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2011 Provincial Results and Pictures

2011 Novice Results and Pictures

Additional pictures are now online at Muscle Insider, follow the link on the side.

I am pleased to welcome all Saskatchewan athletes to SABBA. We are an organization that is dedicated to athletic perfection, in body building, fitness and figure and bikini. As an amateur organization we dedicate our creative energies to promoting the benefits of body building and its other disciplines to the people of Saskatchewan.

SABBA has a distinguished record of provincial and national excellence in all areas of our sport, and will continue to cultivate the environment so that in the future we will have even more national champions and pros in Canada.

As an amateur organization we rely on a cadre of volunteers who over the years has made each successive show better. We continue to rely on our local promoters and volunteers to make SABBA a vital and energetic sport body that lives by our constitution and yet is clear on the need to change as our sport evolves. We have seen change in the categories we offer, and in age groups so that all athletes of any age can find a competition that allows them to showcase their work in the gym for local and national stages.

I look forward to continued work with all of you and I look forward to meeting the next generation of athletes that will continue a Saskatchewan tradition of excellence in all areas of physical fitness and body perfection.

Stay healthy and train hard.

Colin B. Keess

President

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Feb 1, 2012

Posing Seminar

SABBA will be hosting Posing Seminars on the following dates:

Saturday February 18th
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Golds Gym North
Regina

Sunday February19th
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Fitness Focus
Saskatoon

For further information contact  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

CBBF Announcement:

Any CBBF member who is found to be working with or promoting organizations not recognized by the IFBB/NPC/CBBF has contravened its rules and/or by laws and may be subject to disciplinary measures.

Professional athletes, judges, and officials from organizations not recognized by the IFBB/NPC/CBBF shall not be permitted to participate in or to promote their organizations in any capacity at CBBF or CBBF sanctioned events or those events conducted by CBBF affiliates.

Thank you for your continued hard work and dedication to our sport. If I may I would like to thank you on behalf of the IFBB and NPC.

Mark Smishek

CBBF Chairperson

CBBF to run Physique classes in 2012

In 2012 the Canadian Bodybuilding Federation will be running Physique classes for both men and women at the National Championships.  Rules will follow the NPC rules that have been implemented this year.

Elegibility:

Anyone that has already qualified to nationals in any other division will be allowed to compete at Nationals in the Physiques divisions, secondly at the discretion of SABBA, we will provide a one year bye to compete at nationals for any athlete that has requested and we feel is deserving of being on a national stage.

Men's Physique Rules

Women's Physique Rules

SABBA will be providing more details as they become available.

Oct 13, 2011

Congratulations!

SABBA would like to congratulate all the Saskatchewan athletes that competed on the weekend at the 2011 Canadian Bodybuilding Championships in Montreal.

Full Contest Results

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July 25, 2011

Congratulations!

SABBA would like to congratulate all the Saskatchewan athletes that competed on the weekend at the 2011 Canadian Fitness, Figure and Bikini Championships in Saskatoon.

SABBA would alo like to thank the many volunteers that did such a great job putting on a succesful show.

Full Contest Results

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May 6, 2011

The 2011 SABBA Novice Classic DVD set is now available for purchase.

Artistic Imagery Productions has taken all 3 cameras that shot the footage and edited it into 1 seamless show.  The finished result is incredible.  Now is the time to order your copy.  DVD 1 includes all footage from the 1^st half.  DVD 2 includes all footage from the 2^nd half.  When purchased separately, each DVD costs $34.95 plus GST and shipping.  The 2 DVD set is $54.95 plus GST and shipping.  Visit www.agilefatloss.com to purchase.  Copies are being made for everyone that pre-ordered and also a limited amount are being produced for those of you that want to purchase now.  Once they are gone, they are gone.  Allow 3 weeks for delivery.

SABBA Judging Biased?

This is the question that has recently thrown out to the bodybuilding community.  As long as there have been bodybuilding competitions with judges there have been allegations of bias shown to one competitor over another.

I have been involved in the Association since 1988 and have heard my share of allegations of this nature and guarantee long after I leave they will continue.

So under these circumstances, what is it that SABBA is doing to insure a fair and equitable outcome to our events.  Anyone that has been to one of our shows will know that there is typically either 7 or 9 judges sitting just off the stage where they are best able to judge the competitors.  Why so many you may ask, simple, after all the scores are collected we automatically eliminate the high and low scores.  In effect any one judge that may unduly mark a competitor higher than all the other judges, that mark will be eliminated.  Also if there was one judge that unfairly marked a competitor down would also end up with the same result.  This by itself can most commonly eliminate bias within the judging panel.  Approximately 4 years ago we also introduced our judges oath and disclosure that each judge needs to sign before each competition.  On this form each judge lists any competitor that he or she may have helped prep prior to the event.  At this point the Head Judge may exclude a judge from judging that particular class by inserting their own scores to replace the judge with the apparent conflict of interest.  Or the other option is to let the judge score the round and then during the scoring tabulation determine if there is any bias and replace the scores at that time.  This is not an uncommon practice that is often followed at the National level and in many of the provinces.  With these practices in place, I guarantee that judging based upon bias has not affected the outcome of a class at any of the competitions that I have presided over.

Having said all this the face of bodybuilding has been changing rapidly over the last couple years, trainers are no longer a buddy or some guy from your gym that has competed before, but usually a well qualified individual with a competitive history behind their name.  These trainers are now able to charge for their services and there are many competitors willing to pay for these services.  So rather than one of our long standing and very experienced judges having 1 or 2 friends in a competition they have 4 or maybe more, clients.  And this has only sprung up on us in the last couple events, and this is why last spring we started communicating with Manitoba to create a judges swap to help eliminate some of the perception of conflict of interest.  We announced it at last year’s AGM that this is what we would be doing and came to an agreement with Manitoba in the fall.  Unfortunately in February the Manitoba president advised me that due to some issues with their executive, they rescinded the offer of a judge swap for this year.  Now I can hear you already saying, " So why don't we go to a different province" or "let’s just bring someone else in anyways".   My thought is this, my duty as the President of SABBA is to grow the sport of bodybuilding within the province of Saskatchewan and if another jurisdiction is not going to give our judges a chance to expand their knowledge, then I am not prepared to walk away from the many dedicated judges that have volunteered their time for so many years and say I have just outsourced your job because nobody trusts you.  The bodybuilding community is a small one here in Saskatchewan and therefore we do not have dozens of people offering to become judges, so that we can pick and choose.  On occasion, out of our pool of 15 we are able to only come up with the 7 that we need.  Some of our judges still compete, others have family and are not always available.  And we can’t expand our pool too large or the judges will not get to judge often enough to stay proficient.  So SABBA has up to this point done what it felt was best to insure a fair and unbiased result at every competition that we hold.  Some may argue that we partake in wide spread collusion and pre-select all the winners and if you really think about it you will realize how downright ludicrous this notion is.

Do changes need to be made?  The face of bodybuilding is changing and the association always need to be willing to move forward for the sake of the competitors. What those changes are is up for discussion.

Harvey Viteychuk

President

SABBA

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October 14, 2010

New Rules For Figure 2011

CBBF has made considerable changes to the rules and judging of all Figure classes starting in 2011, these rules will also be in affect  for the 2011 Novice and Provincial Championships.  Check out the changes on the Competitor Info page.

2012 CBBF Natural Physique Championships – Winnipeg, MB, Saturday, April 7^th, 2012

2012 CBBF Bikini, Figure, Fitness & Elite Men’s Bodybuilding Championships – New Westminster, BC, Saturday, August 11^th, 2012

Watch for full details coming in the near future -  Upcoming Events page.

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