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**Kokomoxcv** · 10-04-2006, 08:00 AM

I think doping is impossible to control and will become even more so in the future. (Genetic engineering and all). I also think that the term 'perfomance enhancing' is rather invalid. Hard training is performance-enhancing..so is a proper diet and the various (legal) supplements.
There is, though, the moral issue of people ruining their bodies by using steroids, etc..but you could argue that it would be easier to control if it was legal.

Jakob

The issue of steroids is virtually untouched/ignored in Japan. The old argument that performance enhancing drugs could never make a difference in Kendo. (The implication being that kendo is not a sport after all.) However, drugs which enable one to train longer, and recover quicker would certainly be of benefit. Creatine may come under this category, but that is not considered in the same sinister category as anabolic steroids.

10-04-2006, 08:00 AM	#7
Kokomoxcv Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 380 Senior Member	I think doping is impossible to control and will become even more so in the future. (Genetic engineering and all). I also think that the term 'perfomance enhancing' is rather invalid. Hard training is performance-enhancing..so is a proper diet and the various (legal) supplements. There is, though, the moral issue of people ruining their bodies by using steroids, etc..but you could argue that it would be easier to control if it was legal. Jakob The issue of steroids is virtually untouched/ignored in Japan. The old argument that performance enhancing drugs could never make a difference in Kendo. (The implication being that kendo is not a sport after all.) However, drugs which enable one to train longer, and recover quicker would certainly be of benefit. Creatine may come under this category, but that is not considered in the same sinister category as anabolic steroids.
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