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Style over smash

By Nick Gebhardt
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, March 17, 2008

For baseball pitchers, they call it mechanics. On the free throw line, it's all about the release. And when it comes to wielding an ax, running a chainsaw or sawing through a log of wood, the size of the lumberjack really doesn't matter as much as a lumberjack's technique. "A lot of people think that big guys — guys like Jason, Dion or Dave — that you have to be a big guy to win," STIHL professional series competitor Mike Slingerland said. "But if they all didn't have good technique ...

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