Originally Posted by VINZI
I agree Valliant looks great but he didn't win his class, let alone the overall. I saw Mike Van Wyck last week and he looked fantastic, huge, shredded and dry. He's also one of the nicest guys I've met, so let's not rag on him based on some old photos and room shots.
We can't base his physique on old pics. When we see the new pics, we can all decide for ourselves.
To have won his class and the overall, the guy had to be dialed in good. Even Steve King said it's going to be between Mike and Ron.
Agreed he looked much better this year then from the photo in 08. The room pic was likely taken by his GF she is like a foot shorter then him that is not the best angel. Have to wait and see comparison photo's for overalls.
Not iffy in my books. Sandy is freaky ripped and when they first came out he looked to be the guy to beat, he won middleweight a few years ago, and is an awesome competitor. But your eyes were immediately drawn to the eventual winner. they were close from the front, but the other guy destroyed from the back. He was actually MORE ripped than sandy if that is even possible. Another thing to note is that both competitors competed in middleweight, sandy didn't place top three, and the same winner took that class as well.
You're right. Its Greg, he's my bro - he looked awesome - improved from his 5th place light middle a couple years ago. In fact there was some boos on the call. I knew he wasn't going to beat mr. freaky ripped guy, but I had greg for #2 even though I had a slight bias, I bet it was close between the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. It was the hardest class to judge, and probably the most competitive. Even the winner from a few years back didn't make top 5.
Dennis james guest pose was pretty good too. he's a cool guy, went right into the audience all over for a good 5 minutes!
Most of the guys looked great. In a show like this, though, the eighth and ninth place guys could go to a local and walk off with an overall! I did very well provincially and I didn't make top 5, maybe not even top ten. Best I've ever looked!
Fixed it on the main results list in the other thread found here
2009 Canadian National Bodybuilding Championship Results
sAW lEON BACKSTAGE...HE IS A WORTHY WINNER OF THIS!
First pics of Ron and Mike up. Large format in the thread called 2009 Canadian Nationals in Vancouver. I took the liberty if resizing them to keep the discussion going. Check out the other thread though as listner posted up some info for the Dennis James seminar at Pantheon gym on Hornby Street.
Im sure Mike worked very hard for his physique, but this photo doesnt make much sense to me. I hope there were other angles that justified the selection.
Vaillant looks great in pics by himself...just like last year he looked fantastic in pics but when he is compared to other guys at this level its a different story...he loses alot of the lustre...last year his conditioning was way off and he didnt do well. we'll have to wait for pics of this year to see if there was any improvement.
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