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Re: College Football Week 13 Last big week « Result #1 Today at 7:50pm »
Looks like it's gonna be Heather as the Champ! Congrats, Heather, it was a pleasure to play pick'em with you, and I look fwd to the Bowl Season! TK....I think I gotcha for second, but you've made a heckuva charge late!
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Re: 176's right hand « Result #7 Today at 6:58pm »
Maybe time for an Update based one recent wins and activity I would say
1.Luke Kindt 2. Allen Fisher 3. Brandon Dye 4. Mike Mcgraw 5. Herman McCoy 6. Harold Ryden 7. Darren Wartena 8. Jake Smith 9. Ulysses Jones 10 Devin Bair
Just to explain I know Devin Bair is an exceptional puller but I haven't seen or heard a whole lot about him if I'm wrong correct me but I'm not aware of his activity level currently.
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Re: Table innovations « Result #9 Today at 5:56pm »
It is free rolling in bearings, but I had a pin for it so if the pullers didn't want it to spin I could just put in the pin that fits through the bottom of the handle under the table. Nobody asked for it when it was at the tournament.
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Re: Table innovations « Result #11 Today at 5:38pm »
Thanks for the reply. Is there any resistance to the rotation of the peg or is it free rolling on the bearings? Looks like a great table. Other than the Diamond plate top where a toproller slipping out could be some kinda painfull the rest looks really creative and shows a lot of thought into it. Keep up the innovative designs.
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Re: Table innovations « Result #15 Today at 4:08pm »
Glad to hear we are getting a good discussion going. The diamond plate I have on my table is on the outside of the elbow pads and out of the way, I think. But if you guys think I should eliminate the diamond plate and just pad the entire top I would since my table is a "work in progress". I went with the rotating handles because I have been told by many pullers that they wanted the best grip possible but they are chewing up there hands (skin), natuarlly when your moving across the table you do need to loosen your grip a little but still stay tight enough so your hand doesn't come off and when the handle is knurled steel you will get chewed up some. So on my table I use steel knurled handles but they sit in bearings so now you can take a good solid grip and never have to loosen it as you move around the table when pulling and you won't cut up your skin. Plus it is still WAF specs. WAF doesn't say anything about using or not using spinning hand grips (these are solidly mounted to the table). When it comes to the touch pads I have been working on a touch sensitive pad that would ring a buzzer when any pressure is applied to the elbow pads (maybe soon you will see this). The rollers on the sides I believe are a great benafit to those that hold there body hard against the table when pulling. This was another problem that was brought to my attention by pullers because they get bruised. Even with the rollers the table top is still 26 x 38 and WAF doesn't say anything about rollers. Yes I am in a gray area BUT I thought it would be fun to make a table that address all these problems and does away with them but still WAF specs. I take this table with me to shows so all can try it, you will be surprised on what an improvement these things are. And don't forget the handles turn from right to left just by the swinging of a handle under the table on the handle side (this is what the refs wanted, I do listen). Hopefully as time goes on more pullers will get a chance to try this table. I will be coming up with some other tools for arm wrestling soon. I am just testing the waters right now with this table. Please continue to voice yourself on these things because that helps me come up with new stuff.
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Re: Table innovations « Result #17 Today at 3:26pm »
I definitely agree that armwrestling tables have been stuck in the stone age and you are correct: it's embarrassing. I love your innovations. I love Gary's ROTN table innovation (elbow pads). But it is a valid point that if a person is training for WAF events that person needs to train on WAF equipment, however stone age it may be. I don't know if the side rollers qualify for that or not. At any rate, you do fine work.
I just did a drawing based on the WAF table specs. I design things for a living and the specs were hard for me to follow as written. That is a travesty. What the hell is so hard about publishing a template with actual dimensions? For pete's sake, any kid with a tape measure and a square should be able to lay out a table. The specs should be written as such and include a dimensioned set of plans.
I'm doing a WAF table dimension drawing in Excel so that anyone can open the file. Excel ain't AutoCad, so the written dimensions in text are more important that the scale of the drawing, since drawings in Excel will display differently depending on your monitor's settings.
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That is pulling more than every other weekend I thought only Michael Todd would be crazy enough to do something like that
Also what on earth made you keep track of the costs, lord what were you thinking adding up those numbers
Michael was at nearly every event we were that year. I'm not sure why we kept track of the cost. Yes it was nearly every other weekend. That year we hit 5 events in 5 weeks at one point. We had so much of eachother we were talking mean on the way home. Think we took off a couple weeks after that. CRAZY year. Painful year. Also a year in which we learned an enormous amount.
How did I keep track of the money? I had this anal retentive accountant who worked for Visa who remembered every penny. Jeremy had one, too.
We spent so much money that we did crazy stuff to save cash like taking the cheapest flights that got us to a general area of the country. I got one into Omaha with cheap rental car, Jeremy got a cheap flight into Iowa, I got into the rental and drove to Iowa and picked him up and then we both drove the rest of the way to South Dakota together. We probably saved 200 bucks. Gas was cheap then.
The trip home backfired: Sleeping in the parking lot in sub zero temps sucked, but nobody told us the airport in Iowa had bankers hours. We had to wait for the airport to open so Jeremy could get in to some heat. I was late to Omaha and missed my flight and drove the rental car back to St. Louis.
And Jeremy isn't joking. I can only remember a few that Michael Todd wasn't at. And Micheal went to several we didn't make.
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Re: Table innovations « Result #23 Today at 1:33pm »
is that diamond plate on the top if it is i would think if people slipped and slammed there hand that it would cut them or hurt like hell imo i wouldnt pull on that table untill you changed the top
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Re: How Did You Get Started?? « Result #24 Today at 1:32pm »
I work at GNC. This guy came in my store. He weighed about 320lbs. He was asking me about a certain supplement. After a while asked me if I was any good at armwrestling. I was a weight lifter. And I just got into body building at that time. I told him I was pretty good. I really Knew nothing about armwrestling other than what I seen on the movie Over The Top. He told me his name was Lee Freeman. He wanted to see if I was any good, so we armwrestled right on the gondola in my store and I beat him. I weighed about 175lbs at the time. Lee had 30 years of armwrestling under his belt. That was in late 2006 and I have been armwrestling ever since. I wish this was something I started in my early 20's.
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I thought only Michael Todd would be crazy enough to do something like that 
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