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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 658585" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>I'm a little bit split by the new laws. On one hand, we do have less resets, the game is cleaner and more fluid from this, no doubt. </p><p>But on the other hand, it alters something that had been the same way forever, and some players have suffered from it. It's hard to identify which type of frame/type of prop exactly, but it certainly has dragged some way down. France is the side that may have suffered the most from this, and it's hard to tell just how much as lots of other reasons come into play as to France's absolute downfall in that area in the last year. I think of Nicolas Mas, who was pretty much the best in the world at his position for some years, who said "you're taught how to do something for 15 years and then they decide to just change how it's done..." so I feel for some of the more technical props who are disadvantaged by the new rules. Changing the rules of anything is going to render <em>some </em>considerably diminished for sure, regardless of the competition.</p><p>I guess those props who had to go through the transition in laws, some of them will suffer from it, and we'll just have to wait for the next generation that'll grow up on those laws.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 658585, member: 57076"] I'm a little bit split by the new laws. On one hand, we do have less resets, the game is cleaner and more fluid from this, no doubt. But on the other hand, it alters something that had been the same way forever, and some players have suffered from it. It's hard to identify which type of frame/type of prop exactly, but it certainly has dragged some way down. France is the side that may have suffered the most from this, and it's hard to tell just how much as lots of other reasons come into play as to France's absolute downfall in that area in the last year. I think of Nicolas Mas, who was pretty much the best in the world at his position for some years, who said "you're taught how to do something for 15 years and then they decide to just change how it's done..." so I feel for some of the more technical props who are disadvantaged by the new rules. Changing the rules of anything is going to render [I]some [/I]considerably diminished for sure, regardless of the competition. I guess those props who had to go through the transition in laws, some of them will suffer from it, and we'll just have to wait for the next generation that'll grow up on those laws. [/QUOTE]
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