should everyone wait until their 230 before entering a contest?
not necessarily, it depends on hight and structure.
somewhere along the line these dumbasses forgot that bbing is supposed to make you look good, balanced, strong, asethetic. they put way too much emphasis on 'coming in ripped' that it costs them any amount of size, shape and aesthetics they may have had.
there is too much emphasis on being really, really super cut these days....the older guys like arnold and sergio may not have been 'shredded to the bone' but they had good enough conditioning coupled with-most importantly- Size and Shape. this is the reason guys like mustafa get boned over so much, because although he has excellent size, lines and muscle shape, he 'just isnt cut enough' and gets beat by guys like darrem who have excellent (i think too far) conditioning but are lacking in size, shape and aesthetics.
the reason i think its so stupid is because you get all these misguided kids coming into shows with cuts and definition but they have zero size, shape or aesthetics. and they have stupid looking 'tans'.