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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Vince B on September 08, 2009, 06:09:01 PM
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I finally have the photos I took in Melbourne in March of the 2009 Australian Pro won by Kai Green. I posted the photos at a size that will allow everyone to examine up close the condition of the athletes. Kai sure knows how to isolate his muscle groups and his transitions are nothing short of an anatomy display. When he is on stage it is difficult to look at anyone else. Silvio shows a very ripped physique but you would never know it from most of his poses. Examine his serratus area and see the paper thin skin there. The light was very harsh and I dare say using too much oil spoiled the impact of several of the guys.
I was way up in the balcony using a telephoto lens on a tripod. I needed a faster shutter speed to freeze the action. I used a Nikon D300 and 70-300VR lens. Next year I will use my 5DMkII.
I used Lightroom 2 to retrieve a more accurate white balance but I made the photos darker to highlight the muscles better. There are over 200 photos there to look at. You can hold your cursors over the far right of the photos to select the size you wish to view them. You can also select 'Slide Show' and sit back and watch the photos fill your screen.
http://ovincez.smugmug.com/Bodybuilding/Australian-Pro-2009/9562352_9d84t#P-1-25
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nice pics - angle aint great.
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You know...I've got to give credit where credit is due...
I cant believe they actually let you in the door, Basile...
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Well, Bob, they didn't need a pro athletes rep at this show. The result was popular, too!
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Here is my favourite shot from that contest. I have posted it on Smugmug in a separate album there at the original size which is about 6 Mb. Anyone with a home gym can get a poster printed from the original.
http://ovincez.smugmug.com/Bodybuilding/Kai-Green/9545097_mDj3P#643457130_ibbvV
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Kai really is the one guy competing today who comes closest to having Ronnie's muscularity.
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Vince always gets the best seats in Australia.
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Here is my favourite shot from that contest. I have posted it on Smugmug in a separate album there at the original size which is about 6 Mb. Anyone with a home gym can get a poster printed from the original. [/b]
http://ovincez.smugmug.com/Bodybuilding/Kai-Green/9545097_mDj3P#643457130_ibbvV
Wiggs wants to know if his Thighmaster and pink dumbells qualify as a home gym. He needs the Kai Green poster....desperately.
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Great pics Vince!!
I think Kai will be the Big Surprise (not anymore i guess) at this years Olympia!! Tony, too bad for that pec tear!! He looks great too though!! Tiny fuckin' waist!! Silvio, top ten!!
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LOL@ One-year photo
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Great shots Vince. Does that mean you will be down again next year?
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Hi Tony. Yes, I love Melbourne. Lots of interesting subjects to photograph there. I have to process the photos I took at your gym and at the contest in the lobby.
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Here is a shot of a ship wreck near Sale, Victoria.
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How come they reversed the negative on the 1980 arnold shot... he never did that pose with his left arm
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My favourite building in Melbourne, the Eureka Tower. You can go up to the top to look around. Quite the sight from up there.
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How come they reversed the negative on the 1980 arnold shot... he never did that pose with his left arm
I was surprised when someone pointed this out to me. Editors do that to fit the photo in with headers, etc.
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nice pic...
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The guy who 'beat' Bob C at the Masters Pro a few years ago.
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Silvio looked great. He gets all stiff and odd looking sometimes when he poses on stage. Look at how good he looks in this lat spread.
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Lee Priest was popular with his Aussie fans. He was still training even with that cast and was handling 120 lb dumbbell with his good arm/shoulder!
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I finally met Rusty Jeffers. A popular guy. He posed in the lobby for his fans. Quite the showman.
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Hi Vince,
Was Kai popular with the Melbourne fans?
I might make the trip to melbourne next year... meet some of the pros... I hope Dennis James makes it out.
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Luke told me he is training for the Australian Pro 2010. It is impossible for a bodybuilder to be around contests and not get the urge to compete again.
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Hi Vince,
Was Kai popular with the Melbourne fans?
The Aussie fans know quality when they see it. Kai had a long line of fans waiting patiently to buy his photos. The line to see him was longer than the combined ones for everyone else! That was a surprise. He was very popular with the fans. I didn't stay for the finals but he wowed the audience at the judging. They didn't need judges to know who the winner was.
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luke wood looking big once again
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Someone told me Silvio takes his shirt off for his fans. So I asked him to but he said he does that only for the ladies. Luckily this nice gal asked and Silvio obliged.
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Someone told me Kai takes his shirt off for his fans. So I asked him to but he said he does that only for the ladies. Luckily this nice gal asked and Kai obliged.
Thats actually Silvio Samuel
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Yes, what was I thinking. ???
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Someone told me Kai takes his shirt off for his fans. So I asked him to but he said he does that only for the ladies. Luckily this nice gal asked and Kai obliged.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=297103.0;attach=338010;image)
I know they all look alike Vince, but I think that's Silvio.
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This gal was a honey. She told me she is engaged to a Canadian. Good for him. She sure made the guys feel good. More women should be like her.
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Lee had to sign his photos with his left hand. He always is there for his fans and they were plenty at Lee's booth dropping in to say hi and have their photos taken with him.
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I noticed Luke's big watch and asked about it. He was proud to say that it was a gift from Milos!
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Tony Docherty was running his butt off at the contest and didn't have time to chat with anyone for long. Here he is with Kai during a break.
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Rusty obliged his fans. They asked him to do some poses so no worries. He ended up stripping down to his posing trunks and hitting his favourites poses right there in the lobby. What a sight for his fans.
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Rusty looked very good. He could have placed higher in this contest but he wasn't going to be in the top three so it doesn't matter.
This shot is without the flash and he is pretty relaxed in the photo. Pleasant lines. His muscles are much bigger in person than they look in photos.
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Lee took a while to negotiate signing photos with his left hand.
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My default pose for photos is with arms folded a la Joe Weider. I was quite surprised when Rusty gave me instructions to lean towards the camera for photos. You can always learn tricks from others.
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Last photo of me with Rusty. I had to get a lad to use my Canon G10 to take these shots.
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Here is the Kai pose done in B&W with a tint added.
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kai looks awesome
rustys moustache hahaha
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Silvio's abs were incredible. Especially above the obliques.
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Rusty is another bodybuilder with a torn biceps. I never noticed it before but he pointed it out to a few of us. Amazing that he retains as much size as he does.
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Tony had some amateur contests that day. Here is a bloke who competed standing with Luke Wood.
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Ms Personality sure lit up the lobby while she was there.
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I took a few snaps with my G10 of the amateur lineup. I didn't have my tripod setup so no way I could capture the lads without some blurring.
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Here are some of the younger lads in the lineup.
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Great photos. Thanks for posting.
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Kai Green stole the show and gave everyone a lesson on how to present a physique in competition. He doesn't just go from one pose to another but he has a choreographed sequence whereby he displays so many individual muscle groups. While he is doing this your eyes are on him and only when he hits his pose do you start looking at the other guys. Very clever poser.
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nice pic...
2009 Mr. Olympia right there
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If this guy had longer muscle bellies he would be unbeatable.
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Kai has a great package and should do well in the Olympia.
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Just something that I noticed about the black bodybuilders. They all had white gals managing them! They took details of contacts and so on.
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It was close between Freeman and Samuel. It could have gone either way.
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I saw Toney beating Silvio the judges must have seen something different...
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Toney has a torn pec and that detracts from his physique. The other guys presented better abs and calves.
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toney is constantly overlooked. silvio seems to be favored by the ifbb.
also, i dont really prefer kai's physique over tony's even though kai looks good. look at kai and silvios stomach in teh first and last pic i posted (and in many others). Their abdomens are distorted and bloated, whereas tony has a very crisp waist and looks like a larger version of the 70's bbers. He is more of what BBing needs in terms of proportions, and he dominates that front dbl bicep pose by far against those guys.
Kai dominated in the side and back poses...
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I was photographing the judging so saw the contest through the viewfinder of my camera. From what I saw I would say it was an unanimous win for Kai Green with 2nd place split between Freeman and Samuel. Tony D can tell us how the judging went.
I agree that Freeman has a great physique but Kai was clearly superior that day.
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On the other hand, see if you can fault this physique.
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On the other hand, see if you can fault this physique.
upper trap thickness? :D
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It is one thing to possess a great physique and quite another to display one. Kai is a bit of both.
To be perfect he needs longer muscle bellies in arms and calves. That being said, look at his development in those areas. Outstanding.
I agree that Freeman has an excellent physique. However, photos tell only part of the story and during the judging the competitors move a lot and pose this way and that. Kai literally steals the show during the transitions. When they all hit poses Kai doesn't dominate like you think he might. Critics are correct that Freeman does 'win' some of the poses and has a small waist and broad shoulders. I tell you the transitions while posing during the judging is absolutely crucial.
At the Australian Pro the judges took their time and even had the top three guys change positions and pose again. So they didn't rush anything.
The fact that they changed positions means it was very close. If two are brought out that means they are having trouble separating them. This happened with Freeman and Samuel.
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I arrived at the contest late and the prejudging was well underway. So I missed shooting Freeman's routine. I don't have any individual shots of him to post here. They are available at MD I think.
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Here is a group of people manning a booth at the show.
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Toney has a torn pec and that detracts from his physique. The other guys presented better abs and calves.
Yes, but as far as pec tears go, Toney`s is relatively minor.
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Here is Toney from the back. A big guy. His triceps could be bigger and so could his calves.
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No bodybuilder wants to tear muscles. So it is sad that Toney has torn his pectoral near the armpit. The trouble with tears is you look for them and they spoil a good physique. Dorian Yates is probably the last guy that will win an Olympia with a torn biceps.
You have to admit that Silvio looks really awkward in many of his poses. Yet his physique is a very good one. He is one guy who doesn't look better when he poses hard on stage. Maybe he has to relax and not get too contorted, etc. Some guys try too hard and screw up their faces and even have their necks disappear. I think Kai isn't that strong in the standard poses because he is trying too hard. He will have a big job overcoming pros like Heath and Jackson.
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Kai is unusual in that alone he looks really short because he is so thick when in fact he is about average height for a bodybuilder.
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It is always nice to see women at contests. Otherwise it wouldn't be interesting as a spectacle.
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Looks like Lee has tattoo disciples.
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Looks like Lee has tattoo disciples.
LOL...look at this guys shirt....WAS anyone asking??
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LOL...look at this guys shirt....WAS anyone asking??
Yeah,the point of making this t-shirt in anything less than a 2xl is ridiculous?
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toney is constantly overlooked. silvio seems to be favored by the ifbb.
also, i dont really prefer kai's physique over tony's even though kai looks good. look at kai and silvios stomach in teh first and last pic i posted (and in many others). Their abdomens are distorted and bloated, whereas tony has a very crisp waist and looks like a larger version of the 70's bbers. He is more of what BBing needs in terms of proportions, and he dominates that front dbl bicep pose by far against those guys.
and toney smokes him in back lat spread and FDB
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Compare Toney's abs with Kai and Silvios in this pic below. Silvio has the bloated GH gut coming out, and Kai has a very wide stomach as well.
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t224/SimplyHuge/643174295_KV8nf-M.jpg)
This photo below is what Mr. Olympia should look like! He looks amazing here. Looks much better than Kai or Silvio here. What people would aspire to look like in my opinion.
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t224/SimplyHuge/643343671_7dbZK-M.jpg)
yes
silvio looks like a kid next to Toney in FDB
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LOL...look at this guys shirt....WAS anyone asking??
Saw this chick at wonderland wearing a shirt that said "I only date good looking guys" but the guys she was with where anything but.
Sometimes you wonder wtf?!
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upper trap thickness? :D
needs more forearms
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Im glad someone else is seeing this as well. Unbelievable that toney gets overlooked and compared with people like Silvio.
It should have been between Kai and Toney, and even then, Kai has gyno and a GH gut, so deduct some major points for that, plus deduct points for having a bad structure (he is squished looking with a short torso), and I would give the win to Toney.
agreed
Toney should have won
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Hahahah creepy old guy asking every bodybuilder he sees if he takes their shirts off for the 'fans' hahahah
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I knew some guys from my gym at the contest and I told one fellow that I got some shots of Silvio. He said he takes his shirt off for some people so that is when I asked Silvio. Like a lot of things in life if you don't ask you don't get what you want.
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I was impressed with this photo of Dennis Wolf. It was on the wall of Tony's Gym in Melbourne.
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How come they reversed the negative on the 1980 arnold shot... he never did that pose with his left arm
i've noticed that lots of times in the 80's and 90's mags. funny when you can see the number clearly reversed.
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Ms Personality who you called a "hot gal" has a face like a dehydrated horse.
If that is the best female that place had to offer, it is in sad shape.
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Dennis looks huge in that shot. Arms are ridiculous.
I agree about Toney from those pics. He has the best structure of the 3. I imagine Kai won because of conditioning, he looks incredible but has a few structural faults previously mentioned. Toney beats Silvio because of structure every time unless his conditioning is off IMO.
Kai and Silvio should be marked down for the guts.
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LOL...look at this guys shirt....WAS anyone asking??
HAHA..
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I also agree about Toney :)
I think Kai is thicker and that is why he got the nod. Silvio got a gift like usual.
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Not any more creepy than looking at those photos of men with their shirts off alone at your computer like you are doing right now JJ.
hahaha shut the fuck up bitch, just worry about getting your knees back in shape so you can drink your protien straight from the tap...no need to schmo-tect your brethren ...
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Tony has the advantage in some poses and might have the most potential, but looks to have some deficiencies that will have to be addressed to win. Hasn't realized as much of his potential as Kai, doesn't have the same refinement in terms of detail, separation or muscle maturity. Also some big gaps in balance, lacking in areas like tris and calves where it's very obvious. Should also bring the thighs down a bit, a little too big for the rest. Then there's the posing advantage for Kai.
If he wants to be the best he'll have to improve and refine those areas that detract from the rest.
The height advantage is striking; in general i think a BB of 5'10" or more has a real advantage in aesthetics as well as height when the physique matures.
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Ms Personality who you called a "hot gal" has a face like a dehydrated horse.
If that is the best female that place had to offer, it is in sad shape.
bom!
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I knew some guys from my gym at the contest and I told one fellow that I got some shots of Silvio. He said he takes his shirt off for some people so that is when I asked Silvio. Like a lot of things in life if you don't ask you don't get what you want.
Are you saying 'be careful what you wish for,' Vince. ;D
/good work with the pics. kudos
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Your bravery behind the security of your keyboard is legendary.
On a side note, we are all very impressed... ::)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f115/Jaejonna/jj_07_08_orig.jpg)
is this "jaejonna"?
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Yes, that fatboy puckering his lips in the picture is JaeJonna. Don't worry, he's harmless.
hahaha another fanboy , jesus this is too easy...
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You need to be very careful who you're talking to... "simplyhuge" (::))
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well we can't all be as "simply huge" as you are. ;D Brutal 180 punds frame.
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toney freeman owns kai and small silvio!!!!! sorry peeps!