Legendary Bodybuilder Danny Padilla and former IFBB Judge Jim Rockell join me for Season 3, Episode 3 of the Bodybuilding Legends Podcast. Danny talks about his great career in the sport including training at the original Gold's Gym, his role in the movie "Pumping Iron" and his controversial finish at the 1981 Mr. Olympia - http://bodybuildinglegendsshow.com/the_podcast_test/season-3-episode-3-danny-padilla-and-jim-rockell/
Too bad Padilla always posed to "Short People" song...and kinda posed like a fool. Too comical alwaya. It really took away from his body. It highlighted his short height.
In the interview, Danny talks about the first time he posed to that song at the 1979 Night of the Champions and he got a standing ovation. I don't think it made him look like a fool, just that he had a good sense of humor about being shorter.
I remember Danny posing to it at his comeback at Night of Champions that Benaziza won. Danny looked awesome. Beyond awesome. ...but people were laughing at the routine. Yes...it was light and he had a great sense of humor about it....but it was too comical and his transitions were not smooth. He was no Labrada in that regard. But I digress....Danny is a great. And thank you for all of your incredible interviews. Just watched your Phil Williams one. Awesome John!!!
As great as Danny was in '81, Tom Platz was better imo.
Roger Schwab, former IFBB head judge said that Danny was the most complete flawless bodybuilder he had ever seen in person.
Natural O include a little more on training with your interviews. What split, how many sets a body part and so on. Interview after interview I hear just about nothing about how they trained.
who cares how they trained, all training works, just stress your muscles and let nature take its course.Much better to listen to stories about their life and the shows they did.
One of the best bodybuilding pics ever
We need to know if he bench pressed with barbells or dumbbells
I don't know what the current criteria is but you know that back then the posing round didn't factor heavily into the scoring. it was more or less for the fans. the callouts and comparisons were the points counted.
In the '70's and '80's, they did score all three rounds, symmetry, mandatory poses and posing routines.
at one point weren't the posing routines not scored? I thought it wasn't until the early to mid 80s that the posing round started carrying more points.