Drug testing

[Buddha 3]

Let's for the sake of peace just say it was bad timing.

As far as dope and drugs are concerned, my opinion on that is simple. I never used any sort of drug in my life (imagine that, being Dutch and all), but I'm not against it per se.
And as far as the performance bonus is concerned, it's just a matter of how far you are willing to go with your own body. Take too much of the stuff, and there can be a price to pay. The choice is yours.
And no matter how you put it, Ben Johnson ran faster than anybody else...

 

[the_vodka_kid]

roids in paintball r as much use as a chocolate fire guard..ive just started playing ball again after 8 yrs..6 of them spent down the gym,and i now find my self to slow 2 move on the field at 19stone so its time 2 get on that tread mill.but i never find a marker to heavy

 

[Bud]

I don't think dragging up the past of drugs/roids is really an argument at all.............the future is the only thing worth debating on.

Ok, i'm off my soap box now

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by 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

Gurney, admitted ????
I have never made any secret I used to take them so it's no great revelation that Famine has prized out of me for God's sake !!
As for 'wanting' to get into any argument, No, that's the last thing I need right now thankyou, Famine is just taking advantage of the situation for his own ends.
True Ben Johnson took a steroid but it's general and most widely thought of usage is to build muscle and it is this context to which Famine referred, though I am now sure he will go into a state of denial about this, but hey, that's the character of the boy !!
Whatever !!!!
Now, leave me alone and I will leave u alone, understand that completely please !!!
Robbo

 

[TheRo0sTer]

Just to Piggy back on the Ben Johnson thing. Robbo is correct the drugs found in Mr Johnson were for Muscle creation nothing to enhance his HIGH!

As for FAMINES question...

I think as SPORT trying to Gain some type of respect some of the Bigger Leagues Might want to look into it. After all there are loads of younger kids watching some of the BIGGER NAMED teams. Why would we as the Paintball community want some JACK@$$ on the field all Doped up then the adrenaline kicks in. Man just think how big his EGO already is then Attitude and MIX in the drugs and adrenaline. We would be asking for serious trouble. As for the Roids in Paintballers... Well unless you are taking them to increase Muscle Mass which we all know is a waist of time. There would be NO need for them. Oh well I am probably not making any sense. Kinda lost light on what I was saying.

Oh yeah as far as testing is concerned who is going to pay for it? And would we as Ballers be aware of Drugs that are on the "NO NO" list. What kinda of retrobution would one pay if found positive of the NO NO list drugs?

 

[manike2]

Let's face it guys we are all in this sport for the No.1 drug!

Adrenalin!

This is the best adrenalin sport in the world and we all do it because we are hooked. Some of us have other motives also (I love the technology) but adrenalin is the number one reason.

manike

p.s. I hope no-one minds me posting again as I took it from Robbo's post that I would have been unbanned if he'd been able to get the software to work

 

[rancid]

Blimey, that was the quickest comeback I've ever seen. Welcome back though.

Is this drugs question serious? We're getting a bit ahead of ourselves.... bloody hell we can't even agree on the rules of the game.

You know, on some threads we see questions like 'why aren't we considered an extreme sport'?; and then here we have cardigans before bedtime.

Do they perform drug tests at skateboard events? Surfing? What about bmx-ing?

 

[Robbo]

Roids....

Originally posted by Nick Iuel-Brockdorff
If I thought roids would make me a better player, I'd use them..... only.... I hear they make you paranoid ?

Nick
(just to make sure... that was a bit of danish humour people...)

What you talkin bout you Danish mofo ????????

(that was a bit of English paranoia)

Anyway, Nick, having some skill might also make you a better player !!!!!

(And that was a bit of English humour)

 

[KillerOnion]

I drink beverages with ginsing, ginko bilboa, and various other types of herbal stuff and take vitamin supplements with them in it and they do help you stay a bit sharper. Could some other drugs help similarly? I don't know. I personally don't think that drug testing is worthwhile for paintball as events are already too complicated apparently for them to be run 100% right as it is. If refs have a hard time doing something as simple as paintchecking and the like, do you think that something more advanced like biochemistry should be brought in the picture? Hell no! Plus, if anti drug rules did come into force, we'd be around people at tournaments that would be even more irritable than ever before. Ever been around a pot smoker that's trying to quit? Multiply a cigarette quitter by about ten and add PMS and that's what it's like. Putting a paintgun in their hand is a BAD IDEA! You'd have overshooting and arguing on a scale that makes today's tournaments look like a monastary during a Lent fast.

 

[John C]

Marijuana is a great tool for game analysis while training etc, or so im told..

As for coke, that would be intense and would make you play really well. Except you would probably end up playing on and getting pulled by the ref, then trying to beat the **** out of people...

I dont recon any other drugs would really improve performance...

But hey if somene wants play paintball with the effect of 5 mitsies kicking in, then go ahead i want to see it!!