Weed in sport

[lokm8]

yer i remember that one Luke. Funny how they couldnt work out if he had an advantage over others or not.

 

From experience, I would say I love having a few bills' right before we go for a good surf. Tends to keep me concentrating on the waves more and feel more at peace with the ocean. The bigger the surf the more buzzed I want to get, but like Luke mentioned with computer-games, one too many and performance goes Down-Hill quickly. I tend to relax more when the surfs huge after afew.

[syk613]

I think you will find in general THC produces dilation of aterioles(eg blood shot eyes) due to inhibition of sympathetic nerve transmissions and although I Haven't seen anything do with MJ + anareobic exercise and performance sports what I do know about these two subjects does not lead me to believe it would help either in performance or in increaseing muscle mass eg mj turns on the digestive processes ie the munchies this is switched off when exercising so instead of the body digesting food and storing the fats, sugars,proteins etc the body is looking for a quick fix of energy so it will in fact want to release energy stores and use those in the blood stream. It may constrict vessels localised to muscle but this would make it harder to perform at an optimal level as lactic acid would build up quicker also the CO that is irreversibly bound to the heamaglobin and the reduction in lung capacity mean smoking pot and serious training is not recommended IMO

 

As far as pool goes if the shot is lined up properly it may help to give you a steadier hand like marksmen use drugs to decrease Heart rate and respiration

 

Yeah, cleaning+music+mj is bearable

Edited October 28, 2003 by syk613

[kaliking]

I dont have anything technical to add to this, Im stilll a bit cunfused from reading some of the more in depth posts.

I havent seen any advantage with being high and partaking in a physical activity, although I try not to do any physical activity due to the fact I run out of breath really fast (I cant take a HUGE bong hit though!!!).

 

The only thing that I have accually noticed an improvment on Is activitys involving more mental, and hand coordination i.e. video games and driving.

I do notice I can drive all out when Im high and make no mistakes.

Im 20 yrs old so maybe I still have the need for speed with a little puburty still in me hahaha. I have a kawasaki ninja Zx9r and I am a very advanced rider, but when Im high is when i hit corners using my knee (getting really f'in low) and hit speeds of 197mphs.

I also have a Subaru Wrx (isnt that made in Aus.??) I love rally racing and when I am High I am unstoppable.

 

I think when your high you are WAY more relaxed and I think it slows the thought process down so instead of having a million things flying through your head you can just consentrate on one thing at a time.

 

Does this make sense?

Well Rally racing is a sport, and so Is motorcycle racing so I think you can qualify that as Weed is an improving factor.

[Guest Wilderbud]

I try not to do any physical activity due to the fact I run out of breath really fast (I cant take a HUGE bong hit though!!!).

 

I have a kawasaki ninja Zx9r and I am a very advanced rider, but when Im high is when i hit corners using my knee (getting really f'in low) and hit speeds of 197mphs.

I used to wheeze after excercizing but after one week of doing it my lung is as fit as a fiddle - if you want to get your respiration fixed up then jog/run/ride [pushy] for 10-30 mins each day.

 

Also, you should not be scraping your knees on the road as you WILL come off and break things - theres way too much shit on the road. Ive ridden over countless 2x4s and have escaped hitting; a large cushion, a patio chair, a wheely bin and heaps of other shit that would have definately put me on my arse if I didnt always give myself time to react.

 

If you think youre 'advanced' and ride at those speeds on the road then you are a fool in every experienced bike riders mind - even on an open road there will be dips/rises that will make the bike wiggle. I wont dis you for going 10kph over and most other people wont either so learn to love a cruise instead of the adrenaline rush IMO.

 

"...and watch out for those damn cars." -- Frank from the Bike Show. !

[syk613]

IMO mj helps your confidence and not performance and when you get home your perception of the ride is also distorted, I am speaking from experience smoking and riding off and on road for 14 years now and all my stoned accidents have been due to lack of impulse control, situations I would not have been in had I a calmer head and not been as stoned, I find going to a track day a good way to do some serious riding without worrying about cops and other idiots in cars as for scraping knees and footpegs I've been doing it for years never had a problem but I get your point wilderbud it is the unexpected that proves that most problematic. And YES 20 min of exercise (6x/wk)that raises you heart rate to 75% of your max HR will defininently improve the fitness of both your lungs and heart (all this is avail a on the web (maybe Aust. heart fondation .etc) Edited October 29, 2003 by syk613

[boulder]

Snowboarder gets medal back

By Ted Anthony, Associated Press writer

NAGANO, Japan -- Clutching his reinstated gold medal over his head and smiling tentatively, Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati promised to change his lifestyle but vowed to stand by friends whether or not they smoke marijuana -- the drug that almost got him kicked out of the Olympics.

"I may have to wear a gas mask from now on," Rebagliati said today (Thursday night EST), a day after he was reinstated as his rebellious sport's first Olympic champion when an appeals panel overturned a drug test that found traces of marijuana in his system.

 

Rebagliati, 26, argued successfully that the International Olympic Committee didn't play by the rules when it stripped him of his prize. He said any signs of the drug had come not from marijuana he smoked but from that smoked by friends at a going-away party last month in Whistler, British Columbia.

"I'm definitely going to change my lifestyle. ... I'm not going to change my friends. I don't care what you think about that," he said at a news conference. "My friends are real and I'm going to stand behind them."

He thanked his friends, family and country for backing him during his ordeal.

"The worse the sky came down on me, the more they supported me," he said. "No matter what the outcome was, I was their champion, and that was the most important thing -- with or without the medal."

Rebagliati said he was not angry at the IOC and did not seek an apology.

"Any time there's a positive test, there's going to be a lot of questions and going to be a lot of people on one side or another side," he said. "I think that's just to be expected."

Avoiding the thorny question of recreational drug use, the Court for Arbitration of Sport said yesterday in reinstating Rebagliati that it ruled on one point and one point only: that the IOC, lacking an agreement with the international ski federation on marijuana use, could not strip Rebagliati of his medal.

"It's purely the legal issue. It's not our role to examine the social issues at this stage," said Jean Philippe Rochat, secretary general of the CAS.

"It's a clear message that if the international sports body wants such rules, it has to specify clearly that marijuana is a forbidden substance."

The panel's decision was unanimous, didn't require a vote and cannot be appealed, Rochat said. The IOC said it would comply with the ruling.

"This matter is closed," IOC spokeswoman Michele Verdier said. "We followed our rules, and the court of arbitration followed their rules as well."

Rebagliati had been allowed to keep the medal in his possession pending the outcome of his appeal. Upon learning the result, Letheren said, he pulled it from his front pocket and put it back on.

 

Rebagliati won the men's giant slalom on Sunday in the first Winter Games at which snowboarding has been a medal sport. As a medal winner, he submitted a urine sample.

On Wednesday, the IOC said it was taking away the medal because the test came back positive for marijuana -- 17.8 nanograms per milliliter. Rebagliati says he hasn't smoked marijuana since April 1997 and must have inhaled second-hand smoke during a going-away party in Canada late last month.

Carol Anne Letheren, chief of the Canadian Olympic Association, welcomed the decision as fair and insisted it was not a technicality, though she agreed the appeals panel was "ruling on rules." She underscored that her organization's pleasure at the favorable ruling doesn't mean it endorses illegal drug use.

"This could potentially send out a mixed message," Letheren acknowledged. "But what's important here is that this athlete is treated fairly in this competition."

At his news conference, Rebagliati refused an opportunity to speak out against marijuana use specifically, saying he was not in the position to judge others.

"I'm not sending out a message for anybody to do what they don't want to do," he said. "All I'm saying is ... no matter what your decisions are, you have to live with the things you choose to do."

[pipeman]

Rebagliati, 26, argued successfully that the International Olympic Committee didn't play by the rules when it stripped him of his prize. He said any signs of the drug had come not from marijuana he smoked but from that smoked by friends at a going-away party last month in Whistler, British Columbia.

 

haha...yeah right