Unlike other sports where the professional component is successfully developing for many years, and where every athlete clearly understands the basic steps that he needs to do for a successful professional career, in armwrestling I see the lack of unity in this sense. It seems that even the world armwrestling stars do not fully understand what to do, in order to move up step by step, how to get a really beneficial contract, how to find sponsors and work with the media channels. Most athletes, answering the question about their career plans say something like: "I'm just an athlete, I do not understand much in this, let promoters take care of this.» What are the consequences of such a position, we are seeing lately. World stars, which should be an example for the younger generation and appear on all possible events sign onerous contracts in the one-time effort to earn some money and to appear a couple of times on the television screen. As a result they lose time and are not free to