Gymwork Review by Caprishus, video 1995, by Mass Muscle One of the best bargains out there might be this 30-minute mixed wrestling tape, which Mass Muscle has been pushing at clearance rates for the past few months. Our stars are Laura Vukov and Al. I enjoy posing and wrestling tapes where the women are in massive, offseason shape because the muscularity makes their shapes that much more curvaceous and intensely female and there's an intense betrayal of great physical and sexual power. They seem truly superhuman instead of a mutated form of humanity, which is how most contest shape female bodybuilders come off to me (sort of like the green Orion slave girls from Star Trek -- strong, extremely sexy but not quite of this world). This is to explain my analysis of Laura Vukov in this video as in the best shape I've seen her for any of the videos I have or have seen advertised. In the video, the 5-9 powerhouse claims she's at 194, and having wrestled her at 185 around the time this video was made, I'm surprised she doesn't weigh 205 or so. It's the usual Laura frame -- broad shoulders, massive ribcage, long limbs -- coated with even more muscle than usual and larger breasts. The video opens with a close up of the Mass Muscle logo on a towel. The camera pulls back to show us that the towel is covering the butt of an otherwise unclothed female bodybuilder (Robin Lisa Parker), who then goes into a rear bicep shot. Then we get a shot of Laura sitting at a table-serving-as-desk in a black one-piece mini-dress with her right leg crossed toward us over her left. The camera closes in and runs slowly over her body, lingering on those huge thighs. Now, it's time for our skeleton plot: Al comes in, asks about a workout plan, then expresses doubt Laura knows what she's doing as a trainer. During this exchange, Laura stands to tower over the 5-9, 155-pound Al with the help of her heels. It also allows the camera time to pan down to her legs and linger again. Laura's legs are an underrated part of her body because she would lose so much muscle in them when she dropped into contest shape. Her upper body stayed huge so in her contests and many of her videos, her legs look good but are overpowered by her gargantuan upper body. Anyway, this plot frame ends when Laura hoists Al over her shoulder and throws him past the camera. She then steps past the camera herself, allowing us a few seconds of seeing what it would be like to have all that muscle advancing menacingly on us. The edit cuts to Al on a mat and Laura coming from behind to camera to pounce on him. She quickly pins him, removes her shoes and dress (we see this from behind), leaving her in a lime green bikini. She was in the mood to throttle somebody today, she says. He just qualified to be the lucky party. What ensues is Laura putting Al in every wrestling hold you've ever seen as he compliments her immense size when he's not screaming or being suffocated. Personally, I like the two sequences whre Laura sits with her knees on Al's shoulders, flexing, as Al runs his hands over her musculature. There's also a very sexy sequence during which Laura grapevines Al, smothers his face with her full breasts, then pounds away at his abdomen and hips with several hip thrusts. The video closes with Laura tauntingly knocking Al out and carrying him out of the room. The difference in size between Al, as tall as the average male, but leaner, and Laura allows you to see how helpless the average guy would be in close combat against many offseason shape female physique athletes. Laura always has great energy in her videos and on stage. It helps that her enjoyment of her physical superiority is no act for the production, but an authentic love of asserting it to dominate an opponent. The 30 minutes might seem short, but more wrestling would've seemed repetitive. As it was, I wished they had done some posing work with Laura before Al enters the scene. The camera work is stagnant, also, after the plot scene. I give it 4 and a half reps out of six.