The Arnold

Kev M

The Arnold's on tomorrow for any bodybuilding fans out there. It's being webcast again on http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/2011-arnold-sports-festival.htm

Prejudging in the evening
then finals late at night

It's gonna be Evan Centopani's first big show, and going by how he looked winning the flex pro 2 weeks ago, I seriously think he can win this too, defo top 3. There are two guys in his way, Dexter and Branch Warren. Branch has to be the favourite going in. I said when Evan won his pro card in 07 that he'd be Mr. O, and still stand by that 100%. Standing next to Branch we'll see just how good he is.

Parsley

ooooh, branch & centopani... this oughta be good.

itsallaboutheL

Weightlifting and strongman tooooo.

Kev M

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Weightlifting and strongman tooooo.

This is true. I'm living vicariously through Pendlay's CalStrength updates. And hopefully Misha has a good competition.

d-gal

You are forgetting Roelly Winklaar, Dennis Wolf and Victor Martinez!

Think Vic has a massive chance top 3 at least. Working well with his new coach. Roelly to give people a few surprises as well

JJayoo

Any results/pics from the Arnold amateur, interested to see how Aleksey Lesukov and Quincy Winklaar get on.

Kev M

d-gal wrote: »

You are forgetting Roelly Winklaar, Dennis Wolf and Victor Martinez!

Think Vic has a massive chance top 3 at least. Working well with his new coach. Roelly to give people a few surprises as well

You're right I completely forgot Victor!! If he's near his best nobody in the lineup can touch him imo. Could push Evan out of the top 3.
Winklaar's an absolute freak, but just not as complete as the top 3 or 4, I'd say he'll be battling with Wolf and maybe Freeman for 5th. Then there's Ronny Rockel who if he's in shape has a legitimate shot at being right up there around the top 3 aswell imo.. The Canadian guy Abiad isn't bad either! It's a really stacked show!

Parsley

when's it staaaaart?!

Kev M

Pre-judging is over now. Finals will be around 1am or so.

My take so far:

Victor - Best upper body in the show, legs are getting worse every time I see him since his knee injury. Good enough for top 3 but not near his all time best.
Branch - shredded, probably the winner. I don't like his shape, but the judges seem to!
Evan - not as good as he was two weeks ago, but still really good. Lower body from behind was alot tighter two weeks ago. I'd have him winning because I'm his no.1 fanboy , and also because he's the most complete and just has retarded rediculous quality muscle.
Dexter - looks small and flat up there, overdieted. Maybe the wost I've seen him.
Wolf - doesn't look great to me, but going by the callouts it looks like he'll do well, top 3. His shots from the front are insane, but from the back not so good and his conditioning isn't spectacular...
And now my dark horse: Ronny Rockel - this dude should be top 3. Great shape, shredded, not missing anything. However he usually gets shafted because he lives in Germany, has poor English, and hasn't any big companies bribing judges for him...
Winklaar - didn't impress me at all. Looks spilled over. Insane arms and shoulders though, especially in his most muscular!

Kev M

In the strongman: Poundstone pulled out, Savickas is running the show, Ortmayer not doing so well, Misha did some big Apollons axle jerks.

cc87

Misha has a blog going during it. Isnt too good tho really,might get interesting later.

http://blog.koklyaev.com/en/

Parsley

The hummer tyre deadlift:
"Zydrunas Savickas and Brian Shaw both lifted 1100 lbs in competition. After three judged competition lifts, competitors were allowed a fourth lift to try to break the previous record deadlift of 1100lbs by Benedikt Magnússon in 2008. In this fourth lift, Mark Felix lifted 1105.5lbs followed by Big Z who lifted an incredible 1110.5lbs"

fair going.

podge57

Watching the PL now(http://www.ustream.tv/channel/usapl-at-the-arnold)

Some super lifts so far:

Jesse Norris with a 330kg squat at 83kg and 17y/o
Dave Ricks with a 352.5kg squat at 52y/o

Looking forward to seeing Brad Gillingham and Carl Yngvar Christensen in the DL comp later

Parsley

podge57 wrote: »

Watching the PL now(http://www.ustream.tv/channel/usapl-at-the-arnold)

Some super lifts so far:

Jesse Norris with a 330kg squat at 83kg and 17y/o
Dave Ricks with a 352.5kg squat at 52y/o

Looking forward to seeing Brad Gillingham and Carl Yngvar Christensen in the DL comp later

nice to see judges being strict enough on depth calls.

boomtown84

anyone see dave ricks dealiftin 320 there...hilarious pre-lift routine!:D

squod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0I7c8JyE0

Vids from the strongman event up on this guys channel