When I mentioned cost of competing, the fact that you have to become a financial member of PA and then pay an entry fee on top of it
OK, I thought you were talking about buying shoes 'n stuff.
Yes, it costs an annual fee and then a comp fee, which varies depending on it being a local, national or international comp. The Asian & Oceanias last month cost me $300 to enter, but then I got a new SBD lifting suit (the new national team lifting suit) and had to pay a $160(?) drug test fee. If you already had a suit from the worlds in Africa you got a refund for the suit price. So for an international comp, it was cheap. In CAPO/GPC there is no drug test fee, obviously, and no new suit. Anyone know how much it was to enter the big Hobart comp?
A local comp will cost around $50. A small one may cost less (e.g. a country town comp). Entry fee in Melbourne was free up until recently, then a gold coin entry now a $5 entry. I think that is to cover the constant plates of free food that our comps are noted for.
I have never done a bodybuilder show but I have been to a couple. Anyone here have an idea of what it costs to enter a local and a national show? Any international shows here?
I do know that i stopped going to bodybuilding comps because they hit you for $50-80 to get in. I mean, ferrrrk. Now talk about boring. Bodybuilding has enough electricity to make a snowflake melt but that's it. But that's me. Others think it's the world's best "sport". Go figure.
Some may find powerlifting boring, and it may be the case depending on your view. But then I find cricket to be about as exciting as finding a dog turn on your front lawn. Even the cricket bodies have admitted how "boring as shit" cricket has been and have had to change the whole scenario. Enter Kerry Packer and the one day matches. Now we have cheerleaders, flash bangs and uniforms that look like you work at KFC. And it's still boring as shit. It was on last night and I went outside to watch the mould grow on my kelpies turd in the back yard. At least it had a plot.
Golf? Fukmeded. The only thing exciting that happens in golf is when a kangaroo or croc wanders onto the grass. Mowing the fukkin' green is more exciting than the game. The last time I got excited watching golf is when a hot chick in a tiny skirt got out of a VW. (See what I did there? See? Haaaaa!! I'm frikken hilarious.)
Soccer? The world's most popular sport? Come on. It's embarrassing. You see more dives in soccer than the olympic high board event. It's like watching a bunch of 5 year olds running around throwing tantrums and running to their mother. "No handsy!!" What a bunch of poofters. (No offence to real poofters.)
Don't start me on football. NFL is a bunch of bogans showing a lot of man love. AFL? When it comes to the wide world of sport, AFL is a bird shitting in the ocean. It's about a relevant as the price of tapioca in Nigeria. They are so frightened of getting an owie they kick the ball away every time. And dare you bump into someone in one of those melees that resemble a bunch of PMT school girls waiting for Justin Beiber. At least real men play Rugby, but only if you are an All Black. Wallabies? More like Wannabes.
So, entertainment value and "excitement" is in the eye of the beholder, and a quiet comp says more about the audience than it does about the platform. If anyone was in the room in December when Jezza Upea walked out onto the platform for his final 405kg squat and the room exploded into a deafening roar that lasted through the setup, lift, red light, jury appeal and subsequent white light "good lift" reversal and after party, then you would know about just how exciting powerlifting can be. It is no different than oly lifting, in structure and tactics, and we know how excited the audience can get there. Go Iran.
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