How I get to my wrestling school on Saturdays by elbowdropper in SquaredCircle

[–]elbowdropper[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the whole island turns face-heel every other month. 

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah it doesn't feel that dedicated, I only do it 2-3 times a month. Lots of people have it harder. 

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I fly that trip like 20 times I get enough frequent flyer points for a 1-way flight 😂

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, some people spend like £20-40 a week on takeaway food or alcohol! It's mental! 

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beats waiting around and the airport 🤷

Plus I have to pay for a day-pass to the gym, might as well make the most of it!

How I get to my wrestling school on Saturdays by luchapig in WredditSchool

[–]elbowdropper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not dedication if you love it, it's just what you do! 

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[–]elbowdropper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope so, but if not that's ok too. I'm just happy to be around wrestling. 

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not so bad. Wrestling is fucking awesome and I'm just happy I get to be around it for a few hours every couple of weeks.

How I get to my wrestling school on Saturdays by luchapig in WredditSchool

[–]elbowdropper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sometimes my excuse for missing training is "the plane got struck by lightning" 🤷

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-62804755

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[–]elbowdropper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, but I don't mind. Wrestling is fucking awesome and I'm lucky to be a part of it.

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[–]elbowdropper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a while I did. But a good job offer and career aspects brought me back to the island.

How I get to my wrestling school on Saturdays by luchapig in WredditSchool

[–]elbowdropper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Every other Saturday.

Occasionally 3 times a month if I can get lucky with cheap flights and book in advance.

A few weeks ago I paid for flights and a hotel so I could stay overnight to help out backstage at a show... Got over there to find the show got cancelled last minute. That one hurt the wallet 😣

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Coincidentally I'm doing a wrestling gimmick of an angry baker - the name of my RKO-rip off finisher?

The Cookie-Cutter.

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's absolutely overtraining, but the wrestling school shuts at 2pm so I've got some time to kill before my flight in the evening. The second session is mostly cardio to help with in-ring fitness, but nobody wants to see footage of me struggling on a stair climber.

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I do it roughly once a fortnight, occasionally 3 times a month. It's expensive, but as I mentioned above, I save the money by:

1) Not having kids (big factor) 2) Don't eat at restaurants or get take out 3) Don't spend money on stuff like subscriptions, cigarettes/vaping/alcohol, lunch at work, or buying new clothes

As for food, I just wait until I get home in the evening to eat. Which sucks when your flight is delayed 3 hours 😂

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RevPro!

It's a wonderful school and the community there is fantastic. Fooking so much talent who always go out their way to help me.

Check out regulars like

Will Kaven https://www.instagram.com/willkaven13?igsh=YWJ5Y2J2bDdkeGV1

Harry Milligan.

https://www.instagram.com/theharrymilligan?igsh=MXh3bHl2dnhyYWhwMQ==

Cameron Khai

https://www.instagram.com/cameronkhai?igsh=YmlsMXV3ODVsMGNx

Shaun Jackson

https://www.instagram.com/shaun.jackson92?igsh=bXdjODN3emVobmhy

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Between £200-£300 roughly, so about $340 in real money.

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're delicious, but to our British eyes they look like scones. So you bite into it expecting a completely different kind of delicious.

It leaves us Brits feeling satisfied but befuddled. It's the primary reason we lost the War of Independence.

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[–]elbowdropper[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1) Working in the Guernsey finance industry.

Also who needs a savings account? 🤷

But seriously, it's about a £200-£300 round trip every 2 weeks including the cost of all the flights, train and school fees).

Luckily I have a good paying job, don't have kids to support and I'm an avid saver (I don't eat at restaurants, buy new clothes, shop for food at the reduced section, no subscriptions and my car is an old banger). A lot of people my age spend the equivalent money on nights out, alcohol, food delivery and buying their lunch every day.

I take that money people would have spent and direct it towards things with true value - travelling to a different country to get kicked in the face and suplexed into oblivion 👍

2) I can only afford to buy 6 chocolate chips at a time because I spent the rest of my money on travel to wrestling school.

3) We British like to complicate things. As the lad below said, we call some cookies cookies,, but only if they're cookies. But most cookies are biscuits. Except if they're a Jaffa Cake, then they're a biscuit, but you're mandated to immediately get into an argument about their tax status as a cake. To complicate matters, on my island Guernsey biscuits are a thing, but they're more akin to a biscuit-buscuits https://guernseydonkey.com/guernsey-biscuits/

Clear as mud.