Friday...finally

My wrist is sore. Not outright, but if I tried to screw in a lightbulb, I'd be in a little bit of pain. Dunno what I did to it, but I felt it later. Things like that happen. I won't bitch, moan or complain about them as a part of this biz is taking a little bit of punishment. I wonder what my limit in that regard will be.

Ah well....

training continues...more learning, more work on some drills that are to help conditioning and being conditioned for athletic stuff varies with the activity. I imagine football players are in shape, but a different kind of shape then basketball players or hockey players or baseball players. Hell are baseball players even in any kind of shape? A good chunk of their gamers are spent just standing in the outfield or sitting on their ass in the dugout. They just don't really strike me as the most athletically inclined individuals. I am sure they would disagree with me, but ah well.

More work with the giant.
Wow.
Now I know I will be coming out of the gate as the smallest guy on the XCW roster and likely the majority of cards I wrestle on over the years, but I try to not let that enter my mind. David felled Goliath, so in those cases I just have to think of what would be the best sort of strategy...well besides, don't let myself be caught and broke in half. It goes back to my desire to be in better shape, better conditioned than the people in am in the ring against regardless of size. They can tire and pant and all that and they can make a mistake and I can win. That's my goal.

I'll have my sons with me next weekend so they will be able to see me training that next Tuesday, which will cool as they are one of the reasons I am doing this as I know they will get a kick out of seeing me in there. Their first reactions will be interesting to see.

Saturday brings good tidings of XCW wrestling and ROH wrestling. I can't wait to see ROH live. And it will be on soon as we have already discussed and I have gotten the OK from Mrs. Envi to begin looking at Wrestlemania 26 from Phoenix next year. I shit on Vince and the WWE a lot, but there are things they do actually do right and Wrestlemania for the most part, is one of them. It's the Super Bowl of wrestling. Always said before I kick, I'd like to go to Wrestlemania...go and have a good seat, not just go and be in the cheapseats.

And seeing ROH live will be nice. They have a supercard they have been running in recent years the weekend of WM in the locations WM has been. Houston's card featured a KENTA/Davey Richards match which was awesome to see. Hoping for KENTA appearence at the show next year.

It will make for a fun, expensive, but fun, vacation sort of trip for the family. And the Mrs. and I would take our trip later on in the year. Works for me.

Training away

Turning off the brain’s survival instinct is more work than you think it would be. Telling yourself that it’s OK when you see a 6 ft 5, close to 300lbs guy charging at you and that you don’t have to jump out of the way, takes some doing. Ah just one of the many things I am doing when it comes to training.

And so it continues…as cliché a line as that has become in my blog, hell, that’s what it is. It continues and continues. Last night added the new wrinkle of the sunset flip to my ever increasing arsenal, attempting that move for the first time in my natural born life being one of the most comical things ever witnessed. I got it down for the most part after subsequent attempts though. Elbows only took a couple nicks this time around after being made to bump a different way. I am not allowed to do it the first way any more, which is cool, I need to get it down. If ya can’t bump, ya can’t do anything else.

There are some cut-throat people in the business of wrestling. Now you hear and read online on the dirtsheets about politics and such backstage in Vince land and even TNA and ROH, but it is very much on the indy level, which I learned a little bit of last night in listening to some of the conversation from XCW’s owner about dealing with some past personalities and people that were around the area. Interesting.

It was funny in a way as he mentioned how people sought to ride Bobby’s coat tails to Vince in the past. Nite said he didn’t want to hurt my feelings in talking about my chances in the business versus Bobby. Which I understand of course my lack of stature would hinder that, but it’s something I am cool with. I don’t seek Vince land. I have said it before and will again, if I had a lofty ambitious ass goal like that it would be Ring of Honor. Otherwise I just want consistent work in XCW and Texas. I’d like to wrestle on both coasts once or twice to be able to say I did. A couple of wrestlers on my Facebook friends list I have bantered about wrestling with in the last several weeks, I’d like to have a go against them as well. We shall see. I know I want to have fun and I want my kids to see me in there as I know they will get a kick out of it. My 3 8-year-olds and on down to my almost 3-year-old all get into it and that is a joy for me to see, and it being something we as a family can go to is just great.

Not to sound corny but those are the types of things that can keep families together and positive and strong. Makes the thought of a family outing to Wrestlemania 26 in Phoenix next year, awesome. Gonna cost a bit, but experiencing that and giving Mrs. Envi and the kids a chance to experience it will be awesome. I am going to take a million pics, I can see it now. I will definitely have my zoom lens by then.

And I know I am thinking ahead a bit but I have contemplated entrance music. To me entrance music needs to be cool and fit the person. Now and again I will add and take off songs from my mental entrance music possibility list.

Current:
1) “Addicted” Blank Theory
2) “It's time for war” LL Cool J
3) “Remember the name” Fort Minor
4) “It’s a fight” Three Six Mafia

It's a Monday....yeah...again...

July 4th came and went with little pomp and circumstance. I am of the mind that once you have seen fireworks a few times they really aren’t that spectacular. Had we had more of the kids at the house I might have been inclined to go as I think they would have got a kick out of it.

Today’s a Monday and while it is a Raw night, I already know the outcome and the set up for the Night of Champions PPV main event for Raw….HHH/Cena/Orton…really…again…..while they could have taken a grand opportunity to push Miz or Mvp or give them a little nudge, nope, they stick with the same stale b/s they have had going. But at least there is Smackdown, though they took a hit with the recent fluke injury to Edge at a houseshow over the weekend. Didn’t even do anything major, five minutes into the match he just landed wrong off a jump. Shows you how quick shit can happen.

Training continues. Of course. Bobby seems like he will be a fixture now which is cool. Although it was painful being introduced to received forearms from the 6 ft. 5 giant of a man. We have a drill we will be doing to start every training class that works on bumps, some moves and cardio and it is cool to do, it just takes a bit out of you. Although I think the hardest thing will be memorizing it, but I gather after we have done it consistently for a couple weeks it won’t be a problem.

I am just learning more, and I haven’t hit my 3 month mark yet, I dunno why I thought I had been training longer than that. But hey, I have a long way to go and still much more of a fun ride in store.

Bruises

I have some fresh ones courtesy of learning what it is like to have someone whip you to the corner. Ouch. With every move, there is a certain way you need to hit things, that while they will hurt and wear you down, they won't do worse damage, my neck will love me once I get the corner turnbuckle thing down a lot better I am sure.

I was sucking wind early last night too, that was not good. I can't be in better shape then people I go up against doing that. I got off my shit on my vacation and really should not have done that. But live and learn right? Every extra bit of hurt is teaching me something, how to land and how not to land or execute certain moves.

Had another blast from XCW's past there last night. Bobby. Didn't catch his last name. Big guy. Six foot something. I took bodyslams from him and that was a long way to fall let me tell you. I can't imagine backdrops from the guy, well I can and .... ow....he was cool though, down to earth guy who got out of wrestling for a long while and is getting back into it. He had a few pieces of advice to help me with the corner turnbuckle thing that I believe helped me a bit.

Talked some wrestling and the mental stuff behind me being a small guy going after Bobby, david v. goliath sort of thing. Nite also pointed out it would likely be ten times harder for me to get work than it would be for Bobby as he is a huge guy and seems to actually be able to wrestle. I don't worry about that. I know I will get work after getting better and better and showing what I can do in XCW. I have seen plenty of promotions out there that have smaller guys. The top guy at a PA promotion is my size. Makes me want to see if I can get booked with them some day as there are two guys on their roster I want to wrestle and see if they can go.

It's just a matter of being able to work and I will work hard to learn and be able to work alongside the best of them.

Also just need to go at it a bit harder. Train hard, play hard sort of thing and as I have most of the motions down for the moves I need to put more force into it, no one will be tiptoeing in matches with me, so I shouldn't do it in training, so I will fix that.

July 16 will mark my third month of training, I thought I had done it longer, but I am actually glad it's only three as I have plenty of time left to hit my goal of wrestling before the year is out.
Will be picking up some elbow pads this week...knee pads too maybe if I can find them. I didn't burn my elbows bad last night and only burned one for that matter so that's a plus although my bumps were kinda crappy and drop downs needed work simply because I was sucking wind, but as I said earlier I will get better with those and keep myself in good shape from now on.