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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.

How has the ppv been?

I completely forgot this was on. Can somone post results of what's happen so far?

Good lord, she is SMOKIN. If that's manish I'd like to see the girls UseTheSledgehammer is pulling. .....are you...are you sure about that?

Some games let you have guests, some don't. Can't really give you a full list there. Most XBL have some sort of multi-player that is live enabled. Thats a big list as well.

I like the 2nd design. I could just tell people the R stood for the inital of my last name..Reynolds.

You have to preview some part of the intro..and then actually set it off when you want to. (Same with the nameplate, and camera changes) I wasn't aware of this at first either. its also a pain in the ass. Yea it is. Especially when you set the pyro, and then want to change it (just alittle bit)...and the pyro you already set always goes off right before you want to set it. If you previously set a nameplate during one section of an entrance, is there a way to turn it off? Right now my entrance has two nameplates, one on initial entry, and one on ring in. I wanna get rid off the first one. I really wish I could give you an answer, there's a way to do it but I have no clue how to do it.

Wait I thought it was Microsft that were considered to be the evil ones. The retailers screwed themselves with the whole 360 deal. Even though retailers had no clue when they were going to get shipments of the consoles in, they kept taking pre-orders and when Microsoft annouced that there wouldn't be enough to go around a few months before the 360 came out, retailers kept taking pre-orders anyways. I know the Gamecrazy where I worked had over 50 pre-orders for the system, around the time Microsoft annouced the 360 shortage and the company still wanted to take pre-orders instead of stopping.

Basically the only thing Silver lets you do is just use the Marketplace. You can also play online role-playing games as well, since they charge you a seperate fee, but thats pretty much the only stuff you can do onine. I recommand getting a gold soon, just because its well worth it.

And the scary thing is, it's only going to get worse. Much, much, much worse. It seems like they really don't care as long as the company turns a profit...and since they've got SO many other investments that draw income it'll be years before the "wrestling" portion loses enough money on its own to merit a change. (This all becomes moot if somebody steps up and competes, because they'd beat the snot out of WWE between the start of the war and the time Vince makes a change) One of these days...just one of these days, a McMahon (other than Shane) will wake up and say to him/herself "What the hell are we doing?". Then everything will be right again, until that day happens, we're pretty much stuck with this shit. Maybe hopefully the "we want wrestling" chants got inside Vince's head while he was sitting at ringside and made him think. I doubt it but one can only hope.

I think this week's finish was suppose to happen last week but something went wrong and it got switched at the last second so the finish happen this week.

well it was better than last week's match.

I watch this "So called ECW" because its a hell of a lot better than the shit storm that is Raw. that's debatable. Raw this week was terrible though, so i suppose i should shut up right about now. I ask simply because everyone knocks it, Vince CLEARLY doesn't give a shit about the heritage of ECW, yet people are still watching and posting about it. If we didn't watch these shows, they would know about it and be forced to change. Instead we just watch and moan about it afterwards (and during in most cases). that's all i'm saying. Jeez, people seem so pissed off with everything i saw lately. Dude, i just gave you a simple answer. Where you got I was pist off, I have no clue.

You realize that posting here also makes you a smark... No way, I'm sure there are plenty of marks here. All wrestlers probably. Hi

CM Punk has been booked just fine since debuting in ECW. I watch this "So called ECW" because its a hell of a lot better than the shit storm that is Raw. In a one hour time frame, you get a lot more wrestling, you get a few promo's here and there, and none of it feels rushed and even though it doesn't feel rushed, the hour just flys by. Sure every once in a while a show might bite but it happens, but there's been a lot more positive's to the shows than negitives.

I just finished watching the show and it wasn't bad. CM Punk vs Hardcore Holly was ok, nice and competitve, I don't care that Holly was put over because it makes sense. I'm guessing there will be a Hardcore Holly vs CM Punk match at the Rumble to blow the feud off. So continuing with the whole "CM Punk can't beat Hardcore Holly" by putting Holly over now so the feud can continue works. Maybe Holly should have went over using some kind of dirty tactic instead of winning cleanly, but it works. Test Promo; Maybe I missed something but why did Micky J come up to Test and tell him his match was next and Test didn't have a match? I sorta zoned out on his promo. The Great Khali (sp?) vs Tommy Dreamer put over both of them. Fuck it, I'm calling him Dalip now, I at least know I'm spelling that right. Dalip goes out being the monster giant he'll be at Raw and Dreamer leaves the match being the guy who everyone loves no matter what happens to him. Though I gotta wonder who does Tommy now feud with, Daviri? Sandman/Burke feud....intresting pair up. So I guess this will lead up to Terkay vs Sandman down the road? Thorn vs Moore: Filler match, but puts over Thorn at the same time, which is better than putting over Shannon Moore. RVD vs Lashley was something I really enjoyed. It seemed more hard hitting and more fast paced and it was back and forth, which was the best part. I'm ok with the non-finish because it'll most likely (if done right) will lead to a triple threat match at the Rumble, which migh endt with Test taking the title off Lashley and having RVD beat Test at Wrestlemania for the ECW title. I know...Test the champion for two months, seems like a nightmare I know. Besides the ending, I found the match to be very enjoyable. One thing I noticed about this show was the crowd was a bit more louder with the chants and a lot more alive tonight. I heard a few ECW chants throughout the show, I also heard a few "Lets go Tommy" chants as well as a "Thank you Test" chant after Test came out and hit Lashley with the chair, which was followed by a loud "You suck" chant after he slammed the chair into RVD. So either the crowds for the ECW shows are learning the chants a bit more and using them more or it was just a fluke thing that happen tonight. We'll see how the crowd is next week.

I was gonna say the guy left for RAW last night, but look..Kahli on ECW! YAY! More Kahli! This is Khali's last ECW match, then he's on to Raw. and after reading about Punk loosing, I bet Hawk 34 either threw the remote at the tv and broke it or had a heart attack.

You do realize his first lost was in the EC match. Were they not counting that? No, because they mentioned he had an undefeated streak during the match tonight, so I guess it didn't count. Oh, really? I can't watch it for another 3 hours so I couldn't hear them say that. Odd...

You do realize his first lost was in the EC match. Were they not counting that?

People witness the shittyness that was Khali vs Undertaker and if memory serves Khali is so shitty in the ring that they took him out of his own gimmick match and replaced him with The Big Show. Khali has no right to be on a PPV. Khali had elevated liver enzymes shortly before the GAB didn't he? I think so.

I collect Halo 2 figures. Almost have them all but I need to finish collecting Series 4 and 5 (two figures each there), and I also need to get some the damn exclusive figures as well.

Khali vs Hulk Hogan is better than Big Show vs Hogan and thats only because Hogan has never beat Khali before, its to well known that Hogan has beat Big Show before. So Khali vs Hogan might draw more intrest.

(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.

He can speak some english but not much, but from my understanding Dalip is willing to learn english. I know a few people who worked with Dalip when Dalip was working with Roland Alexander's APW a few years ago. Dalip knew very very little english and someone decided to teach Dalip some new words for a promo...this is what Dalip learned for his promo. "I will kill you!....I will kill you!....I will kill you!....then I will fuck you in the ass!"

OH HELL MOTHERFUCKING YEAH!!!