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Old Wed Aug 20, 2025, 10:38am
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Originally Posted by IK13 View Post
Thanks. I don’t recall ever seen this being used. From the responses here - it appears nor has anyone else. Seems it could be a source of confusion, instead of clarification. I can picture myself extending my arm to point to the attacker just to have my R1 mistake this for me “leading”/pointing to the team that should win the rally. TBH, I don’t see me successfully converting any of my old timer colleagues to this any time soon.
What Bob posted is the way we normally used it, especially pre-headsets. I don't have to go nearly as demonstratively with the signal if I have headsets ("Off the block!") as I did beforehand.
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