So I took my first bump on Saturday...

[JohnJohnson]

...and it hurts. First I watched one of the trainers show me. Then he had me do bumps from a crunch position, if that makes sense to you. Bascially I was sitting in the upwards crunch position and would go back and spread my arms out and slap the mat. After about 20 of those I had the motions down and I did one from a squatting position hanging on to the middle rope. It was a little more painful that I expected. I proced to do about 10 or so of those. Then I did bumps in the center of the ring. I forget how many because you start to get a little dizzy. Then I started taking running bumps coming off the ropes. These were fun. Then I started doing the same thing but bumping off of the trainers shoulder tackle. These were pretty hard to do and still need work. Then I bumped from a clothesline and a back elbow. After this I kept running the ropes having the other wrestlers take turns giving me a shoulder tackle to bump. Later I took a few more bumps. I'm pretty sore. The upper right side of my back is all bruised up from the ropes. All in all, it was a great day.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Falling over hurts and can cause bruising and/or swelling!?

 

[BaconBits]

You gotta be careful.

Taking bumps often leads to full on addiction.

 

[JohnJohnson]

Falling over hurts and can cause bruising and/or swelling!?

I'm just as shocked as you!

You gotta be careful.

Taking bumps often leads to full on addiction.

No, I told myself I'll just try it once...ok maybe occasionally on weekends.....it's Monday morning and my face is covered in powder.

 

[Dirk]

Well done, man. If there's any justice, you'll achieve at least as much success as Supermex.

 

[JohnJohnson]

One of my classmates is getting a WWE tryout in a couple weeks.

 

[Randy's_Voices]

bumps are a blast...until you take a back drop haha that took all the fun out of it for me.

 

[JohnJohnson]

They joked about back drops sucking. I had fun with them, but it's exhausting, bumping and getting up quickly then bumping all the while the air is getting knocked out of you.

Where did/do you wrestle Randy's_Voices?

 

[Gibby]

I had a very brief in-ring career with a bit of training leading up to it. I have a background in judo and, because I wasn't much of a combatant, got used to taking bumps and knew how to breakfall pretty well and wasn't too bad at bumping in the ring. It definitely stings though and if you can't do it properly you will get fucked up really quickly. I'd recommend EVERY wrestling fan goes along to learn to bump to appreciate what the guys they go to see have to put themselves through.

What I found really hard and painful, more so than bumping, was running the ropes. I thought it would be like a bouncy castle! It digs right into your kidneys like a total fucker, never got used to the sensation and avoided it at all costs (thus limiting my useful career).

 

[Dirk]

As somebody who knows fuck-all about being a wrestler (except than to stay away from Kevin Sullivan), aren't the ropes adjustable? For instance, when CMLL is on, the wrestlers walk the ropes all the time, so I'm assuming those are a bit tighter.

What are the pro's and con's to different rope tensions?

 

[nightmare]

Come back when Hernandez hits you with a Border Toss. Till then you really have nothing complain about.

 

[JohnJohnson]

The ropes are steel cable that is wrapped in tape. I'm not sure how to adust the ropes, but I've seen it done before in ROH. As far as benefits, I think a loose rope might be a little less painful, though I'm not sure. The main thing I like about looser rop is the way it makes wrestlers look bigger and more powerful. In the late 90s those guys had some great rope flexing.

But yea the ropes hurt too, but not so bad until you've run them a lot. Halfway through class I had some swelling on my back. I love the ropes though. There was one point, though, where I must've pushed the rope down some or been too vertical, because the rope hit my lower back and felt like it was gonna snap me in half. The bumps actually get better the more you take. My first bump hurt more than when I started getting tackes while running the ropes.

 

[JohnJohnson]

Come back when Hernandez hits you with a Border Toss. Till then you really have nothing complain about.

Yea, not looking forward to that. I haven't seen him lately, because he has to work around his TNA schedule. But we have some other trainers as well that're great.

 

[Hard Hit Prince]

#wrestling #is #fake #OMGZGZGZGGZG

 

[JohnJohnson]

#wrestling #is #fake #OMGZGZGZGGZG

#blasphemy

 

[lil steroid meat]

Always thought the showmanship and stuff of pro wrestling was cool and often times in this era of WWE where promos and characters are dry, I think about how I would handle that promo or (kayfabe) interview question, and all that. Seems really fun to get to play a character but I am not built for the physical aspect of it . . . that's not even considering the WWE schedule + the post Russo/ECW era of pro wrestling where you are very likely to take table bumps or be in a gimmick match, making it even more dangerous.

Salute to you for doing that and chasing your dream.

 

[The Butcher]

Let's hijack our local indies and chant "JohnJohnson!" It's all the rage these days.

 

[Dirk]

Let's hijack our local indies and chant "JohnJohnson!" It's all the rage these days.

Why do you hurt me so?

 

[Randy's_Voices]

I never really wrestled, just took bumps and had a few lessons on the mat with grapples from a guy named Bryce Jackson who said he was with OVW. Spent about 2 weeks in the ring with him. He taught me some basics and a few submissions but the back drops killed me. Havent heard from or about him since.

 

[The Butcher]

Why do you hurt me so?

We always hurt the ones we love.

 

[nightmare]

Let's hijack our local indies and chant "Goldberg!" It's all the rage these days.

Fixed that for you

 

[JohnJohnson]

My friend started to chant CM Punk at an indy show once. How about a "We want Johnson" chant? That would garner some attention.

 

[newwaveknight]

I took my first bump today too. At about noon (when I started today), I was going pretty well. Then my neck decided not to keep my head tucked, so my head kept hitting the mat. By 3:00 pm I was more sore than I have ever been in my life.

But keep with wrestling. You're getting to do something that MANY people want to do but aren't doing it. My fiance told someone at work that I was training to be a wrestler, and he thought it was the coolest thing ever.