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Thursday April 13 2017 - Profile focus: RickSF

There are two particular wrestlers that were great hosts for me whenever I visited them: they are EvilDark (id 1077) and RickSF (id 8839). I already spoke about EvilDark a lot previously, so I'll focus on RickSF today.

I've wrestled RickSF (id 8839) about 4 times: two times at the Wrestlefest (WF 2014 and WF 2016), one time at the 20th Clash and one time at his hometown of San Francisco (hence RickSF). My trip to San Francisco was in November 2014. My blog started in December 2015, so I never really had the opportunity to write down in my journal the things that happened during that particular travel. Now's my chance.

When I came to visit San Francisco, RickSF offered me to stay at his place, but I had several matches planned so I opted to have my own hotel room, not wanting to disturb him with other wrestlers. I however reserved my last portion of the trip with him, and we had a marvelous time. I think we spent two nights together, we wrestled quite a bit, rolled around, took pics... I do remember he had an affinity for gut punches, so we did a few of those. He started to know my wrestling style very well because he became tougher to fight against. Rick also had this habit of nagging his wrestlers and his most popular word was "Really?", as in, your wrestling move is utterly and absolutely useless. This has a side effect of pumping you up, but that's really what he wants. A better challenge.

When we were tired out, he brought me in downtown San Francisco to show me his place. He then was my tour guide and brought me to the Golden Gate and to The Castro (SF's gay neighborhood). We ate at a nice restaurant where he paid for my lunch. We also visited a farmer's market, went across The Great Slope (I can't remember how this street was called, but I've never seen anything like it so steep). He explained to me the history of the various buildings as he drove around the different districts and he introduced me to the subway/rail system of SF.

I remember he tried to set up matches in a ring, but my visit was a bit at the last minute to make that happen. We eventually went back to my hotel room and wrestled some more.

Prior to the trip, RickSF saved me a lot of trouble by making recommendations on who I should wrestle, which of the locals in SF are the reliable ones and which ones were the time wasters I need to avoid. As a reference, during my trip to SF, I was able to wrestle Rookie408 (id 10139), MattZ and this mysterious bear.

By the way, RickSF adores this pin hold, if you ever face him, make sure you do this to him.

The ones with the bed on the floor was taken during the Wrestlefest of Feb 2016. In the pic below, I think he was experimenting different types of scissors.

I'll finish up with this silly little selfie we took.

RickSF made sure that I enjoyed my time at SF and he even accompanied me back to the airport on my last day. He's a great talker, often made me laugh, absolutely nice, enthusiastic and passionate about wrestling and has... a cute goatee/beard hehehe. He'd go with me everywhere I went. He made sure that I crossed the security checkpoint before turning back. It's people like RickSF that pushes me to become a better host and to treat wrestlers the same way he treated me.

People who travel already spend a lot on flights, transportation and accommodations. Some travel for work, others for leisure, but some have came all the way specifically for you. I think RickSF has clearly showed me in great ways that it's courtesy to be there for wrestlers coming from afar by spending time with them, invite them to eat, don't let them pick up the tab, introduce them to other wrestlers in town and help them explore the city.

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