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...