[BlackKusanagi]

Psh…wow.

[khuddle]

1. Lisa Aukland retiring: now THAT is bad news. She had many, many good years left in her. She had some of the best calves I’ve ever seen on a female bodybuilder. If she had persevered she would have won a MS O title, no question about it.

2. To The Collector’s point that fbbs don’t make any money: they don’t from contests. But there’s a bundle to be made from the internet. I know a couple of female bodybuilders who make an absolute killing on their own websites. Demand for female bodybuilders may be restricted to a fairly small market, but that market is intensely loyal, high income earning, and willing to dish out a lot of money to see their favorite muscle girls in videos, webcams, pay websites etc… If you got the brains, creativity and imagination, I know for certain you can make a good mint from a female bodybuilding career.

[BlackKusanagi]

But, not to sound like an asshole, but bro, you literally was talking about some of the other women (some of them younger than both Betty and Lisa mind you), should retire. And Lisa being one of the older ones, lmfao you slightly made a double standard there.

[TC2]

^^
This

Lisa Auckland ain’t no spring chicken, though she’s still mighty fine for her age. I think the real issue you have Khuddle, is that you’re tired of seeing the “vets” win all the competitions.

Unfortunately, even if the vets did all retire well… I really doubt any up and coming competitors are going to try to come in and take their place. FBB may be lucrative in OTHER forms, but let’s think about it.

If the FBB’s can make money on websites and other venues, why even bother competing? The vet presence is practically negated by the fact that these other women can have their own websites and do their own thing without the disadvantage of ridiculous diets and unhealthy shrunken in looks.

The truth is money talks, the only way to beat the vets is to actually dish out a cash reward that the men’s division gets. That’s the only way you can guarantee getting newcomers to arrive and try to take the vets off their perch. Otherwise, it’s just going to be the same old same old.

I mean hell, if I were in their shoes I would just do the websites and screw the competitions.

[khuddle]

Black, true that Lisa is no spring chicken (I think she is 47? 48?). That said, she hasnt been competing for nearly as long as those others — Dayana has been competing as a pro for 15 years +, Yaxeni slightly longer, and Annie R for two decades. Lisa’s physique always looks young and vibrant, her enormous muscles pop and bulge like they belonged to the body of a much younger woman. I remember seeing her at the Atlantic City Pro last year, and she really put some of the other women to shame, including Nicole Ball who is at least a decade younger. So its not so much about age as it is the longevity of the bodybuilder’s career.

[Kathleen]

AlexG wrote:

Source: Ruth Silverman’s Blog @ Ironman.com

[b]As the Europa Super Show, including five IFBB pro competitions, gets going today in Dallas, folks who haven’t seen promoter Betty Pariso since her fifth-place finish at the Ms. International competition last March are in for a bit of a surprise. The 54 1/2-year-old veteran top flexer has hung up her posing suit, at least as far as bodybuilding is concerned, and is downscaling her 160-to-170-pound physique for civilian life. As in she’s not training. At all.

Can you say transformation in progress?

The 5’6” Texan, who has been competing since 1988 and turned pro in ’96, sported some major female muscle in her career and kept audiences howling with her takeoffs of the top male pros’ posing styles. Now, she says, she on her way back to where she came from, bodywise, with maybe a stop in figure competition. (Yes, you read that right.) As she told photographer Reg Bradford in an exclusive interview for Pump & Circumstance online, “I am a competitor; I don’t see myself sitting around.”

Not that there’s much chance of that. Betty and Ed Pariso operate several business, and staged three big bodybuilding and fitness weekends this year—and she’s also the athletes rep for women’s bodybuilding.

When Reg saw the new Betty at the Battle of Champions in Hartford, Connecticut, a few weeks ago, he had a multitude of questions. The following are some highlights of her answers, including why she decided to stop competing, her thoughts on changing women’s bodybuilding and the amazing journey she’s going through.

Pariso competed five times over the past year and qualified for the ’10 Ms, Olympia three times. Why quit before the big show? Her answer was simple. “I realized I just didn’t want to,” she said. After after her post-Ms. International break, she and Ed did a lot of talking—and decided that it was time for something different. She hasn’t touched a weight since early March.

“I never got into the sport to be as big as I had to become to compete at the level that I’m at,” she admitted. “I think most of the women feel that way, but there’s nothing we can change.”

As the athletes rep she has always tried to champion the points of view of all the bodybuilders. “Every time people say, well, just start picking other people, [I say] is that fair? Is that fair to the person who really is the best at the top? Do you just tell everybody, okay, we’re going to stop the sport for two years and wait till everybody changes and then we’ll start all over again?

“In my opinion that’s some of the reason that the divisions are being added. We had women’s bodybuilding and then fitness. Now you’ve got bikini, you’ve got figure. Because there is no real easy way to make that change.

“People want to compete and they want to train hard and excel and be the biggest and best, and there is a part of me that thinks they should be able to do that,” she said. “It’s difficult to go to the gym and say, I can’t train as hard; I can’t excel here. That’s something that I have already struggled with a little bit.”

Is she serious about competing in figure?

“I’m toying with the idea; I’m not sure; I am a competitor; I have to have a challenge. I don’t see myself sitting around. ”

What about sitting back on her laurels and concentrating on promoting shows and running her other businesses? That’s just not her, Betty explained. “Plus, I’ve always need that motivation of something that I’m preparing for, not just that I kinda want to get in good shape.”

Some people think she’s crazy, she acknowledged with a chuckle. Still, she said, “I’ve been an athlete all my life. So I would like to maybe try figure.”

To those who would say, There’s no way Betty Pariso can do figure, her answer is another chuckle.

“That’s what they told me when I tried to bodybuild,” she said. “I was a model at the time, did some fashion stuff. The girl said, ‘You need to stay in the fitness.’ Of course, she didn’t know that I couldn’t do a flip if I had to.

“That was all the motivation I needed. That pushed a button for me—I’ll show you.”

But can she really get small enough? “I took my body the other way,” she said. “I was always 120 pounds, so to get to 140 pounds, which was my goal as a bodybuilder, was a lot of work—and then I had to go up to 170, and still people were saying, ‘She could use more size onstage.’”

Betty was down to 144 pounds, she continued. “The first time that I reached up and touched my shoulder—I think I was in the shower—and it was like a foreign person, it almost made me jump. I thought, Whose shoulder is that?”

Though it was exciting and scary at first, Pariso seems to be enjoying her evolution, “When I look in the mirror, I don’t know me,” she said. “I’ve had to buy new clothes. I ordered a jacket off the Internet and it fit, and Ed said, ‘You look so nice in that.’

“And I got here, and I had so many compliments on how I looked. It was overwhelming. It was very reaffirming; it made me feel wonderful.”

If she does step on a figure stage, it’ll be strictly for fun. “There’s no agenda,” she said. “I have nothing to prove.” Plus, she added “There’s no [worrying about] getting last place—which it’ll probably be. But to think that maybe I could represent another group of women in my age, still doing something, not just sitting back and saying, I’m too old.”

She summed it up this way: “I don’t feel 54, so why do I have to act 54?”

And who could argue with that?[/b]

Thanks for the post.
Hi guys, Im a newbie. Nice to join this forum. :unsure: :cheer: B)

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[AlexG]

kathleenp980 wrote:

Thanks for the post.
Hi guys, Im a newbie. Nice to join this forum. :unsure: :cheer: B)

Welcome to Amaz0ns, kathleen! B)

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[chris10000]

khuddle wrote:

Black, true that Lisa is no spring chicken (I think she is 47? 48?). That said,

this shows how much of a clown you are :laugh:

lisa auckland is older than pariso

[TC2]

Chris my good man, that is also incorrect!

According to google, Lisa is 50 years old and Betty is 54 years old. So yes Lisa is younger, but not by much!

[BlackKusanagi]

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