Today armwrestling is entering a new stage of development throughout the world. Its popularity is growing every day thanks first of all to the efforts of enthusiasts and athletes. Increased attention of the public is a great opportunity for armwrestling as a sport discipline to become a real sports industry. But in addition to the opportunities we face new challenges and tasks to complete otherwise we will continue to stagnate.

Goal number one - a clear separation between professional and amateur armwrestling. If amateur armwrestling is already more or less moving forward, professional devision is at the beginning of construction.

There are two major factors in professional sport - Statistics and Entertainment.

To date, thanks to 15 years of experience, the team of Igor Mazurenko (Mazurenko Promotions) managed to standardize the format of the armwrestling tournaments holding and Live broadcasting, to make the sport interesting for spectators and TV channels. 

In the U.S. WAC inc. (World Armwrestling Championship Inc.) specializing on event management and media production was established. Thanks to innovative technologies, any event can be adapted to any time limits and other requirements of television channels. Armfights can be combined with elements of reality show, while retaining its sporty character. That is, armwrestling entertainment capabilities are very good today.

The second question - Statistics. Every professional sport is based on statistics, it is the skeleton of the sports industry. In order to stimulate the activity of the spectators, sponsors, draw betting companies attention, we need to systematize the information on the results of major events, classification of athletes not only on weight categories, but also according to their level of physical development. In particular, television viewers are interested in following the progress of their favorite athlete to compare his chances in the fight with a competitor.

"Mazurenko ARM" (Angle Rush Meter) machine is designed to deal with this task. With this device you can measure the level of athletes’ performance in 3 aspects: the maximum power performance, endurance and speed. This information allows to compare, for example, such incomparable athletes as Denis Tsyplenkov and Devon Larratt operating with exact figures. Also "Mazurenko ARM" testing allows the athlete to detect weaknesses in the development of muscle groups, which he uses in his favorite style of wrestling.

After testing, training process is not intuitive anymore and, therefore, the work becomes more efficient, focused on the desired result. The athlete will achieve the desired saving time and avoiding unnecessary injuries. During testing, Igor Mazurenko makes recommendations for the development of certain muscle groups and proper training. Additionally, it is possible to order the development of an individual training plan. Testing results allow to reduce the period of preparation for the important tournaments to 2-3 days.

Those who passed the test at the early stages of testing of the device, note that even in the process of testing, the athlete organizes his experience and discovers opportunities for a breakthrough to a new level.

In April 2015 at the US television starts sports reality show «Vendetta in Vegas». Twice a month, the world’s strongest armrestlers will hold armfights, the show will introduce viewers to their lifestyle and training. Before each Armfight, athletes will be tested, and viewers will be shown initial data on athletes’ power performance and endurance level, and it allows the audience to understand the tremendous work that the athlete is doing in order to achieve success. It involves the audience in the process of building an athlete’s career and allows to draw a lot of positive emotions and motivation from the event.

The measurement results will become a part of the global database, which will track the progress of an athlete for several years, as well as to analyze the mistakes and achievements. Some are confused by the fact that their performance may be open to the general public and competitors. But power and endurance performance is not everything. Individual technique and tactics will remain a mystery and will be a key intrigue of upcoming Armfights. And then, they themselves also interested to know at what level of training their opponent is. 

These two factors - entertainment and physiological statistics - are closely linked. Many of you have repeatedly witnessed armfights that ended too quickly due to disproportional athletes level of preparedness. Usually TV crew asks not to end the fight too quickly and add intrigue. But then a bout stops being real. "Mazurenko ARM" machine will allow to pick up athletes so that the match will be really exciting and spectacular.

Today "Mazurenko ARM" device is in its beta version and testing of the athletes already takes place. Within a month, the database and the standard software interface will be completed. Its work will be demonstrated on Arnold Classic 2015.

KY