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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 15, 2012 10:09:40 GMT -5
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 15, 2012 10:20:24 GMT -5
Very big thanks to Special Agent Mark Taggart for his generous donation and for committing to participate in the benefit tournament!
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 15, 2012 11:40:24 GMT -5
Thank you very much to both Chris Kaufman and James Worke for their support. Much appreciated my friends!
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 15, 2012 12:13:56 GMT -5
Very grateful for the contributions of Scott MacInnis of Armsport Videos and Jason Dorsey! Thanks guys!
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 15, 2012 14:35:25 GMT -5
Thanks to Chris Heath and Tony Picchioldi for their purchases. Thank you very much to Jesse Gonzalez for your gesture. Truly humbling my friend!
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 19, 2012 13:03:10 GMT -5
Still well short of our goal. Listen guys this is not for me. I am not gaining one cent from it. However, if I have ever done anything for you, given training advice, training materials, equipment etc... consider buying a shirt. Or you can buy a shirt just to give back to the sport of armwrestling and support the sport just because that used to be the way it was done back in the day. Lets start caring about the sport of armwrestling and not just ourselves otherwise there will be no more sport of armwrestling left. Consider the fact that the people that have been the staples of armwrestling promotion over the years : Dave Devotto, Gene Camp, Karen Bean, Denise Wattles, Leonard Harkless, Bill Collins and more have been doing it for decades and might not want to be as involved in sport in the coming years. Who is going to honestly step in and promote tournaments for as consistently long as they have? Promoters will begin to see that "supermatches" are no longer economically viable and will get tired of constantly having to pursue new sponsors that are not seeing the dollar-to-exposure ratio they expected. It is up to the armwrestlers to support each other and support promoters for no other reason than they provide a place for them to armwrestle. If you want this sport to succeed you have to stop thinking of making money at tournaments, negotiating with promoters that do not profit from investing in your appearance and just show up to support tournaments and pull THE DAMN OPEN CLASS. Even if you think of yourself as some type of superstar. Show up to your state tournament, pull your class, help out reffing...whatever. GIVE BACK to the sport that has given you some great experiences. If you are new and you need a "supermatch" for incentive to go to tournaments than take a look in the mirror and realize that it takes time and effort to earn respect. Show up to your local tournament and pay your frickin dues. Travel to tournaments overnight even if you have to save up, just to SUPPORT promoters. Promoters: there are too many people trying to be promoters. Stop stepping on one another's toes and work out dates together before every tournament has 47 entries and a series of 5 "supermatches" ending 3-0 between people that no one knows. Oh, and buy a fricking shirt www.fanmailshop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=aiaTS
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Post by CHRISTIAN BINNIE on Nov 19, 2012 13:50:03 GMT -5
Still well short of our goal. Listen guys this is not for me. I am not gaining one cent from it. However, if I have ever done anything for you, given training advice, training materials, equipment etc... consider buying a shirt. Or you can buy a shirt just to give back to the sport of armwrestling and support the sport just because that used to be the way it was done back in the day. Lets start caring about the sport of armwrestling and not just ourselves otherwise there will be no more sport of armwrestling left. Consider the fact that the people that have been the staples of armwrestling promotion over the years : Dave Devotto, Gene Camp, Karen Bean, Denise Wattles, Leonard Harkless, Bill Collins and more have been doing it for decades and might not want to be as involved in sport in the coming years. Who is going to honestly step in and promote tournaments for as consistently long as they have? Promoters will begin to see that "supermatches" are no longer economically viable and will get tired of constantly having to pursue new sponsors that are not seeing the dollar-to-exposure ratio they expected. It is up to the armwrestlers to support each other and support promoters for no other reason than they provide a place for them to armwrestle. If you want this sport to succeed you have to stop thinking of making money at tournaments, negotiating with promoters that do not profit from investing in your appearance and just show up to support tournaments and pull THE DAMN OPEN CLASS. Even if you think of yourself as some type of superstar. Show up to your state tournament, pull your class, help out reffing...whatever. GIVE BACK to the sport that has given you some great experiences. If you are new and you need a "supermatch" for incentive to go to tournaments than take a look in the mirror and realize that it takes time and effort to earn respect. Show up to your local tournament and pay your frickin dues. Travel to tournaments overnight even if you have to save up, just to SUPPORT promoters. Promoters: there are too many people trying to be promoters. Stop stepping on one another's toes and work out dates together before every tournament has 47 entries and a series of 5 "supermatches" ending 3-0 between people that no one knows. Oh, and buy a fricking shirt www.fanmailshop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=aiaTS LOVE IT..Esp the last 2 paragraphs ESP all the "SUPER" matches when there arent many "SUPERS" left......LMAO..... Every match now is a "SUPER" match. Even matches with novices are called "SUPER" matches..... YEs i get it, its to draw crowds....PLEASE!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2012 19:26:27 GMT -5
James: (For you) is it better for a person (who is planning on going to this tournament) to wait till the tournament or to go ahead and order online. I say this as I planned on making those purchases at the tournament, as opposed to ordering online where you have to hassle with shipping. I would imagine that many others are planning to do the same, so the tournament itself should make a huge difference in the total donations collected. Thank you for all your efforts!! Scott
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Post by Giles Russell on Nov 19, 2012 20:22:43 GMT -5
^^me too^^
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 20, 2012 9:23:32 GMT -5
Thanks Christian. Now buy a shirt!
Giles & Scott, we will have some shirts available at the tournament. I instructed them not to order shirts until we reached a certain number so they would not be as expensive to me. They are Gildan tees, which are relatively expensive but are very high quality and I want these to last. When Pete and I had 200 NAA shirts for sale we sold out of them so fast. But that was a different time I guess. The money from those shirts went to my coffee habit and Pete's Chinese food habit. This is actually going toward something good for the sport. I figured we would hit 100 shirts quickly. I was wrong.
Hope to see you guys there!
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 24, 2012 10:01:14 GMT -5
Bring back "t-rob." That seems to be a cause the good people of ArmWrestling are more passionate about!
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Post by Jim Wagner on Nov 24, 2012 10:30:53 GMT -5
Im not sure who T-Rob is, but I know Im coming over 8 hrs to a real good tournament with real quality pullers. Just have to stop eating if I am going to make 205. Too fat.
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 24, 2012 11:25:50 GMT -5
That's awesome Jim! I am glad you and Bart are making the trip down! The 205 class should be a good one but I am not sure we will have anyone in it that will be able to hang with your left!
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Chad Deaver
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Wyoming/North Carolina
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Post by Chad Deaver on Nov 26, 2012 17:14:21 GMT -5
I'm planning on buying a shirt on Friday! I also need to start practicing! James are you still doing Saturday practices? I'm moving to Hickory in mid December and that is much closer than Fayetteville, so I should be able to start making practices again! Can't wait to get back into it!
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Post by jamesretarides on Nov 27, 2012 6:38:59 GMT -5
Thanks Chad! Great to see you are back. I am hanging it up in January but I know Robert Miller and his crew train in Cramerton, which is a straight shot down 321 from Hickory (probably 20 minutes).
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