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.   

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