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Post by Rick Pinkney on Mar 23, 2014 6:17:31 GMT -5
I use to be the biggest proponent of the rule, that it's the puller's responsibility to keep their elbow on their pad. Then at the 2003 Worlds so many matches ended this way. People quit pulling and concentrated on pushing their opponent's elbow off. There was very little pulling. Why pull, when I can just push your elbow off.
Will, it was Nationals that Miles did that to George. Miles did do it to Hicks and Pascal did it to George at Worlds. And there were several other matches that ended that way. It wasn't fun to watch.
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Post by Jeff Miller on Mar 23, 2014 19:21:02 GMT -5
Interesting Rick. I'm shocked that so many could push their opponent off the pad, that in itself is a skill that I thought many wouldn't want to try since a push puts you on the other person's side of the table - if they anticipate this, you may be in deep trouble. Why do you think people("victims") did not capitalize on this aspect during all the pushing-to-foul matches in 2003 worlds?
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Post by Jeff Miller on Mar 23, 2014 19:30:10 GMT -5
Another point about this anti-push rule; why is this any different than pulling (dragging the opponent) off of the front of the pad, which is considered purely fair game - this fact alone makes no sense in my mind. When you drag an opponent that is at the front of their pad, they increase their elbow joint angle (relax bicep, contract tricep) to prevent fouling off the front - why can the inverse not be true, if opponent is at the back of their pad and you push them they can decrease their elbow joint angle (contract bicep,relax tricep) to take up the distance. To me this is unfairly (illogical) biased towards "pulling" muscles over "pushing" ones.
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Post by Rick Pinkney on Mar 24, 2014 16:54:24 GMT -5
If you can pull your opponent off the pad, you're stronger. Pushing you're opponent off says I can't beat you so I'll take the easy way out.
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Post by chrisgobby on Mar 24, 2014 20:44:49 GMT -5
Bingo.
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