Today my "Hard News" will lead off with a full description of the latest video I have completed this week. it has been put together over a period of many weeks and consists of a number of highlights, many quite controversial from the 2000 Olympia Weekend. This is material I had held back from the early releases. 

"What is controversial about the Olympia?" you may ask. The judging can be if you take a look at the whole picture from the order in which things are done at the prejudging in Round One, the rotation of judges, to the perception of judging by the top professionals. 

First of all, here is a list of who you will see in this new video entitled "Controversial Muscle at the 2000 Olympia", GMV-391: 

SHAWN RAY, WAYNE DEMILIA, RONNIE COLEMAN, BIG SEAN ALLAN, FLEX WHEELER, JOHN HNATYSCHAK, MILOS SARCEV, PAUL DILLETT, CHRIS DICKERSON, KEVIN LEVRONE, FLAVIO BACCIANINI, LOU FERRIGNO, CHARLES & GAVIN BLAKE, ROB DELUCA, DEXTER JACKSON, LEE PRIEST, AARON MADDRON, RICHARD SANDRAK and CHRIS CORMIER. 

The video starts with the Mr. Olympia Meeting and the fascinating debate between SHAWN RAY and WAYNE DEMILIA re the round one judging procedure. See who wins the argument!! Then there is more controversy at the Press Conference with Shawn and Ronnie, plus Flex versus Big Sean Allan. Next day we taped some posing with Big Sean which is included in this video. 

Then the action moves to Muscle Beach, set up to resemble the old Muscle Beach in Santa Monica. JOHN HNATYSCHAK (recent 3rd 2001 Masters' Olympia) does a short workout for me, plus posing, followed by a short segment on correct bench press technique by MILOS SARCEV. 

Two total extremes of physique in FLAVIO BACCIANINI and LOU FERRIGNO were also at Muscle Beach giving training tips - Flavio was in absolutely fantastic shape and hit some poses for us.   

PAUL DILLETT is included in an interview after the Press Conference plus his posing routine, then KEVIN LEVRONE in a fun interview at the "Meet the Olympians" night as well as his posing routine. 

Then more interviews and posing from DEXTER JACKSON, LEE PRIEST sand ROB DELUCA. Plus fun posing segments at the Expo with AARON MADDRON and boy wonder RICHARD SANDRAK. 

Finally, to round out the video an interview and posing routine by CHRIS CORMIER (again in fantastic condition), and we chat with WAYNE DEMILIA and CHARLES BLAKE. 

Some of the posing routines included in this video were actually taped by me when I stood on the rear of the stage at the '99 Olympia, but they have not been used before. 

Here are the details again: GMV-391 74 mins $39.00. Click here for more details and pix. 

This video completes the series of videos released from the 2000 Olympia Weekend.  To refresh your memory, here are the code numbers of the rest of them.  Just click on the relevant number for the link to the video description: 
GMV-386 Mr. Olympia Pump Room # 1;
GMV-387 Mr. Olympia Pump Room # 2,
GMV-388 the Men at the Expo;
GMV-389 The Women at the Expo; and
GMV-390 The Ms Olympia Pump Room.

We are now gearing up to do it all over again this October as we capture our version of Olympia 2001 history. Look for our GMV booth at the Expo, come and say hello and pick up our special Expo deals. We will be sharing our space with Magna Media, producers of the Olympia Contest videos. Tina and I will both be at the booth from time to time throughout the Expo, so please make yourself known to us. 

************************* 

NEW GMV PREVIEWS TAPE #5 

This 75 minute preview tape has 40 previews on it showing many of our most popular videos plus many of our new releases. It is structured as 4 male previews followed by a female preview, and then similarly throughout the tape. Most previews run for 2 minutes per video title. 

We will be playing this preview tape at our Expo Booth at the 2001 Olympia Weekend. If you want to buy it, it is SS # 5, it runs for 75 minutes, and the price is $29.00. We don't have this on the site at present, but a new section which will show all 5 of our preview tapes will be up next week.