WFF-WBBF North America

[International Secretary]

USA LOOSES IT‘S INTERNATIONAL POSITIONS IN BODYBUILDING

For bodybuilding specialists it is eveident, that USA quickly looses it‘s International leaders positions in bodybuilding. Due to the decades lasting mistaken politics of the former bodybuilding leaders, today we face the negatyve results. Bodybuilding is not accepted as sport in general. Majority of important bodybuilding contests in the USA are just commercial shows for public, more theater, but not sport. What will come next?
For our 50 years lasting work and efforts we have not so much connected with sport, but selling-buying-playing theater. After IFBB (International Federation of Body Builders) split three years ago, the owner of the IFBB Logo and Name RAFAEL SANTONJA (Spain) took some permanently America contest names to Europe, but they still are commercial Shows, not sport competitions. Now our sport Heroe former Governor California ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER takes his ‚Arnold Classic“ from USA to Europe too. But again, nothing official as in front of this still the WFF-WBBF (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation) uniting today 103 Country-members representing all Continents remain the sole no profit International bodybuilding organization, that is registered according Law requirements and working based on Olympic system still running one of the World‘s oldest bodybuilding contest „Amber Prix International“ (1968-2011).
Always analysing the International situation the WFF-WBBF already developed and still works on the strategic quaetions of the International bodybuilding (we mean sport, only sport). This year on November 2-4 WFF-WBBF Amateur World Championship in Vienna (Austria) will be a terrific event for the Bodybuilding World. Superious, as no one before. This year the Professional World Championship „Amber Prix OLYMPIA“ (20 000 euro, November 4-6, Brusno Kupele resort, Slovakia) will be not less better as the „Olympia“ in the USA. The WFF-WBBF Organizers aim the 2012 Professional World Championship „Amber Prix OLYMPIA“ (20 000 euro, November, Brusno Kupele resort, Slovakia) to be better that the USA one.
From 2012 the WFF-WBBF will divide most important International Contests having through e year a huge World Class competition once in three months and many smaller (like World and Continent „Fit-kid“ Championships, World and Continent Model Fitness Championships, World and Continent Disabled Sport Championships, World Power Fitness Championships etc.). At the moment in 2012 the WFF-WBBF aims to Russia, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, India and Brazil but many still new positive changes on the way.
The WFF-WBBF has the International Magazine „Sport of Fitness and Bodybuilding“, that is issued from 1989. Some time before the WFF-WBBF Organizers wanted to buy most popular International our sport magazines. But now they decided to start a one more new monthly International Magazine „World Bodybuilding and Fitness“. From that time the bodybuilding World will get constant information every month. Many many new changes are on the way of our sport and we are proud that with the God‘s blessing after our constant fork through the last 50 years we have positive results like this finally.
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USA is a great country but there is a big mess in USA bodybuilding. No Organizer works at all for USA bodybuilders. There is no official support and recognition for bodybuilding in the USA. Nobody even try to do something. Business is above... sport, it is above sportsmmen. Nobody cares for them. I have not heard for 20 years about a single World Champion from USA winning any World or Universe of any federation. We care for sport, not business. This is a basic difference of our aims.