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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 13:17:15 GMT -5
Post by Shane Vasquez on Nov 18, 2008 13:17:15 GMT -5
Has anyone else seen this? not sure if this has ever been posted
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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 13:23:57 GMT -5
Post by Todd Smiley on Nov 18, 2008 13:23:57 GMT -5
i wonder if you got two real big guys on there if you could break it...
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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 14:00:52 GMT -5
Post by simon on Nov 18, 2008 14:00:52 GMT -5
This thing has surfaced on here a dozen times over recent years, though I never heard of anyone actually competing in it.
I scanned the Hall of Fame and Bill Logdson is listed in there with 5 championships, anyone else ever been on this thing?
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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 15:58:01 GMT -5
Post by James Battles on Nov 18, 2008 15:58:01 GMT -5
My brother wrestled on one of these machines many many years ago. The problem is that it can be cheated on. The only answer there is to eliminating the cheating is to have the handle be telescopic. The ringer they had years ago had a very long forearm and the first thing he did in every match was slide his elbow to the edge of the pad and use the length of his arm to wedge while whoever he pulled would try to pull through . I cannot diagram the way he used it but I think all the armwrestlers will understand. Now if they had the arms telescoped each opponent could change the handle length to fit their forearm length and that might make it a bit less of a fraud however it removes the use of the hand all together. |\ < wedge example. Notice the black guy who was winning in the video and his long forearm. Once people realized they did not have the forearm length to use the same technique then it is nothing more than a failure. I guess you could raise the elbow pad too. I was thinking maybe they had done that in recent years but when my brother wrestled on one it did not have any of that . He made it to the finals but the long forearm kid won after like five minutes of my brother pounding on him wedging. They wrestled on a table top afterward and the guy could not even move Sam's arm.
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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 17:25:24 GMT -5
Post by Leonard Harkless on Nov 18, 2008 17:25:24 GMT -5
I have heard of several broken arms without anyone there who knew how to take care of the injured competitor. This is a info commercial to sell machines.
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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 17:30:48 GMT -5
Post by Don Underwood on Nov 18, 2008 17:30:48 GMT -5
i have done this and it sucks gimmic only goes so far
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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 20:23:40 GMT -5
Post by Shane Mclaughlin on Nov 18, 2008 20:23:40 GMT -5
I pulled at a WCA event about 3 years ago in St. Joe, MO ..Bill L. was only other real armwrestler there took second behind me. It was a big time joke, just a good way of getting injured, and waste of a 3.5 hour drive. It takes away the hand & back pressure for sure..Just screw the elbow pad all the way up then drive straight to the side or turn your body and do a one arm pull-up. The key is the pull bar only moves one direction, I was loading all this back pressure and tweaked something between my shoulder blades my first match. The guy promoting it wanted everyone to go to as many event as possible b/c the most wins was suppose to get invited to the World Championship of the WCA to Vegas which was going to be on TV...Don't think that ever happened. My advice run the other way and go to a real tourney!
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WCA
Nov 18, 2008 20:31:36 GMT -5
Post by Mike Moeller on Nov 18, 2008 20:31:36 GMT -5
yeah its garbage and tears up your arm if youre not careful since it only moves one way like shane said.
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WCA
Nov 19, 2008 13:29:01 GMT -5
Post by Craig Brought on Nov 19, 2008 13:29:01 GMT -5
I think on one of the earlier threads on here about this Duke Sarkisian(sorry Duke if I mispelled your name)said he did a few of these events.
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WCA
Nov 19, 2008 17:18:47 GMT -5
Post by Willie Reagan on Nov 19, 2008 17:18:47 GMT -5
This was real popular in the early 1980's. I pulled on it several times. There was little or no technique involved. I never saw anyone get injured. It was basically nothing more than side pressure and a big explosion off of the start. I won almost every event that I went to, but I always perferred traditional armwrestling. The only reason I pulled on the machines is because I knew the person that owned one. I told him that it would fade out and it did. Nothing more than a fad. They held tournements for about eight years or so in my area, and it drew a big crowd. At the same time I was wristwrestling, which was real popular around here as well.
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WCA
Nov 20, 2008 10:53:16 GMT -5
Post by Shane Vasquez on Nov 20, 2008 10:53:16 GMT -5
do they still use this machine today or are they all put up? I would like to try one if i ever seen them around
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WCA
Nov 20, 2008 13:42:50 GMT -5
Post by Josh Handeland on Nov 20, 2008 13:42:50 GMT -5
A couple months ago I was searching on google trying to see if there was an Iowa State Armwrestling Tournament this year and I found this. They had this thing at some fair in Iowa this year.
I didn't go. Doesn't look very fun. I would rather just stay in Minnesota and practice real armwrestling.
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WCA
Nov 20, 2008 20:58:31 GMT -5
Post by Jake Smith on Nov 20, 2008 20:58:31 GMT -5
id take anything local stupid or not. I got an itch!
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WCA
Nov 20, 2008 22:49:41 GMT -5
Post by Willie Reagan on Nov 20, 2008 22:49:41 GMT -5
Thats what is was here in Ohio-Monster Armwrestling.
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WCA
Nov 21, 2008 0:17:34 GMT -5
Post by Josh Handeland on Nov 21, 2008 0:17:34 GMT -5
Yeah if it was in Minneapolis or like within an hour I probably would go. Not gonna drive 5 hours though for that, that's just me though.
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