Sandbagging
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Sandbagging is the practice of deceptively portraying oneself as being in a weaker position than is true. For example: "Voltaire is always sandbagging at the gym. He says that's all the weight he can lift but we know the truth... dirty sandbagger."
- Sandbagging is a drag racing technique.
- In a Demolition Derby, sandbagging is avoiding contact with other cars or hitting weakly to ensure better odds of surviving and winning the derby.
- Sandbagging is a poker play.
- In golf, a "sandbagger" would enter a tournament, claiming a higher golf handicap than real, to gain an advantage in the tournament.
- On Internet chess sites, sandbagging is the malevolent resignement of a chess game in order to add Elo points to a partner or to a second user account.
- In the sales environment, sandbagging is holding aside completed sales with the expectation of producing them at a specific time of the week or month when there might be extra incentive or higher commissions.
- In CB slang, "sandbagging" is listening in on others without talking or making one’s presence known, for entertainment or for collection of information on others.
- In the rock climbing world 'Sandbagging' refers to giving a climb an easier grade then it deserves. An example is a climb that would typically be rated as 5.10+ being rated as 5.9- (YDS). Sandbagging is very common in older crags when the grading system was still being developed. Due to tradition the original grade of a climb will be listed in most guide books.
- In Bowling, "sandbagging" is lowering your average on purpose, in order to gain added pins of handicap.
