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Title: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: BayGBM on August 01, 2025, 06:07:12 AM
Anyone watching or attending the Tampa Pro?

https://www.timgardnerproductions.com/tampa-pro
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: mphgrove on August 01, 2025, 06:54:12 AM
Not watching live stream but this has emerged as one of best regional shows for Masters and 212 pros.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Kwon on August 01, 2025, 07:08:56 AM
Anyone watching or attending the Tampa Pro?

https://www.timgardnerproductions.com/tampa-pro

If there are any Soapy Studs i will attend this event

(https://lirp.cdn-website.com/11d27e2a/dms3rep/multi/opt/TIM-TAMPA-PRO-POOL-PARTY-2025--1920w.jpg)
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: joswift on August 01, 2025, 08:23:02 AM
Im flying out first class this evening

Been looking forward to it all year
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: 38 returns on August 01, 2025, 12:03:30 PM
Im flying out first class this evening

Been looking forward to it all year

I thought you were using the Gulfstream- I KNOW how important the tampa show is to you mate.

I'm not getting there until laterBA had nothing in 1st so I couldnt be doing with that.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Grape Ape on August 01, 2025, 01:17:47 PM
I dropped out due to illness
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 01, 2025, 01:21:25 PM
TSA just discovered and confiscated my booster briefs and penis pump in my carry-on. Should’ve paid the extra $40 to save myself the public humiliation. It’s going to be a lonnnnnng weekend, boys. I’ll be at tommywishbone’s pool cabana. Come by and say hi
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Bevo on August 01, 2025, 01:40:24 PM
Who even attends this kind of shit?
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: MOB on August 01, 2025, 03:29:05 PM
Bring on the Oiled up
musclemen.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 01, 2025, 03:38:06 PM
Bring on the Oiled up
musclemen.

This is the kind of enthusiasm I like seeing around here!
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Grape Ape on August 01, 2025, 03:46:12 PM
Who even attends this kind of shit?

gays, gaybos, gaybosexuals & gays

and Ron
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 01, 2025, 03:54:36 PM

^me taking the elevator back to my room at the Tampa Grand Hyatt immediately after prejudging wraps up
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: GigantorX on August 01, 2025, 09:16:46 PM
I dropped out due to illness

Stomach bug?
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: AbrahamG on August 01, 2025, 09:37:35 PM

^me taking the elevator back to my room at the Tampa Grand Hyatt immediately after prejudging wraps up

Hoffman and Baldwin killed it in that movie (Along Came Polly).
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: mphgrove on August 02, 2025, 05:45:01 AM
Bring on the Oiled up
musclemen.

Did you purchase a backstage VIP oil-em-up observation pass? Do you attend the Sunday Pool Fest? Did it live up to its hype?
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: affeman on August 02, 2025, 12:45:07 PM
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: BigRo on August 02, 2025, 12:50:12 PM
I think Quinton looks best overall.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: michael arvilla on August 02, 2025, 03:14:45 PM
I see a little bit of wheeler/ rhoden in Quint’s physique..( he should win imo)
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 02, 2025, 03:34:11 PM
Did you purchase a backstage VIP oil-em-up observation pass? Do you attend the Sunday Pool Fest? Did it live up to its hype?

For the night show, only a true schmoe purchases the VIP row where there’s a 99% chance of Pro-Tan precipitation
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: joswift on August 02, 2025, 04:21:24 PM
I see a little bit of wheeler/ rhoden in Quint’s physique..( he should win imo)
apart from them all being black the comparison ends there.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 02, 2025, 04:52:49 PM
Is there a prerequisite for this contest that you can’t be any further than 4 weeks out?
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Humble Narcissist on August 03, 2025, 12:00:03 AM
If there are any Soapy Studs i will attend this event

(https://lirp.cdn-website.com/11d27e2a/dms3rep/multi/opt/TIM-TAMPA-PRO-POOL-PARTY-2025--1920w.jpg)
Alcohol company sponsoring a bodybuilding event. ???
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: affeman on August 03, 2025, 12:02:14 AM
I think Quinton looks best overall.

Guy has probably the best structure in the entire IFBB, needs a lil more thickness and to come in shape, then he's Mr. Olympia. Too bad he always has that "glazed donut" 6 weeks out look like Andrew Jacked.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 03, 2025, 04:15:39 AM
Alcohol company sponsoring a bodybuilding event. ???

Big Milk Thistle is supposedly behind all of this
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: BayGBM on August 03, 2025, 05:23:14 AM
A well deserved win for Jordan!
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: joswift on August 03, 2025, 05:32:52 AM
WTF do they do to themselves to look so fucking smooth onstage compared to the build up photos?


Ah yes, its when someone else takes the photos
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: 38 returns on August 03, 2025, 05:35:14 AM
the winner looks weeks out

do the y panc and spill over?
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: joswift on August 03, 2025, 05:39:18 AM
the winner looks weeks out

do the y panc and spill over?

no, they shop all their photos and use the best lighting

Remember how Brian looked when he didnt take the photos

Sev was the same here back in the day
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: affeman on August 03, 2025, 05:40:29 AM
WTF do they do to themselves to look so fucking smooth onstage compared to the build up photos?


Ah yes, its when someone else takes the photos

I wonder how they'd look like on stage without all that last minute depleting/carbing up crap, just stepping on stage right away from their regular routine. I bet many of em would look better.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: sway on August 03, 2025, 09:31:37 AM
The guy who won his entire bicep is oil. Doesn’t even flex at all. And how about the fact he had zero control of his midsection? Nick Walker was criticized for this when Derek beat him in Pittsburg, but here it doesnt matter? Even head judge Steve Weinberger said that was a factor in Nick losing.

Just what bbing needs, another under 6ft tall guy with zero marketability. God forbid they award anything based on structure and shape.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 03, 2025, 11:44:18 AM
Congrats to all of the competitors of the 6 Weeks Out Classic
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: BigRo on August 03, 2025, 11:49:53 AM
Congrats to all of the competitors of the 6 Weeks Out Classic

All top 4 had ripped glutes, everything else not so much.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: mphgrove on August 03, 2025, 01:04:32 PM
All top 4 had ripped glutes, everything else not so much.

Not sure about that oil accusation but agree that the overall look is smooth-ish for #1. But maybe the lighting does play a role. Would need some other views.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Rambone on August 03, 2025, 01:13:17 PM
All top 4 had ripped glutes, everything else not so much.

Parsh!
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Van_Bilderass on August 03, 2025, 08:24:28 PM
The guy who won his entire bicep is oil. Doesn’t even flex at all.



They were ALL full of oil in bis, tris and delts most noticeably, but all muscles are touched up. As BB fans you should all notice this easily but some just don't (not saying you don't sway).
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Methyl m1ke on August 04, 2025, 06:20:47 AM
They were ALL full of oil in bis, tris and delts most noticeably, but all muscles are touched up. As BB fans you should all notice this easily but some just don't (not saying you don't sway).

Personally i believe the ifbb judges are destroying the sport on purpose
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Grape Ape on August 04, 2025, 07:43:13 AM
Personally i believe the ifbb judges are destroying the sport on purpose

They've banded together for a higher cause?
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: mphgrove on August 04, 2025, 08:18:47 AM
Personally i believe the ifbb judges are destroying the sport on purpose

Whatever their individual stories, the leadership are simply muscle mass schmoess, and what defines mass evolves for them. That is the only true motivation. It could be about money and what draws crowds and sponsorships but I think it boils down to pure schmoedom. The other judges follow.
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Humble Narcissist on August 04, 2025, 08:36:30 AM
Personally i believe the ifbb judges are destroying the sport on purpose
Why would they put themselves out of a job?
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: Van_Bilderass on August 04, 2025, 02:43:10 PM
Personally i believe the ifbb judges are destroying the sport on purpose

I don't know about that. I think they are bending to pressures of what they think the broader, however small, fan base wants. To be sure there are pressures to judge a certain way, aren't the wannabe judges "tested" by how close they follow the actual established judges? Milos is always hilarious on the topic of judging and often I agree. They just cut a lot of fellas before they have even hit one pose, extreme hurry to keep the timetables in shows, Milos is always wanting extended comparisons, a few more hours of them, I mean I guess they could do that in the pre-judging if they had the patience... :D
Title: Re: Tampa Pro 2025
Post by: joswift on August 04, 2025, 02:59:33 PM
I don't know about that. I think they are bending to pressures of what they think the broader, however small, fan base wants. To be sure there are pressures to judge a certain way, aren't the wannabe judges "tested" by how close they follow the actual established judges? Milos is always hilarious on the topic of judging and often I agree. They just cut a lot of fellas before they have even hit one pose, extreme hurry to keep the timetables in shows, Milos is always wanting extended comparisons, a few more hours of them, I mean I guess they could do that in the pre-judging if they had the patience... :D

same in amateur shows, if you dont get in the initial sift on the quater turns (judges place their top six then) then you are pretty much fucked regardless of how much you shine after, judges seldom change their mind in the initial pick