“Hold tight keep your sight
It is skill and not just might!
Pick your battles right
If you gotta fight then you gotta fight!”
Beat up and fight was one way while the other way to show that you are strong in a class was this!
There were dudes with DOLE And SHOLE who used to be the clear winners! In fact they used to win the moment they sit on the chair and place their half shirt folded arms on the table for this and then it began!
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One of the most common games “Guys” used to play in the school was the arm wrestling! It was tough and guys like me used to stay away from it as much as possible and only form the crowd!
Breaks; class breaks I mean! Used to be used for the arm wrestling competition! The inspiration of course was the scene from the inspiration of every body builder of those times! Arnold Schwarzenegger!
His movie which was released that time was the Predator and in one of the scenes you have an arm wrestling encounter between him and his equally buffy and brawny friend Carl Weathers!
When they both meet with their half t shirts on and in the arm wrestle pose, the boys in the crowd would go mad! I would of course tuck my arm in the sweater more deeply!
I was under the impression that you need strength to win the arm wrestling but then we found out soon enough that the sometimes a less ‘Buffy’ dude would defeat a more muscled one!
Not many guys would arm wrestle with girls but then I have seen many girls defeating guys!
Many of the competitions were usually straightforward and predictable and you will have clear winner and loser! But once in awhile you get the hold! This is the grip where the arm wrestle comes to a stand still! Both the opponents simply are caught somewhere in time! Then as we watched both of them would be stuck and if that happens for sometime it is usually a draw! Most average guys will accept a draw!
In the Back benches of KV it was the ultimate decider of the alpha! We front benchers were the audience!
Looking in the history apparently it was played from the time of the Primitive man (or woman!)!
It was a regular sport for high school and college student. A journalist, Bill Soberanes founded the sport of arm wrestling in the year of 1952 at the Gilardi’s Saloon in Petaluma, California. Soon, the tournaments were hosted on even bigger platforms and auditoriums of Petaluma!
Most articles on the early history of armwrestling mention that the sport was practiced at least as far back as ancient Egypt, and that there are hieroglyphs that back up this claim. The first purported evidence is a complex of 39 ancient tombs in a cemetery site called Beni Hasan. Beni Hasan is a grandiose structure located about 20 kilometres south of Mynia, in Middle Egypt. It contains several painted rooms that have been preserved due to Africa’s dry climate. The tomb of Baqet III (21st century BC) is now referred to as the “Fight Hall”, as its walls are painted with figures of fighters!
Most people see arm wrestling as a battle of strength, but champion arm wrestlers know that technique is critical.
In fact, winning an arm-wrestling match has less to do with brute strength than with the way in which you place your body and torso in relation to your opponent! There are countless strategies and positions to win an arm wrestling match! Now I am against fighting or physical act of any kind and NEVER promote it! So arm wrestling is actually a better and safer way to prove your strength or technique! If you win then you can dance by saying Bolo tarara like Birthday Celebrity Daler Singh Mehndi!
Now wrestle with your brain to sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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