Brad Cook
Bronze Member
Shelbyville IL
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Post by Brad Cook on Aug 4, 2013 23:40:42 GMT -5
I know I'm new here and I've only got a year and half under my belt in the sport, but I love teaching new people just as much as I love pulling itself. Doesn't matter if it's the safety basics or more advanced techniques, I love it. My son (almost 7, little brother) has taken an interest so I was teaching him the basics tonight. As much as a young mind can soak up anyway. He had the proper form down pretty dang good. Well he decides to challenge big sis (9) to armwrestle thinking he was just gonna put it on her. Well after giving her the safety riot act and some key pointers... they had a left hand/right hand super match. Little brother swept her 2-0, but left hand (their naturals) was a different story. She won the first, he won the second. 1-1. The rubber match had her taking his hand off the ready-go and he held her for a while but she was hanging on that little bicep! Haha She ended up winning. I enjoyed the crap out of that. They pulled smart, they pulled SAFE. Always watching their hands and listening to me. One proud dad. :-) (The pic is from a video of round 3 leftie) Attachments:
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Post by Michael Wells on Aug 5, 2013 8:49:19 GMT -5
Awesome
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Post by John Wilson on Aug 5, 2013 9:04:26 GMT -5
That is great! It's amazing watching kids armwrestle, especially when they are taught to pull safely. I taught mine the very basics as well. They don't even know what they are doing, but I taught them backpressure and to never push with the shoulder. I doubt they have enough strength to even come close to hurting themselves, but lessons learned early are rarely forgotten. A little backpressure, cupping, a little pronation, and never rotate at the shoulder.
My son, who is small for his age, has made quite a name for himself at school where the boys can't find anyone to beat him. It's been good for him, because he takes a good amount of crap about his size. Armwrestling has done wonders to shut up some of that nonsense and give him confidence.
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Brad Cook
Bronze Member
Shelbyville IL
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Post by Brad Cook on Aug 5, 2013 9:17:44 GMT -5
That is great! It's amazing watching kids armwrestle, especially when they are taught to pull safely. I taught mine the very basics as well. They don't even know what they are doing, but I taught them backpressure and to never push with the shoulder. I doubt they have enough strength to even come close to hurting themselves, but lessons learned early are rarely forgotten. A little backpressure, cupping, a little pronation, and never rotate at the shoulder. My son, who is small for his age, has made quite a name for himself at school where the boys can't find anyone to beat him. It's been good for him, because he takes a good amount of crap about his size. Armwrestling has done wonders to shut up some of that nonsense and give him confidence. John that's awesome. My son is the same. Small for his age. Not really into mainstream sports (baseball, football, wrestling, etc) He's sees dad watching ArmTV and YouTube clips all the time and sees me train for it. Once I got my table built, he REALLY perked up. I hope he keeps at it. And hey, maybe sis will keep coming back for more. They have to want to though. I'll never force it. ;-) |
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Post by John Wilson on Aug 5, 2013 10:11:31 GMT -5
Totally agree. I have my kids in martial arts and I encourage them to try lots of things. Ironically, they would have to push me very hard when the time is right to let them get involved in armwrestling on a serious level.
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Post by Christ Russakis on Aug 5, 2013 16:01:45 GMT -5
that is sooo cool!!! i had four boys and one girl and four nephews that all armwrestled!! they used to go to the skate ring on sat nite and just let all the kids in the place line up and never lost a match and it did not matter how big they were!! that was the most enjoyment !!! small kids have what they call green stick bones and they actually flex a little which helps them from getting broken!! none of the kids ever got one single injury!! nothing prouder for a dad than whatching there kids win at what ever they do!! i got a chance to take mine to a lot of tourneys and nat. back in 2002 to about 2010 got to watch them win a lot of tourneys and always placed 2nd or third at nats!! it is a great experence so i hope you enjoy for yrs to come !!! they have all gone different ways now but it was fun when they were young!!!
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