How we got started

Wrestling is fun. Wrestling can be really sexy fun too.

It started back in 1998. My girlfriend and I were getting serious and we decided to have the "tell me your deepest, darkest secret" conversation to test the limits of our relationship. As I recall, she went first and my reaction to her confession was something to the effect of "That's it?" She was relieved and so was I. So, my turn. I told her what I hadn't told any other person in my life to that point. Something I had felt guilty about. Something that was a turn-on for me and I believed made me really strange. I liked to watch women wrestling. Her response was... "That's it?". D'Oh.

That was only the beginning as it turned out. I was a fairly early adopter of the strange new thing called the World Wide Web, being as into computers as I am. As the web grew and I found more and more wrestling material, I found... women wrestling men?! I was surprised. (I still don't know why but I was). I was intrigued. I was anxious.

I was dating a girl who knew I like women's wrestling and looked as good as any of these bikini wrestling women... I wondered... Oh I hoped! So I asked. She smiled and asked when.

I can't remember which came first but there were two events that happened next.

The first event involved mail order and a futon. There was a website I had found by a company called C&B Video. From there, I put together and sent a mail order and waited anxiously for their VHS "training tape" to arrive. After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, the day came that it showed up in our mailbox. I showed it to her and suggested we drag our queen size futon down from the upstairs bedroom, put it in front of the television, throw in the tape and make an evening of it. She was in her sports bra and panties, I was in my briefs... we ended up a bit bruised, or at least I did. I vividly remember the bruises I had on the back of both my upper arms from the one pinning move we practiced. I couldn't believe she'd done that to me, even if it wasn't on purpose. And there we were, panting and sweating, and with the realization that this wasn't just kinda sexy. It was a lot of fun.

The second event was the beginning of my treasured collection. I wasn't content to just be wrestling a sexy woman. Oh no! I wanted to record this to enjoy anytime I wanted. Digital cameras were still a fairly new technology at the time but I immediately saw the potential. Especially if the camera had a remote control. Since we determined that moving the futon wasn't as easy as we thought, we decided to just do some bed wrestling in bathing suits and to try out some holds that I knew from watching pro wrestling and having done some amateur wrestling in high school. Some of those first few shots are still some of the best in my collection. I asked her if she minded if I use those pictures in a website and she surprised me again by saying "Sure!" It was the beginning of what would eventually become the Mixed Wrestling Holds Gallery.

So that was the start. What began as a tweeny fantasy/fetish for me went on to become our 'dirty little secret'. It is something we enjoy sharing as a couple and has brought us closer together, sometimes very literally in a nice tight head scissors before the bitch will let me go.