Ok here is the deal with the NPC guys, when your on heavy slin some of your lines may be distorted and aesthetics are compromised hence in a 2 dimensional picture you may not look as good as you would in real life, live and up close.
So where am I going with this?
The European bodybuilders are more aesthetic and have superior qualities which when viewed in a 2-dimensional picture they look extremely impressive, now that is the difference from the NPC guys.
What does this mean on a bodybuilding stage, well it means that the NPC guys are fucken enormous in live view and their 3D affect is insane, they would dwarf the European bodybuilders in a real life stage and this is not clear when comparing pics, that is why all the European guys thing they would best the NPC guys but live in person it becomes a whole different stories.
Now having said that I still think big row is top 5 at the NPC nationals, maybe even top 3 but my lord these guys in real life at the NPC look like enormous monsters and when viewed in picture they look like shit.
does shawn rhoden count as npc level?
seen him, and other than legs,(and gut!),he didnt realy dwarf the euros.
yeah on stage, it depends from how far or close one views, from some distance the more shredded guy will look better(upclose),from afar, the shreddd guy will be somewhat dwarfed and look flat,while the big guy will look just lean enough and huge,
ppl can say what they want, but on european shows,almost everyone of the placing guys will have a proper xmas tree.
there was this one short guy, huge,shocking huge legs, general big size, striated glutes, but other than that looked soft.i was looking at him and asking myself the whole time, wtf is wrong here, somethings off.
when dexter jackson says insulin makes his quad separation fade, i can only imagine what the other guys must be doing, bc on them almost every line fades away,lol.
