WSL Drug Testing - 'Cmon

Dark days.

 

Well if they want to start marketing the WSL to the entire world and young children, then that is what they have to do. Especially when they make all these guys look like role models in their new advertising campaign......"Im Jon Jon Florence"

Its no different now from any other professional sports organization. They are making good money and their is risk of injury.

 

I don't see any problem with it. Look at all the achievements Lance Armstrong made. Dude was doping to win and made tons off a clear disadvantage to the rest.

 

Drug testing a bunch of surfers, yeah, nobody's going to piss dirty , hahahaha

 

Do they test for THC?

Does THC enhance your performance?

Find a break in Washington State: The Cannabis Awareness Pro

 

THC definitely does not enhance my surfing performance, however it does make small days more fun.

 

Maybe would have saved AI from his downward spiral.

 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4090

How much you figure he could bench?

 

Do they test for THC?

Does THC enhance your performance?

Find a break in Washington State: The Cannabis Awareness Pro

 

What we cant have role models that get fvcked up in their free time? What kind of sh1t is that?

What does the marketing demographic have to do with drug testing? Test them for roids and other performance enhancers to maintain a level playing field. Anything else is a personal choice on their part. I don't really agree with doing most drugs that are out there but smoking pot does not make you a bad person to look up to. That is just the propaganda that has been drilled into your head talking.

Agreed, they shouldn't be competing ****ed up. But if you actually think about it, this is their livelyhood, i doubt they would be blowing lines or smoking a bowl before a heat. They want to be the best they can be out in the water.

 

They've been testing for a few years now... Since ZoSea came in.

They test for PEDs and recreational. PEDs is an immediate suspension and recreational is 3 strikes

 

3 strikes isn't too bad, depending on the frequency of testing.

 

Flávio Padaratz was suspended for TCH way b4 Zosea. Just like any other sport where big money is on the line. I don't see any problem with it. There are plenty of high paid F'd up free surfes for kids to look up to. Besides these WTC dudes get months of btwn events to smoke up and return clean.

 

kinda tough to use the urinator if its after they come out!

 

Maybe off topic, but pretty much everyone Armstrong was racing against was also doping so kind of a level playing field, unless his stuff was that much better.

 

Money talks, bullshiit walks.....

 

Yeah I know. All major sports are pretty much on the gear. Even the olympics. Off season use, good doctors, medical exemptions, etc. when big money's involved people want that edge. But call me a purist, gear doesn't increase style, innovation, reading the ocean, or flow. Think back to all the breakthroughs in surfing performance. They were usually done by your typical surf bum like Buttons, Larry Bertalmen, Christian Flether, Matt Archbold, etc. Sh!t man, all those famous shots of Archy at Off The Wall, dude was wacked on heroin.

 

Armstrong had a better chemist than the other riders.

And anyone thinks Slater was clean throughout his salad days is kidding themselves.

 

Yeah. They had a PED policy and he was the only one that failed... But they changed it when ZoSea came in. Now it includes everything and testing is random.