We need A.I. to replace the Japanese audience and ref. for a 60s British one and uncle Kent waxing lyrical and we’re back in the flush of youth! Nice surprise celebrity guest at the end too.
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Share your memories of British wrestling 1930 - 1988
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Hi guys. With deference to all. Just my 2 cents worth. If I’m wrestling in a gym or similar, say 150 years ago and my opponent and I had agreed to keep wrestling until one of us says ‘enough’ and at some stage I have the guy’s arm up his back, or I find myself sitting over him with his shin and ankle tucked under my arm and I rear back and twist the knee sideways at the same time (unlike in pro wrestling, where the ‘single leg boston’ is applied by folding the leg in a straight and safe manner), or if I take his ankle and twist it violently and my opponent hollers ‘enough’, and I’ve never set foot in a faraway Asian country, then I’m going to think, I’m on to something.
I might even set up a ‘lessons in self-defence’ school!
Of course it is entirely possible, that someone fifty years before the above scenario, had stumbled on the same ‘submission’ holds. Maybe they expanded their repertoire, maybe they investigated counters to the holds they now believed they invented. Did they not know that ’everything new, is old’?
I’ve struggled poorly over the years, trying to find topics that would spark discussion and now I’m not quite sure how the photo posted, started this particular debate?!
As Jimmy Greaves loved saying ‘Wrestling’s a funny old game’.