I don't know why everybody is complaining over Roelly's back being narrow and nobody making an issue over the number 2 from last night's back, hell even Branch's back has some weaknesses?
The guy just started bodybuilding and this was his pro debut!
Furthermore I'm not sure if his 'bad back' is really all that bad. I think the culprit is the way he presents it to us, the way he poses it. If he could come in a tad harder and knows how to show us his back, it would shut everybody up.
We know for years his posing needs work in order to show his physique to it's best ability, but he's just too lazy to work on it. (working with a ballerina is not the way to do it for Roelly. Get Paul Lans/Berry deMey or a video from Russ Testo or just watch other good classic posers: Shawn, Milos, Labrada, Rusty J, Russ Testo etc)
Phil doesn't have a wide back, Flex and Shawn didn't have a wide back either (better then Phil but still not wide) but these guys have such a way to pose and present their back and are so well detailed and seperated etc that you don't even see that they don't have wide backs, just very very detailed and seperated which creates a wow factor and makes their back double biceps fantastic anyway.
I agree Roelly could watch the gut in between poses, which has to do with bad posing/lack of posing practice again.
That 'grandma' WAS onstage at 1 point in her life and I think she did a pretty awesome job by putting this new pro on the Arnold stage between these Olympians and still kept his own, instead of advising him to sit out 1 or 2 more years to "fill out" or some of that crap. She had 1 year to work with him after she worked with him already for just a few months to win the Arnold Amateur. She could have come up with 1000 excuses and refer to other rookies who sat out shows, but instead she motivated and believed in Roelly that he could do it on the world's biggest stage (yes bigger then the O in my opinion) and still get a VERY respectable placing out of this and for sure Flex or MD will sign him now, mark my words and eat crow.
Good job "grandma". First time for her as well to present a pro from Holland on such an international stage of this caliber. Hats off to you as well! Now get to the english course, while Roelly is in posing practice! (want dat laat nog te wensen over
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