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I didn't see your post until just now, and I figured it would be easier to reply here. I apologize for the lateness.
Thanks! The only other remarkable member name I remember was Shadow, the guy that brought me through the ropes (literal and figurative, lol). He used to do a shortened form of the Stone Cold Stunner that always got a huge pop from the crowd. He also took a lot of risks, from simply huge frog splashes off ladders and tables onto concrete and even supposedly did a moonsault or two back in the day (that is, two grades down from when I joined, lol). But, like most of the other psychotically sadistic savages in the federation, he wasn't lenient with chair shots one bit. *rubs head gingerly*
Yes. When I learned about the Japanese system, I realized its great similarities to our own style, but with the crucial difference being our vast reservoir (or repertoire?) of distinctly American moves (and oft-trademarked moves at that, too. We were so illegal, lol), from Twists of Fate (my finisher, although I added an obligatory front kick to start it off) to Diamond Cutters and 5-star Frog Splashes. One guy tried to do a 619 once as well (between two poles. All I can say is ouch, and not for the guy receiving the move, either!), although you might not consider that particular finisher American so much as Mexican.
lol, indeed. Although that sometimes meant kicking out of finishers in highly improbably situations when someone really wanted to win. I remember kicking out of a Stunner-5 star frog splash combination in my first match, much to the dismay of my opponents, lol. Psychotic as my federation was, realism was certainly one of the tenets we held closest to. More elaborate moves like headscissors takedowns and tornado DDT's were done (I tried both, but you'd be surprised how hard getting into a headscissors position is if your opponent isn't expecting it, lol), but always within context. We'd have to discreetly forewarn our opponents what we were planning to do so they could help us execute the move properly. Tornado DDT's were particularly notorious, since all you really had to do was spin round your legs as the guy lifted you up and rotated 180 degrees. But YOW, what a landing!
We did incorporate perfomance aspects though like entrance music, fake facial hair and the odd use of a cheese grater that never really touched the skin, fake blood etc.
We were supposed to have entrance music, but we were poor, lol. The most we had were custom-made cellphone ringtones and the occasional CD of mp3 theme songs, which was only seen once, for some reason. Fake blood was also something seen in some of the more elaborate, before-crowd matches, but but most of the time, it was disturbingly real red stuff...
Nah, I haven't been able to consistently watch wrestling for a few months now. Ever since I came to college, I just somehow lost the rhythm of watching it (and TV altogether, at that) and became too swamped in schoolwork and readjusting to college life. I plan to get back into it when I go back home, though.
Any match highlights? That sounds like a really great match. I just wish Jeff wasn't in TNA, but could still be in the WWE with Matt, or vice versa; the brothers work best as a team, even if the focus was usually on Jeff.
Did you put on your shows for free?
Did you videotape them?
We didn't usually perform in front crowds, or big crowds, anyway, by the time I joined; before that, there were occasional hardcore matches in front like half/quarter of the school, including teachers. It was all free and just for fun, although when I joined, there was talk of charging for tickets that never quite left the realm of talk. It was just as well, because the federation was slowly dying. Since we'd been effectively banned from the school classrooms, we had to use wherever (often on school grounds) that was "legal" and open, and just put on shows in the afternoon for whatever kids happened to be there. But it was primarily for our own benefit, with our non-competing wrestlers being our audience.
A few early matches were taped, but that ended long before I entered, sadly. I think the camcorder broke and no one could afford to buy a new one, lol.
How odd! I had a second finisher called the Enigmatic that was very similar to that. I would "X" the legs and then sit on the guy's back, pulling on them and just generally applying pressure. Remember that submissions were totally real for us.
I couldn't get him over and eventually his legs burst out of my hands, thrusting me back into the corner of the nearby couch spine first!
Once I was put in a sharpshooter and a Crippler Crossface at the same time--> you really want to speak about cracking backs.
*blinks* I suddenly feel so less abused now.
lol, likeweise.
Yes! I wouldn't have been comfortable having my hair grabbed or worrying about it while doing flips, drops, or rolls, so for the hair health part of it, no. But simply for the glory...it would've been unbeatable.
