What is a flash?

[Josh Handeland]

I have always thought a flash was where somebody wins so fast that the other guys arm is just a blur as it goes down to the pad. Like this (no disrespect to anybody in the video):

I would call a flash. Recently I was discussing with another armwrestler what a flash was, and he said a flash "is when a match is under 3-4 seconds and one guy has complete control the entire time".

So by his definition, this would be a flash:


What do you think?

[Josh Handeland]

I personally would have called this a slow flash, anything slower wouldn't be a flash (no disrespect):

[Justin Mynatt]

None of those are a Flash. A Flash in my opinion is where a guy hits so fast that the other guy doesn't have time to react.

Let me explain: If you watch the Match at the Top Roll Tournament when Me and Bill Logston were going at it, not at the Fuel one but the one before that's on ARM TV or the one on You Tube, you'll see I Flash Bill and put him right over. I got called for an Elbow Foul but I still would have flashed him if I would of kept my Elbow on. Bill new what to expect the next go around and he was ready.

At this stage in my Arm Wrestling Bill is a better Puller than I am , but I am very fast and can on occasion Flash him . On a slow Pull bill hands me my butt every time FOR NOW ;D

[Carey Nick]

Good stuff Josh.

Flash- When I pull Chops left handed.

When I step on the scale and the numbers FLASH by 200.

[Justin Mynatt]

OH, Sorry that was a Flash on the 1st. Video with me and Yosef, I don't think he saw that coming!

[Chris Kaufman]

Just watch the Corey Miller Highlight video, you'll get the idea.

www.armwrestlingtv.com/player.php?id=48

[Josh Handeland]

I see your point Justin! When I went against Cobra Rhodes, and Scott White, I got flashed!

[Aric Wolf]

It takes your muscles a certain period of time to fire to their capacity. In my opinion it is when you or your opponent can't "get it all together" before your or his initial hit, and the match is over in about a second. I think that it is a mental thing that you need to train to prevent, or it is from a lack of experience dealing with certain moves.

In my opinion there is a difference between being flashed and just being dominated by a superior opponent. When you are flashed, you walk away saying, "Wow! He was fast." You feel like if you could have just stopped his hit, you would have won the match or at least made it last awhile. When you just get dominated you walk away saying, "I need to get better if I am ever going to beat him."

I think 9 times out of 10, a "flash" will take place courtesy of the toproll. There may be a certain guy that is just too fast, and he will flash you every time. If that is the case, I think the only way to beat him is through strength... So that when you hit about 70% of your capacity, it is enough to stop him at his 100% that he gained in the same amount of time.

It's like a camera flash; you never had a chance to blink your eyes.

[Jeramie Towle]

May 3, 2009 19:09:27 GMT -5 Aric Wolf said:

It takes your muscles a certain period of time to fire to their capacity. In my opinion it is when you or your opponent can't "get it all together" before your or his initial hit, and the match is over in about a second. I think that it is a mental thing that you need to train to prevent, or it is from a lack of experience dealing with certain moves.

In my opinion there is a difference between being flashed and just being dominated by a superior opponent. When you are flashed, you walk away saying, "Wow! He was fast." You feel like if you could have just stopped his hit, you would have won the match or at least made it last awhile. When you just get dominated you walk away saying, "I need to get better if I am ever going to beat him."

I think 9 times out of 10, a "flash" will take place courtesy of the toproll. There may be a certain guy that is just too fast, and he will flash you every time. If that is the case, I think the only way to beat him is through strength... So that when you hit about 70% of your capacity, it is enough to stop him at his 100% that he gained in the same amount of time.

It's like a camera flash; you never had a chance to blink your eyes.

Well said

[Anthony Snook]

I think a "flash" is:

VERB:
intr.

To burst forth into or as if into flame.
To give off light or be lighted in sudden or intermittent bursts.
To appear or occur suddenly: The image flashed onto the screen.
To move or proceed rapidly: The cars flashed by.
To hang up a phone line momentarily, as when using call waiting.
Slang To think of or remember something suddenly: flashed on that time we got caught in the storm.
Slang To expose oneself in an indecent manner.
VERB:
tr.


To cause (light) to appear suddenly or in intermittent bursts.
To cause to burst into flame.
To reflect (light).
To cause to reflect light from (a surface).
To make known or signal by flashing lights.
To communicate or display at great speed: flashed the news to the world capitals.
To exhibit briefly.
To hang up (a phone line) momentarily, as when using call waiting.
To display ostentatiously; flaunt.
To fill suddenly with water.
To cover with a thin protective layer.
NOUN:

A sudden, brief, intense display of light.
A sudden perception: a flash of insight.
A split second; an instant: I'll be on my way in a flash.
A brief news dispatch or transmission.
Slang Gaudy or ostentatious display: "The antique flash and trash of an older southern California have given way to a sleeker age of cultural hip" (Newsweek).
A flashlight.

Instantaneous illumination for photography: photograph by flash.
A device, such as a flashbulb, flashgun, or flash lamp, used to produce such illumination.
Slang The pleasurable sensation that accompanies the use of a drug; a rush.
Obsolete The language or cant of thieves, tramps, or underworld figures.
ADJECTIVE:

Happening suddenly or very quickly: flash freezing.
Slang Ostentatious; showy: a flash car.
Of or relating to figures of quarterly economic growth released by the government and subject to later revision.
Of or relating to photography using instantaneous illumination.
Of or relating to thieves, swindlers, and underworld figures.

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[Josh Handeland]

Good stuff, so it's pretty much like I thought, the losers arm is a blur as it goes down to the pad because it was so fast.

[Justin Mynatt]

Well only on the go. If Yosef and I slow started and I held him there and all of a sudden I just slammed his Arm down , that would not be a flash in my opinion that would be a great hit leading to the win.

[Corey "FLASH" Miller]

This video is a good example of what a flash looks like, deffintely not the fastest but one of them

[Mike Dawson]

fast??? i thought that was a slow pull!! i see the past sometimes when i hit!! ahhhhh what...

[Yosef chalbi]

oh yeah i difenently did not see that coming i did get flashed .. josh next time use your self in a video getting flashed..
i would say a flash is anything less than 2 seconds.