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Tuesday July 18 2017 - Busy week-end: Backbreakers123, RBWrestle and MarcWrestler	Recent matches
I did not wrestle at all in May. Then I had one match at the end of June... and suddenly there was an explosion of tourists coming to town in July. The week-end that just passed started with a visit from Backbreakers123 (id 209) who came all the way from Boston. He already had in mind a large cache of holds destined to be locked on me. Here are a few. This Ankle Lock which can also be a Leg Split is rarely seen in any of my matches. The good old Figure-Four Leg lock is one of Backbreakers123's favorite holds. I can't figure out the name of this hold, but it looks like a half camel with headlock. You don't live up to the pseudonym like "Backbreakers123" if you don't apply at least a Knee backbreaker. He also applies racks, but usually only to guys that are his weight or lighter. Billed at 150 lbs, I'm at 160 right now so we've decided to play safe. I know what you're thinking: is this another match where I am completely jobbered? Well, I did apply a torture rack on him, but you'll see them with time. There is a total of 1,025 images taken with the camera's intervalometer set to 2 seconds, but only a very small portion will be usable for a match since there will be many repeated shots. On Saturday, RBWrestle (id 395) was in town. He took a little time away from Baltimore, Maryland. If you're curious, he did produce previously a match with me under Match ID 3. This time however, we did not use masks, so I'll have to see if we can extract enough images where we don't see his face to produce a match. He did ask me if I can blur out his face, but I'm really lazy on that part. It's just so much easier to pick the ones where you don't see a face to start with. Anyway, here's another set of four and you'll see that I am not an utterly or completely worthless jobber... I can heel too... heheheh. Behold my fearsome boston crab! This is followed by my devastating Reverse Indian Deathlock with a flex. Seriously though, I look like I'm high in this picture. The only reason I am putting it here is because I won't be putting it in my scenarized match. You'll get instead a more presentable version of the Deathlock. The real fact is that RBWrestle actually thinks of me as a jobber and that I should remain a jobber. So, in order to express that, he puts me in a Tree of Woe and punches me somewhere I will remember for the rest of my days. Now for a more technical hold, here's the sleeper with body scissors gracefully applied on me. I did say in another blog post that I don't really like these orange trunks. The fabric is very cheap, it's so thin and loose that you see my crotch... so I've decided to do something different: I've actually placed a kneepad in my trunks. The problem is that now some of the images look a bit weird. Oh well.. I tried. I bet now you'll think twice before wearing my kneepads. The set I did with RBWrestle contains 464 pics, which also meant that RBWrestle and I wrestled for fun without pics. We alternated between promission and full competitive sub. You can bet that I told him that he doesn't a stand a chance against my body scissors in a competitive sub environment. Mind you, his body scissors are also great and is reinforced by his love for hiking (which makes his legs stronger)... but I have a fondness for scissors, so I would gladly take anything he can give me. MarcWrestler (id 3658) was my Sunday match. You should have seen our setup. I had my tripod with my camera and MarcWrestler had his two cameras, one for video and one for photo with his two mini-tripods. I however wasn't prepared for the style of match we did... it was very active pro with constant moving, punches, kicks, maneuvers, slams and sub holds of short duration. After being worn out for 2 days of consecutive matches, I told MarcWrestler to tone it down for me. I was used to the 30 second hold shots we used to do in our previous meets, so he respectfully followed my request after our initial round. Thank goodness! Our match consisted of 4 rounds. One even round, one winning round by Marc, one winning round from me and one final round with Marc heeling. Anyhow, here is MarcWrestler holding me steady with a chickenwing/headlock combo. Now's my turn to show him how I hold him steady: with my own headlocks... I'm actually very pleased with this shot. I've rarely ever seen my headlocks this nicely captured. MarcWrestler is back in control with this close-up of a boston crab. I had to manually edit and crop this image because the crab was on the left hand side of the camera. As a result, because of the resolution, you can start seeing some dots on our back. Last but not least, the very versatile MarcWrestler locks on this amazing hold below which I can never identify.. so I'll call it the "Reverse Bridged Chinlock" for now, but you see that it's coupled with a Reverse Indian Deathlock... It's just that those six words all mashed up together makes too much of a mouthful for a decent submission hold's name (and that last sentence also takes a mouthful to read). So, feel free to give me the real name for this hold. I received MarcWrestler's side of the pictures, but I have to admit that I'm a spoiled brat and prefer my shots. They are less grainy, clearer, have a higher resolution and very few of them require red-eye correction. The amount of red-eye I have with his camera just wants to make me cry... I'll actually let you judge by yourself. Guess which shot is taken by Marc's camera and which shot is taken with my camera. If you click them, you'll see the larger version and you'll also see the difference in quality. Call me a quality queen, but I've done enough pictures throughout the years that I've become quite difficult and harsh about it. I've increased the interval between shots to 5 seconds (instead of 2) because our matches were longer. Regardless of this change, we still produced a set of 938 images, not counting Marc's side of the pics. In any case, I'm estimating that probably only 30 will be usable, because I am restricted to images that do *not* show my opponent's face. Just for fun: I made this calculation: 938 images x 5 seconds = 4,690 seconds = 78 minutes or 1 hour and 18 minutes of wrestling. So that's it. That was my eventful week-end. I don't think I can handle huge week-end like these anymore, because I had the Gaymer zone in between with 3 hours of dancing and my back started to tell me that I need to slow down.... so slow down I shall. I usually try to listen to my body and keep it at a rate of one match per week if I am given more than one at a time. It just turned out this time around that I couldn't disperse the matches because they were commitments that I had already made and I do my best to keep them.
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Date created:	2017-07-18
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