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no "Ready"
May 28, 2014 18:07:41 GMT -5
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Post by Rick Pinkney on May 28, 2014 18:07:41 GMT -5
There will be a proposal being put forward to get rid of "Ready". I'm curious what people think of this. Basically the referee will set you up as normal and when everything is to their liking the command would be "GO". No "Ready" or "Don't Move".
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Post by joey costello on May 28, 2014 19:01:21 GMT -5
I'm not in favor of this, I would rather Don't move ...go.
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Post by philipcarty on May 28, 2014 19:12:58 GMT -5
I believe it would create alot of early starts. "READY" prepares pullers for the "GO". We all have spent countless hours trying to perfect our "READY...GO's", lets keep it as is!
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Post by cpshuffle on May 28, 2014 19:26:55 GMT -5
What are the arguments for the change?
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no "Ready"
May 28, 2014 19:37:20 GMT -5
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Post by chrisgobby on May 28, 2014 19:37:20 GMT -5
I'm in favor. The "ready" allows a gradual timed swing and the subtle slight favorable movement of wrist. "Go" will avoid some of this and favor the better timed hit.. Which is the ultimate goal.
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Post by John Milne on May 28, 2014 19:46:47 GMT -5
I like it
I think it will eliminate many false starters who time their hit off the ready
In the words of legendary Mike Haig "Be ready as soon as you walk in the door"
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Post by Eric Roussin on May 28, 2014 23:09:30 GMT -5
"Wrist..wrist...wrist...wristGO!" I'm a little worried about something like this happening. Will there be at least some pause before the "GO" command is given?
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Post by leonard on May 28, 2014 23:32:35 GMT -5
Just to give my experience on this, the USAA did this for a number of years and it works great........the problem is that when your
armwrestlers get used to this and they then go to the "states" or to a WAF World and they can't get a good start.
So the USAA stopped doing that style of starts. JMO
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Post by joey costello on May 29, 2014 6:28:05 GMT -5
we used "don't move go" in Michigan and it worked great, it combines the commands "ready-go" and "Go". There was a good pause before each go and the competitors still had to start on a "go" command but they new the next word after don't move would be go.
If it is just GO then the go as eric stated could happen any time... wrist go...nuckles go...shoulders go...
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Post by Jeff Miller on May 29, 2014 14:14:05 GMT -5
"Ready-go" has ready flow into "go" too easily. We used Don't move...go at AB provincials, and it works great. Just "Go" could work well too I'd guess.
Another idea that we tried at the club - which actually works really well, if not the best - is no command to go; you simply apply light contact to the competitors' hands and as soon as contact is gone, the match is on. This prevents the problem of trying to get two game competitors (ie Matt Mask vs Len Houghton @ AB provincials) to get their wrists straight and know who false started by feel. You cannot say "go" to have this work, or there will be inconsistency between the lack-of-touch signal and the audible one.
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