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. |
 |
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 |
