ClassicFan2
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Post by ClassicFan2 on Feb 10, 2024 21:09:17 GMT -5
this was always a dream of mine and i never got to do it ive always wondered what it felt like running across ring and bouncing off the ropes and climbing the turnbuckle and how soft/hard the mat is man i wish i got to do it  |
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Post by TKO Propagandist on Feb 11, 2024 5:15:31 GMT -5
Went to one class but at the end when it was over I went to the top rope. Trainer saw it & came running over screaming. He shaped up to punch me but just hit a working punch instead. I knew I couldn't go back after that.
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Post by tmnt316 on Feb 11, 2024 11:33:58 GMT -5
A couple times when I was a kid at local independent shows they let me and a few other kids horse around after the show.
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Post by Kill Em' All on Feb 11, 2024 11:49:35 GMT -5
TNA ring in 2009 to get a photo with AJ Styles at house show
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bruceb1978
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Post by bruceb1978 on Feb 11, 2024 12:05:34 GMT -5
TNA ring in 2009 to get a photo with AJ Styles at house show I got to meet Kurt Angle at a TNA house show at the Oakdale in Wallingford. Dude was super nice, held the ropes for my girl at the time to get in the ring. He hugged her and shook my hand. It was after midnight and there were probably like 75 people still in line to get pics in the ring with him and he grabbed a mic and told everyone he appreciated us and he will stay as late as it takes to meet every one of us. Very down to earth. I was just excited to meet him so I didn't even think of trying to hit the ropes or anything. I do remember the mat was harder than I imagined it to be. |
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ClassicFan2
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Post by ClassicFan2 on Feb 11, 2024 12:21:26 GMT -5
A couple times when I was a kid at local independent shows they let me and a few other kids horse around after the show. how soft/hard are the mats? do they have any give when slamming someone not 200+ lbs? |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Feb 11, 2024 12:38:04 GMT -5
Yes, I have a few times.
I have mentioned this before but this is the short story. I grew up with pro wrestler Eric Young. He was one of my best friends (still is even though we have distance between us now) and he got trained in Cambridge, Ontario. That was 2 hours from our home. I went there in the summer of 1999 when EY was training the wrestlers there at ICW Hart School of Wrestling in Cambridge and he said, "get in the ring, take a bump." So he, along with two other of my friends who were there training watched me take my first and only back bump and go "ouch!" as I lose my wind. They laughed. It was right then when I said, "I am more suited to write about wrestling and not wrestle."
The ring is very hard, harder than you would think. I know in time wrestlers say it doesn't feel hard and becomes normal, but damn... it doesn't feel like it at first!
I got into the ring months later at a wrestling show in my home town that EY was putting on and I ran the ropes and tried taking a bump again and that one was a bit better cause I was ready for how the impact would feel, but still... not my cup of tea.
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koreygunz
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Post by koreygunz on Feb 11, 2024 18:06:09 GMT -5
I am an independent wrestler so, yes, I have.
"Softness" of mats vary but they are never what I'd call comfortable. The ring is basically steel beams, wood planks, a mat, maybe some extra foam or padding, and canvas. You do have to build up a callous to bumping.
Most rings other than WWE use wire ropes. More spring the actual ropes.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Feb 11, 2024 20:37:02 GMT -5
No, but I was at a WWE house show in 2002 and during the interval two drunk guys jumped into the ring and began bouncing off the ropes and then one jumped back first onto the mat while the other one climbed the turnbuckle.
About 8 security guards scrambled to the ring and basically carried both guys out of the arena.
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dixol
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Post by dixol on Feb 11, 2024 23:18:41 GMT -5
At a house show in ‘88 or ‘89. After the show a bunch of kids ran into the ring, so me and my buddy ran in too. I got up on the 2nd turnbuckle and was going to go up to the top but the cops ran in to get all us kids out. I saw a cop hiptoss a kid. So I jumped down from the 2nd and slipped out of the ring. My buddy says he shook the ropes like the Warrior. As we backed away from the ring the cops were beating on the kids in the ring. Me and my buddy were around 11-ish years old.
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Post by k5 on Feb 12, 2024 9:40:51 GMT -5
handful of times for indie companies
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Feb 12, 2024 17:05:24 GMT -5
Nah but one day hopefully
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Post by tmnt316 on Feb 12, 2024 18:50:41 GMT -5
A couple times when I was a kid at local independent shows they let me and a few other kids horse around after the show. how soft/hard are the mats? do they have any give when slamming someone not 200+ lbs? Basically what koreygunz said. |
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