What is psychology and carrying?

[Guest]

Just some wrestling questions in general here. Now I think I know what these three mean but I'm not 100%.

 

First what is carrying and how can you tell who is being carried, who is the carrier and when?

 

What is psychology? From what I hear all it is working on a sepecific part of someone's body. If that's all it is why does anyone care?

 

Finally how does a wrestler hold another wrestler down?

 

Also kind of related...

I said this before that this is just rumours and probably the "new work". I remember last year in February there were rumours that Austin and Triple H were holding others down. Then in April we got the two man power trip with all the gold. Coincident?

How and who exactly were Austin and Trips holding down at that time?

[Guest notJames]

I'm sure others here can explain this better, but here's the Cliff's Notes version...

 

[... puts on smark helmet, wades through endless pages of RSPW...]

 

1. "Carrying" a wrestler means walking him through a match. Essentially, the more experienced wrestler will tell the newbie how the match will progress, what kinds of moves each will perform, etc. So you get the veteran doing most of the work, shouldering the responsibility of making them both look good.

 

2. The basis of psychology is making a fight make sense. Working a body part is a key element, but it's more basic than that. Say your finisher is a piledriver, which affects the neck. You wouldn't spend 10 minutes working on his ankle, right? That doesn't necessarily mean you spend the entire dime hammering on the guys neck, but a majority of your offense would be geared toward that. Most of the audience doesn't pay attention to stuff like that, having been brought up on 2 minute Raw matches or Hogan's "Hulking Up" stuff, but it adds a lot to the drama of a match.

 

Say your opponent has a known arm injury. What would you go after?

 

Another component is selling injuries throughout a match. I'd be pretty pissed if I was attacking HHH's injured quad for 10 minutes only to have him running around a minute later as if nothing happened.

 

It's basically making the little things in a match mean something and make sense.

 

3. As for holding down other wrestlers, it's s a matter of using  your pull with the higher-ups (promoters, bookers) to determine whether or not another wrestler gets a push, maintains his status on the roster, etc. The Kliq was notorious for this back in the ill-fated "New Generation" era of '93-'95-ish.

 

Hope this helps.

[Guest areacode212]

Yeah, there was a pretty long post on RSPW a few years ago that explained psychology really well. It gets reposted and/or referenced from time to time. I think I have a copy of it on my PC at home. If I'm on later, maybe I'll post it up here.

[Guest Zero_Cool]

I remember when the old IGN Wrestling (cries) had a sweet glossary of definition..as a matter of fact, I could possibly dig it up over at the "graveyard" that was the site

[Guest areacode212]

n/m, it's too long. I'll link to it

[Guest areacode212]

Try this.

[Guest J*ingus]

Says "site temporarily unavailable", has exceeded its allocated data limit.  Too bad, I wanted to read that sucker.  Anyone else got it?

[Guest areacode212]

Sorry...I put up the Heyman mp3 on that site, and everyone downloading that sucked up the bandwidth. Geocities sucks ass.

 

Try here:

http://areacode212.20m.com/wrestling_psychology.txt

 

If that doesn't work, go here:

http://areacode212.20m.com/

and click on the link.

[Guest]

Bump.

[Guest Coffin Surfer]

Psychology is much more than working a limb.  It is anything that makes the match logical, make sense, or more real. example: A guy goes for the same move twice, the second time it gets countered because the victim figured it out.

 

Or a more specific examples in the WWF: In their Wrestlemaina match Kurt Angle resorting to brawling and power moves because he couldn't out wrestle Benoit on the mat.

 

Bret Hart faking a injury to rollup Roddy Piper. Roddy Piper shows he wants to fight clean by helping  Bret Hart in the ring, only to catch him off guard later with a sucker punch.

 

Austin lost to Bret at Survior Series by Bret countering the Cobra clutch by running up the turnbuckle and pinning him. During their Wrestlemania match Rock tried the same counter on Austin, but Austin escaped learning from his previous mistake.

 

At Wrestlemain X Bret didn't want to fight his brother but Owen wanted to fight, and as the match intensified Owen gained the advantage and eventually won by being more brutal and ruthless.  Or even in their cage match, they actually tried to escape the cage, rather than just fight it out.

 

Or even a smaller man using speedy high flying moves against a much larger man. It wouldn't make sense to see Lance Storm trying to out brawl Big Show.