Players are also required to dress appropriately, with them wearing short sleeve or sleeveless shirts and sports pants with little or no advertising. Players & Equipmentīecause their is a correlation between physical strength and size, competitors compete with each other in weight classifications to ensure that matches and competitions are fair. In the World Arm Wrestling Championships, competitors, as well as trying to win their own individual matches are attempting to score points for the country’s team in the competition’s team championship. Despite armwrestling being primarily a strength sport, it can be highly psychological, with players ‘psyching themselves up’ into peak mental condition as well as often trying to intimidate their opponents or put them off their game. This is done by a combination of strength and technique. The object of arm wrestling is to beat your opponent by pinning their hand onto the table touchpad. The actual mechanics of an Arm Wrestling match are essentially the same the world over. Arm Wrestling rules are very similar amongst different authorities and federations and often differ only on the smaller, less important details.

However, whilst not completely standardized across the world. There are various Arm Wrestling bodies and federations across the world by the main one is the World Arm Wrestling Federation who oversee the Arm Wrestling World Championships amongst other things and whose rules we refer to in this article.

As well as being a test of strength, it takes a great deal of skill to be a competitive arm wrestler as well as psychological strength. Their goal is then to pin their opponent's arm onto the surface (or touch pad) of the table.

A test of strength of one person’s arm against another it consists of two people who stand at or sit down at a table and then grip each others hand whilst placing their elbows on the table. There’s no doubt Arm Wrestling has gone on in some form or another for thousands of years and is popular across the world.

Resolving conflict with an arm wrestle