As
is common with many sports after a meet or tournament the wrestlers
would gather up to see film of the event to see what people did right
or wrong so we could all learn from each others mistakes. I was
featured prominently in several of these little wrestling video
parties because I made such a perfect example of techniques as they
were executed on me. One day we were watching as I revisited tape of
my bout with one of the famous Sanderson brothers in our match he
realized very early on that I was a massively over-matched opponent
and started practicing take-down moves on me and letting me go. They
were executed with textbook precision and it looked like he was doing
a clinic for beginners with a more or less complicit victim. The real
tragedy was that I was trying my best to stop him but he was just so
fast and strong that I was as helpless as a baby kitten. My coach was
so impressed that he just kept rewinding and showing off one of the
moves that sent me airborne. The move is called an ankle pick and the
offensive wrestler quickly reaches down grabs the clueless beginner's
foot and to the great pleasure of the crowd and those watching over
and fricking over in a room full of the losers peers, flips him up in
the air in a sports version of the slip and fall. We watched about
six times in total as my coach publicly marveled at the speed and
perfection that sent me on the magical voyage of shame. I eventually
just said a swear and then said swear wording skip to the next swear
wording match. My coach just laughed and so did everyone else as he
rewound my demonstration of exactly what no to do to play it one more
swear wording time. Glad I could help.
