Nude Body Building contest

[Craig26]

Recently my local gym hosted a body building competition. This has happened many times without anything special happening. Well someone got the idea to try it without posing straps. Usually it is and audiance of just contenders with their wives,partners, or husbands. No children are ever in attendance and if that should happen to have a child attend we have a day care on site. We were plenty scared and nervous but we did it. We had 48 to show up for the pagent. 18 ladies and 30 guys and it was a huge success. In previous contest I was scared to the point of not being able to pose well. This time I was fine and did well. We had allot of fun and it was very professional. When I was presented my trophy the guy presenting it was in a tux. He started to hand it to me on stage then said wait a minute and went off stage. He returned in minutes just wearing his bow tie. The audiance started out totally clothed but eventually some got naked. The reception after was great and most contestants stayed nude and many of the audiance got nude too. Many said they had never been naked before in front of anyone and it was a great experience. We did not advertise this as much as we wanted as we are in Greensboro NC and knew we might get some real problems from the community.

Craig

[Craig26]

Recently my local gym hosted a body building competition. This has happened many times without anything special happening. Well someone got the idea to try it without posing straps. Usually it is and audiance of just contenders with their wives,partners, or husbands. No children are ever in attendance and if that should happen to have a child attend we have a day care on site. We were plenty scared and nervous but we did it. We had 48 to show up for the pagent. 18 ladies and 30 guys and it was a huge success. In previous contest I was scared to the point of not being able to pose well. This time I was fine and did well. We had allot of fun and it was very professional. When I was presented my trophy the guy presenting it was in a tux. He started to hand it to me on stage then said wait a minute and went off stage. He returned in minutes just wearing his bow tie. The audiance started out totally clothed but eventually some got naked. The reception after was great and most contestants stayed nude and many of the audiance got nude too. Many said they had never been naked before in front of anyone and it was a great experience. We did not advertise this as much as we wanted as we are in Greensboro NC and knew we might get some real problems from the community.

Craig

Very interesting ... you'll have to make it a monthly event.

This is more proof to my belief that if people would only give social nudity a try they would enjoy it and wonder why they hadn't done it sooner.

I told a married man at work yesterday that I was a nudist and that I go to Turtle Lake Resort. He was very interested but said his wife wouldn't be. He said he might go there without his wife, and I told him to tell her that she doesn't have to be nude unless she wants to swim or use the hot tub. I hope he does that.

Be nude and have fun. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[SD Beach Bare]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Craig26:
Recently my local gym hosted a body building competition. This has happened many times without anything special happening. Well someone got the idea to try it without posing straps. Usually it is and audiance of just contenders with their wives,partners, or husbands. No children are ever in attendance and if that should happen to have a child attend we have a day care on site. We were plenty scared and nervous but we did it. We had 48 to show up for the pagent. 18 ladies and 30 guys and it was a huge success. In previous contest I was scared to the point of not being able to pose well. This time I was fine and did well. We had allot of fun and it was very professional. When I was presented my trophy the guy presenting it was in a tux. He started to hand it to me on stage then said wait a minute and went off stage. He returned in minutes just wearing his bow tie. The audiance started out totally clothed but eventually some got naked. The reception after was great and most contestants stayed nude and many of the audiance got nude too. Many said they had never been naked before in front of anyone and it was a great experience. We did not advertise this as much as we wanted as we are in Greensboro NC and knew we might get some real problems from the community.

Craig <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[SD Beach Bare]

Oops sorry I goofed the first time I tried to reply. Craig, I am really impressed that your health club was open to a nude body building contest. What a great idea! I am equally surprized at the number of contestants who participated. I'm curious; was it clothing optional or did all 48 of the contestants model nude? Did you get any negative responses when the idea was first proposed? I think it's great that whoever proposed it felt confident enough to do so and got a positive response. By the way congratulations on your prize and kudos to the presenter who decided to the appropriate formal wear was just a tuxedo tie. What do you suggest to promote this in other clubs? Also, how was it advertised and what was the turn out like for attendance and their response?

[Stewey]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>The reception after was great and most contestants stayed nude and many of the audiance got nude too. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Do you really expect me to buy any of this? You mean to tell me that a North Carolina local gym, with body-building contestants and the viewing audience, just one day decided to get nude for no reason? Yeah, and pigs will fly out of my butt. At the least, one would think that body builders would be the last people ever to get nude in public, seeing as how they are so self-conscious about their bodies that they have to build them up so.

[Snoboy]

Dukhat, I agree with you. I think it would be awesome but not happening in a regular setting...and certainly not there. But heck, I loved his fantasy...I have friends who are avid body builders and who have won major competitions and a couple of them would not have a problem posing nude but all of the contestants, and the MC stripping...NOT! The audience was way over the top. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[MikeyBear1964]

Note to Dukat:

Craig26 hasn't said a word in his defense. Looks like you're right again Duk!

[Stewey]

Thanks, Mikey. Frankly though, I don't know what appalls me more; the fact that this guy's writing is amateurish fanboy drivel, or that there were people here who actually believed him.

[Kristin]

Unfortunately, I must agree with you Dukhat. This one does seem a little too far-fetched.
However, why do you find it necessary to call everyone's story BS? This is far from the first time you've done this, and usually it's to much more believable stories. I thought the purpose of this group was to encourage people in their efforts in nudism, not to shut them down.
Once again, I don't quite believe this story, I'm just taking the opportunity to b***h to Dukhat about his past offenses.

[Stewey]

Believe me, if I feel that someone's nudism-related story is true, I'm not going to make a negative comment about it. As a matter of fact, if Craig or whatever his name is had made a comment that it was in fact just a fictitious story, I wouldn't have even responded to it. But the fact was that he made it sound like it actually happened, and that people believed him. That's when I spoke up. I'm not trying to be anyone's moral guardian here. People can believe what they want. But I will also believe what I want, and post my feelings accordingly, just as you have posted yours.

Admittedly, you may be valid in your assumption that I've responded to past posts like this in what you view to be a negative way. However, I've also gotten praise from several members of this forum, including the administrators, for my responses. Apparently, they don't see things the same way you do. I suppose that I'm just the type of person who doesn't like to take a lot of BS. And if you don't like it, all I have to say is that I never claimed to be an innocent angel, or that I can please everyone every time with what I say.

Plus, I could have given you a very negative response, such as: e.g. "I don't have to justify my actions or words to you, since you're no innocent angel either", but I feel I've answered your question in a rational, non-negative manner. Take that for what it's worth.

[Kristin]

Thank you, Dukhat. I do take that for what it's worth, and it's worth quite a lot. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to criticize you.

[Bartamus]

Kristin and Dukhat: You're both valuable
contributors to this forum. Dukhat, aside from
being a dedicated naturist, is our B.S. detector.
I have reigned him in once or twice in the past,
but generally his responses are cleverly
written and well thought out.
Kristin brings a fresh new outlook to the forum
and we appreciate it.
If you both can agree to disagree..so be it!

My problem is that I tend to be too trusting and also tend to believe people to be telling the truth. I got caught up in Craig's fantasy because I wanted to believe it. It was harmless fun for a while believing that non-nudists were actually joining in on the fun of being nude.

You would think that by age 56 I would have learned not to believe everything I'm told. However, my other problem is that I consider myself to be a very honest person and therefore expect the truth from others. It's very unrealistic I know, but if only we COULD trust whatever people say.

Be nude and have fun. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[Craig26]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SD Beach Bare:
Oops sorry I goofed the first time I tried to reply. Craig, I am really impressed that your health club was open to a nude body building contest. What a great idea! I am equally surprized at the number of contestants who participated. I'm curious; was it clothing optional or did all 48 of the contestants model nude? Did you get any negative responses when the idea was first proposed? I think it's great that whoever proposed it felt confident enough to do so and got a positive response. By the way congratulations on your prize and kudos to the presenter who decided to the appropriate formal wear was just a tuxedo tie. What do you suggest to promote this in other clubs? Also, how was it advertised and what was the turn out like for attendance and their response? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Trailscout]

Last year I created the spoof story that April 31st was proclaimed National Nude Day or something like that.

I took in a few folks with that one, but my fictitous story was written to express my hope that someday we (or more likely our grandchildren) would live in a culture that affirms nudity from the highest level.

I used a silly story to make my point and I think some of you got the message.

This story is probably fictitious, but this fable conveys a very positive message about an event we would love to see in real life.

I took no offense with this story.

[Kristin]

After what Trailscout said, I just wanted to make it clear that in my first post, I was only saying that I didn't believe Craig's story. I also took no offense from it.