OK,this is he story that segways from the Glen Chabot story.
Glen ttold everyone in the gym that on Monday night he was gonna bench 650 for a triple.
That night soon came,the gym was packed,Chabot had his weight monkeys who loaded and unloded the bars for him.
IT WAS FUCKING MOBBED !!
I`m standing there with my then training partner a skinhead kid (lots more on this kid later) named Scoty Peppooon.
All of a sudden I spy this short stocky guy across the gym who looks like it could be Dave Mastorakis.
Got to a little backs story on this so it makes more sense....I`ll try o keep it brief.
I mentioned Dave Mass in another thread and said how I idolized the guy........he looked fucking insane for those times and lived locally so it was inspiring for me to witness him training.........again,keep in mind not a lot of bodybuilders back then at all and hardly any gyms either.
OK here comes the faggy part.......being beatdown by my drunken father all of my young life,I had no self esteem or self confidence so I never really spoke to Dave very much .......I was really introverted to say the very least.
My father used to beat us up and break my mothers nose and knock her teeth out so I was just a tad fucked up in the head department..............
STILL AM!! LOL

I remember doing chinups in my doorway as a kid and my father telling met hat only fa gs lifted weights.................
he was not Matty Ferrigno ! LOL

By this time in my life though,I was outspoken and a crazy ass mofo who did cray ass shit, so speaking to Dave was not a biggie for me.
Fuck Chabot and his 650 for a triple shit,i wanted to talk to the legend Dave Mastorakis.
Dave had just recently returned from California after living there for decades........he trained the likes of Leonard Nimoy,Jane Fonda,and many other celebs...............he was basically one of the very first PT`s.
Dave did remember me and we watched Chabot do his triple with 650 like a hot knife through butter.................b
ut we talked about the old days and Cali and Mountain Park,The Mentzers who Dave trained with since he was 16 or so off and on.
I posed on Daves website "The Lords Of Discipline" modeling shirts and shit with my buddy Greg Robbins and then I sold shirts for Dave at the gym since I knew everybody who trained there.
If no one bought a shirt,I`d but it myself............I wanted Dave to do good...................h
e`s a great friend and I gotta give him a call soon........it`s been far too long.
It was one of the best nights of my life ..................in sobriety that is!
