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Report, Pics and Video! click left pic to watch Video of Mark Dreyer backstage. Plus overall battle between Mark and Mateo! click right pic to watch our tribute to Colleen on her 100th show. |
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| NABBA Manawatu Report It was a great start to the year for NABBA at the NABBA Manawatu in Palmerston North. 40 athletes, mostly novices, competed at this entertaining event in which Colleen Sloane was the ‘star’ competing in her 100th show. |
 Lisa with Overall Physiques Lesley and Mark |
Colleen was spoilt by Marianne and Jim, NABBA secretary and President, as she was presented with special NABBA necklace, T shirt and jacket. Not to mention the Haka performed by one of Colleen’s Special Olympians and huge welcome from everyone at the start of the show. Colleen returned the favour by giving the audience her usual entertaining routines in which she got dressed up in her leathers and started her routine on a motorbike revving up the audience. Then going on to do a fun routine with Greg Mawson in their performance of ‘Kiss’. Check out the video to see all the action.   On the other end of the experience scale, we saw a great line up of well conditioned novice figures with a very close call between Aroha Dean and Kelly Maaka . Both were in great shape but Kelly just perhaps won on little bit more muscle mass. Julio Papps also had the nice all round muscle and symmetry to take out the Novice athletic over much older competitors so the future looks bright for him on the circuit. There was a close contest for the Novice Figure Tall between Maeve Neilson and Jackie Small. Both had very similar symmetry and conditioning, and their posing was great too. In the end, perhaps just came down to Jackie having a little more mass but that’s the best we’ve seen Maeve so well done to her. Janine Haywood ditched her shoes to compete with her long time friend Colleen Sloane and Jill Clark in the Senior Physique class in which she won. Was great to watch the comraderie and friendship on stage amongst these seasoned competitors. Not realizing there was a height/weight limit in NABBA for the figure class, figure girl Lesley Rothera overcarb and weighed in over the limit. But she took it in her stride and competed in the physique class with great success. Looking full, lean and muscular, Lesley won the Open physique and also the Overall Title over Janine and Ali Richards who also had great conditioning taking out the Novice Physique class.
The other contest was between Mateo Vaihu, winner of the Open Physique, up against Mark Dreyer who won the Masters Men. It was great to see these 2 side by side posing down. Mateo had the nice full muscle and great condition but Mark (who’s come out of a very long retirement) had the extra conditioning and all of his body was shredded, even his glutes. You can watch video of Mateo and Mark do battle here.
Good to see Helen Aloiai coming down to guest pose and sharing with us her trials and tribulations of recent times. Her routine was entertaining and loved that she can still do the splits! Thanks to NABBA for letting Go Figure be part of the action and sharing the day with our viewers. See you at the next show!
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| Purchase contest photos!! As Keith from Muscleimaging.com wasn't there to take pics, we made sure we took heaps of stage pics of everyone just incase any of you wanted some to remember your day. For some of you this might have been the only one! So yes there are pics that you can purchase. Paul, fellow happy snapper went extra clicking with his snaps and will have at least 15 individual and class shots if you wanted to get a disc from us. Email your enquiries to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Cost $25 includes postage. NB: Keith is the official photographer and we are only doing this at this show as service to the athletes. |
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| Overall Physique comparisons | ||
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| Overall Athletic comparison | ||
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| Overall Men Comparison | ||
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| Mitchell 2, Alistair 1, Daniel 3 | ||
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| Lyndsey 4, Aroha 2, Kelly 1, Naomi 3, Ira Jane 5 | ||
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| Haru 2, Julio 1, Roger 3, Garth 4 | ||
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| Jill 2, Janine 1, Colleen 3 | ||
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| Chris 3, Carl 1, Lander 2 | Far right: Masters 60+ Lionel | |
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| Nov Phys 35+ Ali 1, Denise 4, | Rachel 2, Pam 3 | |
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| Sen Phys 35+ Tina 1, Julie 2. |
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 Lesley (left) 1st Open and Overall Physique |
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| Maeve 2, Jackie 2 | ||
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| Andrew 1, Victor 2, Steve 3 | Greg 1, Paul 2 | |
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| Elaine 1st open figure. Lynette 1st Sen Fig 35+ | ||
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| Open Men Damian 2, Mateo 1 |
Masters 40+ Matthew 2, Mark 1, Ross 3 |
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| Greg and Colleen 3rd | Garth and Lynette 4th | Chris and Julie 5th |
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| Byron and Aroha | 'Not Big Enough' John and ??? |
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| Teenage Men | Andrew pumping up | Girls pumping up |
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| Novice Figure short winner | Aroha and Roger pretty in pink | Greg and Maeve |
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