NABBA Asia Pacific and Auckland Champs, Auckland,5 May 12

Report and Pics of NABBA Auckland Champs!

Check out all the action from the show here


Overalls: Bronte, Fitness. Johanna, Figure. Morne, Athletic. Helen Aloai, Physique. Mark Stewart, Physique. Jess Coate, Shape.

Johanna Morne Helen Mark Jess

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Report!
The NABBA Auckland Champs attracted around 60 athletes to the cosy Glenfield College venue. Although this also included the 'Asia Pacific Champs', only 2 athletes came from the Asia Pacific region to represent their countries. The athlete in Int'l Men's class travelled all the way from India while Denver Chandry, living in NZ also represented India. Nevertheless, the show itself was a great success and the show unveiled new figures and reinvented new ones.

Denver and Allan

The Junior Men was a super close battle between Allan Laumatia and Denver Chandry. Allan had the nice classic lines of Frank Zane (and posed like him too) while Denver had dense mass and definition way beyond his 22 years. Good to see young guns coming through the ranks and no doubt we'll see these two rematch again in the future.

Oalls: Sue and Johanna. Darlene was also called up for the comparison

One figure who has reinvented herself is Sue Bettridge who took out the Senior Figure 40 plus class. This was the best condition we've seen Sue. She was muscular and lean and probably had the best butt of the show, a feature she attributes to all the stair work she's done in the off season. It was a pleasure watching Sue and Johanna Mountfort go head to head in the Overalls as they had quite different figures, so was interesting to see which way the judges were going to go. Sue was ripped but Johanna had the bigger and fuller figure which probably got the vote from the judges in the end. Was also good to see the big muscles of Helen Aloia and Giselle McArtney on stage in the Int'l and Open physique, Helen with her mass and height was just too powerful to take the Overall title over Giselle who was also in great condition.

Ofcourse when talking about reinvention, we can't go past 57 year old Mark Stewart who made a comeback of the decade. Its been 16 years since he trained, and the last time he competed was in 1996 but watching him pose on stage you'd think he even left. He was confident and had the crowd appreciated his condition and posing style as he went through the poses. Mark showed great muscle density and condition, and his legs were ripped from all angles. With those assets he was chosen as the Overall Winner which is not a bad welcome back present.

Oall comparisons: Mark and Allan Mark S and Rota

It was great to see the huge lineup of 10 Novice Tall Figures on stage. Two stand out athletes were Darlene Thomas and Abbey Rapia who had nice structures and muscle condition and placed 1st and 3rd in this class. We look forward to seeing these 2 move through the ranks in the future. Annette Hosking, who won the overall physique at Counties, competed in this class and placed 2nd.

left: Abbey and Darlene

Novice Physique Men were out in force but not so the Athletic class. Where have all the Athletic guys gone? There was only 1 in the open class and 3 novices which was once again won by Morne Barnard who also took out the overall again. Who's going to come out and put an end to Morne's run :)?

As you can see the year has kicked off well with some great bodies on display and we look forward to seeing more reveal themselves as the year goes on.

Thanks to Peter Hardwick and NABBA for letting us bring the action to our viewers!

Lisa, Go Figure
May 2012

Int'l and Open Figure

Int'l Figure Johanna 1, Janine 2	Lynette 1st Open Fig

Open Men




	Int'l Men 2, Mark 1	Open Men Talia, Rota 1, David 2

Novice Athletic



Open Athletic 1st

Novice Figure
Nov Fig Tall Annette 2, Darlene 1, Abbey 3	Nov Fig Short 1st Toni	Teen Figure 1st Kellie

Physique Women

	Novice 2, Jeannie 1	Giselle, Open. Helen, Int'l



Novice Physique Men

Senior Figure 40+

Sarah 2, Sue 1, Donna 3
Sue, Cathy, Sarah	Lyn, Donna

Fitness

	Ane 2, Bronte 1, 3


Lisa

Shape

Pechuda 2, Jess 1



Teen Men

1, 2

Junior Men

Aron 3, Denver 2, Allan 1

Masters 40+

Andrew 3, Nola 1, Nigel 2



Masters Physique 50+



Senior Physique 50+

Ali 1, Joy 2

Happy Snaps!

Nic, Lisa and Donna at Magnum stand	Jim and Marianne enjoying lunch in the sun	Mark of Topmark with the distinctive Magnum banner


Pretty in pink ladies	Fitness 247 Team	Tarren's Team wins Team Trophy again


? and Helen sorry forgot your name!	Stan giving advice to the boys	Darlene (Nov Tall winner) and Mark (Oall)


Caught again Jade and Shannon	20 years and still in love Donna and Nigel	The boys are back in town Mark, Hugh and Steve


Maureen and Kellie teen figure winner	Nicholas and his biggest suppoter. Loved his peaked biceps.

Lisa and Monty	Robyn, novice tall	Mateo and his entourage


Kirsty getting a touch up	Looking good Colleen!	Judges receive their acknowledgements


Remember his name. Denver. What a physique and only 22. 2nd Junior Men.

Giselle and Helen	Janine and Jo	Niue boys


Darren's big bicep	Just gorgeous Jess	Micky and his teen daughters. Can't believe he's also a Grandad!


Michael, Sanjeev, Darren	Bobby and Morne	Lyn and Julie


Fitness Models	Shape	Novice Physique


Masters Men 60+	Masters Men 40+	Novice Physique


Novice Figure Tall and 1 Shorty	Novice Athletic and	Johanna still pumping up

Sen Physique 50+	Giselle and Helen	Janine, Lynette and Jo



Lucky Last. Lisa and Marise	Me and my girls Janine and fig in making - Linley

NABBA Asia Pacific and Auckland Champs, Auckland,5 May 12

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