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PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« on: July 17, 2006, 07:18:30 PM »
Im so sick of people trying to compare PDI which has yet to have its first show to the well established IFBB that is so stupid......a vast majority of you dont even know of the struggle the IFBB let alone Bodybuilding itself had to go through to make it where is today. give PDI sometime then start your crap talking or your praises.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2006, 07:23:05 PM »
lets hope Wayne De Milia can pull this off
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2006, 07:26:40 PM »
I will support this new organization. Lets hope it can get off the ground.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2006, 07:56:07 PM »
^ agreed!
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2006, 08:07:19 PM »
lets hope it does fly but remember this...

weider was smart enough to start a side business (the mags, supplements, equipment etc) to FINANCE the growth of the IFBB through the dark years against NABBA and the AAU.

PDI doesn't have that cash source unfortunately.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2006, 08:50:23 PM »
Quote from: jwb on July 17, 2006, 08:07:19 PM
lets hope it does fly but remember this...

weider was smart enough to start a side business (the mags, supplements, equipment etc) to FINANCE the growth of the IFBB through the dark years against NABBA and the AAU.

PDI doesn't have that cash source unfortunately.

Yes, it is the magazines that made the IFBB.  WIth control over the Press you have control over everything.  No other publication in the world would cover BB so they had to come up with their own.  Time, Sport Illustrated, Sporting News etc would never cover BB.  Weiders were smart when they did this. 
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2006, 09:09:06 PM »
MD had said they will be covering PDI events and they are already advertising the NOC.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2006, 09:23:46 PM »
Quote from: civello_06 on July 17, 2006, 09:09:06 PM
MD had said they will be covering PDI events and they are already advertising the NOC.
yes but MD does not give the pdi money from sales to prop it up.

starting a federation is like opening a big new gym. the startup is huge and you probably won't make a profit for 3 years or so but after that, if you survive, you can do well...

 
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2006, 09:32:45 PM »
The PDI has bumblefooted around. They don't want it enough.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2006, 11:39:31 PM »
Quote from: onlyme on July 17, 2006, 08:50:23 PM
No other publication in the world would cover BB so they had to come up with their own. 

That is not exactly how it happened.   Joe Weider was first and foremost a publisher.  He published many different types of mags, including physique, detective, gossip, and even beefcake mags.   He was a well established publisher before the first IFBB contest in 1948.  Then the IFBB only lasted into 1952, and then started up again in 1959.   But all through that gap he was still a publisher.

It's more accurate to say that the IFBB was formed to create content for the mags, than to say the mags were created to support the IFBB.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2006, 08:45:10 PM »
Lets just sit back and see...I dont think for the next 3 years that the calibur of athleates will be comparable to todays IFBB pros. we will see.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2006, 08:58:49 PM »
The PDI is doomed to fail. It's not going to last more than a year as a competitor to the IFBB.
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Re: PDI will get its start just like the IFBB started
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2006, 07:04:27 AM »
I think we will see less Pregnant athletes in the IFBB and more chances for the smaller guys like Vinny Galanti to win.

As someone else said, lets truly hold judgement till after Sept 16th to see what the turnout is. Wayne is a smart businessman as I am sure he has losses figured into the equation....

With time young Jedi....
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