What Stinger is also managing to conveniently side step is that a suggestion in December 2012 to change the rule is NOT a comittment to accept that rule when forced down your throat 6 or 7 months later when the LVC is about to start.
For goodness sake Stinger, just give up and admit you were wrong.
Not only did the rules state unambiguously that IM couldn't do what he did, but there was already a precedent set by the IJ when they rules in favour of ETNZ's training foils.
The vast majority of people here (including a very...