Danny PADILLA - He kept getting better!

[Nether Animal]

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[Taffin]

Someone mentioned picture cropping - if you can crop a picture and then the guy looks 6ft tall he's built right - some guys still look short even when shot alone.  I think it's that their limbs need to be in proportion to avoid that dwarf-like impression - i.e. Padilla, Pastel, Benaziza being examples of proportionate limbs.

Danny's legs look ripped too - does anyone know if he did cardio?

Danny also had a great death-mask  

[Don_Dada]

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[oldtimer1]

Someone mentioned picture cropping - if you can crop a picture and then the guy looks 6ft tall he's built right - some guys still look short even when shot alone.  I think it's that their limbs need to be in proportion to avoid that dwarf-like impression - i.e. Padilla, Pastel, Benaziza being examples of proportionate limbs.

Danny's legs look ripped too - does anyone know if he did cardio?

Danny also had a great death-mask  

Danny for the 1980 Olympia rode a stationary bike for so long that everyone told him it was too much. One guy told him that when he was finished and he took off his shirt and the guy had nothing to say.

[NelsonMuntz]

This was a great interview with Danny I watched last year that someone had posted here, Danny has a great sense of humour about the whole thing

[Straw Man]

[Hypertrophy]

Saw Danny at his peak in Rochester, NY along with Pete Grymkowski as guest posers at a local bodybuilding show. Most impressive bodybuilder I have ever seen proportions wise. Danny walked down the aisle about 2 feet from me after he posed. You couldn't put another ounce of muscle on his frame. Wide isn't the right word. He was imposing even at 5'2".

I wonder if a lot of commenters on this site have actually seen any of these top guys in person. I mean the ones that comment negatively. Guys like Padilla are the ultimate in muscle development. You can't get any better than them.

[Fortress]

Danny's physique has always impressed the hell out of me. Crazy. Guys today aren't even in the same ballpark.

Never heard a bad word about Padilla, either. I think I remember Bob Kennedy telling me he ran a family store. I could be wrong.

A hard worker who didn't get the accolades he deserves.

As far as any comparison to Franco, there is none. Danny blows Sardinian Sausage away. Period.

Politics. 

[Simple Simon]

5 weeks of 2 hard boiled eggs and a chicken salad and thats the result

[Disgusted]

Met Danny briefly once a very nice guy. I wouldn't have argued if Danny beat Yates and Momo that night. I tad sharper and he could have pushed Haney that year.

[jude2]

Danny was very impressive and cool guy.

[Ronnie Rep]

Saw Danny at his peak in Rochester, NY along with Pete Grymkowski as guest posers at a local bodybuilding show. Most impressive bodybuilder I have ever seen proportions wise. Danny walked down the aisle about 2 feet from me after he posed. You couldn't put another ounce of muscle on his frame. Wide isn't the right word. He was imposing even at 5'2".

I wonder if a lot of commenters on this site have actually seen any of these top guys in person. I mean the ones that comment negatively. Guys like Padilla are the ultimate in muscle development. You can't get any better than them.

Also saw him guest pose around that time in South Florida. Huge and proportionate, probably didn't weigh 200lbs, looked massive.

[oldtimer1]

I saw him in the streets of Manhattan.  They got him listed as 5'2". He looked shorter than that.

[Danimal77]

I saw him in the streets of Manhattan.  They got him listed as 5'2". He looked shorter than that.

Some say he was only 5'1". The funny thing is Franco gets listed as 5'5", but was barely taller than Danny in 1981. Franco was at best 5'3".

[Ssxa]

Padilla was way better than Franco ever was... no comparison.

[Coach is Back!]

I have what I think is a great story when I was a kid training at Bill Pearls gym and Danny was secretly spying on Mohammed Makkawy when I was training with him.

[Cableguy]

Danny was near flawless. Should have won in '81 with Platz a close second. When you see pics of Danny standing by himself it was hard to judge his heigut due to his perfect proportions. If he was six inches taller he would have been unbeatable.

[Simple Simon]

Danny was near flawless. Should have won in '81 with Platz a close second. When you see pics of Danny standing by himself it was hard to judge his heigut due to his perfect proportions. If he was six inches taller he would have been unbeatable.

that would make him 5ft 7, still not tall enough...

[SilverSpoon]

Roger Schwab, the former head judge of the IFBB whom I worked for, said Danny Padilla was the most complete bodybuilder he ever saw.

[Cableguy]

that would make him 5ft 7, still not tall enough...

Okay, 9 inches... 

[Trev]

Danny is great, such a cool, chilled out guy.

Was screwed over so many times. I saw him at the British Grand Prix and he was awesome. Had given up dieting after his Olympia and early Grand Prix results and was just there to have fun.

[Griffith]

Starting in 1988 all the pro`s trained at my gym when they came to nottingham for the english grand prix,and i saw most of them train.And no-one,and i mean NO-ONE impressed me more than Danny.Every single muscle was perfect,and if he`d have been 5"10 he`d have won many olympias.

Even at 5'6 he probably would have had a chance.

[Danimal77]

Even at 5'6 he probably would have had a chance.

Then he wouldn't have been the Giant Killer. 

[Kwon]

PADILLA, his later look was pretty impressive, even if his midsection thickened up a bit. Could have probably gone longer, he seemed to have more gas in the tank... WBF thing prolly didn't help.

Imagine if he was 6'2~5" with those proportions of peace

[DroppingPlates]

Imagine if he was 6'2~5" with those proportions of peace

Being that tall, his head would have the size of a Kwon-approved corn silo