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Post by Josh Handeland on Jul 2, 2009 17:45:40 GMT -5
Just keep your elbow down.
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Post by Bryan & De Dee Johnson on Jul 2, 2009 20:24:07 GMT -5
I totaly understand about elbow fowels and rarely foul but there was so mutch moisture in the air that you had to relese most if not all of the downpresure to slide, that is if you were in a moderate match. If you were in a long match your elbow was in a puttle of sweat. But thats the name of the game though, But damn you can keep that weather down there..
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Post by simon on Jul 2, 2009 20:39:31 GMT -5
I posted the drawing of the table on here at one point, I will try to again. I agree the rule is no lift so no lift, I have lost on elbows twice in my career once on a running elbow foul in 2001 Petaluma and once against George just recently at the Arnold, so it is not really an issue for me but I think the sport as indicated needs to find a way to let the pullers be more aggressive by eliminating most of the ticky tack elbow fouls. I agree that calling fouls only if you gain position is not the way to go hence why I sited the example. There was another design I pitched where there was a elbow cuff tethered to the elbow pad that gave you only enough leash to make it to the limits of the elbow pad and slightly off (up) maybe a smaller elbow pad would be needed, but with this there are no elbow fouls as both pullers can only come off the same amount so there are no elbow fouls to call.. It would be like chaining two dogs to the same tree and letting them go at it. DISCLAIMER I am not advocating dogfighting just making an anology....
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Post by John Wilson on Jul 3, 2009 6:02:10 GMT -5
Elbow fouls and restarts are the ruin of armwrestling. We will NEVER be a spectator sport in our current state. It's tedious enough to watch restarts as an armwrestler.
You guys are both right. There are only two solutions:
1. EVERYONE buy official WAF elbow pads, which are basically a brick wrapped in vinyl and soaked in Rain-X to make it extra slick. If you pulled on these all the time you'd be the master of learning to avoid elbow fouls.
2. Modify the existing pads to allow some elbow float without undue advantage. Like Simon says, hide the little hops that can't possibly affect the match. This would have the added benefit of making puller more agressive and matches more entertaining.
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Post by Chris Heath on Jul 3, 2009 7:00:52 GMT -5
Strap the elbow down ..
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