Yelp YELP CENSORS LEGITIMATE REVIEW OF TEAM TUFUNGA BUT PERMITS VULGAR EMAIL FROM PRINCIPAL SYCOPHANT, JOEL BRANDWEIN PHOTO San Francisco, California

YELP is a mightily biased website possessed of seriously screwed-up priorities and values as proved by this particular case-in-point(though numerous others exist):

So I post a perfectly reasonable and well-reasoned review of TEAM TUFUNGA TRAINING STUDIO AND GYM, 1601-B 63rd Street, Emeryville, CA 94608, www.teamtufunga.com, named after co-owner partner, Simi Tufunga, a contemporary, steroidal-looking bulk-builder(as opposed to all-natural, classic physique-style, proportioned and symmetrical body-builder), boasting gobs and gobs of excessive freaky, over-sized, mal-proportioned, bloated muscle tissue passing for a physique; which is what wins bulk-building competition trophies in that contemporary setting, so the guy deservedly rates respect for his numerous contest victories if nothing else--that being at the same time relevant but also rather beside the point.

Which is: you see, this guy's constantly surrounded by an assorted multitude of fawning and flattering sycophantic punk flunkys who happen to admire and appreciate that sort of thing, which is rightly their privilege and prerogative. Trouble is, these sycophantic punk flunkys neither recognize nor respect the perfect right of OTHERS to dislike or(God forbid!)even disdain that sort of thing.  The gist of their warped and misguided thinking is: if you don't happen to fall all over yourself fawning upon this guy like some brown-nosing, a*s-kissing sycophant-in-waiting then there's obviously something powerfully wrong with poor despicable you, and you're deserving of nothing but the most supreme contempt possible.  It's an almost inexplicably bizarre phenomenon.

Likewise, you see, you're supposed to be deathly afraid to criticize or find the least fault with the guy for fear he'll menace and intimidate you with all that bloated, supposedly overbearing bulk!

Now the one and ONLY rational reason I felt personally qualified even to DARE comment, concerning the guy and what I earnestly believe to be ill-advised and mis-advised health-and-fitness practices on his part, was that for literally some YEARS I was distantly acquainted with the guy and personally observed him(and his various antics)at rather close proximity since we happened to belong--lo and behold!--to the very same YMCA gym, where he eventually even became employed.  And over that time span I personally witnessed him perpetuate amongst gullible youngsters(agog at all that bulk)his multiple mal-practices, like lifting over-heavy weights beyond any conceivable capability with lame-a*s, piss-poor form: resorting mostly to momentum to bang, bounce, jerk and swing weights all around the gym floor in splashy displays clearly meant more to impress himself upon others than improve anybody's health, fitness or weight-training capabilities.

What's all this got to do with the matter at hand? Stick with me, it's eminently relevant and here's why: reportedly the guy most recently and severely damaged his knee(s)playing rugby--just as I'd personally witnessed his damaging his knees in times past by attempting over-heavy leg-press machine weights way beyond his capability--demanding to date not one but two surgeries.  It happens to be my educated opinion(being six-times certified in the fitness trade)that this pathetic condition of his knees derives in part from just being freakishly OVER-weight for his natural birth-given height and bone structure.  So to repeat: I post at YELP this perfectly reasonable and well-reasoned commentary concerning this situation--which I challenge any OBJECTIVE third-party to find fault with as being unduly disparaging, degrading or demeaning in the SLIGHTEST!    

Bearing all this in mind now read my remarkably mild and modest but outright CENSORED Yelp post:

"Nothing against the guy except his misguided, unthinking insistence on selling the supposed benefit of all that excessive body-bulk--whilst mocking "Old School" all-natural classic physique bodybuilders, who earned their trophies with sweat and hard work, not by ingesting growth hormones, steroids...or the latest fad in cheat-physique development: unhealthful "sport supplements."  Who do they really think they're kidding except themselves?  

Old-Schoolers whose common-sensical approach to health and fitness has been proven by greater longevity and youthful vitality far beyond what their supposedly superior contemporary counter-parts shall ever achieve--WITHOUT, it must be added, bad backs, bad hips--or bum KNEES.  

Lumbering around on a walking frame as a direct result of excessive, DYS-functional body-bulk simply is no SENSIBLE testament to true health and fitness practices, no matter how you might try to soft-soap it!  Forget the contest trophies, let's see how these contemporary bulk-builders fare past 50 and then get back to me with the TRUTH about their arthritic, incapacitated bones, joints and connective tissues!

Act now to turn the tide before it's too late!  Take a practical tip from the greatest ever all-natural classic physique champion world-class bodybuilder whose perfection of proportionate form and symmetry is yet beyond any dispute, STEVE REEVES:

"Once a person EXCEEDS his IDEAL weight for his height, he becomes out of proportion and not only no longer possesses a 'classic' physique, but DOESN'T FUNCTION OPTIMALLY EITHER."--Steve Reeves

"Old School?"  Perhaps.  But never once in 74 years did he ever have to lumber around on a walking frame for support because of excessive body-bulk, which rendered his perfectly muscular physique not just grotesquely disproportionate to his natural height and bone structure, but terribly and tragically DYS-functional as well!

Perhaps now a valuable lesson will be learned and benefited by!  One can only hope for the wisdom of common sense to finally prevail!"

Enter then one JOEL BRANDWEIN PHOTO(aka Joel Weiner-Whiner)of Albany, CA who sends me this obnoxious and vulgar message, which YELP condones and conveniently overlooks:

"You write a 'review' putting down the owner of Team Tufunga when he tore his knees apart in a rugby match?  He was a professional rugby player in Australia.  You're a out of shape moron . . . spare the world the pathetic photos of yourself in your profile and get a f**king life."

First off, I put NOT the dude himself but rather his blatant MAL-practices down.  Nor did I do the first name-calling.  But this retardate is incapable of making even that delicate distinction.  All I know for sure is: he should once and for all "spare the world" his own RETARDATION.

And YELP in the end should sorely get BOTH its priorities and values STRAIGHT at last!

Had these sycophant punk flunkys just accepted some quite fair, just and CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM then they wouldn't justly MERIT such a report as this.

My outstanding challenge to Joel Brand-Weiner-Whiner likewise remains as well: Should you EVER care to compare who's more "out of shape"...ANYTIME...

HERE ENDETH THE LESSON!!