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Originally Posted by FREAKSHOW

Id love to do the nationals but if i do id lose my pro card. I can compete in any federation on an amateur level, but cant do nationals

ok, i will share a little info that i got from the chairman last year freak. so you can compete as a pro and make money all day long and still do local and regional shows in the npc as long as the promoter or no one complains. if someone complains then you forefit your placement in that show. now they have a new thing they implemented a few years back. you can compete as a pro for as long as you want, then q for nationals in the npc see the above. you have to submit to the npc for a renouncement of pro status form and then you are eligable to compete at any national show. so you can do this one time and one time only and you are then cleared hot again as an ameature status. back when i got my freaking pro card in 97 or should i say was eligable from placement to take a card, the npc didnt allow it at all. so i rolled into the npc and went with it from then on. i know of 3 athletes in my area that renounced last year and are now competing nationally. imho they were better in their pro and dont place well in the npc but that's on them haha

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Originally Posted by guns01

ok, i will share a little info that i got from the chairman last year freak. so you can compete as a pro and make money all day long and still do local and regional shows in the npc as long as the promoter or no one complains. if someone complains then you forefit your placement in that show. now they have a new thing they implemented a few years back. you can compete as a pro for as long as you want, then q for nationals in the npc see the above. you have to submit to the npc for a renouncement of pro status form and then you are eligable to compete at any national show. so you can do this one time and one time only and you are then cleared hot again as an ameature status. back when i got my freaking pro card in 97 or should i say was eligable from placement to take a card, the npc didnt allow it at all. so i rolled into the npc and went with it from then on. i know of 3 athletes in my area that renounced last year and are now competing nationally. imho they were better in their pro and dont place well in the npc but that's on them haha

The GBO rules state i can compete in any federation as an amateur. But cant do nationals. I would love to go for my ifbb pro card but the chances of me getting it are SLIM. VERY SLIM. So i wont risk it. Now i may do a local npc show as a warm up for my pro show in december but wouldnt go to nationals. Im not sure how they will do this pro show, we have pro traditional bodybuilders like myself and they have pro classic bodybuilders as well as masters. So i wonder if we all go head to head for the title of Mr. Atlas or what....? Hoping they post that info soon.