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2008-08-07 (Thursday August 7th 2008) 05:27:36 PM
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| Latest wrestling profiles: | [ View all latest profiles ] |  Verdoso, 5'7", 185 lbs, Puerto Rico, USA, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | Greg, 5'8", 160 lbs, Louisiana, USA, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | Golden406, 6'0", 215 lbs, New York, USA, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | InOshawa, 5'8", 200 lbs, Ontario, Canada, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | Mah, 5'9", 200 lbs, Amman, Jordan, added on 2008-08-05 (2 days ago) | | Rasalga, 5'8", 149 lbs, Spain, added on 2008-08-05 (2 days ago) | | Bluemask, 5'7", 189 lbs, Thailand, added on 2008-08-05 (2 days ago) | | John408, 5'10", 185 lbs, California, USA, added on 2008-08-05 (2 days ago) | | Jnstlmo, 5'11", 220 lbs, Missouri, USA, added on 2008-08-03 (4 days ago) | | Hugoeeu, 5'10", 176 lbs, Lisbon, Portugal, added on 2008-08-03 (4 days ago) |
| | Updated wrestling profiles: | [ View all updated profiles ] |  Adrimov, 5'11", 201 lbs, Belgium, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | Bongoballs, 6'3", 235 lbs, Florida, USA, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | FrankinSoCA, 5'8", 170 lbs, California, USA, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | Speedorassler, 5'11", 172 lbs, Vermont, USA, added on 2008-08-06 (Yesterday) | | Walterwis, 5'8", 165 lbs, Wisconsin, USA, added on 2008-08-05 (2 days ago) | | Powerlock, 6'2", 190 lbs, New Zealand, added on 2008-08-04 (3 days ago) | | Jason, 5'11", 155 lbs, Florida, USA, added on 2008-08-04 (3 days ago) | | Peacefulwarrior, 6'0", 188 lbs, Texas, USA, added on 2008-08-03 (4 days ago) | | Tony, 5'11", 375 lbs, Florida, USA, added on 2008-08-03 (4 days ago) | | Mississippi39120, 6'0", 163 lbs, Mississippi, USA, added on 2008-08-02 (5 days ago) |
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I added a news search feature that will allow you to search through all the blog/news entries I have entered since January 2008. For example, you can search for all the YouTube entries I made, or you can attempt to retrieve news from a specific category, date or description.
Just look for the "News Search" near the top-left corner of this page or just click here to use it.
Any entries pre-2008 will still have to be accessed manually through the news archives until I merge them with the database.
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You guys remember the time where JPWA still existed? It's been years now since they've gone extinct, but I still miss them. They had quite a few matches with hot bearhugs in them.
You can get more of JPWA's bearhug by making a search and simply selecting JPWA as your company search criteria. Leave every other fields untouched.
Also, if you have a chance, this pic is underrated. I think it deserves more than 7.25, so if you feel nice, can you give it a boost? 
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Make sure you check the YouTube video marked with "Bulldog Raines vs Dirty White Boy" in the links section. It is a remarkably long bearhug for a pro wrestling match.
The link is a contribution of IslandSqueezer. He sent me a nice little e-mail pointing to the video. 
While you're at it, you can also check the list of all bearhug/wrestling YouTube links. See if you missed any...
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Take a look at this new group:
Savage Render
http://groups.google.com/group/savage-render
The group houses some of the owner's own CGI artwork based on wrestling holds. Many of them are quite impressive. And yes, if you are wondering, bearhugs are part of his favorite holds. 
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I added a little feature to the wrestling personals that can be enabled when you edit your preferences (this is an operation that requires a login): it allows you to toggle profile thumbnails in search results. Once the setting is saved, it will carry over each time you log back in until you disable it.
I'm sure this will be useful for people who quickly want to see the image of the profile without having to click each profile one by one.
Also, thumbnails now have a faster loading speed, but most of you guys won't notice it. In terms of bandwidth, though, this thumbnail upgrade is a big life saver for the site.
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I added a neat little tool on the upper right corner of this page.
If you look carefully (first, scroll back up to the top where all the links to the different sections of the site are located), you'll see in yellow a link called "Summary of updates". Clicking on it will reveal every new additions and all changes that were brought to the wrestling personals, the bearhug uploads, the database, the video reviews and the links section for the past 7 days.
Furthermore, if you haven't visited the site for more than 7 days, you can even get the result for the week before this one, and almost every week thereafter. Check it out, it's pretty useful. It'll help you locate all what you want to see into a single page.
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I was going through the lowest rated uploads and I was a bit surprised. I admit: some of those pictures deserve to be in that low spot, but others, I was like "What?!?"
We got some JPWA bearhugs in there that deserves a way better spot than the bottom 100 in which they are ranked. You guys need to take a look there and increase the rating of some of those bearhug uploads. Take a look, it won't hurt. Bearhugs rated low by others may be a bearhug to your liking... hopefully...  .
Meanwhile, if you think you're wasting your time, you can check back the Best bearhug uploads, there's been a little bit of activity lately. Some uploads lost a couple of ranks, others have acquired some and several are newcomers to the listing... but the question is, what should be their rank under your evaluation?
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In case you guys haven't already noticed, I added three new reviews recently. They can be accessed in the Video Reviews section.
I finally had the time to take a full look at one of Thunder's Arena video that I traded for. The other two titles are other products from Movie Mountain that I received as a gift.
For those that are wondering, if you want to support the site, visiting those affiliates by clicking them through the links offered on this website is the best way to do it. The costs of bearhugger.net (bandwidth, server maintenance and upgrades, domain name and redirection) are indirectly paid by those sponsors whenever you make a purchase.
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I keep on saying that adding an image to a profile really increases the amount of hits. Mind you that is still true, but sometimes, I guess a nice description can pack a punch too.
Check out Luv2Job's description:
http://www.bearhugger.net/profile/info.php?id=1019
He writes:
"Started wrestling as a kid, getting dominated by the older stronger neighbor boy. In jr. high I would invite strong boys home after school to wrestle me in my makeshift basement ring. In college I let my big muscular football player roommate dominate me and toy with me in our dorm room. He got off by crushing me in either a long held bearhug or body scissors and forcing me to tell him repeatedly how powerful he was and to submit to him over and over again. I loved college. Me: tan, muscular, 36" waist, 46" smooth chest, 16"arms, 24" quads. You: love being a pro style heel, big enough, strong enough or sadistic enough to crush me from the opening bell and enjoy watching me struggle helplessly. Will heel for the right guy since as a jobber, I know what makes a great heel. I travel often. "
Now, if he also spend some time to write a story for the site, like a detailed description of one of his encounters, that would be awesome!
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This is a small thing I had always wanted to add to the site.
With the list of links growing significantly, it is sometimes difficult to find a specific link. However, with this new enhancement, each profile will now be able to add, edit and remove their favorite links. This will greatly reduce the amount of searching anyone needs to do to try and retrieve a website.
To add a link as your favorite, simply click on any link listed in the links section. You will then be given the opportunity to consult that list to position them in order of personal preference (assuming you have more than one favorite link.. you can't really position a link if you only have a single favorite link). The icons for the management system should be self-explanatory: The up/down arrow moves the link one row up or one row down. The double-up, double-down moves a link to the top of the list or to the bottom of the list. Finally, the "X" icon removes the link from your listing of favorite links. Simple enough, no?
Obviously, to be able to manage personal links, you need to log in to your profile first and if you don't have one, you can create one for free by clicking here. 
As usual, the system is still in its testing phase. If you guys see something that is unusual, I would appreciate it if you can report it to me.
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Here's a search technique that some of you may find useful:
It is a known issue that many YouTube videos are not marked properly with the right tags and many do not bother writing down the synopsis of the match. There is so little you can put in the description of the video anyway. In order to help you to find these videos, you can use both Google and YouTube to try and locate your bearhugs.
On Google, try typing the name of an association and the name of the hold (in this case, bearhug). For example, google the following:
AWA bearhug
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+AWA +bearhug
(where the '+' plus sign forces the word to appear in the search)
Among the first few entries, you'll see a review about a match between Mike Smith and Greg Gagne that had a bearhug in it. Let's try that on YouTube, shall we? On YouTube's search:
Greg Gagne Mike Smith
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Gagne vs Smith
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AWA Gagne Smith
You'll have a chance of getting the video of the match among the first results if someone has uploaded it.
Now that you found your bearhugger, why not try typing his name on YouTube to locate possible other matches? :) This general method obviously doesn't work all the time, but you can always refine your search and try other alternatives for endless possibilities. Most important of all, be creative! Mix and match your wrestler names, associations and wrestling holds.
Lastly, if you find a bearhug this way, you can try to be nice and let the bearhug community know about it . Simply post a new link and voilą, it's done.
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The  icon now appears for all news and additions (uploads, profiles, database entries, links, etc.) that are at most two days old (which technically means entries marked with "today" or "yesterday").
This was necessary since I tend to process and approve information around 9-10 pm when I come back from work. However, there are submissions that are made at 11 pm which don't get approved until the day after. In consequence, the "new" icon dissappeared after 2 hours of being approved. Now, with the new scheme, if that happens again, the icon would last another 26 hours .
It may sound like an insignificant change, but I'm sure some of you rely on these icons to decide wether they should click an item or not.
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A couple of additional links have been added. I have to admit they become harder to come by... especially personal wrestling sites.
If you have sites to recommend, you know the drill: add them here.
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The 'Bodylock' is apparently another term used as a synonym for bearhugs.
You have bearhug, bear hugs, body squeeze, body crush, kidney crush, kidney squeeze and other similar terms that all designate the same thing one way or another.
However, bodylocks appears to be commonly used in MMA or UFC-style wrestling. Just a random tidbit I thought I should share .
These terms are pretty useful when you're doing a Google search. More interestingly, they return different pool of images.
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I've noticed that the task of voting could sometimes be painful due to the amount of clicks required to vote one pic after another.
I've simplified the process by an average of two clicks by making the previous image, the next image and 3 random images appear after voting on an upload. The rating is also displayed to let you know if you have voted on them or not. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, just go to the bearhug uploads section and start voting. You'll notice something a little bit different.. unless you're not an observant voter.
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Paul added a couple of entries of comic books containing bearhugs. He also added related uploads tied to those entries.
Superheroes have a tendancy of being caught in bearhugs pretty often... isn't it strange?
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Well, while the revamped bearhug clips section is up, I added two more bearhugs to test the stability of the system.
It's also a nice way to test the three-way relationship between the database, the uploads and the video clips . Every piece of information is linked.
The two bearhugs uploaded are one from TNA (Hernandez bearhugs Senshi) and the other from WWE (Mark Henry bearhugs another jobber to submission). The one with Hernandez is pretty interesting. It is used in a tag-team attack maneuver. It's worth seeing for the unique action, but it falls into the category of Don't try this at home unless you want to injure yourself.
Please remember to rate these clips. It will allow me to determine which clips you guys generally prefer and it will push me to upload additional clips of the preferred types. Also, as you guys are probably doing this for the bearhug uploads section, keep a grade of 10 out of 10 for video clips that are 'Perfect bearhugs' in your book. If there's even a little something in the clip that doesn't satisfy you, it should be having a grade of 9 or below.
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The new and improved bearhug clips section is finally completed!
I have also added two new clips: One with Edge bearhugging Kane from behind and another one of The Shield bearhugging Tommy.
I received so many requests for that last one I figured I'll try posting it since Pro Muscle Wrestling went *poof*. If, for some obscur reason, they say anything about the clip, I'll remove it so enjoy this rare video clip while it lasts!
Please take note that since the section the clips section has been revamped, there might be a few bugs here and there. For instance, the video file size is being incorrectly shown, but I'll fix that in the days to come.
Among other changes, the bearhug database and the bearhug uploads will display a video clip icon (  ) if their related entry is tied to the video. The bearhug database also has a section for "Entries with clips" in its panel.
Looking back at the tasks I need to perform, I'm about 40% complete. The next major update in line is the bearhug points that will reward users in a better way when they actively participate to the site by voting and contributing. The ETA is set to 1-2 month, but i'm thinking that it will probably take me double that time... 
Remaining tasks:
- Ability to delete messages that were sent in wrestling personals (ETA: 1 week)
- Bearhug clips system (just like the bearhug database or bearhug uploads) (ETA: 1-2 months)
- Bearhug points (ETA: 1-2 month)
- Editable bearhug database entries for people designated as administrators (ETA: 2-3 weeks)
- Loserboy's site upgrade and update for the latest matches (ETA: 2-3 months)
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I am a bit behind schedule for the required updates on the site. I have been quite a bit busy with work. I have also been spending extra time with my friends and family.
Major updates such as new site functionalities wlil probably be delayed for another month or two. However, upload, database and profile approval will still be processed daily.
Thank you for your patience!
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