Backyard Wrestling...Warning

[Guest Stennick]

Backyard wrestling.......

 

Since it was first popularized by the video’s we hardly hear anything about today. Backyard wrestling has been an easy target for guys inside the business, for other “backyard wrestlers”, especially for the media in their seemingly continuous trashing of the World Wrestling Entertainment’s product. What in the good fuck does this have to do with me or my interest in backyard wrestling? Well I suppose that’s when this thing really begins.

 

As you can probably tell I did backyard wrestling. In fact I did it for three years. Now at one time I considered running down this big long history that no one but myself gives a fuck. Then I remembered that this post is not about my history of backyard wrestling. It’s my experience with the fading phenomenon. This is the short and sweet. Yes backyard wrestling that you see on those stupid videos are stupid. Yes that is the majority of backyard feds out there. Any moron that says that shit isn’t stupid, that says that its not the most dangerous thing you can do? Well then that’s when you should stop reading or listening to them right then and there. This is what I would like you to take into consideration though.

 

Imagine a backyard show that was based on characters, storylines, thought out scripted endings to matches, overall entertainment such as promos, backstage skits, things of that. Imagine a backyard where instead of a ring or ground you use a trampoline.

That’s what mine was about. It was about having fun. I mean it was to me just like backyard football or baseball. Sure you can get hurt, but as long as your careful, your trust your teammates, and you don’t ever forget that this is a PHYSICAL activity and accidents DO happen. Then you should be ok. Can you get hurt wrestling on a trampoline? Yeah, but you can also get hurt playing football or any other sport with friends.

 

What I’m getting at is this, although Seventy percent of the backyard feds you run across are “murder, death, kill, hardcore, extreme” I don’t believe all backyard wrestling and all backyard wrestlers should be persecuted.

 

I’m not saying anyone on here doesn’t let them speak their mind first, but just keep in mind that it CAN be fun, acting out your OWN show, saying what you want, being who you want, doing what you want. Its very fun, if you’re a wrestling fan its more fun than anything else you can ever do. Aside from being an actual pro wrestler for the big time.

So those of you who have never backyard wrestled, I think you can see how it would be fun if all the stupid shit was cut out of it such as jumping off roofs, lighting yourself on fire, being cut, all that shit has no place in pro wrestling let alone backyard.

 

What was the point of this post? Well I guess I wasted everyone’s time, but hey I warned ya.

 

Lata All,

 

Stennick

[Guest Dace59]

A Suplex is far more likely to kill someone that hitting them with a roll of barbed wire.

 

Dude to the fact trained wrestlers have died taking a plain suplex.

 

That's all I have to say about the hardcore stuff.

Kids that go around hitting each other with bits of broken glass might cut each other to shreads, but they are far less likely to kill someone.

 

If you try any move than invloves landing on your back, and you mess it up and break your spine.

 

It's that fact you can cripple and kill other people.

As I always say, you break your mates neck and leave him paralised from the neck down, how are you going to feel and what are you going to say to friends and family?

[Guest tank_abbott]

Me and my cousins had flaming table matches and we jumped off of ladders and trampalines and shit

[Guest tank_abbott]

I'm 6'1 220, and they were quite smaller...we "worked" matches ..I did all the crazy ass bumps

[Guest Dace59]

All I can say is I hope natural selection plays it part from everyone that does it.

 

I tell you this one thing you:

IF (and this is a planet sized if) IF you could Backyard without EVER hurting ANYONE in ANYWAY AT ALL, then it would be ok.

It's the fact that you can hurt, mame and kill other people that makes it wrong.

 

Whether or not you suck at it etc doesn't matter, and it'e not where you do it, it's the fact you're not trained and your risk of serious injury or death to yourself or others is far higher for it.

 

If you were trained and did it, with other trained people it'd all be on your own heads, and you'd know what you where doing.

[Guest tank_abbott]

Well the groin shot i got from slipping on the trampoline bars stayed with me for a while...

[Guest Galactic Gigolo]

Well the groin shot i got from slipping on the trampoline bars stayed with me for a while...

: : thinks back to Oliver Beene : :

 

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[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Dace, you always seem to bring up the "if you're not professionally trained, you don't know you're doing" card when it comes to BYW. And I agree with you, to an extent. Because there always is the fact that people can self-train. Sure, they probably won't be as good as people with professional training, but who's to say it can't be done? Shane Helms is self-trained, is he not?

[Guest Dace59]

Trouble is, if you self train, all the errors and mistake you make build up.

If you think you're doing something right, when you're doing it wrong, it takes that much of a smaller fucking to kill someone.

 

It's the fact you can't complete cover everything or me sure you have, and have done it right.

 

So you're still at risk of hurting yourself or others.

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

All this outrage at backyard wrestling is fucking gay. The kids realize they could kill eachother, they just don't care. And if they don't care, neither do I. Wishing harm upon someone because they take serious risks shows you are a jealous fat fuck.

[Guest Dace59]

I really hope it dones't take serious permiant harm to get the message through.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

The problem being that backyard wrestling will always be around, so don't even try preaching against it. It's been around since before even PROFESSIONAL wrestling was made mainstream, as young teens would get together and wrestle around.

 

And I'll admit to backyard wrestling. Me and my friends are "opening" our own backyard fed this summer once we get enough people. Do we know there's the chance for injury? Of course. Then again, there's also the chance for injury walking down a flight of stairs. The way I really look at it is, though, that I'm doing this FOR FUN. I fully plan on going to a wrestling school (and have been scouting some in my area, comparing costs and the talent of the workers produced), but for right now, this is what I can do, and I do it for fun.

[Guest Dace59]

There's a difference between backward wrestling, and wrestling on the floor doing amture style stuff.

 

But still, it'll happen I know.

[Guest SP-1]

I managed and played the evil owner type of role in a backyard once, but I never participated in matches. Mostly because I'm as unathletic as Mick Foley but without the willingness to drop an elbow out of a tree to get "over".

 

As for the kids who do it, much like anything else we do it's their choice. I know the people that I know that have done it have taken great care to develop their own style of bumping and protecting one another. It's not all retards who are out there doing it.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

And SP comes to the defense of Backyarders...

 

...whoa...

 

But yeah, SP's little "they've taken the time to develop skills" line is true. You can continue to practice at something without professional tutoring and still learn it.

[Guest Sturgis]

How come we don't here about the videos anymore? I own all 5 Best of BYW videos and the two Backyard Babe videos, but you barley hear anything about them.

 

And BTW, BYW CAN make stars(Josh Prohibition, M-Dogg 20)

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I once gave a dude a vertical jobber-style pedigree on a trampoline, and spiked his dome piece against the ground, because of all the weight. It was ill, but he's ok now.

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

I've done some backyard matches, but whatever I'm in is strictly for comedy and not workrate, light bulb shots, ect.

 

Instead of a 2X4, we used a wiffleball bat

When using a hockey stick, use it like HHH's sledgehammer, with your hand in front of it.

 

It's ALL in the selling anyways.

 

BTW, I once did an 'angle' where I was portaying Chris Jericho, a buddy was portraying Ralphus (kind of), and another Goldberg.

 

We filmed footage of me and Ralph wandering around in the dude's house trying to find the exit to get to the backyard. I walked into a bedroom, and a girl with "only" a towel on in the bathroom.

 

I finally make it to the yard, when Goldie comes out. I turn my back to jaw with the fans, turn back around, and get speared for a 3-count.

 

A 5-minute entrance for a 5-second match.

[Guest SP-1]

Exactly. It doesn't always look the same but, for what we used to do, we found ways around killing one another to make it look like we were. I think the worst thing that ever happened was Josh got bit by sone ants and had an allergic reaction. Scared the hell out of us but wasn't related to anything he did while "performing".

 

Though I readily admit there are some re-re's out there that will wind up with a broken neck being stupid. Thankfully, the mastermind behind our little venture has gone on to graduate from Alan "Lethan Enforcer" Kensing's wrestling school here in SC and currently travels the Southeast on the Indy circuit. That kid's gonna make it some day.

[Guest BDC]

This is a movie my friends and I put together (I'm not in this one, sadly) wherein we "wrestled" in mostly ECW fashion, basically with pizza boxes. Did we do any "moves"? Yes, but that's why we pulled mattresses out into the hallway. You need the latest divx to view it (www.divx.com) and no one got hurt, with the exception of one of them (for some reason) doing a Flair Flop on the floor in our dorm.

 

http://www.comment23.com/modules.php?op=mo...order=0&thold=0

 

Why do I post this? Because it's possible to "wrestle" without hurting anyone and have fun doing it.

[Guest dreamer420]

Shane Helms is self-trained, is he not?

He very well may be but he wasn't trained in a backyard getting hit by chairs, and getting dropped though tables. That is for wannabes who think they are wrestling but really they are just hurting each other.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

And dreamer completely no-sells the rest of the post I made when I said Helms was self-trained...