The Terrace Standard, Wedriesday, June 24, 1998 - B5 ERRACE ‘STANDARD SPORTS | Passion puts bodybuilder on top By CHRISTIANA WIENS BETTER BODIES naturally, If Mark Dhami, Terrace’s newest top-ranking bodybuilder had a slogan, that would be it. The 21-year old Terrace native placed sixth in the Westem Canadian Natural Bodybuilding Championships in Mission June 7. Bul as a youngster, Dhami was overweight and teased by classmates, ‘‘T was always a big kid growing up,’ Dhami said Wednesday. Atl7, he decided to ty bodybuilding during the hockey off-season to lose some pounds. It worked. Al just over five-foot+nine Dhami’s weight rarcly goes above 210 pounds when he’s not preparing for a competition, And he’s done it all without steroids. Natural bodybuilding prohibits the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, In order to compete, bodybuilders must pass a lie detector test and be steroid-free for five years. In Mission, the top two winners in each category and random competitors had to pass a urine analysis. Of the 70 competitive bodybuilders, two were disqualified for negative lests, Dhami controls his weight through diet and exercise. He loses up to 30 pounds during training by 638-7283 chicken, fish, rice, oals, yams and vegetables without sauces or sall, “The food is pretty hard to choke down after awhile, you don’t realize what you take for pranted.’’ But Dhami has sacrificed more than his tastebuds to his love of bodybuilding, “Training is hard when all your friends arc going oul and cating al MacDonalds,” said Dhami who gocs to bed regularly at 10 p.m. while training, “T’ve lost touch wilh a lot of my friends.”’ Up at 5:30 for cardio, Dhami lifts weights twice daily at the gym where he works. But to Dhami, it’s worth il. He funded the trip to Mission himself and did most of the extensive training in two weeks, ‘Mark seemed quite dedicated and didn’t have much time to train,’? Gary Proksch, a fel- low bodybuilder who lives in Prince Rupert said. But Dhami knew he could de it, “I knew my body better than anyone else,” he said. Dhami knows understanding your body is what natural bodybuilding is all about. **The natural body is more beautiful to look at because it’s not abused,”’ he said. But the sport still faces negative stereotypes. “A lot of people didn’t think the bodybuilders in were drug-free,’” | SKEENA ANGLER ROB BROWN Ocean wars ECENTLY TERRACE fishing guide Steve Nickolls told me how he’d pulled a large rockfish from deep water outside of Port Edward. Steve’s client that day was a fisheries scientist. The scientist took an otolith - a calcarcous body in the inner of fishes that helps them maintain their equilibrium and helps scientists age them - back to his lab. The fish, he later informed Steve, was 84 years old. , When Steve said he felt bad about dispatching a creature so ald, the scientist cited the enormous bycatch of aged rock fish by halibut long liners to assuage his guilt. Steve’s experience reminded me of a story told me by veteran B.C. angler and prominent member of the Tyee Club, Van Egan, Years before Orcas gained celebrity as aquarium attractions and movie stars, they were widely feared (they were killer whales, after all) and roundly despised by sport and market fishers who saw them as compelition in much the same way that commercial fishers view seals and sca GEARING UP: Mark Dhami in his backyard twa weeks before heavy tralning for the Western Canadian Natural lions today. Van was out in his boat fishing. It was early in the evening. Though he'd never encountered a blackfish up close, like many fishers did then as, in fact, many stilido, Van carried a rifle in case of an encounter with blackfish. While working a cove for salmon, he spotted the fin of an orca with the same idea. The beast was close. Van grabbed the rifle, raised it, took aim and fired, Jt was an easy shal, The whale was badly wounded. It floundered, struggling desperately to right itself. As Van watched helplessly, fecling sick, and wishing he'd never squeezed the tigger, two more orcas appeared. They swam precisely and powerfully, then sidled up to the wounded whate. One on the port:side, and one to the starboard. Then gently but firmly the two rescuers guided their dying comrade out to sea. It was the last time Van took a gun with him on fishing trips. These two stories describe small unintentional sins against marine life - the first committed by accident, the second a result of a commonly held wrong-headed belief. Both are trivial in com- parison to a multitude of larger crimes our species has commited and continues to commil, against the crealures that inhabit the marine environment. In 1741, for example, a group of Russian sailors found themselves stranded on Bering Is- land in the North Pacific. The seamen discovered a docile species known as Stellar’s sea cow, The sailors lived off the sea cow’s meat until they It is now abundantly clear that nothing short of a reduction in consumption of all fish will halt the war on wild fish. were rescucd. Apparently, the meat of the un- suspecting sca cow was agrecable to the Rus- sians’ palates, Word of the savoury meal. spread quickly. In 1768 the last Stcllar’s sca cow was killed for food. In just under three decades the species was extinct. This tragic episode is small potators in com- parison to what goes on today. Until quite recent- ly it was thought that the productivity of the sea and the enormity of its fish stocks were all vir- tually limitless. Bul, as the cod of the cast and, now, the salmon of the west have shown, the forces of industrial fishing, aided and abetted by technology of the highest order, have now gained so much power thal the mighty oceans can be fished to the bone. In their arsenal, the Icclanders have trawling nets big cnough to envelop twelve Bocing 747 jets. Radar and sonar and floating factories mine the seas year round, Is il any wonder that between — 1950 and 1989 the global take of fish grew from 22. million to 100 million tonnes? Is it surprising that all 17 of the world’s major fisheries have reached or exceeded their limils while nine others are in a Serious tailspin? What makes the war on fish from ships even more reprehensible is that it makes no economic . sense. For example, globally, the equivalent of more than 124 billion US dollars are spent every year to catch 70 billion Yankee dollars worth of fish, The events of last fishing season on this coast, and the events unfolding this year, have precipitated frantic scrambling and acrimonious compelition between stake holders over a dwin- dling resource. This is a symptom of a fishery in crisis, one facing imminent collapse. It is now abundantly clear that nothing short of ; a reduction in consumption of all fish will halt the war on Wild fish. As flaky as it sounds on first hearing, the . Vegetarian Society of the UK may be spot on when they say we must cease lo see fish as food and (reat the walers they inhabit with Tespect. Championships in Mission June 7. Bodybuilding Local soccer team wows Victoria YOU WIN SOME, you lose some. But if you’re Super BM, you always come out on top. Super BM, Terrace’s Ter- race’s hottest men’s soccer team, finished fourth overall at the B.C. Soccer Associa- tion Recreation Cup in Vic- loria. Since the tournament is in- dependent from league play, Super BM's number one ranking remains untouched. The first game was close. The team was scored on in the first minute of play by Vernon Friday night. The match was tied in ihe second but a shoot out determined the rest. Super BM won 42 after a shootoul. Goalkeeper Tony Rivero slapped two excellent shots. In the second game, played Saturday, Super BM crushed Burnaby 5-1, Then, Super BM met their match. They lost to Rich- mond 3-0 after Richmond scored three quick goals in the second half. Sunday’s game was closer but Super BM still lost to Victoria 1-0, Registered in 1997 with the B.C. Soccer Association, this was the first year the team was eligible for tournament play. Jacques Corstanje, presi- dent of the Terrace Senior Men’s Soccer Association, said the team did quite well. ‘The top teams in the pro- vince had no gauge to measure us by,”’ Corstanje said. “No one even knew where Terrace was.”’ Hometown supporters can catch Super BM Junc 28 at Caledonia field. cating mostly proteins and carbohydrates. His dict consisis mostly of plain potatoes, points. Team member Scott Stewarl was the individual slat, winning the javelin throw with a distance of 46.12 metres. Stewart also took firs! place in the 100 metre run and came in third in the shol put compelition. The Rockets unseated the previously undefeated Ter- race fire department team, who came in with a second place 39 point finish, ahead of the 36 points belonging to Canadian Alrlines, A students’ team, the Tor- pedocs, tied with the club. son, Rockets smoke local firefighters ROY’S ROCKETS roared to the top at this year’s Ter- race community track and field meet. The team came in first place overall with a total of 41 Coaches for fourth place, with a 29 point total, The Seniors, who finished in sixth place, were runaway winners of the fuadraising event, bringing In $416 of the $948 total raised, The money was equally divided between the Skeena and Caledonian school teams and the track and ficld The event was the final one of the track and field sea- Scott Stewart Dhami hopes té compete in Prince George and Mission in April and June next year. HEADIN’ FOR THE FINISH LINE: Kyle Mason, 16, placed fourth overall at the McBike giant cross country race. He's off to the B.C. Summer Games July 25-26. Bikes back next year BIKE RACES are big in Terrace. So big that the first ever McBike giant cross country mountain bike race at Spring Creck June 14 may become an annual event. City hall officials say they see no problem issuing an- other permit for the race, which runs along the city watershed, next year. “It tumed out a lol better than planned, considering the weather,”’ Mike Christensen race orgatiizer said last Wednesday. Thirty-six riders and 20 spectators showed up in the rain and mud to participate in the race. An hour later the sun shone and prizes of $75, $50 aud $25 were awarded to the top three winners in the expert calegory, Phil Villencuve, of Can- mare, Alberta won the ex- pert category. He completed three laps of the gruelling 13-kilomeler track in one hour 43 minutes and 15 sec- onds, Adam Spensley of Terrace COVERED IN MUD: Mike Christansen, after the McBike cross-country race June 14 at Spring Creek. placed second, racing in only 19 seconds behind Vil- leneuve. Chris Scarborough of Ter- race came in third at one hour 44 minutes and 40 sec- onds, Debble Ferguson and Jen- nifer Dolecki of Terrace completed the track first and second in the women’s category. Ferguson cycled 26 kilo- meters in just over one hour * 30 minutes. Terrace competitors also “won both novice and cadet men's categories. The race also helped determine which cyclists would qualily for the B.C. Summer Games in Maple Ridge July 24 to 26. The course at Spring Creck runs adjacent to the city watershed, Provincial legislation currently restricts public recreation activies in watershed arcas, But as Terrace no longer receives its water directly from the Spring Creek area, the city felt licensing the race Would not affect the city’s water supply. “There were no problems, Everything worked fine,”’ Stewart Christensen, the clty’s director of enginecr- ing sald Thursday. Cross country bike races have been held around Ter- race for two years. Five lo- cal tracks surround the city.