Good Friday was a full day of beautiful bodies strutting the stage in Rey and Pebblz Ronquilio’s top notched show for Bodybuilding, Physique, Figure and Bikini contestants.

The Jr. Stingrey young men opened the show and, I must admit, they posed like seasoned veterans. Hats off to these high schoolers. Keep it up!

In the Men’s Novice division, there were 5 lightweight, 10 middleweight and 5 heavyweight competitors. Here are the winners in each division:

Lightweight:
1^st place – Edgar Agonias, Jr.

2^nd place – Bradley Ramos

3^rd place – Sheldon Goya

Middleweight:
1^st place – Justin Sabio

2^nd place – Kelly Valdez

3^rd place – Herbert Carino

Heavyweight:
1^st place – Alan Banas (Alan also won the Overall title and is my personal pic for Best Chest in the show!)

2^nd place – Kevin Parmenter

3^rd place – Skyler Fisher

I also want to recognize a couple other competitors in this category because they caught my attention. Props to middleweight competitor Neil Akai who gets my thumbs up for having the Best Arms of the show! I also want to call attention to another young man, Justin Lopez in the middleweight class who appears to have a great foundation to build on—you go!

Next was the Women’s Physique division (a relatively new category that recognizes moderate musculature and definition—somewhat between Bodybuilding and Figure standards). Here are the results:

1^st place – Shauna Perry

2^nd place – Ailina Eddins

3^rd place – Lisa Koehn

The Men’s Masters division followed with two weight classes: Light and Heavy. These were the winners:

Lightweight:
1^st place – Chad Machado

2^nd place – Daniel Arce

3^rd place – Eassie Soares-Haae

Heavyweight:
1^st place – Stan Aio (Stan clearly won the Overall title and he is my pick for the Best Body of the Show! Great job Stan!)

2^nd place – David Feathera

3^rd place – Allen Mahuka

(Sorry. I missed the group pic.)

In the Women’s Masters division, we saw more familiar faces. There were also two divisions: short and tall.

Short class:
1^st place – Masayo Shibata (Masayo also took the Overall award. Congrats Masayo!)

2^nd place – Melanie Tantisira

3^rd place – Michell Thompson

Tall class:
1^st place – Brandy Petersen

2^nd place – Tanya Phillips

3^rd place – Cathleen Huntley

I’d like to also recognize Tall class competitor, Tanya Borabora, who entered having lost 105 lbs. Wow! For that alone, you deserve an award. Congratulations Tanya!!!

The Women’s Figure division drew a fair number of contestants in three classes: Short (6), Medium (2), and Tall (7).

Short class:
1^st place – Alexandra Cambra (Alexandra also won the Overall title.)

2^nd place – Tyra Padello

3^rd place - Noe Hokoana

Medium class:
1^st place – Tami Mahuka

2^nd place – Kerilyn Zinsman

Tall class:
1^st place – Olya Meek

2^nd place – Stefanie Basso

3^rd place – Tabitha Ramirez

The Men’s Open division came next with 5 weight classes: Bantamweight (1), Lightweight (2), Middleweight (2), Light Heavyweight (3) and Heavyweight (3).

Bantamweight:
1^st place – David Meek (David held his own with the big guys and came into the show in great form overall.)

Lightweight:
1^st place – Mark Agustin

2^nd place – Kaleo Garcia

Middleweight:
1^st place – William Prince

2^nd place – Anson Acain

Light Heavyweight:
1^st place – Kendric Tyler

2^nd place – Shaun Perry

3^rd place – William Walton (Props to William who is a cancer survivor!)

Heavyweight:
1^st place – Chad Mahuka (Chad also won the Overall title.)

2^nd place – Amren Kekahuna

3^rd place – Nick Lenzy

The popular Bikini division drew 25 competitors in two classes: Short (14) and Tall (11).

Short class:
1^st place – Bernice Maglalang (Bernice also took the Overall title. She was very pretty and had gorgeous skin that looked like butter-not kidding!)

2^nd place – Lindsey Kamakana

3^rd place – Stephany Sanchez

Tall class:
1^st place – Amy Morgan

2^nd place – Kristin Chong (who came with a huge cheering section, complete with signs!)

3^rd place – Ann Carvalho

And last but not least, the Men’s Physique division where beach body type men strut their stuff in board shorts. There were 20 men in this division: Short (8) and Tall (12).

Short class:
1^st place – Evan Arakawa

2^nd place – Wayne Kouchi

3^rd place – Tony Hansen

Tall class:
1^st place – Kenneth Parker (Kenneth also took the Overall title.)

2^nd place – Jeffery Velazquez

3^rd place – Christopher DiPrete

My final comments go out to all the competitors. I know how hard the training and diet are and, no matter what the outcome, you all deserve recognition for your hard work! Be proud of the effort you’ve made. Not everyone can handle the rigors of competition. My advice to those who want to continue to compete in Hawaii and in the sport period, review the judges scores and get feedback from the judges themselves. (Contact the Head Judge.) Most will make notes throughout the show and can offer valuable advice to help you improve. Nothing irks me more than competitors who look the same year after year, complain about their placing and never look into how they could be better. Like anything else, to do well it’s about continuous improvement.

Mahalo Rey and Pebblz for your tireless effort in putting together a grand show for all these competitors and to help the sport thrive!

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