SARCEV: I AM NOT DEAD!
Famous pro bodybuilder, Milos Sarcev, despite his busy schedule, found enough time to come to Budapest to see the best European amateur bodybuilders participating in the continental championships. I can’t miss this opportunity and asked him few questions.
Question: Do you see for the first time this type of contest in Europe?
MILOS: No, I have been at the World Championships but haven’t seen European for a long time. I am for the first time at the European Championships in recent years and I am very, very impressed.
Q: What about the quality of the athletes?
MILOS: I have seen twenty guys at least who could compete at professional bodybuilding stage and another champions of top level. They are tremendous.
Q: What do you think is the main difference between professional bodybuilders and amateurs of this level nowadays?
MILOS: What I can tell you, this is beauty. What I have seen today was a pure beauty. Aesthetically presenting physiques in unimaginably great condition. In professional IFBB bodybuilding, what you have seen in the recent five years is too much of the muscle mass, ugly physiques with descending stomach. Just bigger is bother type of physique which for me is a wrong direction. If audience would see something like this, I think many people will not like, will not appreciate bodybuilding anymore.
Q: What about any changes in professional bodybuilding?
MILOS: It looks like it has been happening right now. Dexter Jackson getting more first places, Darrem Charles winning even today [2nd at the Night of Champions, staged the same day] and the Slovakian guy [Jaroslav Horvath], also symmetrical.
I think that a new era in professional bodybuilding is coming.
Q: Maybe it would be better to introduce some bodyweight classes in pro bodybuilding?
MILOS: That’s also an idea but, you know, I think that if we have qualified judges, who are instructed to look exactly for aesthetically presenting physiques in a great condition, beautiful body, not just bigger, we would solve the problem.
Q: Now about you, what are your plans for the future?
MILOS: Following week I will be shooting my first movie. I have three movies scheduled for this year in USA. First is coming May 24th - Tom Proctor’s “When Shadows Die”. Then the second movie - “The Guardian” and third - “The Pelican Bay”, the big budget movie. I always had idea that I want to do this but I was too busy with my life, you know, business, bodybuilding. Now I decided to try, because it is an American dream. I am in America, this is an opportunity and I want to try to use this opportunity.
Q: What about your competitive career?
MILOS: I can say for today that I don’t think I am finished. I really think that by seeing competition like this I am always inspired [this moment he moved up his shirt and showed impressive abs]. I am in not so bad condition, I am not dead!
MILOS IN FLAMES!
Sarcev, 40, did what he had said - he was filming an action-horror movie called “When Shadows Die” in June near Phoenix, Arizona. He chose to do the dangerous stunt by himself. Unfortunately, the explosion in the burn happened too early and he had to escape through flames, which caused him 2nd and 3rd degree burns on face, hands, forearms and back. He was admitted to the world-renowned Arizona Burn Center in Phoenix on June 20th and left the hospital on July 7th to continue a long-term rehabilitation in his home in Temecula, Southern California. He is expected to make a full recovery