2010 Battle on the Bluff Results

The NPC 2010 Battle on the Bluff Bodybuilding, Figure and Bikini was held July 24 at Sam's Town Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi. Promoter Chris Caudy, owner of Next Level Training, Memphis (also an NPC judge and bodybuilding champ), delivered an outstanding event as expected! As you may know, this is just the second year for NPC bikini events, and the bikini girls really turned out!                       

We were so disappointed that we didn't get to attend (Jimmy was competing at the Nationals in Pittsburgh) but Chris was kind enough to share results with me so that I could share them with you!  

Special shout out to Dottie Wendler, Nicole Conner and Terry Kimble for their first bikini competitions! Great job! Also, shout out to "Rabbit" Broadnax, without a doubt my favorite high-energy crazy man to watch in the gym! 

Here are some facts to know about the competitors and entry requirements:

• Novice means first contest ever. 
• Masters Men's Bodybuilding is age 40 and over. 
• Grandmasters Men's Bodybuilding is age 50 and over. 
• Juniors are those who have never won an overall title in an NPC contest and have not ever placed in an NPC open contest.  
• Only the top 5 in each class were awarded trophies. 
• Women's Figure Short is up to and including 5'4", Medium is over 5'4" and including 5'6" and Tall is over 5'6". 
• Women's Bikini Short is up to/including 5'3" and Tall is over 5'3". 
• Women's Master Figure is 35 years and older. 

Women's Bodybuilding weight class is as follows:

• Lightweight: up to and including 125 lbs
• Middleweight: Over 125 lbs and up to/including 140 lbs
• Heavyweight: Over 140 lbs

The weight classes are all slightly different between men's novice, men's junior and men's open. Here are the weight classes for Men's Open:

• Lightweight: Up to and including 154.25 lbs
• Middleweight: Over 154.25 lbs and up to/including 176.25 lbs
• Light Heavyweight: Over 176.25 and up to/including 198.25 lbs
• Heavyweight: Over 198.25 lbs

Okay, without delay, here they are. Be sure to check out the end of the post for additional links to Battle on the Bluff resources.

2010 Battle on the Bluff Results
(placement, name, competitor #)

Teenage Bodybuilding 
1st Tyler Starich (1)
2nd Reid Nichols (2)

Men's Novice Bodybuilding 

Novice Lightweight
1st Jim Kurtz (6)

2nd "Rabbit" Broadnax (5)

3rd Scott Quick (4)

4th Mars Pope (3)

5th Adam Geoff (9)

6th Jerry Thomas (8)

7th Johnnie Richardson (10)

8th Ron Grubbs (7)

Novice Heavyweight 
1st Christopher Beaty (16) Overall Novice Winner

2nd Tony Lucas (14)

3rd David Allen (15)

4th Austin Barr IV (13)

5th Jesse Johnson (11)

6th Sidney Ray Eudy (12)

Masters 40+ Men's Bodybuilding 

Masters 40+ Lightweight
1st Tad McCarty (91)

2nd Jim Kurtz (17)

3rd Johnnie Richardson (19) 

4th Marty Shettlesworth (18)

Masters 40+ Heavyweight
1st Kirk Warren (21)
2nd Nathan Palmer (20)

Grandmasters 50+ Men's Bodybuilding
1st Mike Kimble (22)

2nd Spike Huber (25)

3rd Kevin Anthony (24)

4th Mike Farah (23)

5th James Boyd (26)

Bikini

Bikini Short
1st Heather Bell (32) Overall Bikini Winner

2nd Brooke Mozley (27)

3rd Aya Nakane (34)

4th Nikki Rollins (33)

5th Nicole Conner (31)

6th Karen Avent (28)

7th Ashley Pauletic (29)

8th Terry Kimble (30)

Bikini Tall 
1st Anna Hurt (36)

2nd Dottie Wendler (37)

3rd Callie Steward (35)

Bikini Masters 
1st Anna Hurt (40) 

2nd Karen Avent (39)

3rd Callie Steward (38)

4th Terry Kimble (41)

5th Michelle Huber (42)

Figure 

Figure Short
1st Carolyn Ocampo (44)

2nd Amanda Benton (46)

3rd Shea Bakeris (47)

4th Jo Chambers (43)

5th Lavoris Anderson (45)

Figure Medium 
1st Yelena Lapoua (48) - Overall Figure Winner

2nd Cindy Steele (49) 

3rd Crystal Wheeler (50) 

4th Janna Demonbreun (51)

5th Amanda Rogers (54)

6th Kelly Easby Smith (55)

7th Erin Fitzpatrick (52) 

8th Tenelle Jones (53)

Figure Tall 
1st Kristen Carver (58)

2nd Tymika Glenn (57)

3rd Angela Panozzo (56)

Masters Figure

Masters Figure Short
1st Carolyn Ocampo (60) - Overall Masters Figure Winner

2nd Amanda Benton (62)

3rd Shea Bekeris (63)

4th Jo Chambers (59)

5th Levoris Anderson (61)

Masters Figure Tall 
1st Kelly Easby Smith (64)

Junior Men Bodybuilding

Junior Lightweight
1st Mike Kimble (66)

2nd Tyler Starich (65)

3rd Igor Butorsky (67)

Junior Middleweight
1st Ronnie Shumpert (68)
2nd Marty Shettlesworth (69)

Junior Heavyweight
1st Bayne O'Grady (70) - Overall Junior Men Winner

2nd Shane Pickard (73)

3rd Kevin Anthony (71)

4th Sam Bradshaw (72)

Bodybuilding Women

Women Lightweight 
1st Leslie Heidmann (74) - Overall Open Women Winner

Women Middleweight 
1st Brenda Skillern (75)

Open Men Bodybuilding

Open Lightweight
1st Rick Kaiser (76)

2nd Justin Hamm (78)

3rd Reid Nichols (77)

Open Middleweight 
1st Tad McLarty (80)

2nd Rob Stamey (81)

3rd Farsha Jones (79)

Open Light-Heavyweight
1st Deshawn Glass (84) - Overall Open Men Winner 

2nd Kirt Warren (82) 

3rd Spike Huber (83)

Open Heavyweight 
1st Sam Gidden (90)

2nd Antionne Scott (89)

3rd Brett Cotter (85)

4th Cornelius L. Smith (86)

5th Nathan Palmer (87)

6th Tracy Evans (88) 

Links
Chris Caudy, Owner/Trainer, Next Level Training
Battle on the Bluff, Facebook
Battle on the Bluff website/entry form

NPC Battle on the Bluff 2010 Date Change!

To everyone who is interested in competing in or attending the 2010 NPC Battle on the Bluff Bodybuilding, Figure, and Bikini Competition, there has been a date change! This year the competition will be held on Saturday July 24, 2010.

Please make a note of this on your calendar. Chris Caudy, an NPC judge and owner/trainer of Next Level Training in Memphis, is the promoter and he puts on a fab show. It just keeps growing every year!

The event is held at Sam's Town Hotel and Casino in Tunica, MS. Entry forms will be posted at http://www.battleonthebluffbodybuilding.com/, so watch the site for the updated form. Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster or on-site at the door, but I'd get tickets early. You can purchase tickets to the pre-judging for Saturday morning and also for the Final Show Saturday night. Weigh-in/check-in for competitors will be Friday evening. I've not heard for sure, but I'm hoping he uses SunBlast Mobile Tanning again this year as they did a fantastic job last year.

More to come as we get closer to the big event...

Related posts:

NPC Battle on the Bluff 2010

NPC Battle on the Bluff 2009 Results

2009 NPC Battle on the Bluff Review

NPC Battle on the Bluff 2009

NPC Battle on the Bluff 2010

EDIT: There has been a date change! The new date for the NPC Battle on the Bluff Bodybuilding 2010 is Saturday July 24, 2010!

This year the NPC Battle on the Bluff Bodybuilding, Figure and Bikini contest will be held on Saturday June 26, 2010. The promoter is Chris Caudy, of Next Level Training in Memphis, TN. Typically the contest is held in Tunica, MS at Sam's Town Hotel and Casino. You can watch the website for updates and entry forms and also watch Sam's Town and Ticketmaster to obtain more information and tickets, and I will be posting about it as well.

My husband Jimmy is rounding out his winter season with a continued focus on muscle building. It's time to clean up the eating a little more, be sure to take in adequate calories and begin some metabolic work on his off days. As of right now, he's added about 5 pounds of muscle since last year while maintaining a comfortable single digit bodyfat. Not too bad for a 60 year old guy! This strategy seems to pay off for him. He maintains about a 90% clean diet with ample calories, but doesn't bulk up to the point that he'll lose all his muscle trying to lean back out.

The 2010 NPC Battle on the Bluff should be a great show again this year. For more info on last year's show please see my previous blog post here. I'll be sure to post throughout the season again this year along with pictures and other info you may find helpful.

If you plan to compete at Battle this year in bodybuilding (men and women), figure, fitness or bikini, you have exactly 154 days before peak week!

Related Posts:

NPC Battle on the Bluff 2010 Date Change!

NPC Battle on the Bluff 2009

Battle on the Bluff is an annual NPC bodybuilding, figure and bikini contest presented by Chris Caudy. It will be held at Sam's Town Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi on Saturday evening June 27, 2009 at 7pm. The bodybuilding divisions include novice, junior, teen, open, masters (men over 40), grandmasters (men over 50) and female bodybuilding. Women's figure will include a masters category as well. This will be Jimmy's (my husband) first competition for 2009 (4th total).

If you have never been to a bodybuilding competition, you should find one and go! While the pros are fantastic, I tend to like the flavor of the amateur shows. Most of these men and women will never go pro, but they put a tremendous amount of time and effort into training, nutrition and general preparation. I would have never thought to go to one until Jimmy was encouraged to enter his very first competition last year. Check out Living with a 59 Year Old Mesomorph for how all that got started! The amateur shows have strict rules and regs and are very well run but they offer a chance to mingle with the competitors and you get to meet many of the family members that have supported them through the process, which makes it feel a bit more personal.

Never mind that Jimmy was the actual competitor, by the time we got to our first show last year I was quite traumatized by the contest prep training schedule, macronutrient juggling act, ordering french-cut posing trunks, the posing practice sessions, selection of show music, last-7-day nutrition lockdown, teaching him to shave areas other than his face and the very scary tanning process. I still feel nauseated at the smell of a certain brand of tanning solution that I won't mention by name to protect the innocent. I had no idea what to expect and could literally write a dedicated blog post on each of those items. Needless to say I was quite the shy spouse at the first show weigh-in, but by the next day I was yelling out Jimmy's number during prejudging with a loud woo-hoo along with shouts to show more quad. That's what spouses do at these shows apparently.

Last year by competition time Jimmy was around 7% bodyfat. That was fantastic, but he wanted to add more muscle for this year if possible. He loosened up a little on his eating during the winter months to modestly increase his calories but basically continued to eat whole foods focused on a foundation of lean protein and fibrous veggies with fruit, healthy fats and whole grains thrown in. He wasn't afraid to cheat here and there. He topped out in the winter at 15 pounds heavier, but never even got to 9% bodyfat. Now that he's been leaning back out he's dropped fat but is maintaining the muscle nicely.

His priority areas the last several months were his lats, delts and pecs. He has really improved his front lat-spread pose. We've figured out we like his left delt and his right pec the best, go figure. His trainer won't even let him work his calves, they are so big. I wish I had a dollar for every pull-up he's done this winter. He's now also doing weighted dips and has abs like batman. His quads are a challenge area for him that he's continuing to work on, but his hams are looking nice. It's amazing the more you understand about how much work it takes to get specific muscle groups to stand out or get that shredded look. It's tough!

I will continue to post since we are officially 5 days out from the first weigh-in. This should be a fun summer!