#pro wrestling training

[angelkerisimasi]

Yesterday was a pretty good day.

Practice cut short because one of the welds on the frame of the ring snapped, so we took apart the ring almost entirely and took that opportunity to square it up. Finally got it fixed and the ring put back together and tightened up the ropes, which was SEVERELY needed.

After practice, I was all over the place setting up chairs (not many, but still a good bunch of chairs), the entry way, the banner, a bunch of stuff for the taping. Helped figure out a last minute card, which ended up including the first ever "Raytown Rumble", from which i was yeeted. Seriously, my elimination almost looked like Chyna throwing Vince out the corporate rumble haha.

I also had a singles match about 15 minutes after the rumble. I got in some pretty good moves, got a really fun spot in there too. I hit a cartwheel elbow in the corner, rolled him out to the middle, and came off the ropes to kick him in the chest. Still need to work on staying on my toes for northern lights suplexes, but i still hit it. I missed my middle rope moonsault attempt and kinda grazed my chin upon impact, then lost after a fame-ass-er. My opponent hit me many times with his ass. Running hip attack, corner hip attack, a damn stinkface🤮🤣. My head was not spared in this match haahaaaaa. But what really made my day was when he cut his promo about our match, he used my correct pronouns 💜😊.

I love professional wrestling.

[joshgerry]

Pro Wrestling’s 9/10 Rule

Professional Wrestling has a 9/10 Rule.

For every instance and example, there will be that one time where it doesn't hold true. But it is the exception, not the rule. 9 out of 10 times.

This means that whenever someone states "always" or "never" while teaching pro wrestling, assume the 9/10 rule is in place.

Example, as a babyface, you shouldn't cuss, flip fans off, chug beers, and be a hooligan. 9 out of 10 times. Stone Cold did it and it worked. That doesn't mean it will work for independent pro wrestler #3492.

So if a coach or trainer tells you, never do X. The response, "Yeah, but..." shouldn't be used. 9/10 is assumed.

Of course there's a "but".

BUT you must first learn what the box is before you can think outside of it.

Just because it works for someone else, doesn't mean it will work for you.

[tjkl895]

Josh Cortez and Andrew Morgan (https://www.instagram.com/p/BGxd3aysxCa/)

[s0fter-sin]

erasermic warrior!au

hizashi is struggling with his bills in his first few years as a teacher and doing his best to keep his unpaid radio internship. he hears about these event fights being held in bar parking lots and after his experience in fight clubs in high school, he knows it’s his chance. these fights lead to him hearing about a sparta event; 16 fighters, single elimination, winner takes home 5,000,000 yen. walking back into an mma focused gym, it was like he was stepping back in time and he has to focus on holding onto the present as he gets ready

aizawa, back from a stint in the military, is trying to raise a young hitoshi but a veteran pension doesn’t pay much and no one wants to hire a single father with ptsd and an elbow that still tends to lock up on him. his only break is when he works out at the local boxing gym. he overhears a fighter training for this big event and offers to fight him until his regular sparring partner shows up. he gets in the ring and it’s like his brain is finally quiet again, his elbow stronger than ever as he easily takes down his opponent. the trainer watches him as he continues at the gym and finally suggests this big sparta event coming up

they hear about each other during the pr campaign and instantly recognise each other. how could they not? to hizashi, what other fighter would possibly refuse to do interviews or take pr photos? and aizawa would recognise hizashi’s voice anywhere even if it’s been years since he’s heard it on anything other than the old home movie tapes he keeps hidden under his bed. it’s been far too long since he’s heard it in person

they went to school together and both of them and shirakumo were the kings of their district’s wrestling team. both of them were more than a little in love with each other. but when shirakumo died, aizawa pulled away; dropping out of the wrestling team and going straight into the military when they graduated. hizashi pulled away too, just in a different way; hiding behind the happy mask of present mic until it feels like it’s been years since hizashi yamada saw the sun

they try to talk to each other in between fights and they range from polite conversation to screaming matches. though there are moments when it feels just like old times and both know their feelings for the other never went away.

until they finally meet in the last round of sparta. there’s no room for suppressed emotions in the ring, who knows what they manage to pull out of each other during the most important fifteen minutes of their lives?

[wrestlingmgc]

Tiffany Stratton.

[somekindagaydog-blog]

Wrestling is such a fascinating art form:

Stories told over decades playing out in real time, some written ahead, some improvised, some just coming naturally. Told through the movements of the performers in the ring, a portion of which is made up on the spot. A story telling form that would seem to limit what performers can do, but with characters that insist on pushing up against the walls of reality. In wrestling you will find legit hardman chopping the hell at each other, who will tire of the squared circle and move inside a cage to beat up actual martial artist, only to return years later as an unstoppable beast (this has happened multiple times)

You have losers who don't look like the protypical wrestler, but power through regardless and excel showing how far passion can bring you.

You have people who are willing to put their body through insane feats of endurance, showing incredibly pain tolerances.

You have demons, deadmen, and fiends, all represented by performers who understand how much of being a character is expressed not by your words, but also by how you hold yourself.

You have a medium that allows a person to depict their frustrations and failures through their career in the form of them as a children's tv show host, surrounded by puppets representing all moments in his career, with his frustration manifesting in a being so powerful that the writing team had difficulty figuring out how to book him.

When you watch wrestling live you're watching two performers who have been given the scaffold of a script and were told to fill in the blanks and make it work with their character. They are performing live stunts and worked combat on a 4 sided stage. It's not always good, which is understandable given how much it encompasesses, but when it's good I don't want to look away.

Wrestling is just one of those things i'll never stop enjoying.

Everyone should be able to have a living, but one of the things that really draws me in is the fact that a lot of these guys early on aren't making much, to the extent that a common expression is "a hotdog and a handshake". The people who are doing this are doing dangerous feats not for the money but because they are passionate about it.

A phrase I've heard a lot when people talk about training for professional wrestling is trying to acheive that "boy/girlhood dream" and I think more people should try to live out their dreams.

[g4zdtechtv]

FULL EPISODE: Cinematech NE - Dante is BAE

Starfy is feeling BMXcellent!

[hitmanhartiswaseverwillbe]

Virgil and Bret

[void-tiger]

Shiro would totally be That Trainer who had at least one of his Pokemon know Roar (to not waste money on repels that don’t even last that long and irritate his own pokemon, anyway), have his pokemon spar against eachother and immediately patch them back up. And if he HAD to fight wild pokemon and couldn’t Roar them away, he’d absolutely risk deplenishing his berries and medical supplies getting the wild pokemon patched back up (or in an extreme case? either rushed to the nearest PCP or out of harm’s way hopefully inside their territory.)

‘Cause Shiro’s been carved up and burned and shocked and frozen and had his mind and hormones messed with for someone else’s funsies. Even if those memories are repressed from him outside of triggers, flashbacks, and nightmares, his body still bears those marks. He WON’T put someone else through that—human OR pokemon—when he’s the one treaspassing. Ever.

[juanroywrestling]

Tape Review has been moved to Mondays. MONDAYS, GUYS, C’MON!!

[angelkerisimasi]

I wish i could've been able to tell Chyna how much of an influence on my life she had and still has. This is probably as close as i'll ever be to that point, but it's great to see so many people still showing Chyna love. She deserves it.

[joshgerry]

There are a lot of jobs in professional wrestling. Not all of them are glamorous.

BUT if you're given a job, do it to the best of your ability. Don't complain.

If you perform that job well, a company or promoter may be willing to give you a bigger and better job as they gain trust that you can perform those jobs.

Even if you're asked to be the bell ringer. Be the best dang bell ringer ever!

Putting in the work and being patient are keys to success in all walks of life.

Hang in there.

[tjkl895]

Alec Pantaleo (https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkJ6aerYS8/)

[wrestlingmgc]

WWF Intercontinental Champion Albert

[realanimetraining]

Analysis of Goku’s Fighting Style

Original Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball Super will be up next! And after that, we’ll do Vegeta’s fighting style!

[tsuyokuma]