From crispy to soft
in 24 hours...

ZONE get his ass kicked
at the qualifier...
What the hell happed??

Hell yeah Im pissed at myself!
I just came home home from the qualifier down in Lund
& is licking my wounds down at TheZONEshop....
Got my ass handed to me big time in the new 85kg class where I placed
7th & dead motherfucking last in the class!!
The thing is that It wouldnt bother me at all if I knew
that I was at my best & the others where better... it was all meant as an experiment
to compete in the new 85 class & it still qualifies me for the Nationals any way...
And ofcourse I will compete as a middleweight at the nationals,
as I already knew I was too small to compete with
the guys at the 85 class at the national levell....

...But look at the pictures above & I think you
understand why Im pissed...

Its not that the class wasnt brutal...& not that I was too small for the class...
The contenders where nothing short of amazing...
I mean look at Piere`Chamoun at the far left!

Infact my good buddy Peter Forsberg was according to himself
just as good as when he won his last nationals in the midleweights
...here he was third at a qualifier!
And when looking at the judging sheets I guess it was some thinking to do
as a couple of judges had me 6th & Pete in 5th..well well...

Ok heres some pix as promissed...
Then on to the story of what happened...

Pix by Joakim Sporrong & Li`l T...

So what the hell happed??
It was friday morning & everything was looking just fine!
My weight was totally empty in the morning 82kg.
Thats where it should have ended...but I was thinking now I can try to carb-up
when I dont have to worry about getting down into the -80kg class...
I was told that if you carb-up & dont drink ya cant spill over...
BULLSHIT!!
I didnt drink any water from Thursday evening & started to
carb-up on Friday morning & spilled over like a sucker for the show on Saturday.
I could actually see the condition getting worse by the hours...

I felt like shit...
I had thoughts of trying to get rid of the water with some diuretics after the prejudging
but then I guess I had been into some real trouble as my mouth was bleeding
because it was so dry & could barely stand up because
my head was spinning all the time...
Infact my greatest fear was to not to be able to stand up on stage during the finals...
That wouldnt get my ass qualified for the Nationals....

Well I have no one but myself to blame..I fucked up & payed for it.
I wanna give a seriouse "IM SORRY" to my Marie, my friends & all who belived in me.
All I can say is that I will NEVER do anything like this again...
The Nationals are coming up...Im qualified...I will get my ass down into the -80kg class
& do my best to get back into the condition I was in last friday morning -2kg...
....then dont do SHIT!

(EPILOGUE:)
Got a couple of pix from the morning show...

After getting some pix from the prejudging at the qualifier
& after getting some perspective of the shit Im all happy & alright again!

I realise that I looked better than I thought (atleast at the morning show )
& after looking at the judging sheets that I fell into an extremely hard class
where my idol & 3times Swedish champ Mighty Pete placed 3rd & the guy who
did beat me with 1 point was runner-up at the Lucia-02 after winner Chamoun!
And sure I realized that I screwed up with my last minute preparations & is still
pissed about that part but hey I still was better than I was at the 99 Nationals!

The standard among the competitors today are incredible!!
And without knocking our sport I realy dont know if Im ready to do what
some of these guys are doing to get that bone dry look...
Because realy...with my genetics I guess I had too take missiles
to get the look that is winning shows these days!
The guys out there these days are top notch!!
Maybe Im getting old & soft...or maybe I love life to much??
Well fuck it...lets get to the nationals & get the ass kicked!

I may have lost the battle but I have not yet lost the war!!
See ya on stage at the Nationals 18/10-03!
ZONE