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INBA Taranaki 7 Nov 09 |
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Report and Pics from INBA Taranaki 7 November 09
left: Overall winners Farah, Aron and Jan |
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Raechelle 10th @ Sacramento Pro Nov 09 |
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Raechelle Chase placed 10th in her Pro debut at the Sacramento Pro on Sat 7 November. The top 3 placegetters were Kristi Tauti, Cheryl Brown and Huong Arcinas.
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Men's WBPF World Champs Dubai, 3-7 Nov 09 |
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NABBA Nationals, 25 Oct 09 |
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Pics, Video and Report from NABBA Nationals 25 October 2009 |
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NABBA North Harbour 31 October 09 |
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Men's and Women's Pics from
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Kiwis Win Overalls @ South Pacific Champs. Tahiti 3 Oct |
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Coupled with the Samoans, a few kiwis also snuck out to Tahiti to compete at the South Pacific Champs and with fantastic results.
Farah Deobhakta, representing NZ won the Overall Figure title. Stan 'the man' Tautalanoa, representing Tonga, won the Overall Men. Dean Teiho representing Cook Islands won the Masters Men.
Nina Netzler placed 3rd in Figure while Lufi Rasmussen won the overall physique. Fellow Samoans Carl Adam won his class while Tua placed 2nd.
There were 32 athletes from 7 pacific nations.
left: Stan |
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NZFBB Nationals, Auckland 10 Oct 09 |
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Pics, Report and Videos of the NZFBB Bodybuilding Champs
10 October 09 |
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NZFBB Nationals backstage pics 10 Oct 09 |
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For Full NZFBB Nationals Contest Report, Videos and Stage Pics go here
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Just being Arty
Athletes in Chains
Left: Michelle Dixon. Right: Mateo
Below: Hamish, Tony, Vicky, Daniel |
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Lisa's Happy Snaps
Before we get going on what happened during the show I just want to do a little bit of housekeeping. I don't do alot generally so this will be quick but I just need say something on the behalf of the athletes.
I thought the organisers of the Nationals were very ambitious. In a good way, you know they wanted to provide a big venue befitting a Nationals and having proper sponsors' tables where they can sit down in a relaxed atmosphere with food and drinks. |
Who better to wile the hours with than a nice hunk.
Tony and Lisa |
| But as it turned out most of the spectators were on the balcony while the sponsors tables were half filled at ground level. As the people were scattered between the 2 floors, we didn't get the spirit of the Nationals and not sure if the athletes felt the atmosphere and so we didn't hear the crowd cheering or making much noise. |
| The other ambition was the starting times of the prejudging and finals. I totally get the early starting times ie 9am and 4pm so that athletes and audience can get away early to enjoy hopefully an early night. But I think they were just thinking too ahead and perhaps didn't think about all the logistics of how the day would go. As it turns out the morning show didn't start till 10am and evening show till 5pm. |
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While the show was getting organised during that hour, the audience were mostly left to stand outside and the athletes were just waiting, lying down and some even had a picnic. So in future, all the athletes (and spectators) ask is that all the little steps are seen to before the day of the show.
Once the show got going, the morning show went pretty fast and all credit must go to Head Marshall Mark Delew and his team of marshalls and tanners who were super organised backstage. Same goes for the evening show. Nice job backstage team.
The other thing I thought that could be handled abit better was how the top 5 is announced. At the evening show, before even the athletes got backstage they were told that a list was going to be put up backstage of the top 5 in each class and if your name wasn't on the list then you don't need to tan up or come back for the night show. That's kind of icky and doesn't give much respect to the athletes.
Sure, all athletes can't do all their routines but imagine all the people that have come to see their friends at the night show but now they can't because they're not in top 5. It would be nice for the friends to see something. Even if they come out on stage at the start of the night show in their class and do some compulsories or something as the group. Just a thought for the future.
That's all! Thanks to Brian McFarlane and NZFBB for letting me do my thang.
Here are some happy snaps from the show. Sorry didn't get any of the open guys backstage, I was abit scared of them as they seem so focused and I didn't want to annoy them too much! Will have a proper report of the show and other pics up in next couple of days.
Muscleimaging also has pics up here
Lisa, Go Figure
11 Oct 09 |
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