Well I have a lot of US. friends who turned pros last years in bikini, figure or recently WPD and MPD... good for them.
But for me as European this knowledge is just FRUSTRATING ... seeing US athlete for example in my division WPD may have how many chances to get a card a year? 20? As you may go USAs, Nationals, North Americans, Team Universe and their Jr. versions....
As European this year they made getting pro card even harder than before.
If I want to try to get one, the only European show is European Championship, where only overall winner has the right to ask her/his national federation if they would be so kind and request a pro card. The national federation has right to cancell this request and so have the European federation. This process is valid for all Pro card requests in all classes.
So for two divisions at European Championship is it 1/2 card chance. Than I may go AC Amateur in USA and AC Amateur in Europe - Madrid, in others ACs Europeans could not start (at least yet) - both of those competitions are open to whole world and on both I have to win the overall (so also 1/2 of card chance) and the last show is World Championship, also open for all INCLUDING US athletes - where winner of each class may get a card.
So overally I have chance to get 2 and 1/2 card a year in clash against the rest of the world..... If superior federations will be OK with it.
No wonder I know many good athletes from Europe who retired because this all was too frustraing or also too expensive (travelling round the world) to continue.
So the value of the card is really a LOT different in US and rest of the world....
Yes it sucks. Rules must be obeyed, but it is one factor why I retired from the sport too. I realized I am not good enough and rich enough to continue in that world class hunt anymore.....
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Originally Posted by DMX
So what do you mean all pro cards are not Equal??? Are some of them fake? Does an IFBB BB card rank higher or lower than a Womens Bikini card?? Does the IFBB favor certain cards over others? Does the IFBB secretly think other cards are jokes compared to Mens BB ?? Is there something on the IFBB website that says "All cards are not created equal" ??
So your telling me that you know for a fact that ALL Ifbb bikini competitors are NOT sluts??? So your telling me that you know for a fact that ALL Ifbb MPD competitors are NOT homosexual? So your telling me that you know for a fact that ALL members of the IFBB MPD and Bikini divisions are top notch competitors and are A tier and could win any IFBB show in their respectful divisions??
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