fuckin witch hunt

Aust is not England. We do things differently here.

Wow you clearly missed the point there, good effort

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-army-supplements-steroids-dismissal-514580

Some of the brit institutions are not so tolerant

Would Aust be wise to allow steroids for personal use, as it maybe elsewhere. Hell, no.

Why not? If they can be legal in uk with no real issue then they clearly arnt the boogyman aus makes them out to be

For someone who used to use steroids you are fairly on your high horse

if one takes heroin once and then recovers, should he or she then advocate all try it on the basis of everyone having a right for personal use.

I tried PEDS a long time ago, out of curiosity, and perhaps I hung around with certain crowd.

My thoughts on steroid use, based on my own experience and observation, is illegal PEDS should be discouraged. Not necessary for most healthy people, and open to abuse with potential side effects.

Your view is different.

We will have to agree to disagree.

I must say that now I`m out of all that nonsense (from the UK originally/working the doors etc etc etc) I much prefer it.

On my last visit back there practically every muppet out there was on something, and the minute they put on a little "water weight," and bloat up with deca, they think they can take on the world.

It`s not a world I would want to go back to again and not a world I would recommend.

I`m glad things are tight here as it was what I needed to go natty, and become a better/healthier person for it.

Am I as big/strong/confident as I was? No, I`m not, am I healthier, fitter, and generally calmer? Yes I am.

For me the problem is with the fact that most of the clowns using it simply do so to look good on the party scene/stereosonic etc, rather than for a specific competitive edge.

I used to compete in BB and it went with the territory for the classes I was in. It was also legal so I guess I didn`t see an issue with it.

If it were illegal then I would not have bothered with it.

Just my 2cents worth on an interesting topic.

Gettingbigger said:

I must say that now I`m out of all that nonsense (from the UK originally/working the doors etc etc etc) I much prefer it.

On my last visit back there practically every muppet out there was on something, and the minute they put on a little "water weight," and bloat up with deca, they think they can take on the world.

It`s not a world I would want to go back to again and not a world I would recommend.

I`m glad things are tight here as it was what I needed to go natty, and become a better/healthier person for it.

Am I as big/strong/confident as I was? No, I`m not, am I healthier, fitter, and generally calmer? Yes I am.

For me the problem is with the fact that most of the clowns using it simply do so to look good on the party scene/stereosonic etc, rather than for a specific competitive edge.

I used to compete in BB and it went with the territory for the classes I was in. It was also legal so I guess I didn`t see an issue with it.

If it were illegal then I would not have bothered with it.

Just my 2cents worth on an interesting topic.

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Steroids are much more prevelant here than the uk. Yes certain circles in the uk are heavy into the gear but overalll "looking good" isnt part of uk culture as it is here in aus. I would bet my balls there is a higher rate of steroid use in aus than the uk

I bet you wouldn't bet your balls if you didn't have that rash

Or they wernt so small

I partly agree with that mate.

"Looking good," isn`t as much of an issue with pommies (as its usually freezing and poms are covered with clothes lol) as it seems to be here.

It would be interesting to know the percentages. I`m out of the gym scene now and have my own PTC so I don't see that side of it as much.

When I was in that scene, I did enjoy it, and I did many things that I prob would never have done were it not for how I looked/felt/acted (worked on the doors in a swingers club for a start lol).

They prob seem more prevalent here due to the massive media/public interest in them. No one batted much of an eyelid back there over them.

Yeh, living in bondi every kunce is ripped..just the beach life. In scotland if your ripped your in a serious minority..nation of fat kunce.

Aussie blokes in general are much bigger than the uk imo

Genics said:

Yeh, living in bondi every kunce is ripped..just the beach life. In scotland if your ripped your in a serious minority..nation of fat kunce.

Aussie blokes in general are much bigger than the uk imo

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lol so true. Yeah when I first came out here I was thinking faaaark, everyone is a big unit.

That said, we had a massive Polish community in my hometown and those boys were all monsters!

Yeh polish dont count lol

if steroids for personal use should be illegal, then so should all cosmetic surgery.

ESPECIALLY fake boobs. why can a girl get fake boobs but a grown man in their 30's can't "use" not abuse some cosmetic devices of a different type. albiet one that makes a man a man.

discrimination

Massive false equivalence there.

Pretty typical of you to be so wrong.