It's taken me a while to get to writing about it since I didn't want to think about it. We did get into the ring that next night but it would not end on a happy note like all our previous visits.
We started out well enough. I had the foresight to borrow a second video camera from work so I could capture two angles to cut between which could make some great video. She started out with a bearhug (that's some nerve, love it), which I escaped and returned the favour. Lifting her up, into the corner she went! I brought her out of the corner in a headlock but she used one of her karate techniques to break free and put me down on the mat. She gave me a gut stomp while I was down too! We tie up center ring again and I push her back into the other corner. (Muahahaha... love playing the big brute role) I wrap her arms over the ropes and put a few knees to the belly. Then out of the corner via snap mare to center ring. As she lies there, I grab her ankles and give her some good stretches. Then a couple knees to the groin. Yes, I'm just that evil. She really has to learn not to put her hands in the way though. Up she comes, and back into the corner. What to do with her next? Oh yes... the move that would end our night before it really got going. The body slam.
On video it looks good. I scoop her up, re-position my arm, then put her down at center ring. However, the way she lands, her leg must have been braced against the impact and her ankle took a lot of force on it. She yells out and we spend the next minutes looking at it and wondering how bad it is. After a while she's able to stand and move around but it's very tender. We try out a couple other holds but she didn't think she could continue and I really didn't want her to either.
Since that night, seems that the ankle healed up just fine and I still feel rotten about it. The ring owner is moving his ring to a new space (for which I've volunteered my time and van to move) so it'll be some time before we have another opportunity in the best case scenario anyway. Worst case, I'm not sure how enthused I am about climbing back in the ring when she could get hurt again. First time, she got her fingers crushed and bruised. Second time, her ankle got really hurt. I don't want to blog about a third time... so we'll see. Fact is, if I don't do anything to instigate our next ring time, it will never happen. She'd just as soon sit at home on her computer playing Yahoo Freecell for hours on end. Might not be so bad if she put away laundry or cleaned the house or something useful but I digress.
Hello Mav
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about Frenchie's injury, really hope its nothing serious and I REALLY hope, this is not the end of future ring matches, the photo actions that you have so kindly shared with us is fantastic and it would be a great shame to see it go, as a result of these accidents. Keep up your fantastic work Mav.
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Well seems she's recovered just fine. No ill effects these few weeks later so that has eased my conscience. I'd hate to see the ring matches end too and to be honest, I'm too much a ring addict to give it up yet. Haha I'm just going to turn the caution dial up several notches and let her do most of the beating for a while. Most of the fans won't mind that one bit I wager.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have no argument from me he he, glad to hear you're not swayed Mav, keep up the excellent work, for more incentive maybe you should open an account with clips4sale.com and start charging for vid clips, just to give more incentive..worth considering, I for one would definitely purchase a few clips myself ;)
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Poor Frenchie. You don't realise how dangerous the things you do to her are, or you realise and don't care (my guess). You are two rank amateurs doing potentially deadly things. "She really has to learn not to put her hands in the way though." and "However, the way she lands, her leg must have been braced against the impact and her ankle took a lot of force on it."... so, you did all perfectly, and it's all her fault? Come on, you have no clue. You'll end injuring her seriously, and when it happens remember you have been warned. I do mixed wrestling too, and can say that you have no idea how it should be done and how good (and safe) it could be. But, for that, you should care much more about your partner and much less about wrestling holds, which seem your only real interest. Get a grip, dude. This post will make you angry to no end (truth hurts), I know, but you and Frenchie should thank me instead.
ReplyDeleteInstead of attempting to berate me, how about sharing some of your wrestling knowledge as to how to make things safer? What was done wrong? How can we make it safer?
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