regarding the 'yanking' issue. personally when there is a bit of back and forth in the set up..sort of trying get into your opponents mind ...doesn't bother me. I don't think it is the same as when you are yanking your opponent after a win and you have a safety issue. Seems to me to be two different situations.

and whoever the puller is that is being aggressive on the setup is using vital energy so I would think you would want the puller to be as aggressive as he wants.. He is the one going to be blowing up his hand. Wouldn't you just want to sit there and be limp?

Not when you've had 2 Pitchers of Beer by that point LOL !
I apologize to any one I offended during this Tournament. Me and Justin Kaufman talked for quite a while after that incident and I really have a lot of respect for him and hope we get to Pull again in the Future.

Gary, you didn't get all the tugging and talk in the background that made that so much worse!!! or it was edited....LOL Justin M and I did talk and it's all good. Next time will be different. I can't wait to see what the second match looked like. No matter how calm you try to stay, sometimes you can't help but tug back in the heat of battle!!

Some people like to load back hard or pull back hard to try to intimidate their opponent, and sometimes it will work, back loading is all part of the game - you can't say people only back load at toproll tournaments.

People back load at most tournaments. I actually peeled his hand right before I let up and let him yank me across! That's when he said "Do you like that" so that wasn;t the issue. It was the not stopping after being told, that bugged me. The "Toproll" statement was primarily the "Antics" portion of what was happening. Some like all the extra stuff, some don't.