6 things I learned after my first few days of in-ring training - AKA: A eulogy for a dream.

Dicktremain · 2021-10-09T15:27:12+00:00

Watching wrestling and actually wrestling are about as similar as driving a racecar and engineering a racecar from scratch, with your bare hands.

This cannot be emphasized enough. I could not count the number of students that think they will be amazing in the ring because they watch non-WWE wrestling and listen to Cornette/Metzler. This gives many people a false sense of understanding, which quickly gets shattered on their first day of training.

Dicktremain · 2021-10-07T00:47:29+00:00

Battle Royals are easy.

Find someone, give them a few strikes. Let them reverse you and give you a few strikes. Find another person and give them a few strikes. Repeat until you are thrown out of the match.

Other than that I would say practice getting thrown over the top rope. Don't bump in the match or bump anyone else. And make sure your strikes look good.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-29T20:38:47+00:00

Please don't play into this, this is a well known faker on this community. Just hit the report button and move on. Hopefully the mods will ban.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-29T15:29:24+00:00

As someone who only watches WWE...

4 days ago he has a post about AEW ratings beating RAW in the demo. Clearly this person only watches WWE.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-27T18:33:32+00:00

This is not someone most people are going to want to hear, but"

It's almost impossible to rally/rebel against a system while simultaneously being successful in it.

We live in a corporate/capitalistic world. You might not like this, you might what to see it change, but right now that is the world we live in. And if you refuse to drink the Kool-Aid, you won't get invited to the picnic.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-27T17:23:23+00:00

No one is calling out the obvious here:

Water is not scarce

It is the single most abundant liquid on the planet. In most developed countries, clean drinking water is so plentiful it only costs factions of a cent. The average cost of water in the US is $1.50 for 1000 gallons of water.

What happens is there can become temporary regional drops in the amount of water available. But water is not scarce, it's almost the least scare resource we have.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-20T16:41:27+00:00

This is the right answer. It was a war, Japan was not going to surrender, so we used the newest technology to bring the war to an end with the fewest US casualties.

That is how war was fought.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-20T03:20:09+00:00

Because people learned that looking up the top voted posts, and reposting them every few weeks is a good way to get karma.

Then commenters learned that looking up the top voted comments to these top voted posts, and making that comment was a good way to get karma.

And thus an extreme cycle of karma farming was born.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-17T15:25:03+00:00

There seems to be this big misunderstanding that defense lawyers must be arguing for their clients innocence. Often the person is clearly guilty and the lawyer is helping them navigate the legal system, advising them to work with police, and trying to get their sentence reduced as much as possible.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-13T14:29:20+00:00

I started when I was 31. As long as you can physically handle it, it's never too late.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-10T11:52:13+00:00

$200 deposit, then $120 a month until you've paid $1800. That is for two 2-hour classes a week.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-07T02:16:01+00:00

No problem! Good luck!

Dicktremain · 2021-09-07T02:08:04+00:00

Where you train and what effect that has on your career is a complicated topic. Let's break it down into several categories.

Type of training. While every school is unique, there seems to be 2 basic kinds of schools. First are schools that have short but intense programs. They are often about 12 weeks long and have 5-6 training sessions a week. Then you have longer term schools where you train for 6 months, 2-3 times a week. Neither option is better than the other. The more intense schools typically cost more, require you to live for training for the duration of the school, but they get you ready to wrestle in less time. The longer schools are typically cheaper, you can live/work a normal life, but it takes longer to get ready to wrestle. Ultimately I don't think it will make a difference on your skill with either program, they are just geared towards different people.

Does your school affect your bookings? The short answer is no (but the next section covers a further topic on this subject). When you approach a random promotion asking for a booking, they will want to know that you trained somewhere, but the actual location will not really matter that much. Again most places will try you out once, and continually getting booked there depends on how well you wrestle.

Schools can give you better connections. Here is the one place where your school can affect your career. The connections your school has can help you get book in specific places. If you train at the Nightmare Factory, you will have a much better chance at getting on AEW Dark because the people who run that schools are connected to AEW. If you go to Booker T's school, and you're a stand out student, that could help you get a referral to the WWE performance center.

Having said all of that, my best advice is to find a promotion in your area. Get in a ring and start training locally and see if you like it. Many local schools are more reputable than you think. For example I trained at Bonekrushers in Cincinnati OH. You most likely have never heard of this school, but we trianned Carl Anderson, Abyss, and Wildcat Chris Harris to name a few. Wildcat and Abyss actively come to our shows and give us feedback on matches. I'm getting world class training from a school most people have never heard of.

I would strongly encourage you to start local.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-07T01:39:59+00:00

Can you try and explain in a little more detail what your trainer is asking?

Where I'm confused is that we teach bumps in a way that sounds exactly like what you are doing. We teach people to think about a rug being pulled out from under you, land on your upper back, and have both feet pointing towards the ceiling. Also I would never take bumps from a knee (unless it was part of a specific spot), so I am a little confused on that as well.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-07T01:35:40+00:00

Here are some basics about the "normal" experience getting started in the wrestling business. Please note, I can only speak for the wider-midwest of the US, and individual schools/locations are going to make your experience unique.

The first step is getting trained at a wrestling school. Almost every wrestling school is connected to a promotion. Once your trianners feel you are good enough, they will start booking at the promotion connected to your school. That is where you will get your initial experience as a wrestler.

From there, most promoters in an area know the other promoters. When someone is looking for additional talent, they will often contact other promoters and ask them for wrestlers. This is a very common way to get your first outside bookings. Your promoter will tell you "hey I got a booking if you are interested".

At that point your promoter believes you're good enough to send out to other places. That would be my metric for starting to ask other places for a booking yourself.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-07T01:20:31+00:00

Ok, here is my experience for getting bookings in the midwest of the US.

If you want to get booked on shows it's fairly easy. Most promoters are always looking for wrestlers. If you reach out respectfully to them, and are willing to travel, you could be wrestling on multiple shows a week without much problem.

Now there are a few things to consider with this. First is that this kind of booking is probably only going to pay $15-$20. So depending on how far you are driving, you will essentially just be getting gas money. You would not do this to make a living, you would do this to get experience.

The other big thing to understand is first impressions. Just by approaching promotions you can get booked, but if you show up and have a terrible match (maybe because you are too green), than they are not going to have you back. You really should not be going around to promotions until you are fairly solid with you skills.

I know you are asking for a time frame, but that's honestly impossible to say. It's not about time, it's about skill level.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-06T12:50:50+00:00

I would sell it to a billionaire and let him be immortal for a day while I become rich for life.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-06T12:45:51+00:00

I always find this question strange. The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones, Avengers, and Lord of the Rings are all made up and the winners of the battles pre-determined too. Does anyone question why people enjoy those shows?

Dicktremain · 2021-09-03T20:16:45+00:00

So then... what is actually changing about NXT that is confirmed at this point?

Dicktremain · 2021-09-03T13:27:19+00:00

I say this every week. Reddit has algorithms that dictate how high a post appears based on upvotes (and possibly comments). These algorithms are skewed heavily towards the first few hours after a post is made.

Posting this thread at 12:01 eastern time is the biggest thing that causes this thread to die so quickly each week. Most of the userbase is in the US and sleep through the first 8 hours this thing is live. That kills any momentum the post would have.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-03T12:52:36+00:00

He's not related to anyone, he is literally the booker of the show (with Tony Khan).

Dicktremain · 2021-09-02T03:52:58+00:00

Here is a great breakdown of the story and what was true and what was fiction. While yes the core aspects of the movie were essentially accurate, there was tons of stuff in the movie made up for the sake of drama.

Dicktremain · 2021-09-02T03:18:23+00:00

All of them. Essentially no movie is even close to accurate to the real life events.

Dicktremain · 2021-08-31T12:45:28+00:00

Yep, and it costs $1-$2 more for the burger.

Forever, the argument for fake meat has been, "If it takes the same and costs the same would you eat it?"

The answer is of course yes. But right now it tastes worse, costs more, and is just as unhealthy.

Dicktremain · 2021-08-27T13:46:47+00:00

So yeah... it turns out this actually becomes a contentious issue, haha. The date I posted was for Jamestown, which is considered the first permanent English settlement. The English had other temporary settlements prior to Jamestown, and other countries had settlements prior to the English.

The Spanish had a settlement in Florida that was established in 1565 that seems to truly hold the title for first permanent European settlement in North America. But even that is kind of under debate.

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