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| Thursday January 17 2019 - Real archives: 2005-2012 | Archives | |||||
| These photos really really REALLY are classified as archives because they have been taken at least 7 years ago or more (the oldest pic was actually taken 14 years ago). This one features Frank in 2006. Yep, that was back at a time where I still wanted to use wrestling masks for privacy. I lost contact with him as years went by, but I did remember that we've wrestled about half a dozen times. I also remember that he used to bring a dog in the hotel room. It was a dog in training for the MIRA foundation program, a Quebec-based organization that provides guiding dogs for the blind or for the people who needs them for their day-to-day activity. If you volunteer to train a dog with them, you are tasked with the mission of always bringing the dog everywhere you go so that he gets used to it. And as weird it may seems, this includes bringing them in the hotel room where you are having a wrestling match with someone else.  Anyhow, after 1-2 years, these dogs then undergo a rigorous 2-5 years program to be trained as guidance dogs and not every one of them graduate.I do recall that his dog was extremely curious and wanted to join us when we were wrestling. I'm pretty sure he was whimpering while I was hurting his master with this full nelson camel clutch combo. 
That camera was a Canon Powershot A95. It was still trusty back then. The good old days of prepping the camera for 3 shots over 10 seconds of preparation. Rinse and repeat.  This one is from 2005. Another one whom I lost contact. I've only known him as SubJobber (id 713), a very cute furry bearcub. Head scissors were his weaknesses.
The picture below is from FrankyBoyTheLegend taken in 2012. As you may have guessed from the picture, this guy loves to have his abs punished. I don't think we did any wrestling holds. Just gut punching. This is actually the most recent pic of the bunch in this entry.
The only nickname I have in my records for the next pic is BD. All I know is that this guy was mostly into trampling. I would trample him for an hour or two and in the end, I would get a minute or two of bearhugs. Back in 2006, yes, I would have given anything for a bearhug, even if it meant working a lot for it.  You can also tell from the picture that I was piss poor and I would only wear your typical everyday underwear to wrestle. Actually, the one I was wearing was even oversized because I forgot to do my laundry. 
Last but not least, I labeled this guy as Spike. You can still find a scenario with him under Match ID 11. He is more of a gear master and while our interests diverge a bit, we did find ways to have fun regardless... Spike applied a nice semi-headlock in this picture. This was 10 years ago, back in 2009.
Would I wrestle any of these guys again if it was possible? Absolutely. Maybe I'll get to meet them again one day. Who knows? With today's technology, it's not difficult to find back old friends. That being said, most of these guys had specific interests that loosely collide with wrestling, but back then, when the wrestling community was still small, you'd compromise and meet up anyway to try and make things work. | ||||||
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| Date created: | 2019-01-17 |
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