NABBA Waikato, 26 July

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Vid 3, Big Boys @ Waikato	Vid 2, Helen Aloiai	Vid 1, behind the scenes with the girls

Lisa's Happy Snaps!

The NABBA Waikato was full of surprises! firstly there was the surprising 55 competitors who weathered the immenent thunderstorm to compete in Hamilton. Think this show is the biggest of the year out of any of the federations so far so well done to Shelly Boyes for getting out and about around the Waikato/BOP region to encourage the athletes to compete. Then there was the appearance of the 'golden couple' Alex and Leanne Simays who competed in the couples class - and won. But the big suprise here was that Leanne competed in the Shape Class!	Lisa with Leanne
However Leanne had a wee bit too much muscle in this class so wasn't placed in the very competitive line up of 7 hot shapers. Teresa, the blonde bombshell won this class but it was great to see she'll now have some competition at the Nationals as they'll be chasing her very high heels to the title. The other nice surprise was the great lineups in each of the classes. Cathy Orevich from Kaitaia just keeps looking sharper with every show and took out the Senior Figure. It was great to see an equally impressive line up of novices in the Novice Figure class too. Christelle from Mt Maunganui had a great structure and muscle mass while Amor and the lady from Martin were lean. In the end judges went for structure and balance and Christelle took out that class.	Overall Winners Teresa, Andrew, Alex, Kym, Moira
The 'find' of the contest would've been Moira from Sunnygymz in Whakatane - Sunnygymz incidentally brought along 9 athletes to the show to its great to see the team spirit alive and well. Back to Moira, at 45, she has amazing musclemass and for this comp she dropped 20kg over the past 18 months. Moira won the Overall Physique title and we hope to see her in another show. The 'Super trooper' award would go to Kym Carter. She'd been seriously sick the past couple of weeks and hadn't been able to train regularly. But being the super athlete she is, she got up on stage and competed. While she wasn't her super sharp racehorse self, she posed her butt off and took out the Open figure against some tough competition from PK, Janine and Sheta.	Power Couple Sesa Timuli and Grant Peterse
And lastly the big Open Men, and they were worth waiting for. Its been a long time since we've since some big boys on stage at the same time and this was our lucky night. Deciding to come out to play were big Nathan, the ever in great condition Alex and the super vascular Phil. These boys were big and the audience appreciated seeing their big muscles flexing and pumping as they went through their poses. While Phil had great hardness and vascularity he didn't quite have the mass of Alex and Nathan. And while Nathan was big (huge in fact!), he didn't quite have the detail of Alex's physique and Alex took out that class and eventually the overall. Hopefully we'll see a rematch of these guys at the Nationals, now that will be a sight to see! This was a fantastic show - thanks Shelley, well organised and the backstage marshalls were onto it getting all athletes to stage on time. All athletes walked away with a bagful of goodies. The audience were also treated to guest posing by Big Helen Aloiai who's aiming to compete at the Universe later this year. You can see her pics at bottom of the page. Below are some pics of the show, enjoy! more pics available at muscleimaging.com Lisa, Go Figure p.s we'll have video from the show in the next week

Shape


	2nd, 1st, 3rd Angela, Teresa, Rose

Senior Figure

3rd, 1st, 2nd
Katherine, Kathy, Claire

Novice Figure

1st Christelle, 4th Laura	3rd Jody, 2nd Amor

Open Figure

1st Kym, 3rd Janine, 2nd PK, 4th Sheta

Physique Women


	Novice and Sen Physique	2nd Wendy, 1st Moira Sen Phys o35

Physique Men

Jnr Men	Masters o40	Masters o50
Novice Physique

Athletic Men

Andrew, 1st Open Short		2nd Greg, 1st Matt Nov Athletic tall
	Masters Athletic 1st Mike, 2nd	Matt, 1st nov athletic tall

Open Men

3rd, 1st, 2nd Philip, Alex, Nathan

Couples

Alex and Leanne
Jody and Brett

Overall Comparisons

Figure Kym, Christelle, Kathy
Athletic Men Andrew, Matt, Mike	Physique women Moira, Karen
Physique Men Tesina, Nigel, Alex, Hyung

Guest Poser, Helen Aloiai

Lisa with Big Helen. Video of her coming soon!

Results

MASTERS 40+
1. Hyung Sik Cha
2. Brett Walford
3. Jerry Musial Kowski

MASTERS 50+
1. Michael Pouhila
2. Maura Childs
3. Felix O'Carroll

ATHLETIC MASTERS
1. Michael Cassidy
2. Peter Bratton

JUNIOR MEN
1. Tesina Tongi
2. Dean Shilton
3. Adrian Ion

NOVCIE ATHLETIC MEN
1. Matt Cole
2. Greg Mawson
3. Gary Fowell
4. Anthony Joyce

NOVICE PHYSIQUE MEN
1. Nigel Jenkins
2. Rodney Favia
3. Marty Ngaio
4. Paul Burke
5. Kanawa Kingi

OPEN ATHLETIC MEN
1. Andrew Murray

OPEN PHYSIQUE MEN
1. Alex Simays
2. Nathan O'Hearn
3. Philip Puttick

SHAPE
1. Teresa Edwards
2. Angela Taggart
3. Rose Hyde
4. Stella Hemmes
5. Leanne Simays
6. Debbie Bradley

SENIOR PHYSIQUE WOMEN
1. Moira Lavender-Ashburn
2. Wendy Sole
3. Rachel Jarvis
4. Colleen Sloane

SENIOR FIGURE WOMEN 45+
1. Cathy Orevich
2. Katherine Moore
3. Claire To'omata

NOVICE FIGURE
1. Christelle Coetsec
2. Amor Kisling
3. Jody Walford
4. Laura Bothomley

NOVICE PHYSIQUE WOMEN
1. Karen Bishop
2. Sela Kingi

OPEN FIGURE WOMEN
1. Kym Carter
2. Parekura Herewini
3. Janine Haywood
4. Sheta Hall

NABBA Waikato, 26 July

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