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Monday June 25 2018 - Wrestling persona	Some thoughts
A wrestling persona allows for anyone to have an alter ego or a double life. Most of us are working the typical 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, office environment where we talk politely, hold politically correct conversations or restrain ourselves from being too outgoing. Sometimes, we get frustration about work procedures or principles, we build up stress about deadlines and worries about a project that went wrong... it all seems that at any moment now, you need to explode... but you need to keep it all in. Unless you want to lose that job. We then go home after work and prepare ourselves for a wrestling match, where we can finally unleash our frustration and stress by adopting a character that is all-out, mean, baddie, ready to dish out some damage. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're a heel, you can be a jobber and still have that over-confident wrestling persona, predicting his win, thinking that he can destroy the world, no opponent is too big for you... only to be shown the truth: slammed down into the mats, stretched into submission and pinned out a couple of minutes later. This is just one example or alternative and it expresses mostly a pro angle. As I've discussed previously, wrestling is used by some wrestlers to fight autism, while many others use it as a form of excellent source of exercise. I personally find wrestling a great way to express myself outside of work. Both in pro and sub. In sub form, you get to squeeze, stretch, sometimes punch (if your opponent agrees with you of course), defend and attack almost freely. In pro, I guess I'm often seen as the jobber, but then I also have my inner-heel side when I rack guys around. I get to belch out and roar out a massive sound while I do it... that is the complete opposite of what I am during the day. I guess we could make it similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Or even... The Incredible Hulk. The more I watch wrestlers in our community fight, the more I appreciate and understand their wrestling persona, both in pro and sub. It may look unlikely to be used in sub, but I've seen sub wrestlers that act differently once they are in control, taunting you to get out and telling you who's the stronger one. It's one small side, but it still counts. When you are about to make someone tap and insist them to say "I give up, sir.", you're adopting a wrestling persona as well. All right, maybe not as flamboyant and overwhelming as pro-types wrestling personas, but you get the point. The gear aspect in pro adds to that confidence feeling: when you put on those boots and knee pads or elbow pads, you feel protected, you feel stronger. You're ready to take on the world. You do that lock up, you get your opponent in a headlock, you flip them over, you throw them into the turnbuckle or towards the ring post and you slam onto them. That rush, that adrenaline that you've been accumulating, now's the time to show who's in charge. I think I made it clear: wrestling allows us to get out from our daily routine, be somebody else for a little while and having fun doing it. It makes me an extrovert at night when I'm an introvert during the day. Polite and friendly software tester by day, mean and terrifying wrestler by night.
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Date created:	2018-06-25
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