President's Bulletin: Updated 18th May 2025
The battle for your attention is increasing. I have a daily deluge of email from automated systems asking me to provide feedback or reviews for the most mundane of purchases, whilst the redirect from this website's contact form continually is of people asking the same questions. To fill out the contact form you have to scroll the page down past text that tells you where to find 98% (see what I did there Ryan Grondin) of the information. Do such enquiries need a personal reply? Or any reply at all? How much attention do you want & how much do any of us have to give?
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This bulletin also demands attention. Website analytics reveal 280 of you read it weekly. If I don't put it on Facebook, half of you won't notice it is here. We don't get 280 turnout at any comp. Are the half that don't read it without prompting the ones who don't turn up anyway?
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Social media is growing. I have 476 friends on facebook, most of whom I would not recognise if they arrived at my door in person. More send requests each week. Who are these people? It seems churlish to refuse them. Accepting them means getting a stream of what they are doing unless you
click unfollow. Does anyone follow me? I wonder why you would.
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I am in a dozen WhatsApp groups for some reason & add nothing useful to them. There are other systems - children's websites mostly - that allow for instant message communication & comedy captions. I don't understand most of them. ARMGODS have launched an app this week which has it's own built in social network. Will it replace the others? Or will people just have more notifications & messages coming at them from all directions? I logged on with my Argos special smartphone (available back of Sainsbury's for £64.99) but it gets brainache to load anything with multiple pictures so haven't managed to make my first attention seeking post yet.
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Do I need to compete for you attention on social media? Surely by now you know where to find me & the entity known as Google will direct you to this website if you put UK & ARMWRESTLING into it's search facility. Warzone season has finished now til October - others are going to provide your entertainment whilst I dodge supertankers out in the Channel.
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Other news - Declan Dillon & Mark McGinley kept Mitch Tutt from the gold medal at the British Sit downs. Greg Foster returned to competition to & won the U95kg's. Good to see him back. Dillon & Foster won the overalls. . Full results are on David Horne's World of Grip site.
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In a few days I'm off to Estonia for the IFA EUROS. There are 14 of us from UK, 2 from Republic of Ireland. The EUROSTEAM page has all the details & link to where the free livestream will be.
Whilst we are out there ARMGODS are having a series of excellent supermatches at the BOLTON FITXPO - you can find out all about it on their new app, or their website armgods.com .
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What? - See you down the road.