Damien really wanted to compete and knew it would be a huge challenge. He started dieting at 230lbs, and had a lot of work to do. He really suffered like a veteran, and worked his ass off, to weigh in at 185lbs. His level of discipline was very inspiring.

It was a fantastic to see him place 2nd out of 7 light heavies at the 2003 Muscle Beach in Edmonton. Very tough class with 3 of the competitors being very close. Damien had a great posing routine, and definitely had one of the biggest crowd responses of the night. A hard worker for sure.