XCW no longer

Wow…it’s been forever and a day and a more since I blogged on here. I come back blogging with not the most positive news. It seems after 10 years, XCW is closing its doors. We were told that last Saturday night before the Pilot Point show. To be plain, that sucks. My first thought I will say was of me and my training and like “where am I going to go?” Nite said he would not leave me or James hanging out there and still take care of us and I believe him on that as he’s always been a straight shooter.

I just wanted to debut as an XCW wrestler. I wanted to taste TNT title gold someday. There are a lot of guys, if not all of them on the roster I’d like to work with when the time comes for me to start. Granted a lot of the guys also work for various other promotions around the state so it’s likely I will see em again and often.

In my short experience with it, XCW was awesome. A fun place to be, a great show, cool guys, I loved being around that and working with the company and doing podcasts and such it was cool to say I was a part of it in some capacity. I don’t have the years and year’s worth of memories many other guys have, but hey at least I can hear them from the guys themselves. Nothing lasts forever, that much we know. Things as major as family passing away show us that. Things like favorite TV shows or comic books getting cancelled show us that. It happens, it’s life. It still doesn’t make it suck any less.

Dec. 19th is going to be a helluva show, I look forward to in one respect, but one I don’t look forward to in another..

I planned on doing a documentary on XCW already and now will definitely get to work on it very soon so I can capture and tell the story of the legacy of XCW. It will be my first foray into documentary film, so it will be interesting. But something I will definitely work on to the best of my ability.

On the wrestling side, just have to continue to train, learn all I can. We have the building till March, and then, we’ll just see what happens then.

Wow

It's been forever and a day since I blogged. Not really feeling like it at the moment, but I figured I needed to get back in some semblance of a groove of it. I am congested at the moment, fearing swine flu early on I think it's just a case of my sinuses decided to fuck with me for whatever reason. M3h, it happens right?

Wrestling still goes. Learning each and every time. Added a new wrinkle to things Tuesday. The standing moonsault. Now I used to take gymnastics when I was a kid, but I stopped taking the classes the day before we started getting into back flips and back handsprings and what not, so I had never done such a thing, which is more or less required for the moonsault. I tried it, with Eddie spotting me the first few times and then doing it on my own. I quite like it. I just have to get better at it. I have a habit of jumping backward instead of relying on my legs to get me up in the air and then just tucking and executing a backflip, which I really have no issue with I can land on my feet if I tried to I am sure. But it's repetitions. I have an idea for how I'd like to incorporate it into a spot during a match which I think would be cool, I just have to perfect it before busting out with it.

James is in the ring and training, learning bumps and such. Vegas is too. Didn't think Vegas would have in ring aspirations, but hey shows what I know. Hey more homegrown XCW talent that comes along the better I say.

Just have to keep going, keep learning and showing confidence with what I do know so I can show them that I am ready to work a match with what I know. Really have to focus on that.

But it will get here in time. Can't rush it.

Don't call it a come back

I been here for years. Just been busy.
Life catches up to you sometimes doesn't it.
But I have been here, living, working, struggling, surviving daily.
Some days I wish I had been born with a silver spoon, it'd make things a lot easier. But the struggle to get things may be hard, but it makes you appreciate the things and the people you achieve in your life in spite of those struggles. I hate cliches, but yeah if it doesn't kill you it will make you stronger.

One thing I need to make stronger is my memory. We did rope drills last night at training and then a game sort of like HORSE where you had to repeat the drill the person in front of you did, then add something to it. A chop for you from everyone if you messed up. The bright side is everyone got chopped. The not so bright side is everyone, including me, got chopped. Taking em from Bobby, yeah not so fun...lol...also going to retire my red shorts as they have a zipper on them that cut my leg during a match with Bobby last night. Not cool.

James is in the ring now, learning the drills and some basic stuff. I am interested in seeing how he progresses. I quite like the idea of XCW home grown guys, as it will help in the long run I think to have a good home base to call upon for shows. Too bad Pierre isn't returning, likely, ever it seems. But sucks when you have a wife and fam who are totally not behind what you want to do in life.

I am glad my kids and Mrs. Envi have my back. My dad thinks it's cool too. Of course he supports whatever I do because I'm his son. Good rule of thumb to have for parents. Unless the activity is illegal, support your kids doing it.

Not much in the TV world...I mean how many times can you say ROH is always good, Raw sucks and Smackdown is a good wrestling show. TNA is still sinking into the quicksand of stupidity though the knockouts, particularly Alissa Flash/Raesha Said/Cheerleader Melissa are still good, despite Lacey Von Erich's best efforts to muddle it up.

hmm

When I get behind on bloogin, shit just snow balls

Been busy or otherwise tired.

Tired from work and all the day to day running around, the long days we both have. And it is no exaggeration whatsoever between our respective jobs and the kids how long the days we have to endure are. Granted this is the life we have chosen, so really how much complaining can one do over the path they took, right?

Been busy with some other non-wrestling related projects as well. Stuff that pertains to my other interests in film and such. Those can be seen at twitter.com/taurianfilms, as I try to keep some separation of things, at least at the moment.

In wrestling news, man Decatur was interesting. XCW's show resulted in two holes in the building and a $600 damage quote. Wow. While Reuben was pretty peeved at first, it seemed like things were calmed down by the tail end of the night, which is good. Decatur seems promising. The crowd was into the show all night and there was a good number of them. If we could roll in Decatur and Denton, I think we could be doing pretty well. Of course in the end I know nothing really about building wrestling audiences and locations and such so who knows?

Now that PCW has started back running shows, monthly from what I am told at the moment, it will be interesting to see if that changes how we do things or who we can or can't get for our shows.

As far as my wrestling goes, still training, still trying to learn all I can so I can be ready to go when my time comes.