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South Cal vs North Cal

Ok, so I know I'm really lacking on my blog updates. I still owe you a BAW and CCW blog along with a training update. I'm lacking, I'm sorry, I'll get them up soon, I promise but right now I want to discuss how I recently found out how workers from South California hate North California workers and vicea versa.   The night I was in Oregon working the BAW show, another promotion here in CA was running. This promotion is called GZW. To be honest, I don't like the promoter of GZW, dude was very rude to me while I was talking to him and the end result ended up me being pist off. Before his first show, he sent me a message via Myspace to come down and watch GZW's first show, as a paying customer. I was considering it, it was kinda of a long drive for me to make as the show was set in Lodi and thats an hour in a half drive from where I currently live but I was considering going to the show regardless of the drive. Anyways, me and him were talking about the show, sending messages back and forth and I decided to offer myself to help him out with whatever he needed help with and I didn't ask for any pay, and I made it clear that I didn't want any money for it. Anyways, after sending that message asking if he wanted any help, I never got a response. I thought maybe Myspace screwed up, so I sent him another message after about a week after not hearing from him. Again after the 2nd message, I didn't hear back from him.   So after the first show took place, I sent him a message asking him how the show went...and I quickly got a response back. This was a surprise to me. So after talking about his first show and finding out how Samoa Joe was going to be on the next show, I again offered my hand in helping him out for free and after that message, I didn't hear back from again...he was ignoring me. I know he was getting my messages because when you check your "sent" folder on Myspace it lets you know if message had been read or not and the messages I was sending him were getting read. He just decided to stop talking to me altogether as I was offering my help...but yet he had no issue talking to me when he wanted me to pay to get in....So F him.   Anyways, so on the most recent GZW show, he had a mixture of North Cal guys with South Cal guys, mainly guys from PWG. Human Tornado, Joey Ryan, Chris Bosh, and Scott Lost. Now Sou Cal (South California) hate the Nor-cal (North California) guys. From my understanding, they think they're better than the wrestlers here in Nor-Cal and yeah that doesn't really sit well with all of us. Anyways, at GZW there was a major issue where actually The Reno Boys took GZW's belt home with them and no this wasn't a work, this was a shoot. The Reno Boys actually took the GZW title with them and left the show early. After this happen, GZW's promoter freaked out and booked a Sou-Cal vs Nor-Cal match...where I heard was rather stiff match, espically on the Nor-cal end of the match ( ).   So in a brief update, I wanted to put out there apprently is an issue between South California workers and North California workers. Something may arise again between the two parties, so if that happens, I wanted to post this first so there's some kind of backstory. So now you know...and knowing is half the battle.
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Working with a new promtion

As of today, I'm working with a new promotion and that promotion is called NAW. I get to be a ref on their 2/25 show. Can't wait, details will come after the show. I'm also booked for the two day tournament for the BAW Heavyweight Title with BAW in March on the 16th and 17th, can't wait for those shows.   Edit: So I fucked up and got myself doubled booked on the 25th. The Rocky crew and cast also do a show for the Oscars. Basically the theater that we perform out of, airs the oscars on one of their movie screens and the cast/crew of Rocky do performances during the commericals and we're basically at the place all day and night long and I said I would do the show a long time ago but I got the wrong date in my head. I thought the Oscars were on March 4th, but I found out today it was on Feb 25th, the same day as NAW. So I had to back out of NAW and I feel real shitty about doing it. Hopefully their promoter understands, because if he doesn't, i may have burned a bridge and that's gonna suck ass.
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Finally the 1/27 CCW show post.

Alrighty, here's the post about the CCW show I did the next day after the 1/26 BAW show. Its up late, I know, I know, I really know and I'm sure you guys are bored about hearing about it but I'm gonna post about it anyways. So to bad for you. Though I think I'm gonna try and keep it short.   (The events take place on 1/27.)   So I flew back from Portland to Sacramento Saturday morning, I drove home and of course the first thing I do when I come home..check the internet. I'm surfing my websites and one of the websites I visit on a regular basis is a message board on Nor-Cal indy wrestling and to be honest the posters on that board suck ass. A lot of ass. Not all of the posters on that board, but a good amount of them. The posters are normally fans who think they know all there is to know about wrestling and give everyone attitude about everything and they all seem to like talk a whole lot of shit as well. Espically those who just use a fake un-registered name, which is a good majority of them. Its also my understanding that lackeys from APW post there as well and just talk shit about every other wrestling promotion around the Northern California area....well except APW of course and by APW lackeys, I mean guys who get on their knees and blow Roland Alexander for a living.   Anywho, so I check out this site for results on a GZW, a indy promotion here in CA, show that had a show the same day as the BAW show in Oregon and I was intrested in what happen. I was reading the results and it seemed like a big clusterfuck, then I read something intresting...really intresting. The Reno Boys had stole the GZW heavyweight title. I read it again to make sure I didn't read it wrong...and I didn't. According to the results posted by a guy who helps run GZW, The Reno Boys had taken the Heavyweight title after apprently jumping El Chupacabra (who is GZW champion) and then leaving with the title. Now after reading it, I wasn't sure if it was an angle or if the Reno boys had actually taken the GZW title. Anyways, I really didn't think about it to much because I don't like the sole owner of GZW, so I just put it past me. Anyways after relaxing for a bit, I left my place in Benicia and started making a drive to Newman and Goddamn Newman is a far drive!   For those who don't know, Newman California is off Highway 5 and Highway 5 is about an hour and 20 minutes away from where I live now, in Benicia. Then Newman, is about another half an hour after you get on Highway 5. So that drive was close to 2 hours so yes it was a long freaking drive and I was already tired from the Oregon trip. I made it down there and the first two guys I see were the Badapples, Dede and Adam Badapple. I said hello and the first thing they said to me was "What happen to your eye?". Yes my right eye was STILL pretty damn black. I told them I got kicked in the face at training and they understood. Surprisingly, they were the only ones who asked about it. After talking to them, I went inside and saw one of the owners of CCW and I ended up to him for a little bit.   He asked me about what I thought of the building and what I thought about Newman? I told him the building was good for a wrestling show, nice and big spacious room but Newman is pretty much in the middle of no where, and after I said that, he explained to me what thats pretty much a good thing, and I understood why later that night. When we opened the doors up, the place filled up quickly. We were suppose to start at 7:30 but because there was still people filing into the building, we started about 20 minutes later. Thats how packed this place was. I believe the total number of fans was just somewhere below 300.   Now before I get to the show, remember when I talked about how I read that the GZW title got stolen but I wans't sure if it was true or not. Well I found out, and it happen. Luster the Legend, whose apart of the group walked in wearing the thing. Which gave me a laugh. I'm not going to get into details about it because I don't know who might stumble apon this and would give me heat about it, so I'm going to leave it as the Reno Boys do have the title last time I checked, anyways on to the show.   Sometime before the show started, I found out the number of matches I was going to be Ref'ing for that night. I had two matches, Ryan Drago vs Old School Oliver John. I had met Drago for the first time that night, I heard his name a few times but I never met him or knew anything about it. Old School I had met once back before CCW was in pleasanton right before they move to Newman but that was months ago, so I didn't think he remembered me. Drago vs Old School was a fun match to Ref. Oliver was insanely over with the crowd, while the crowd boo'ed the hell out of Drago. The match went really well for the two, the only problem I saw was with the ropes. CCW uses actual rope for their ring ropes and when someone tries to do a springboard move by using the ropes, the ropes just sorta sink. I think Oldschool tried to do a springboard..I think twice and both times the ropes just sank but the match finished and I didn't screw up on anything, so it was all good.   The second match was El Chupacabra vs Virgil (aka A Pimp Named Virgil). I knew from the start this was going to be a fast paced, hard-hitting match and that both guys were going to run me around the ring to keep up with them and their moves, and I wasn't wrong. It was a face paced, hard-hitting, high flying match and the crowd ate it up. From my understanding it was being said that this match was a early candidate for Match of the year (Nor-cal wise). So I'm very proud I got to be apart of it and that I didn't screw up anything to make the match look bad or antyhing.   After that match, I asked the booker if I was needed anymore and he told me no, so I got changed back into street clothes and got ready to leave shortly. I had to drive from Newman straight to Oakland so I could work the Rocky Horror Picture Show and I had to try and get there by 11:40 so I could set up. Out of 4 lighting people including myself, 2 people couldn't make it to the show. Which ment there was only me and one other person to work the show, which ment I had to get my ass out of Newman and get my hot sexay ass to Oakland. Which unfortunaily had me miss the main event. The main event was Vinnie Massaro vs Rik Luxury for the CCW title and I really wanted to see it but I had to leave. It was 10:00 pm and it's an hour in a half drive from Newman to Oakland so I had to move. Before the match started, I let both Vinnie and Luxury know I had to leave and that I was sorry but I was going to miss their match, they understood so I think they were cool with it and during their match I made my rounds to each of the guys and said my goodbyes to them and left the areana in Newman and hauled ass to Oakland.   It was good to see CCW have a great draw and I really missed working with them. I was afraid to make the drive to Newman due to my car being a 1990 Mercury Topaz, meaning...well its a piece of crap car but its a piece of crap car that is built like a tank and is still realibe but I was paranoid to make that drive down to Newman, so I missed a few months of CCW shows, which I regret missing so it was diffently good to work with them again, good atmosphere and good people.   Anyways, so that's where I'll leave you for now. Next I'll update you guys on my training and let you know how its going. It might be a few days because at the moment i'm moving to another city in CA, but I'll post the training update soon. Thank you for being patiant and I hope you guys are enjoying my stories so far.
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Quick Training Update....ouch

I got myself a black eye tonight...well its a partically black eye. Looks like I'm wearing eye liner over my right eye really. I'm working on a getting a picture but my camera phone blows. What happen, was after getting my ass kicked all night at training, we had a match...and I started, even though I was dead tired and beat, I stayed in the ring. Anton came into the ring and went for a Shooting Starpress and i was going to move....except I didn't move out of the way correctly. Apprently i was suppose to just roll out of the way, instead I sat up a bit and caught his right knee straight to my head and somehow, his toe caught above my right eye...and now there's a bump and its black as well.   Man I hope this heals by Friday, or at least looks less noticable. Doing 3 shows with a black eye is going to suck balls...then again I can always do the emo ref gimmick. Edit: I got a somewhat good picture of it...and no thats not make up.
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BRAWL Presents Duces Wild, last night

You can find out about some of the Wrestlers who were on the show and about BRAWL In This Link Here   Last night, I did a BRAWL show, it was called BRAWL Duces Wild, the card was all about a tag team tournament to find out the number 1 contenders for the BRAWL Tag Team Titles currently held by Money Mike Rayne and A Pimp Named Virgil.   The show took place in Antioch CA at the Contra Costa Fairgrounds, which is about 20 minutes away or longer if there's traffic...and of course their was. I got to the building at 4:30, there wasn't many people there surprisngly so I guess I was a lot earlier than I thought I was, anyways I said my hellos to the people who were there and went over to my sound table. Surprisingly the sound stuff was already set up, so I played with it just to make sure everything was honkey dori, switched some cables around, did a couple of sound tests and I was basically done until show time.   After a little while, more and more of the wrestlers showed up and I said my hellos. As everyone was setting up, the guys at BRAWL decided to do something for their website. Doug E. Bucks was going to shoot a promo for their website then a empty arena match was going to take place. Before the promo happen BRAWL wanted to put the new ring annoucer in the promo as well to introduce Doug E Bucks, but that didn't work out so well. The ring annoucer is very new and was nervous and it just didn't end up working and it was decided because he was so nervous just in front of the camera, it was thought he be eated alive in front of the crowd, so it was decided for him not to ring annouce. After that, Doug E Bucks, cut his promo and the cameraman cut over to the ring to film the match. Which should be up at www.brawlwrestling.net very soon. So be sure to check the website to check out the match.   As time drew near to the start of the show, I found out their wasn't any pre-made cards up. Their was a small piece of paper with what looked like the card in the back and I was asked to start making copies of the card for the wrestlers and for myself. So I started (in a hurry) writing down the card so the wrestlers knew what was going on and as I was writing the card, the head Ref Gweedo came up to me and told me that he and the other Ref needed a card, so I had to make one for them. So now I'm making a card for me, the wreslters, and the Ref, so now I'm writing down faster. Then as I'm still making copies, I find out that the new ring annoucers, yeah their's going to be two of them now, need the wrestlers weight and hometown. So now I need to make them a card with hometowns and weights and the show's going to start in a little bit. As I'm finding this stuff out I'm hearing Pogo saying we need to get the show going...so now I'm going super fast to find out everyone's information. Luckily I get everyone's information fast enough and go out there and start up some pre-show music as the crowd is still coming in, ECW the music volume 1 has good pre-show music by the way, if you skip past the first track.   So the show started..I think at 7, I actually didn't check the time come to think about it. Anyways the show started with Doug E Bucks, Pogo the Clown, Helfyre and Rik Luxury coming out first and me having no ring annoucers yet, luckily Doug had the mic. Doug E Bucks and Pogo had recently offered a open challange to anyone for Pogo's BRAWL title and after Rik Luxury and Helfyre left the ring, a returning El Chupacabra came through the front door and attacked Pogo the Clown. The fight went back and forth until Pogo got the upper hand and started choking out Chupacabra, which brought out The Big Ugly JD Bishop. The Big Ugly talked Pogo off of Chupacabra then after Bishop checked on Chupi, Pogo hit The Big Ugly with a big boot and Pogo shortly left the ring and returned to the back shortly after. When El Chupacabra and the Big Ugly got back to their feet, Chupacabra claimed it was all about SPW and that BRAWL can kiss his ass and left through the front door again.   While El Chupacabra had worked with BRAWL before, a few months ago, I guess Chupi had some kind of falling out with BRAWL but returned last night. I don't know what happen and why it happen but I'm glad Chupacabra is back. Really good guy to watch in the ring.   After this, Doug E Bucks, called Helfyre back out and Helfyre challanged T-Rizz to a match. T-Rizz ended up winning after some outside intereferance by his brother and former BRAWL Champion, D-Unit. After the match Doug E Bucks told the Surburban Commandos that he would get them by the end of the night. Now the tag team tournament starts and I now have my two new Ring Annoucers. The two new ring annoucers.........the BRAWL Tag champs, Money Mike Rayne and A Pimp named Virgil...both of them took a seat next to me at the sound table.   The tournament started with Super Mexico and Chica Calienta (sp?) vs Saito Hayashi and Vennis Demarko, the team of Super Mexico and Chica Calienta won the match after Demarko attacked his tag partner the cross dresser Hayashi which led to Hayashi getting pinned by the team of Super Mexico and Chica. The next match was suppose to be The Big Ugly with his partner vs someone but someone didn't show up which led to The Big Ugly getting a bye in the tournament.   The next match was the American Missiles vs The Surburban Commandos (D-unit and T-Rizz), the Commandos beat the hell out of them and won this match. The next match The Cruz brothers and Chicono Flame vs Pogo the Clown and Helfyre in a 3 on 2 handicap match, Pogo the Clown and Helfyre won this match to move on. After this match we had a intermission, but not before a fight broke out.   After the match was over, a fight broke out between the tag champs and Pogo the clown and Helfyre after A Pimp named Virgil went after Pogo. Before Pogo's tag match, the two teams had some words that Virgil didn't take to kindly and after the match took the first chance he got and went after Pogo. The fight was crazy and Virgil ended up taking a nasty slam on the hard cold concrete floor. As myself and Mike Rayne was checking on him either Pogo or Helfyre threw pizza at us, which now made things more of a mess. After this, I took the mic and told everyone we'll be taking a intermisson so we can get everything cleaned up and to make sure the tag champs are ok to come back out. After intermisson we got everything cleaned up and the tag champs returned back to the sound table and continued to do their ring annoucing.   The first match back was Super Mexico and Chica Calienta (Sp?) vs The Big Ugly JD Bishop. It turned out The Big Ugly actually didn't have a tag partner and went into the match alone. The Big Ugly still won the match even though he was alone after he VISCIOUSLY CHOPPED THE SHIT OUT of Chica and got the 1, 2, 3. I know what your thinking, "he won off a chop?", you may not understand. Bishop is a freaking big guy and I mean big as muscled out, Chicha weighs about 120, maybe less. She got the shit...THE SHIT..chopped out of her. Myself, Virgil, and Mike Rayne popped out of our chairs after the chop and the crowd ate up and gave out a Ugly chant after the match was over. The Big Ugly had moved on in the tag tournament.   The next match was The Surburban Commandos (D-unit/T-rizz) vs Helfyre and Pogo the Clown with Doug E bucks. After a back and forth match and after the Ref took a splash from Pogo the Clown, Doug E Bucks slid into the ring and made a pinfall count for Pogo and since Doug is the commish of BRAWL, the decision stood and The Commandos had lost the match and their shot at the tag titles as Pogo and Helfyre moved on. After the match The Commandos got ahold of Doug E Bucks and beat the hell out of him.   The next match was for the BRAWL internet title and it was a 3 way Coal Miners Glove on a pole match between The Sheik Kahn Abodi vs Rik Luxury vs the champion DJ Rizz. After a pretty damn good match, DJ Rizz picked up the victory after he pinned The Sheik. The next match after that was the finals of the tournament and we would find out who would face Money Mike Rayne and A pimp Named Virgil for the tag titles after the tournament.   The final match of the tournament was the BRAWL heavyweight Champion Pogo the Clown and Helfyre with Doug E. Bucks vs The Big Ugly JD Bishop in what would be another Handi-cap match because Ugly didn't have a partner. Well thats what we thought until Ugly pointed to the curtain and El Chupacabra came out! So now its El Chupacabra and The Big Ugly JD Bishop vs Pogo the Clown and Helfyre with Doug E bucks. The team of Chupacabra and The Big Ugly won the match after Chupi pinned Helfyre. After the match was over, Doug E bucks challanged them to a match on Jan 19th.   The match will take place in a cage and it will be Pogo the Clown and Helfyre AND DOUG E BUCKS(!!) vs El Chupacabra and The Big Ugly JD Bishop and their partner, The Rock Legend Scum Adam Throwstowe who will also be making his return to BRAWL as well in a steel cage match!!! Yeah I think Doug E Bucks is screwed.   After this was annouced Money Mike Rayne and A pimp Named Virgil had to defend their titles against the Big Ugly JD Bishop and El Chupacabra. The match was on like motherfucking Donkey Kong. The match was pretty much back and forth until the Pimps got the upper hand and won the match. After the match was over the two teams shook hands and that was the end of the show. I got back on the micaphone and made the annoucement of the next show and thanked the crowd for coming out.   I'd think I'd make a pretty good damn ring annoucer sometime down the road as long as my voice doesn't screw up. I have some brain damage to my speech lobe of my brain so sometimes my voice gets all screwed up. Either I mumble, talk to fast, or don't say excatly what I need to say clearly. Anyways the show was a fun show to be at and sitting next to Money Mike Rayne and A Pimp Named Virgil was a fun experiance as well. I'm looking forward to the next BRAWL show on the 19th as I have never seen BRAWL do a cage match before. Should be fun.   After the show was over, I took down the sound system, said my good byes and handed back to Benicia and went to bed. So until next time, stay tuned to my blog for more of my life on the Pro Wrestling Indy Curcuit.
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Going To BRAWL

(Sidenote: Information about the wrestlers and promotions I name in this blog can be found hereWrestlers and Promotions)   In the beginning of 2006, after the WCWA had pretty much closed down, I was invited to be the sound guy for BRAWL, I accepted and I think in Feb. I did my first BRAWL show. I will admit, I was nervous, it was my first time working with another promotion and it was my first time working with a lot of new faces. I had met quite a few wrestlers through the WCWA but a lot of workers didn't work with the WCWA because of various reason, and I was going to meet quite a few of them at BRAWL. When I got there, I walked into the venue and walked straight to someone I recoinzed. I think it was either Rik Luxury or one of the Surburban Commados, but it was one of those guys who I went up to. I said my hello and asked them about the sound set up and what excatly was going on. We went through everything and afterwards I decided it would be best if I went around and introduced myself to everyone, so thats what I started to do.   A lot of the faces I knew from the WCWA was there, Helfyre, Jason Vega, Alexis Smirnoff Jr, Sir Samauri and a few others but like I said there were quite a few wrestlers who I hadn't met before. I had heard about them but I really didn't know them by face. I did recoinize one of them after a few seconds and that was Pogo the Clown. I must admit, it took me a few seconds for me to go up to Pogo and introduce myself. Pogo and Vic Grimes were the two biggest names (in my view at the time) working the show that night. Of course I knew about Vic from watching him in ECW as one of the baldies and I heard about Pogo from him being in XPW. Even though I never saw one of his matches, I knew that XPW really put Pogo over as one of their top talents, so I was a little nervous about introducing myself to the both of them and to be honset, I shouldn't have been nervous.   Pogo, even though he was busy, was very welcoming and thanked me for coming to the show to help out. He told me he was a bit busy and had to take care of a few things so I let him be. Later before the show started, Vic Grimes showed up and he as well was very nice to me as well. Both are very cool men. So as the show started getting closer and closer to starting, I had gotten all my cues and found out what was going on and pre-pared for the show.   As I was pre-paring, I found out that BRAWL was running a WCWA invasion gimmick as Helfyre, Jason Vega, and Alexis Smirnoff Jr was being the WCWA heel group. I actually got a bit jumpy and wanted to be apart of it somehow. I asked Jason if I could have and he told me no, I should just do the sound thing for now so I don't start stepping on anyone's toes and such and he had a point. So I finished pre-paring for the show.   Showtime came and if I remember correctly, I didn't screw up anything that night. Everything went great. By the end of the night, after I took down the sound equipment, I started saying my good-byes. I said my good byes to the guys I knew and to the guys who I had just met that night. When I said my good bye to Vic, he actually offered me to work with another promotion called "Oaktown Wrestling" thats pretty much based out of Oakland CA but they were running in a city thats a pretty good distance from where I live, so I declined but thanked him anyways. He understood and gave me a way to reach him if I had changed my mind. I said my good bye to Pogo, I think pretty much last as he just had a match and didn't want to bug him right afterwards. Pogo thanked me for coming out and asked me to come back to the next show to help out again and I agreed and I have been since Feb.. Doing a show once a month, doing various things, but doing sound and I've been enjoying it since I started.   Working with BRAWL has also connected me to a few other promotions as well. Working with BRAWL kept me in touch with Helfyre. Helfyre had his own ring locked in the building that Paul Brown had moved into after loosing the building that the WCWA was held in and when Helfyre had a chance to get his ring out of there, he let me know about it and I volunteered to help him move it out of the building. Helfyre was going to move his ring into a gym where he's a powerlifter. Helfyre was planning on training people to become a pro wrestler and open his own promotion called Devil Mountain Wrestling. I'll get into Devil Mountain in another blog down the road as this one might get quite long if I go into it now.   Working at BRAWL also gave me one more connection and that was the connection to their ring annoucer, J.J. See I didn't know it at the time but J.J. (who I didn't know before working with BRAWL) was going to open his own promotion called CCW. Which will be a whole nother story that will be told in my next blog.   So stay tuned because the CCW story WILL BE a intresting one, I promise you that.
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Weekly Training update Jan 15th - Jan 20th

Monday Jan 15th: Practice went like usual, started with the warm ups and moved on. I'm not going to get in details about the full practice but I will talk about what I mostly worked on, and that was doing a cross body from the 2nd rope. Helfyre had teamed up a small guy with a big guy for this. Anton was teamed up with Josh and I was teamed up with Tim. The set up was that Tim was going to throw me to the corner and I was going to jump up to the 2nd rope and jump back off, do a 180 and end up doing a crossbody with Tim catching me. I had a lot of trouble doing this. I had trouble getting off the 2nd rope, I had trouble putting my body in the right position so I'd be easy to catch. I actidently popped Tim hard in the nose with my bi-cep...my little bi-cep because I did't put my arms in the right position....he wasn't to happy about that.   So after I popped Tim hard in the nose, Josh came into the ring and helped me out. I must have did it about 30 times until I got it right. When I finally did, we moved on. I was so freaking tired but I did it and felt good about finally doing it.   Weds Jan 17th: On Weds, it was myself, Anton, Tim, Helfyre, Josh, and Jason Vega. Jason can really only come to training on Weds, so we sorta swtiched up training days a bit. Normally it was suppose to be Monday, Thursday, and Saturday but we switched it so Monday, Weds, and Saturday so we could work with Vega as well. We did some practice matches on Weds, with me being the bumping dummie. I really don't have any offensive and it's been awhile since I did a "match" with anyone.   The first match I had was me vs Tim.....and it sucked. I felt it best, since Tim is a bigger guy was I would jump bump around for him to try and put him over. They're was a lot of miss-communitcation. It's hard to work with Tim (and i'm not knocking him because he's still learning) because either he gets a bit lost, as he forgets what he wants to do, or I can't hear him when he whispers something to me about something he wants to do. For example, he flug me over from one corner to the other corner and I could have said he said, do a crossbody (the one we worked on Monday) but he threw me to the other corner to hard and I couldn't get up on the 2nd rope correctly, so that looked like shit. Thats another issue Tim has, when he irish whips one of the smaller guys, like me and Anton, to actually throws us which throws us off.   When you Irish whip someone, your just suppose to rest your hand on their back and lightly push with them as their running away. That ways you don't actually throw off someone's running path. Tim sorta forgets that and most of time, flings me and Anton and screws up are running path and we loose a bit of control on the short run.   So anyways, we finished that match with Tim missig a splash on me in the corner and me school boying him getting the pin. The match sucked and I wasn't happy about it, but its training and we're there to learn, so I had to let it go. Oh and apprently before I forget, Tim actually wanted me to kip-up from the bottom rope and jump over him and then do a arm drag out of the corner...not a crossbody. Though I sware I heard the word crossbod, not kip-up and give me a arm drag.   We did another match, which was a triple threat tag match, it was me and Tim vs Josh and Jason Vega vs Helfyre and Anton. I was the bumping machine here as well. Tim didn't excatly work at a tag partner as he sat on the apron as I was put in holds and what not. That sucked as well but whatever. So practice ended and I came back the next day.   Thursday Jan 18th: We decided to do four days of practice....my body hated me for doing that. I was really sore and my knees were killing me when I went into practice. I have really bad knees as I warned them down from playing so much sports as a kid. The muscle is really screwed up on my knees. I'm hoping my knees will rebuild themselves as I'm training now but I really need to start doing Hindu squats to help rebuild them.....though I'm lazy when I'm at home.   So the main thing we worked on were Cruifix pins. For those who aren't sure what a Cruifix pin is, its when Wrestler 1 throws Wrestler 2 into the ropes and on the way back, Wrestler 2 ducks a clothesline, wraps his arms around Wrestler 1's clothesline arm, and then Wrestler 2 jumps up and wraps his legs around the other arm of Wrestler 1, then Wrestler 2 pulls wrestler 1 backwards and wrestler 1 falls and ends up getting pinned by wrestler 2. I was teamed up with Josh for this move.   The first attempts were....well they hurt. I had gotten up there but Josh wasn't used to falling down correctly for this move and ended up squashing me by accident for the first couple of times. Tim and Anton who paired up to do the move had gotten it down right away, so me and Josh sorta had to get it down. By the 3rd try, we got it. We did it a few more times and it worked out well. I can't remember what else we did that day, but the cruifix pin was the major thing we learned that day.   Saturday Jan 20th: Saturday it was myself, Anton, Tim, Helfyre, Jody, and Alexis Smirnoff Jr. Josh had something personnal going on, so he was't there. We did are warm ups and then Smirnoff decided he wanted to have a match with me. I told him I didn't have much offensive and he said that was fine and would lead me through the match....which he did but it was basically me being a bumping machine again. Which was fine, I really don't mind being the bumping machine as its good for my body to get used to bumping around so much. We finished the match and Smirnoff gave me a few pointers and said otherwise I worked with him just fine.   After me and Smirnoff had our match...oh he went over by the way....we worked on a few things. We worked on Cruifix pins again, and this time I worked with him Tim. Unfortuanily I screwed up on the way down a few times and ended up being squashed by Tim. A few times of being squashed, we moved on, I wanted to keep doing it until I got it right but Helfyre wanted to move on so we moved on. We worked on bodyslamming, and of course I need to learn how to go up lighter for someone. For some reason, I have an issue with going up light for a move, like the bodyslam for example. When someone is going to slam me, I'm suppose to just float up onto someone's shoulder to make it easier for them to hold me up and slam me, but I have an issue on that, in which I'm working on but I'm not 100% sure how to make myself go up lighter. Hopefully I'll figure it out soon.So after woking on some moves, and learning how to do a backslide. We moved on to another match...this time it was a triple threat.   It was me vs Anton vs Tim in a triple threat with one guy being tagged in with Smirnoff as the ref. The plan was suppose to be a 4 minute match with me going over...but the match went a lot longer than 4 minutes. I actually WASN'T the bumping machine here. It was actually a pretty much back and forth match inbetween the 3 of us. I ended up making Anton submit by doing a failed attempt at a surfboard. Basically I couldn't get Anton up for the surf board, but I held the move in and took his arms and used one of my arms to wrap around them and I took my right arm and put it under his chin pulling back his head...he submitted.   After the match was over, Helfyre and Smirnoff said I looked really good in the match and that I didn't seem lost the entire time. Though Helfyre said I'm going to start out wearing a mask, which I'm ok with as I have an idea for a masked wrestler that I came up with a long time ago, but we're not going to go with that idea right now. We're going to go with a different gimmick which I'll get into as time goes by. Gotta protect the gimmicks, never know whose actually reading my blogs.   So that was my week in training, Mon, Weds, and Thursday didn't go so well but went ok, still stuff I need to improve on but Saturday went really well..other then being crushed by Tim on the cruifix pins but it still went really well. Next week, I'm only training on Monday and Weds as next weekend is a really really busy weekend for me, so I'll post that my training update a little bit earlier than usual but you'll also get my weekend for next weekend when its over, as that'll be a intesting weekend for me.   So till next time...    
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Wrestling Training update for Jan 4th - Jan 13th.

Ok I got a bit of writers block on how to start this blog, so if the beginning sucks...to bad.   I re-started my training offically on Thursday, the 4th. It went...well. It was just me, Helfyre, Kiara Dillon, and Anton. Josh and Neil had something personnal to take care of, while Tim had a few wrestling meets to attend to. Tim coaches high school wrestling and I think its mid-season right now so he's pretty much in and out of training at the moment.   I was a bit nervous getting back in the ring..also cold....its freaking cold in the Bay Area right now....I already miss June. Practices/training sessions (whatever you want to call them.) always start out with some light warms to get the body nice and warm. A line forms in a corner and we start with some simple stuff. First we start out with some forward rolls, then after a few times of these we move on to handstand bumps. A handstand bump is basically what it sounds like, you go into a handstand and then do a back bump from there. Then for a 3rd thing, it sorta get switched up a bit. Either we walk out from the corner and do a back bump in the middle of the ring, or we do some forward flips, or something else....luckily we did the walk from the corner and do a back bump in the middle of the ring.   I have trouble with front flipping, i'm not completely comfortable with doing them yet as I have landed on my head a few times from not being able to complete the flip...I'm not very atheltic when it comes to jumping. So after our warm ups, we did some line bumps (stand in the middle and do a back bump.) and then after that, we did some different moves, I can't remember everything we worked on but I think it was some chain wrestling, arm drags from the corner, and some scoop slams. I'm sure they're was other stuff as well, I just can't remember. I did ok, I know i was a little sloppy with some of the stuff because it had been such a long time since I've actually done any of it but no one got hurt...OH WAIT NOW I REMEMBER SOMETHING ELSE....we did roll ups from the ropes. Thats right..oh that sucked.   Its sorta hard to explain, because the scenrio really doesn't have a name but basically its when someone hooks the other person around the wasit and throws them into the ropes, bounces them off, and rolls them over and pins them. Basically it starts looking like someone is about to be Germaned but instead the guy stays hooked around the wasit, the two do a backward roll and the guy who hooked the other guy by the wasit ends up pinning the other person..like I said it's hard to explain because the whole thing really doesn't have a name. I remember this now because I couldn't do this at all because I kept trying to over roll and yeah, it just didn't work and I actdently squashed Kiara by accident. :0)   So anyways, yeah, I did ok on Thursday. Saturday it was myself, Helfyre, Anton, and Alexis Smirnoff Jr. Smirnoff normally comes down on Saturdays to help train. Josh/Neil/and Tim still weren't there. I also found out Neil decided to take a break from the training for some reason, so he at the moment may not be returning for a few weeks. Anton and I worked on a lot of chain wrestling that day, head-lock into a wrist lock, reverse in a hammer lock, back into a head-lock, then do a head-lock take down, stuff like that. I really do enjoy the chain wrestling stuff as its simple but yet effective and when done right, looks great. I started out sloppy but as time went by, I started getting the hang of it and got my pacing together and I was told it was looking good. Myself and Anton also got to work on something new as well.   We started with me in a headlock, Anton would then lead me over to a corner of his choosing and I when we got close enough, Anton would put his left foot on the bottom rope, then his right foot on the 2nd rope, he's jump off and we'd turn and on his way down still with the headlock on me, he'd do a head lock take down. This was new to both of us and we had no trouble with it. Actually I take that back, when I had the headlock on Anton, there was a small thing where my head almost didn't clear the ring and got driven down into it but we made a last second adjustment so that didn't happen. It still looked good and we ended up in the right position but we did it again just to make sure we had it right.   I don't remember much about Monday and Thursday practice....I think Thursday was just me and Anton but I can't remember what we worked on. I do remember Saturday the 13th however....you know come to think about it, maybe it was Monday we did the roll ups from the ropes.....yeah I do think it was Monday. Anyways, on to Saturday.   Saturday I was late, practice was suppose to start at 10:30 but I had partyed the night before and was just to lazy to do anything on Saturday morning...so I ended up getting there 10 minutes before 11. Luckily practice hadn't started yet. When I got there Tim, Josh, and Helfyre was standing next to the ring. Anton showed up 4 minutes after I did. After Anton showed up, I noticed someone new on our side of the gym. I really didn't pay much attention to this new person because I wasn't sure why she was on our side of the gym. When we started to get going, she got up on the ring. I asked if she was a our new person and she said she was, I introduced myself to her and she shook my name and told me her name was Jody.   Practice started with the normal warm ups, then we went into some drop down/leap frogs and I was having trouble with these. I don't know why I was having trouble, with these. I just kept screwing them up. We were suppose to do a set of 4 but I think I did around 10 of them because I kept messing them up. I felt bad for Josh because I gave him a good cardio work out because of me screwing up. I finally got them down about 5 minutes of not being able to do them right. We then practiced on a few more things and of course I was sloppy with bad pacing. I actdently got Tim on the nose with a finger while we doing lock ups but managed to do what we were suppose to do.   I know its only been a week in a half since I re-started my training but being sloppy and now having good pacing is starting to get to me a little bit. I got frustrated on Saturday with the leap frog and the drop down stuff because I couldn't get it right even though I know I could have. I'll get it down in time but my main concern at the moment is that the others I'm working with are going to suffer because I can't get it right. Like I said, I gave Josh a good cardio work out when he didn't want to and I acidently bonked Tim on the face twice on Saturday, once in the fore head with my two feet because of bad timing and once in the nose with my finger on the mis-cued locked up. Hopefully I get my sloppyness and bad pacing fixed soon.   After a few hours of training, we did a few practice matches.   The first match was Helfyre vs Anton vs Josh vs Tim in a elimation match with me as ref. It was going fine, until a simple mistake. Tim had a thumb in the eye thing going on with Josh and I was counting to 5. Now this entire time, I'm waiting for Tim to either stop it or to whisper to me that I should try to break it up or should DQ him. So I get to 4 on a 2nd count and he still hasn't fucking taken his thumb off Josh's eye. I'm fucking confused because honestly, who the fuck would think being DQ'ed because your thumbing in the eye is a good idea? So I looked towards Helfyre because I'm confused and he tells me to DQ him, so I DQ'ed Tim because he was thumbing Josh in the eye....moving on. So the match gets finished and I'm standing on the aporn catching my breath and Tim chimes with this...."Toby you need to sell the sell.   Sell the sell? Huh? So I ask him what he means and he's telling me I should have counted to 5 because I just made it look dumb for not counting to 5. I responded with "you need to tell me what your doing if thats what you planned on doing." I mean how am I suppose to know thats what the hell he wanted to do. Seriously who the hell wants to be DQ'ed because they wouldn't stop thumbing someone in the eye. Me and Tim actually started arguing about this, and he actually told me "We do things by the cuff here."....THE FUCK!? By the cuff? What the hell? At this point, I told him unless he tells me what he's going to do, I'm not going to do anything for him except count to 5 or count to 3. If he doesn't either tell me what he wants to do or re-acts to me finishing my count, thats on him and if he looks dumb because of it, not my issue. I can't help him ,if he can't help me. Helfyre did say we were both right as I should have counted to 5 regardless and Tim should have told me what he was planning but thats true but Tim could have been a less of a dick about it.   After that, we did one more match where I actually did wrestle in this one...actually I take that back, I was the bumping dummie. I bumped a lot, I felt good afterwards because it had been such a long time since I bumped so much but there were a few things I didn't feel comfortable about doing during the match and I think the guys got a little frustrated with that but if I'm not ready to do something, I don't want to do it, hopefully they understand that. After the 2nd match, practice was over and I went home.   I have practice again tomorrow, hopefully it goes well. I thinking about doing a weekly update and maybe posting the important major stuff that happens. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this blog and if anyone has any commets or questions please feel free to ask or post.
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Me and The WCWA (Another long one)

Last night I worte out this blog but due to issues with the site, I lost it all! So I'm going to re-type it the best I can. Again sorry for posting this after a little while, but since I got the BAW post out of the way, I figured I'd go ahead and post the WCWA blog.   In the month of June of 2005, I contacted the promoter of WCWA and we set up a meeting to where I would go their where the WCWA was being ran in Pleasant Hil, CA. Concord's a few cities away from where I currently live now, so it was a short drive for me. When I got there, I wasn't sure I had the right place. The building from the outside was bare. It was this big building that had no signs, nothing on the outside of it, and you really couldn't see into the building from the outside, just because there were no windows, there were two glass doors but they were tinted, but even though the building looked empty from the outside, one of the two doors were left open, so I made my way over to the building.   As I got closer, I could see into the building better as I got closer and the first thing I saw was a wrestling ring that was placed right in the middle of the floor. When I entered the building I saw that there were two guys in the ring talking about something, one of them noticed me and asked me "Are you Toby?" I said yes and walked over to them to shake their hands. They introduced themselves as Jason and Dave. Jason wrestles as Jason Vega and Daves wrestles under different masked gimmicks, I'm not going to say who just because he stills wrestles under those masks and even though none of you may ever see him wrestle, I'd like to protect those gimmicks just in case. He does however wrestle under one un-masked gimmick and thats sorta his main gimmick, which is U.S. Steel.   After introduing myself to Jason and Dave, the promoter came out and I introduced myself to him as well. His name is Paul Brown. Paul is a big man, not as in he's a fat guy because he really is, I ment big as he's a strong man. Trust me, when I took a clothesline from him, it was like being hit with a thick tree branch and if he was going to hip toss you or give you a push to help you get your ass in the air for something, you were going over weather you wanted to or not. He was literally that strong of a guy. After introducing myself to Paul, he took me to the side of the building away from the ring so we could talk. As we sat and talked, I had a view of the ring and noticed that Jason and Dave were practicing as myself and Paul talked.   Paul and I talked about a few things. We talked about the building we were in, how he ran his promotion, and most important the thing we talked about was about training. The building we were in was a old bank that even still had the vault, it was a two story building. The first floor of the building was where the ring was placed. When shows were ran, chairs were set up on 3 sides of the ring. No chairs were set up on the 4th side because thats where the sound set up and where the ring annoucer sat were. There was this big platform with two tables on it. One for the sound set up and the other table was for the ring annoucer. The platform and the ring were connected by a ramp. The ramp was so the ring annoucer could get from his seat to the ring without having to walk down or up down stairs, plus the crowd could see him the entire time. I'll explain why the crowd would want to see the ring annoucer later on. The second floor was the bathroom and the locker room, along with a weight room. There was a black curtain between the locker room and the bathroom so fans couldn't really see into the locker room without having to move the curtain. I should probably mention that Paul was renting out the building, so he could run a show out of it and pretty much do whatever he wanted to it when he wanted to.   The WCWA was ran as a family promotion and Paul let me know it. The wrestlers were not allowed to cuss, they were not allowed to use any enterance music that had cuss words in it and if a song had cuss words in it, Paul told me he had no problem coming over to the sound and destorying their cd with his own bare hands. According to Paul (because I hadn't seen their crowds), the crowds he drew were parents who brought their little kids and their friends to the shows. I hadn't attended any of the WCWA shows before so this being explained to me was a good thing. After we discussed about the building and about how the WCWA was ran, we talked about training. Paul also ran shows every two weeks on a Saturday.   Training sessions were every Tuesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon, and Saturday morning...well not so much on Saturday morning because...well everyone liked sleeping in plus all the trainers had something to do on Saturdays so a practice rarely happened on a Saturday. I think the compete total fee for training was $1,500.00. It's hard for me to remember because it was such a long time ago. Paul said it was a pay as you go kind of deal, I didn't have to sign any contract's with him and he wasn't going to force me to sign something or force me to do anything as a trainee like Roland Alexander does down in Hayward. After finding things out, I took a few seconds and decided that I liked how things were ran and two days later on a Thursday I was back, ready to train.....and it hurt. My trainers were going to be Paul, Jason, Dave, and two more guys who'd I meet later and would be Helfyre and Eric West. Helfyre's gimmick is sorta crosss between a Death Metal guy crossed with the Undertaker.....if that makes sense. Its basically him being himself, but you'd really have to know Helfyre to understand what I ment. Eric West basically wrestled under his own name and was basically himself.   I sucked at bumping, I really did. I knew I was going to suck and that I wasn't going to catch on right away, but I had no clue I was going to be as bad as I was. I was horrible. When you bump, your suppose to land on your back flat with your hands and feet hitting the ring all at the same time. I couldn't do that at all. Either I kept putting my hands behind me, rolling my back, not tucking my neck, which resulted in a neck whiplashing motion, or I couldn't lift one of my feet off the ground. One of the best piece's of advice I ever got from a wrestler about bumping and training was this, "When it comes to training, not everyone will be the same and will be able to learn all at the same pace. Either you'll get it or you won't but when you get it, everything starts clicking." and thats very true. Since I sucked at bumping, my trainers all had the idea to help me out, was to slam me. Which ment quite a few different slams, bodyslams, spinebusters, things like that. It helped but not so much. I kept coming home banged up, sore, bruised, and at times limping because I was in so much pain from not being able to bump correctly.   There were times early on when I kept questioning why I was putting myself through the pain I was in, I kept telling myself that some day it would all be worth it and that one of these days, I'll get it and it won't hurt as much. Ok the truth is, I kept going because I had paid for the month and I hate spending money which could result in me wasting it, so thats really why I kept going. After a couple of months, I started improving. Luckily I was the only one training so the trainers could put their focus on me and help me learn how to bump and take moves correctly. I also started running the ropes and let me be one of the first to tell you this, THE ROPES FUCKING HURT! Even if you hit them right, those fuckers hurt like a bitch. You train your body to toughen up while hitting them and while your body is trying to do that, you get really bruised. I had a brusie under my shoulder blade, one right above my ass, and one a little bit above my foot, yeah that shit does NOT tickle. As time went on I was understanding more and more and was doing better and better. I really started enjoying training.   Like I said before, Paul ran shows every two weeks on a Saturday. I would get up early in the morning and would get to the building around 10 in the morning to help set up. Setting up ment, hooking up the sound, setting up chairs around the ring, sweeping the floor, rolling up these wrestling mats (Paul also coaches High School wrestling), vaccuming these small rugs that were placed around the ring (we didn't use mats), and also cleaning up the upstairs locker rooms and bathrooms. The first show I did, I sat back and watched. I met a lot of local wrestlers there for the very time. All were very nice to me and introduced themselves to me. I won't go through and talk about everyone that I have met this blog because the blog will become VERY long if I sit here and introduce you to everyone I have met but my next blog will be deicated just to that. Two people I met I will talk about are Blackie and Alexis Smirnoff Jr.   Blackie was the ring annoucer, he was also the co-booker of the WCWA with Paul. Blackie also managed Helfyre and the heel team of Devil Mountain Wrestling. Imagine it as the nWo only with like a death metal/punk edge to them....plus it was a lot smaller group of people. Devil Mountain were Blackie as the heel manager, Helfyre as the leader (in my view anyways), Shane Dynasty, Risa De Merte, and Rage. The crowd HATED Blackie and he enjoyed every minute of it and had a lot of fun while pissing off the crowd. Alexis Smirnoff Jr is a wrestler who wrestles as a evil Russian. He wasn't one of my trainers but he worked very closely to the WCWA and with Paul Brown. He would take me aside before shows and help me improve myself in the ring a little bit, he actually got me to do a forward roll. I couldn't do one for anything and he was able to get me to do one. Me and Smirnoff still do shows together as most recently me, him, and Jason Vega all travled to Oregon for the BAW show together.   So anyways, the first WCWA show I did, I sat back and watched. I enjoyed the show but one thing that bugged me the most was the music. Paul's son was running the music, and I hate to put it so brutally honest, but he sucked. By the next show, I had voluntered to run music and became the soung guy for the WCWA. Which was cool because I got to work with the wrestlers a little bit more closely, and it also gave me the best seat in the house, but it also got me involved here and there. One time, and I'm gonig to go in much detail about it, but a brawl broke out near the sound system and because I was "protecting" it I ended up being chopped and hit with some kind of object, across my back. That was fun! Everything was going really good for me......but then just like that, I hit a few big roadblocks.   The first roadblock was that my medical coverage was going to expire when I turned 22 in November. I didn't want to train without any medical because I feared that I would get really hurt and would get a really big medical bill that I couldn't pay for. So in Sept. I decided I would stop training by the month of Oct. and would work on being able to get some medical coverage and after getting some medical, I would get back in the ring and train. I talked to Paul about this and he understood just fine and as much as I didn't want to stop training, I had to stop by Oct. Another roadblock I hit was from my job. I worked in retail at a gamestore and I started going through new managers and because of it, I started loosing hours. One of the new managers I had gotten really started screwing me over in hours and even though I told him I needed the hours so I could pay for wrestling, he kept cutting them in favor of other employes and because of it, my monthly payments kept getting lower and lower. I hated doing that to Paul, but again he understood and let me keep on training even though I was making lower and lower payments and because Paul let me keep going, I respect the hell out of Paul for that and I owe him a lot.   The third roadblock I hit, had nothing to do with me, it had to do with the owners of the building and property we were running out of and on.The owners of the building wanted us to leave for a month in a half because they wanted to put a halloween store in for the end of Sept of all of Oct.. Paul didn't like that because apprently last year when the Halloween store took over, they had destoryed a lot, which includes some of Paul's own personnal things. Plus the WCWA was drawing really well, we had a lot of returning fans and we were getting newer and newer fans each show and it would have been stupid to just stop running and risk loosing some of our fans. The owners of the building didn't feel the same way and there was a big conflict because of this. Not only did we have to deal with this but in the same shopping center we were in, a Kohl's was being built and it was going to be focused on as the main store in the plaza and the owners of Kohl's felt we were drawing the wrong type of people.....even though our crowds consited mostly of kids, we were drawing the wrong type of crowd. So by the end of Oct. the WCWA had it last show in that building, which was a Halloween themed show.   It was a fun show which ended in a gimmick battle royal that had all the wrestlers dressing up as wrestlers who were in the WWE, WCW, or ECW at one time or another. After the show, that week and that week, we started moving everything out of the building and into a new one in the next city over in Concord, CA but their were so many problems with this new building. It was some kind of store that was TORE up. The wiring was horrible, and yeah it just needed a lot of work done to it. Plus being in Concord, we needed permits and other shit to run a show out of that building and being RIGHT NEXT to a police station didn't help matters either. They made sure we needed to get all the permits and paperwork for us to run shows and actually sent inspectors to the building to see if we were safe enough to run. As the months passed, nothing was happening. Their were being practices being held but I didn't really go because I couldn't get in the ring and train and I wans't about to try and get into Paul's ring to train when I wasn't paying him.   In Jan. I decided to attend a practice to stop in and say hi and to see what was going on as I really hadn't heard much about what was going on. When I got there, Jason was there along with Eric West and the new trainee named Tim. There were also a few other wrestlers there that ran another promotion called BRAWL. After a little bit of catching up, I found out that Paul had lost this new building and that the wrestlers were there getting their stuff out of the building before it all got locked up in it. I started helping getting stuff out of there and randomly said "Does anyone need a wrestling techie?" and one of the BRAWL owners spoke up and said they needed a new sound guy. I agreeed and told them I would be at their next show in Feb.   That night, I pretty much knew that the WCWA was done. We had no building to go to and Paul's stuff was going to be locked up in that building for a little while. I wasn't sure where I was going to go now for wrestling, I just had to see where things would go for me. I was going to go to BRAWL and help them out, but I had no clue if that was a one time deal or what that was even going to be.   The month of Feb was quickly coming, was my life in wrestling going to continue or would it stop after that show? I'll leave you at that question and will answer it for you in a blog. Not the next blog because thats where I'm going to introduce to you and talk about the wrestlers that I have met , but you'll find out soon enough. Stay tuned.
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In The Ring Again...

I'm once again training for pro wrestling! I re-started my training tonight with Helfyre at the Devil Mountain gym. I felt a bit weird getting back into the ring, it has been a long while since I was learning new stuff, so I was a bit concerned with some ringrust.   We started with some line-bumps (stand in the middle of the ring and do a back bump) and I diffently felt the rust. I just wasn't doing them 100% correctly and I felt it. After a few line-bumps, we moved over to scoop body slams, bumping on these felt odd as well but I after a few of the slams, I started bumping correctly. We went from scoop slams to armwrenches then to headlock take overs and I really started coming along. It felt great again, and i'm happy that i'm training again. The Referee stuff is fine and fun but thats not what I wanted to do when I decided to get into pro wrestling and it sucked not being able to train, so I'm happy that i'm doing it again.   I'm also going to start posting updates about my training and how its coming along so the rest of you can know how are things are going with me training wise. You'll still get my show stories, so just look at my training stuff as a added bonus. Anyways, thats it for now and I know I still owe you guys the story about me going into BRAWL and that will come soon, maybe tomorrow, we'll see, either way you'll get it soon. Just stay tuned!
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Introduction

For those who don't know, I've been really getting involved in the North California Wrestling Indy Curcuit and I've decided to write blogs about the shows I'm doing and basically my life on the curcuit. First let me do the introduction and tell you about myself.   My real name is Toby Reynolds and I've been a wrestling fan since I was little little kid. By the end of 2003, I decided to take a huge step in my life and get involved with pro wrestling. I moved to Bremerton WA, to live with my dad and train with a indy promotion called ICW. ICW was based out of Bremerton so me moving there made sense. Unfortunaily it didn't work out and I moved back to California.   I had a job lined up in Bremerton, I was suppose to transfer to a store out there but the transfer got screwed up and after about 3 months I got tired of not being able to find a job in WA and before I ran out of money I came back to California. Even though I was only in WA for 3 months, I did work with ICW and all the guys there treated me very well. I miss those guys and hope some day, I can work with them again.   After about a year in a half of being back in California, I found that there was a indy promotion called the WCWA in the near by city of Concord. After checking out their website I gave them a call and set up a meeting with them to talk about training. After I met the owner and two of the trainers, I had my mind set up, I would start training two days later but that will be a story for my next blog.   (I got to have something for you guys to come back to.)
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