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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: BYU on September 13, 2015, 02:03:28 PM
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I am in the process of hiring a Coach for the event and I have just a few questions about the famous "World Series" Fox 15 hurl.
Can I provide my own weighted and custom modified fox 15 or will one be provided?
What footware is best to use?
What is the maximum size of slingshot I can use?
Is it possible to have a reserve Hurler (or proxy hurler) in the event of my becoming incapacitated?
Thanks
Bob
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I am in the process of hiring a Coach for the event and I have just a few questions about the famous "World Series" Fox 15 hurl.
Can I provide my own weighted and custom modified fox 15 or will one be provided?
What footware is best to use?
What is the maximum size of slingshot I can use?
Is it possible to have a reserve Hurler (or proxy hurler) in the event of my becoming incapacitated?
Coaching is of course permitted. I can recommend an Unprecedented 4-time champion as a coach, although his services will be *extremely costly*. On the general topic of training, the baseball "long toss" drill is probably the best way to build arm strength and has since been adopted by the MLB to assist. I don't want to drop names, but a certain World Series MVP pitcher does long toss before every start and he threw a 1-hitter with 10Ks just last night. They didn't invent it, it's step 4 of the standard 147-step plan used by most Hurl aspirants.
Your second question is ambiguous - do you mean for training, or for the real thing? For training you can use anything you want, although a weighted engine may not be to your advantage. For the official event, of course, the engines are supplied b the Office of the Commissioner and are strictly monitored and impounded between Championship events. Any attempt to alter or modify the official Engine to be Hurled is grounds for immediate disqualification per Rule 6, and at the discretion of the Commissioner, may include additional sanctions up to and including a lifetime ban.
As far as footwear goes, anything is permitted in the rules. Since the Hurling Pad is concrete, I would suggest conventional tennis shoes or walking shoes. We are in discussions with the people at New Balance footwear to do a special run of the New Balance 572 walking shoe as a special Hurl Special Edition, since it has proven so successful.
Slingshot? What you do in the privacy of your own home is your business, but be advised that such frivolous nonsensical notions are not in keeping with the serious and somber Fox 15 Hurl event. We conduct ourselves like gentlemen and expect that all Hurl participants are above such silly notions. Since this was formed as a question, you are not techincally in violation of Rule 69 B or C, but you are skirting the limits - so watch out. Demonstration events are permissible, with the permission of the commissioner's office, as noted under Rule 44. Note that we haven't had a demonstration event for many years. The last may have been Forrest Barton's celebrated "slap-shot hurl" which was wildly illegal at the time but caused 44 to be written into the rules in the first place.
I don't know how many times we have to say it - *PROXY HURLS ARE NOT ALLOWED*, period. Do your research! This first came up with an unnamed World Champion and his protests, and frankly this has been rehashed so many times that it's a sore subject. Read the rules, look for "David Fitzgerald Rule". Also note this thread:
http://www.clstunt.com/htdocs/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=366602&mesg_id=366602&listing_type=search
As always, the rules are transmitted freely *every single night* and are available to all for mere effort of turning on your radio, tuning it t 5883, recording the numbers, decoding them with your one-time pad, then translating them into the language of your choice. There's no excuses - KNOW THE RULES!
Brett
p.s. By the way, if you think hiding behind a nom de plume will somehow insulate you from any repercussions from inappropriate Hurl-related behavior, I will warn you ahead of time - we know who you are and we know what you are. You might be able to conceal your identity to the general public but you cannot sneak around the Hurl Commission. Ask Julian Assange how that works...
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LL~
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If we can not get hold of a Fox 15, can we use either a Fox 35X or 36X instead? VD~
Thanks
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If you have any 35X or 36X engines you don't want, I'll take them off your hands and I'll pay postage.
If you're serious, PM me and we'll go from there.
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Hi Brett, I tried the long toss warm up drill a couple of weeks ago and all I have to show for it is a sore elbow. The injury to performance improvement ratio was unacceptable.
For us old geezers one official toss and then go home and rest for a month seams to work best. I'm three for three so your drive for five may have to wait until next year... Best of Luck Bob H
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Are you guys talking about the steel fin or .15X. Two different animals. If you men steel fin, I have a couple of donors. 15X, toss my way ;D
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Andre
let me check to see if I got a small box after I get off from work late tonight.
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Don't let any of the contest workers take any of the engines to the bathroom between the time they leave the commissioners office and the time they reach the playing field. God only knows what might happen....