Drug testing

[FAMINE]

We check for so many things in tourneys, We worry about 1000's of small rules.

Has the issue of drug testing ever been raised?

Many drugs could improve the way you play or perform (Such as steroids) and surely this would give as much of an unfair advantage to a player as a hot gun etc.

Just dont test for beer or the more sleepy smoke based stuff

Whos got views on this 1?

 

[Micah]

I don't see many (if any) drugs that would make you a better 'baller. Steroids just give you a small ****er and make you pissed off ... and they help you lift more weight ... but I dont see that helping in paintball ...

Crack. Now there's a drug. Why would any one do a drug named after a part of their own ass? Again no preformance enhancements.

PCP. I don't think that believing that you could fly off the top of a building would help your game.

Speed. Now this might be of some use to somefront players. But it would make them so shakey that they couldn't shoot anything anyway.

Cocaine. Similar to speed. But while high, I don't think anyone would care enough to play ball anyway.

Bud. Maryjane, what ever you call it. Nothing that makes you slower could make you better at paintball ...

Feel free to add to my list, this is just all I can think of.

But I ask, what would help?

-Micah

 

[Phoenix]

Micah: you ripped that crack joke off of Dennis Leary. Oh well.

As far as drugs are concered, hell let em use em. Better for me. I am pretty much 100% clean. Except for the occasional drinks and cigarrette. I work out extensively, and if people don't realize that most drugs detract from your game then they aren't too bright.

 

[paintyerass]

Personally I find a large dark coffee, little to
eat and all the adrenalin I can produce as a result of all the people shooting at me works
just fine. Lets see some one test for that!

 

[Micah]

Originally posted by Phoenix
Micah: you ripped that crack joke off of Dennis Leary. Oh well.

Indeed I did, here's a little more of it: "Only in America would Cocaine not be good enough for someone. 'I want my heart to explode just as soon as I take a hit off the crack pipe' "

 

[Robbo]

Micah, you must understand where Famine is coming from in his initial post, he knows full well that steroids will not enhance performance that will be conducive to paintball, and as has been rightly said, coke and speed would be the ones to do that.
But Famine isn't interested in that, his steroid reference was used to bait me, to get me involved, to try and start an argument again and to make me look small (ironically).
And why ??
I tell ya for why, because Famine has shown time and time again he has no standing in the game outside of what he writes in here, he can only gain a modicum of recognition by bouncing off people who he thinks are better known or whatever.

Leastwise when Manike and I went at it, his references were directed toward me, he at least had the balls to be a man and face me head on instead of some veiled, wussy boy remark intending to get me going.
Famine has jumped on the back, in timing terms, of the other thread between myself and Manike in the hope he too can try and gain some notoriety, albeit he isn't even in the same league as Manike intellectually.
Nah, Famine and myself will undoubtedly soon meet up and we'll see just how resolute he is when the keyboard isn't in front of him and 100 miles fails to separate us !!!
Robbo

 

[Gurney]

Robbo,
I fail to believe that Famine i doing such a thing to get you involved in an arguement, yes fair enough you and him did`nt meet eye 2 eye before, but I sure he thinks the matter was resolved. As the forum is called speak your brains, he is asking for peoples opinions on the point he has raised.

Robbo I think you need to take thinks less seriously, and realise people are`nt just after slanging matches with you. If you have an opinion on this matter, I for one would be interested to hear it.

In my opinion I feel if drug testing is bought into the scene, then anybody found with any illegal substance should be banned, performance enhancing or not. We dont want paintballer to have an image of you can smoke dope, but you can`t do anything else.

Peace

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by Gurney
Robbo,
I fail to believe that Famine i doing such a thing to get you involved in an arguement, yes fair enough you and him did`nt meet eye 2 eye before, but I sure he thinks the matter was resolved. As the forum is called speak your brains, he is asking for peoples opinions on the point he has raised.
Robbo I think you need to take thinks less seriously, and realise people are`nt just after slanging matches with you. If you have an opinion on this matter, I for one would be interested to hear it.
In my opinion I feel if drug testing is bought into the scene, then anybody found with any illegal substance should be banned, performance enhancing or not. We dont want paintballer to have an image of you can smoke dope, but you can`t do anything else.
Peace

Gurney, I wish that things were so simple and unaffected but alas a quick look at what he wrote or rather what he didn't write reveals the nature of his intent.
I am not saying you are being naive but it is obvious Famine should have concentrated his attention on much more obvious drugs to enhance performance but chose to mention just one, one that he knows full well is directed toward me.
Now you can believe what you like, but there are people in this world (and Famine is one) that do like to start slinging matches, we should and do make room for them all, but don't be too surprised when the firework goes bang !! after you keep lighting the touch paper.
Now as for my views on performance enhancing drugs in Paintball or for any other sport for that matter, they are wrong !!!
I don't take roids any more and I have never in my life touched coke or speed especially to gain some advantage and people who do are cheats at it's most base level.
But let's not run before we can walk, there are many sports where drug testing isn't formalised to the point where it provides an adequate deterrent, paintball hasn't developed any where some of these other sports so Famine's question is an academic one not practical and it also has an ulterior motive regardless of what you may think.
Robbo

 

[Gurney]

Robbo
So you believe that famine has directed the question toward you as he placed the onus on Steroids, while you have just addmited that you used to take em. Hey its possible (if you have done it to get into an arguement, shame on you J).

Am I not correct in the assumption, that streoids do affect performance ( Ben Johnson, Olympics ), thay made him run faster, surely they have been deemed to have affected his performance. I may be totally wrong, if so feel free to correct me

 

[rancid]

Face it. if you banned drugs in paintball we'd have to start one-on-one torunaments.

Gurney... the fact that Famine's post came so close on the heels of another argument in a different thread is what is making Robbo suscpicious.