2008 FAME World Championships, Toronto, Canada
Sunday, June 29th, 20082008 FAME World Championships, Toronto, Canada (see new posted pictures in my BodySpace!!)
2nd place in the Professional Division wasn’t too bad 
Both Kai and I had a wonderful and amazing trip to the Great White North! It was the first trip ever that everything went wonderfully and as planned. Every reservation went smooth, every person we came in contact with was helpful, and the weather was PERFECT!
This was my first professional show with FAME and Jeff and Mindy exceeded all my expectations! Except for one small thing…the registration was a little longer than I had planned for. But, it allowed for time to meet some new people, see some old acquaintances and actually unwind a little.
In regards to my contest prep, I discovered, with a little help from a colleague in Houston, that using rice cakes in the loading phase was causing me to flatten-out and actually over dehydrate. We tried a couple new things and it worked like a charm! There were only two areas I feel I could have done “better” in hind-sight. The first was to have held my poses longer. An hour of mandatory poses and quarter-turns was BRUTAL! The second was that I wish I had researched what they looked for in their posing during the pre-judging. Coming from another organization, I became accustomed to modifying some of the mandatory poses…which I think I was scored down for in this contest. With fixing those two things…and simply improving from show to show…I don’t see how they will be able to deny my presence in the future!
Coming in second to Derrick Brown felt great! I have competed with him in the past and when I found out he was in this contest, I chose to do a Terminator 2 theme…he used a Terminator theme in our last contest. I thought it would add a little irony between the two of us. The only unfortunate part was that I didn’t get to do my “planned” routine since I was still cramping from the hour of pre-judging.
So, my congrats go out to Derrick and to Jeff and Mindy for an amazing show! I am sure there are many more great things to come with FAME!!!
Time to start prepping for the North American Championships this October 31st and November 1st in Miami!! See you all there.
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