Talk:Arm wrestling

Muscles involved?
I personally feel like it would be useful to list the major muscles involved in arm wrestling in particular, which muscle groups should be targeted if one wants to train for arm wrestling. --Bk0 (Talk) 17:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. --anskas 10:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * article states that "the most important muscles are fingers..." There aren't any muscles in the fingers, just tendons.

Farid Usmanov is not Russian but from Uzbekistan!

Unfortunately, I cannot name the muscles involved but what they are used for!
 * Forearm muscles - used for Grip and Hand control, on every axis (mostly wrist curl and rotation).
 * Upper arm muscles - Biceps and Triceps for pulling and pressing.
 * Upper chest - any/every muscle involved in keeping your elbows together at a set distance under an outside force.
 * Core muscles - For twisting your shoulders/torso whilst hips remain stationary.
 * Back muscles - all involved that are required to stand straight/up and pull back.
 * Leg muscles - to aid back muscles and position body weight.

'''Tendon strength is also of great importance(this cannot be overly stressed!!)! Hand, Wrist and Biceps''' —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason200669 (talk • contribs) 11:52, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Ridiculous?
Does anyone else feel that it is ridiculous for Wikipedia to have to cite its references for arm wrestling? I mean, I know it has to be professional and accurate, but is arm wrestling really necessary to cite?
 * yes... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.118.238.65 (talk) 10:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC).
 * See The Pope is Catholic. Besides, while it may be the case that "everyone knows" about arm wrestling, info like who won which important match is rather liable to falsehood unless it is cited. $$\sim$$ Lenoxus " * " 16:30, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Armwrestling is very much a real sport, but as someone involved in it for years I have to say I have never heard of Joe Caggiano and have no idea why the person that created this page would write that Caggiano trained most modern champions. James Retarides —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.20.189.54 (talk) 22:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Neutral POV?
Seems like the line "All this popularity throughout the world is just a means to an end of making it an olympic sport." doesn't really reflect Wikipedia's Nuetral POV. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.2.200.166 (talk) 20:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

History
I guess it's important to add a section about the origins of this sport --T0rek 06:31, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


 * For my part I would live if someone added the great Japanese armwrestling association was founded in 1934 94.225.58.180 (talk) 16:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

The Strap
What is the strap? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.117.12.213 (talk) 12:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It's one of several arm-wrestling techniques. This article needs more information on relevant techniques or links to another site which provides said detail. 216.82.142.13 (talk) 01:22, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

The Strap is used when the two armwrestlers fail to keep hold of the others hand after the 'GO'. The referee will command both opponents to stand in their position, palms together, fingers straight and thumbs up and then use 'The Strap' to bind both hands together to avoid them slipping apart during the contest.

It has been known for some armwrestlers to deliberately 'slip' when facing an opponent with better/stronger hand control to help even the playing field or even gain an advantage by having the strap applied —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason200669 (talk • contribs) 11:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Gobbledygook
"arm wrestlers must straighten their wrists without a time lapse of one minute during competition".....er what??? The words are English but the sentence is utterly meaningless.


 * yes, that sentence really stands out as gibberish, but also the whole article reads as a bunch of names and no intelligible description of what these people are doing. except of course the injuries sction, that one at least is intelligible. so heres an article about whatsitname which is all exciting because of those famous guys who are champs of whatsitname because they have Technics and whatsitname. all this at least since 2012 and no progress. perhaps time to clean up the article by deleting everything that does not help to understand by decribing its topic, that is the whole article except the one section about injuries and perhaps the lede which contains some basic info on the pose of the participants. 89.134.199.32 (talk) 20:47, 29 May 2018 (UTC).

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What is Supermatch format?
It goes back at least to 2005. (you can see it in the middle of the article https://armwrestlersonly.blogspot.com/2013/08/devon-larratt.html) 213.149.62.46 (talk) 14:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Most successful arm wrestlers by number of World Championships
As there were multiple organizations throughout history that organized world championships, one comprehensive list would ease up sailing through it's convoluted waters.

Specially mark all time record for each organization. 213.149.62.70 (talk) 20:00, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * for men and women separately; there is also a matter of leagues (PAL, WAL...) that seem to have different system to determine a winner — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.149.62.70 (talk) 20:23, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * open weight category should also be somehow highlighted. 213.149.51.126 (talk) 17:55, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Popular culture
Exactly how deep do you want to go in terms of popular culture. Voltron has an episode where a intergalactic arm wrestling competition happens. Haikyuu has a strong plotline in the relationship between iwaziumi and kyoutani (Iwa-chan and Mad dog-chan) wherein iwaziumi beats kyoutani in multiple arm wrestling matches to gain his respect.

The point in here is that if we are judging by homer entered an arm wrestling competition than just about every long running show will likely have a place in the popular culture section.

Either make the popular culture section just movies/ tv shows/books etc about arm wrestling or make it oh look arm wrestling was mentioned let's add insert thing here. RyouBakura13 (talk) 23:16, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

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Arm Wrestling Events
I don't feel qualified at all to edit the page, but I think it's necessary to include a section in the page about upcoming/past/notable events like the KOTT and WAL. It is quite difficult to follow the scene and so far I have found the most prestigious tournament at the current time is the KOTT. Any input and formatting/editting these events into the page would be very nice and helpful for future. 37.231.125.111 (talk) 18:49, 6 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia really is not meant to be a directory or schedule of events. MrOllie (talk) 22:36, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Arm Wrestling versus "Wrist Wrestling"
The "World Wrist Wrestling Championships" held annually in Petaluma (and mentioned in the Peanuts comic strip) had slightly different rules from the standard; among other things, there were no pin pads or pegs - the competitors held each other's free hands with arms resting on the table, and the match ended when someone's hand touched their opponent's arm on the table. That Don Guy (talk) 20:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)