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
And for some reason powerlifting is the only sport that you have to be actively competing in to have an opinion.
Just because you don't know shit about farming doesn't mean you can't have an opinion.
yeah but its not really a relevant opinion now is it?if i dont know anything about a topic,i tend to keep quiet and let those in the know talk instead.
Im not actually claiming i know a lot either btw..i havent competed for that long(before someone gets their knickers in a bunch asking who this noname thinks he is).however i understand that this is an interactive forum,so if it was reduced,it could get less lively quite quickly.im not sure.people get busy.
or other competitors may see its safer to post without having someone wearing an e-facemask attacking them.who knows.
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.
I know a heap of natural lifters who lift in GPC/CAPO, they don't want the hassle of drug testing, the boredom of P.A meets and the bs political stuff that goes on. Plus if you train in a typically GPC/CAPO oriented gym, you want to compete with the guys you train with.
Very very few lifters in GPC are on drugs.
My poor threadAnyways back on topic:
P.A., G.P.C. and CAPO differences?
Can people clear this up.
P.A. - tested Fed, PA allows neoprene sleeves only,
(even though I personally know one person who competed in a P.A. event while taking gear)
G.P.C. - Largest fed in Australia, untested Fed, in GPC you can lift your head and bench on your toes, a different bar for each lift, Squat from a monolift. GPC allows knee wraps in raw, GPC has always promoted competition in weight classes, something PA does not. GPC does not recognize age divisions in competition - they are for records only.
CAPO - shallow Squats? untested Fed.
Very very few lifters in GPC are on drugs.
gerry, bazza can play with your best deadlift.
Literally what keeps me in GPC.This definitely.
No chance of winning in GPC or PA so I would like to compete with the people that I am friends with.
what is wrong with having something for masters.
probably says more about the sport that there are not enough numbers.
I thought CAPO give trophies for first three where al masters lifters compete against each other regardless of age.
What in the actual fuck man.lol at this idiot crying over his inferior lifts and no mans land position.lets face it.you wont win anything anywhere at anytime.please stop being jelly of superiority and just love.thats what i do.i love.hahaha.
im sure your mates appreciate you talking shit about them as well.cant wait to see you join PA to get frequently annilhilated as well.especially in sydney.too good for u man.
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