Masters World Championships - events

how rude!! tell Hollywood to get his very-athletic but computer challenged self on this board-Hey Don even my 9 yr old can surf the web-I say no on no 42 wfd ok with everything else

Why not a regular game?  Two hammers and not the weights?  Are we tossing a beer keg also?  I am ok with no 42, just throw the 56 in distance and height.  I know I won't come all the way up there for a partial or mutilated event.  Is there something wrong with doing the seven events in the regular order because we hit 40?

Hey-

I'm for whatever Don wants to throw- 2 stones, ... 2 weights, ... 2 hammers, ... 2 sheafs,... whatever. Why does it matter?

I'm confident that Don will do what's best for the contest.

Don't sweat the small stuff,

-Shamrock

But I'm not doing ALL the work to set this up. Just throw baby.

i have to disagree withthe idea of its up to the games AD! if we
are holding a world championship there must be consistancy in
which events are held to constitute a winner. this is not
supposidly another local game. there are records for each age
group and should be a sense of a bigger more elite game if it is
indeed a championship. jacking around every year at the whim
of whoever puts it on takes away from the crediability of it being
called a championship. not including the 42# does this and
changing from the "standard" 40+ of the 42# to a 56 for 40
year olds when we have had that across the country and in all
past mwc is inapproprite. sheaf or not? either have it every
year or skip it . decide once for all, either way and hold to that
decision.   either this is a championship or it just a masters
regional game? i hope its a REAL CHAMPIONSHIP that
reflects the original idea and goals that started with the 2001
game and were so well reflected at springfield in 2003.

I wouldn't worry it too much.

Angus Billy will sort this one out.

Sure it will be very much the same as past MWC's as far as events contested and weights thrown.

aaaaahhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm -- Angus Billy is good, trust in Angus Billy

possibly its because don knows that he and baab and myles and some others will throw the 42 this year further than some of us mortals throw the 28.

having said that, IMO, the 42 is a standard and we should stick with it.

of course, i meant "you all" when i said "we."

--Infirmus Bicepsus, Legio XXV, Caledonia

thank you wayne

just for your info, on the eve of the eve of my rotator cuff surgery and floppy biceps reattachment, i did the following:

17lb stone (braemar) 37-7 (bad arm)

42 wob 15-0 (good arm)

16lb hammer 95-1 (bad arm and good arm)

i am going to miss all the fun, so you and the highlanders better have some anyway.

rgds

as mr nixon used to say (see how old i am?): "let me be perfectly clear--"

37 stone was with the bad arm, right handed; the floppy biceps was heavily wrapped, and actually does not interfere with the stone put motion. the dang shoulder does not hurt; why am i getting cut?

(because i want my strength back.)

the wob was left handed ( i have done 16 that way).

the hammer was right handed, and i had two over 95 and one at 94 plus.

if you don't believe me, just ask one of my horses.

sorry about the sweet corn, its not on my diet (239lbs and going down).

 

ok unbeliever

the arm is numb; no feeling, no pain

no pain, throw anyway

honestly, at this lighter bodyweight my speed is way up. whatever happens now, i will never get huge again.

hey you 190s, are you reading this?

good luck all season long,i will be watching...and waiting for the day