Floppy Drawbridges

[Not_A_Koala]

After watching the Palmetto regional these past couple days, I'm a surprised about how floppy the drawbridges are. I've seen lots of teams who have mechanism to pull the drawbridge down from the front. My team had assumed we could do this as well, but I'm concerned that the drawbridge will be too bendy to apply force in that direction. On wooden defenses it is possible.

Can somebody with experience with the "floppy" drawbridge elaborate on how it has affected gameplay, or (more specifically) if it is stiff enough to pull from the front.

Thanks!