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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: BEEFYHEAVYWEIGHT on July 10, 2018, 07:12:17 AM
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A shot of Rory hitting a classic pose...just yesterday on a recent fishing trip. From his instagram. 60 plus years old. FUCKING IMPRESSIVE!!!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlBwpTKlAAI/?hl=en
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A shot of Rory hitting a classic pose...just yesterday on a recent fishing trip. From his instagram. 60 plus years old. FUCKING IMPRESSIVE!!!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlBwpTKlAAI/?hl=en
He always did have an amazing physique. Him and Bob Paris had similar styles kind of.
Didn't let himself go to pot like most.
Good for him.
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Amazin.
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One of the best EVER
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fantastic picture. unbelievable arms and a great body. but he kinds of ruins everything by talking about god and Christ every other sentence. don't quite understand that.
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the man must have a petrol tanker full of jet black hair, beard and eyebrow dye sent to his home every week.
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One of the best EVER
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=646707.0;attach=763129;image)
Team Lean Face.
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Wasn't on Team IFBB so didn't make it big.
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fantastic picture. unbelievable arms and a great body. but he kinds of ruins everything by talking about god and Christ every other sentence. don't quite understand that.
It's because he is a Cristian and it plays a huge role in his life.
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He called the place he was standing “God’s Country.”
So if that’s Gods Country, are the other countries Godless?
If so, why would God care about one piece of land where he’s standing over all other places? ??? ??? ???
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He called the place he was standing “God’s Country.”
So if that’s Gods Country, are the other countries Godless?
If so, why would God care about one piece of land where he’s standing over all other places? ??? ??? ???
It's a figure of speech, usually made tongue-in-cheek. But you may be offended by it, if you so choose.
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It's a figure of speech, usually made tongue-in-cheek. But you may be offended by it, if you so choose.
Figure of speech to mean what though? ???
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bodybuilding if a lifestyle not a trend
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bodybuilding if a lifestyle not a trend
This
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Figure of speech to mean what though? ???
"God's country" is most often interpreted as the land being spoken of is one of tremendous natural beauty. In other words, it is used to describe the natural beauty that is the wonder of nature, i.e. as God made it.
You're not stupid. You knew this and yet still you continue to feign both ignorance and sincerity. ::)
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"God's country" is most often interpreted as the land being spoken of is one of tremendous natural beauty. In other words, it is used to describe the natural beauty that is the wonder of nature, i.e. as God made it.
You're not stupid. You knew this and yet still you continue to feign both ignorance and sincerity. ::)
You are a huge pussy.
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You are a huge pussy.
Right...Given that you're such a cuck I have serious doubts that you've ever even seen a vagina. Run along now, little cuckling…
How it must hurt your ego to be so easily bested by someone such as I. You fucking typist.
;D
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You are a huge pussy.
Haha lol
I didn’t read his response to me but I’m sure it was more ranting and raving. :D :D
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Haha lol
I didn’t read his response to me but I’m sure it was more ranting and raving. :D :D
Sure you didn't, you cuck. Why not try another thread/conversation wherein (as you previously did in vain) you misquote me until you grow weary of everyone knowing brown isn't the natural color of your eyes.
For the dimwitted such as yourself, that means "you're full of shit". ;D
You pathetic cuckold of a typist. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Team Lean Face.
Coming from you that's high praise....
I mean, you're not exactly a slouch in the cheekbone section youself are you, my Tyrannical Overlord...?
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--cLOGtCAD--/otvtqhvvjkf9ujdedxva.gif)
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Rory let losing to Paris in 1983 to get to him.
Should have put his nose to the grindstone, come back, and win it in 1984.
Instead, he slipped to fifth.
http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?c=Nationals+-+NPC&y=1984 (http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?c=Nationals+-+NPC&y=1984)
Inexcusable.
Christian could be had.
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Rory let losing to Paris in 1983 to get to him.
Should have put his nose to the grindstone, come back, and win it in 1984.
Instead, he slipped to fifth.
http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?c=Nationals+-+NPC&y=1984 (http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?c=Nationals+-+NPC&y=1984)
Inexcusable.
Christian could be had.
Remember the look of shock and disappointment on Rory's face way back in 1981 when he took second to Tim Belknap in the light-heavyweight class? It's not like his loss to Paris in '83 was his first.
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I think he trained Paris for some of that year.
But he really hung onto this contest.
In July 1987 M&F (Arnold Predator cover), he wrote an article about judging.
He went through the whole spiel about what makes a judge, competence, etc.
He specifically mentions the 1983 Nationals, claiming that there were vociferous boos from the audience. Near the end, he goes on to write that the audience followed the judges back to the hotel so that they could stand outside the building and boo the decision.
I have trouble believing it.
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Right...Given that you're such a cuck I have serious doubts that you've ever even seen a vagina. Run along now, little cuckling…
How it must hurt your ego to be so easily bested by someone such as I. You fucking typist.
;D
The whole board laughs at you. Here pussy, pussy! Here pussy, pussy!
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bodybuilding if a lifestyle not a trend
Alot of those older classic bodybuilding guys never seem to lose it do they?
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Alot of those older classic bodybuilding guys never seem to lose it do they?
Some but most stop training and eating properly and turn back into Clark Kent.
Competition is what motivated most to train and once the competitive days are over there is no motivation.
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Flex Wheeler once rumored to have said that he would never touch a weight again in his life when the competition days were over.
I don't understand that at all.
I never competed, but how could you still not enjoy moving some iron around? I get that it is best that one doesn't walk around at 250+ when the competition days are over, but no training?
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I'm bad at recalling old time dates and places, but I do recall meeting Rory while he was a teenager giving haircuts to some of the gym members in some long forgotten gym east of Pasadena ... where the west coast ended and proceeded through the desert all the way to Baker and beyond into nothingness util you reached Las Vegas.
And we were at that contest which was held in San Jose, Calirornia when he lost to Bob Paris but did mamage to show up with his wife and new-borne daughter at a small get-together following his disappointing but justifiable loss.
I believe that was the same year that Bob was dating an opera singer whom we all met during one of the hotel restaurant meals.
I don't recall if anyoe contested the judges' decision but it's a possibility that I may have forgotten.
I was a close friend with Jeff and Cory at that time and we all attended that event together.
That is all that I can recall, but I'd be grateful if anyone can filll in the blanks or add some details.
Such as:
That gym where Rory offered haircts?
In what year was he 18?
Did Rory recently arrive from Holland or was he somehow associated with Holland?
The year and title of that San Jose contest?
Was Cory a contender in that contest that year?
Any corrections or additions to the above?
It was all so much different way back then!
Thanks!
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Born in Holland but grew up in California.
Good article. Not sure if it's factual.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-09/news/hl-2065_1_amateur-bodybuilding-championships
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Great to see guys like Rory training and staying in shape their whole lives. Thats what real bodybuilding is all about not being 300 pounds ripped its training your whole life, holding more muscle than average your whole life, not just being massive for 5 or 10 and having health issues for the next 10-15 or death even.
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Probably the best bodybuilder to never get his pro card.
Better than Mendenhall.
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Probably the best bodybuilder to never get his pro card.
Better than Mendenhall.
goes to show how hard getting your pro card was back in the day
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Flex Wheeler once rumored to have said that he would never touch a weight again in his life when the competition days were over.
I don't understand that at all.
I never competed, but how could you still not enjoy moving some iron around? I get that it is best that one doesn't walk around at 250+ when the competition days are over, but no training?
I remember when he said that in Flex Magazine too. I'm surprised how many bodybuilders who trained so hard for so many years don't even workout any more. It's like once they stop competing and using drugs, they stop training as well. I don't get this either.
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Born in Holland but grew up in California.
Good article. Not sure if it's factual.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-09/news/hl-2065_1_amateur-bodybuilding-championships
Leidelmeyer was a great bodybuilder, but this piece is a load of crap.
Some examples, to wit:
"I was it," Leidelmeyer said.
Friends, 'it' in German is Es, Freud's term for the irrational, selfish, and infantile part of the mind.
He was it.
In Spanish, 'it' is often rendered as 'eso, that rhymes with queso, which means cheese, and sounds like que es eso?, or 'what is it?'
It is 'the cheese,' man, el queso grande, 'the big cheese,' the head honcho, THE MAN!
More snippets from It, El Queso Grande, also known as the 1988 not-Mr. America:
"I don't have any weaknesses"
Leidelmeyer said he does not take steroids or growth hormones. "It's a fool's move," he said. "Everybody's looking for a shortcut, and in this sport there isn't one."
He recalled saying to his workout partners, in a gym in 1978: "If there was a pill that would make me Mr. America overnight, I wouldn't take it."
And so it took him 10 years to achieve that title.
Leidelmeyer finished second in the AAU Mr. America contest four times before finally winning it in 1988. ??? (http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Leidelmeyer,+Rory) (Overall Winner: William Norberg: http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?c=Mr+America+-+AAU&y=1988)
When a leg injury ruined his dream of a pro career [as a quarterback and/or kicker in football], he began to train in 1975 as a bodybuilder.
(Scouts must have been crushed. Well, good thing it was only a dream). :-[
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Flex Wheeler once rumored to have said that he would never touch a weight again in his life when the competition days were over.
I don't understand that at all.
I never competed, but how could you still not enjoy moving some iron around? I get that it is best that one doesn't walk around at 250+ when the competition days are over, but no training?
Because it's Flex, that's why. He was chasing the money, but he really enjoyed working out. He was lying from the getgo. Once it's "in you", it's very hard to just quit, regardless if you are a pro or not. And sure enough, he never did quit.
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I remember when he said that in Flex Magazine too. I'm surprised how many bodybuilders who trained so hard for so many years don't even workout any more. It's like once they stop competing and using drugs, they stop training as well. I don't get this either.
my trainer said the same thing... it becomes a job and after you have competed as a pro with tons of gear in your body, being the best... it is hard to come back from that
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If you've been training on drugs for years some can't handle the frustration of natty training and seeing Clark Kent in the gym mirror.
Some of these guys have never trained as a natty in their lives.
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Inspirational!
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Because Flex was known to be lazy. Just like Dillett.
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Leidelmeyer was a great bodybuilder, but this piece is a load of crap.
Some examples, to wit:
"I was it," Leidelmeyer said.
Friends, 'it' in German is Es, Freud's term for the irrational, selfish, and infantile part of the mind.
He was it.
In Spanish, 'it' is often rendered as 'eso, that rhymes with queso, which means cheese, and sounds like que es eso?, or 'what is it?'
It is 'the cheese,' man, el queso grande, 'the big cheese,' the head honcho, THE MAN!
More snippets from It, El Queso Grande, also known as the 1988 not-Mr. America:
"I don't have any weaknesses"
Leidelmeyer said he does not take steroids or growth hormones. "It's a fool's move," he said. "Everybody's looking for a shortcut, and in this sport there isn't one."
He recalled saying to his workout partners, in a gym in 1978: "If there was a pill that would make me Mr. America overnight, I wouldn't take it."
And so it took him 10 years to achieve that title.
Leidelmeyer finished second in the AAU Mr. America contest four times before finally winning it in 1988. ??? (http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Leidelmeyer,+Rory) (Overall Winner: William Norberg: http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?c=Mr+America+-+AAU&y=1988)
When a leg injury ruined his dream of a pro career [as a quarterback and/or kicker in football], he began to train in 1975 as a bodybuilder.
(Scouts must have been crushed. Well, good thing it was only a dream). :-[
Lol!!!
El queso grande! Hahahahaha!
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I think he trained Paris for some of that year.
But he really hung onto this contest.
In July 1987 M&F (Arnold Predator cover), he wrote an article about judging.
He went through the whole spiel about what makes a judge, competence, etc.
He specifically mentions the 1983 Nationals, claiming that there were vociferous boos from the audience. Near the end, he goes on to write that the audience followed the judges back to the hotel so that they could stand outside the building and boo the decision.
I have trouble believing it.
bwa ha ha that is funny man, i think rory must have been on alot of drugs when he wrote that article, he sure does get alot of love for a guy who never even came close to being a pro
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I spoke with him this morning. We're getting together either this weekend or next to train. He's happy and doing well.
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I spoke with him this morning. We're getting together either this weekend or next to train. He's happy and doing well.
make sure to take some pics
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make sure to take some pics
For sure
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Alot of those older classic bodybuilding guys never seem to lose it do they?
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Leidelmeyer does not require confirmation of his position in the bodybuilding world. He is one of the most well
adjusted lifters I have ever met. He looks fabulous and currently is doing well @ Uptown Gym in Whittier. He has no skeletons in his closet and has found Christ. Amen.
DOC
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Here's part of the interview I did with Rory for Iron Man's Legends of Bodybuilding series a few years ago:
27. While I was gathering info for our session today, I watched the ‘83 Nationals on YouTube. Bob Paris won, and you were second. That’s a shock, since you’d trained him.
RORY: Nine students of mine competed in the ’83 Nationals, including Bob. He may have been given the title, but no way did I come in second.
28. Sounds like politics.
RORY: Politics is a polite term. The ‘83 Nationals was held immediately after the AAU and NPC had battled it out for the Mr. America name, and the AAU prevailed in court. The powers-that-be saw me as an AAU man, and that didn’t work to my advantage.
29. They shut you out?
RORY: Read between the lines! Of course, they shut me out! No way would the NPC honor an AAU man.
30. Did Bob say anything to you afterward?
RORY: He couldn’t even look at me when I congratulated him. Watch the video. Carla Dunlap, who hosted the event, said, ‘I cannot announce this.’
31. Despite an incredible physique, flawless down to the smallest detail, you’ve triumphed only once.
RORY: That was the AAU Mr. California in 1980. My main competitors were John Brown and Gary Leonard. Victories are bittersweet. You win, and then what? In this business, if you don’t continue winning, you’re flung aside. The gauntlet had been thrown. Either accept what’s dished out or fail. I’ve refused to do either.
32. The ‘81 AAU Mr. America is a topic of contentious discussion, even today.
RORY: That was held at Caesar’s Palace. During pre-judging, you do mandatory poses. You have to display your whole body. Tim Belknap, who won the Overall, wouldn’t show his back because he had none. The place went nuts when I made second in the light-heavies. How could he win over me? The very next month, Belknap was in the mags as Mr. America. Normally, it takes three to six months for them to report contest results. Stuff like that peppered my career. After a while, I walked away and said to hell with it. As long as I had a great physique and kept my own standards, I didn’t need a shelf-full of trophies.
33. What about the ‘88 America?
RORY: Another fiasco. The contest officials heighted me at 5’ 10”, and I’m 6’ 2”. What the fuck, did I shrink four inches in two minutes? I was not going to play their game and complained, wearing the label of obstructionist proudly. Such a farce.
34. In there any one contest you remember as particularly special?
RORY: The ‘81 America, bullshit notwithstanding. On stage, my sweat mingled with the likes of Sinatra and Elvis, and the crowd gave me a standing ovation.
35. I’m sure you had people telling you that your future in competitive Bodybuilding was brighter than bright.
RORY: Promoters and magazine editors told me, ‘you’re gonna be the greatest of all time,’ but I couldn’t be passionate about comparing myself to others. The passion came from lifting, from doing, from creating.
36. What’s your Bodybuilding philosophy?
RORY: It’s deceptively simple. I love training, I love the camaraderie, and I love the results. To me, an impressive, powerful physique defines a man. It’s what masculinity is all about. Bodybuilding is pure; you’re competing against yourself, a daunting task!
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^^^^
That post is exactly why getbig is still good at times. Inside info on competitors from first hand sources who met them at the time and report back here. Things you can't get from failed FLEX Magazine or "Muscular" Development, or Palumbong.
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Stan De Longeaux & Rory Leidelmeyer The Golden Era v1 - Classic Physique Motivation
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I often wonder what these guys do for work? They never appear to have a job but for decades train and seem to have a source of money.
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I often wonder what these guys do for work? They never appear to have a job but for decades train and seem to have a source of money.
ive wondered the same fucking thing.
i have a good sales job and bbing is expensive as shit i feel. plus it is time consuming as hell too
plus living in venice, Ca is pricy as fuck
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Probably the best bodybuilder to never get his pro card.
Better than Mendenhall.
He and Dave Palumbo.
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I often wonder what these guys do for work? They never appear to have a job but for decades train and seem to have a source of money.
They give advice (on cycles) and sell the gear.