Friday, April 8, 2011

Steroid Testing in Black Belt Finals?

As some of you already know, after winning the Pan-AMs light feather weight title a few weeks ago, Mr. Caio Terra called for black belts in the finals to be tested for steroids.  Some people agreed and some people disagreed, but if you haven't seen it yet here is the interview.



Now after seeing this, last week I almost didn't post anything about it until I saw a legendary blackbelt Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti respond via email with his thoughts about what Caio Terra said.
We don’t have any policy on steroids or performance enhancing drugs, we try to advice our athletes about the danger of taking these drugs for their health, however we have no way to know if there is anybody using anything, I personally think is very hard to find out or prove unless you ask this or that guy to test.

We have no plans to implementing a plan, the best way in our opinion is just to tell people once in a while about the dangers of taking any drugs in general, we believe our schools are drugs free environment but we have no way to know what people do outside the school.

PS. This subject was brought up by Caio Terra trying to say that there are guys in Jiu Jitsu using steroids, well if you are accusing someone you have to prove, don’t just trow things in the air because this can bring you problems, he is always crying about this or that, always trying to blame a referee or because he didn’t do well is because he has some injure, etc.. just shut up and fight, he is a good fighter but he need to just fight and talk less.
What do you guys think about this situation?  I really feel like testing these athletes will be waaaay to expensive and may cause the price of your entry fee to go through the roof.

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