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Les Gilsenan shows the form that took him into the New Zealand team in his attack on his log during a standing chop.

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You don't take an axe to a meeting, you take six, as Geoff Hocquard (Blen) shows (Geoff made the team again).

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Thirsty work.

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The gigantic Tokoroa axeman, Ross Martin, has his feet off his log as he commences his chop.

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Cyril Griggs, a 75-year-older, of Atawhai, shows how.

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Chips fly and blocks quiver as competitors put their backs and axes into the final of a standing chop

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Contestants draw for blocks - a good block is half the fight

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Nothing is left to chance—an electronic machine records the fall of blocks.

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Ernie Smout couples up the blocks to the judging machine power supply

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A view of the arena during a chop