Friday, August 28, 2009

HeadLock


Side headlock
In this hold a wrestler who is facing away from an opponent would wrap his/her arm around the neck of an opponent bringing them forwards into this prone position.

An assailant will often use a headlock to subdue and pummel a victim who is smaller. They will often move in quickly, wrap an arm around the neck while forcing the victim to bend forward. This will cause the victim to be off balance and at a decided disadvantage while the assailant pummels them in the head. It is also used as a way to choke someone into submission.

Also called a Chancellery.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

So you want to be a Pro Wrestler. Go to Pro Wrestling School.








Are you a professional wrestler? Or are you a pencil neck geek? Far too often people consider professional wrestling FAKE. In 1976 Mike Graham introduced Hulk Hogan to Hiro Matsuda,who was among the sport's top trainers, and considered one of the toughest wrestlers in the world. According to Hogan, during their first training session, Matsuda sarcastically asked him, "So you want to be a wrestler?" Hogan said "Yes!" then Matsuda purposely broke Hogan's leg. Obviously Hiro Matsuda did'nt break Hulk Hogan's SPIRIT. That did'nt stop the HULK from becoming one of, if not THE, greatest icons in Professional Wrestling history.


The road to becoming a professional wrestler is hard. This is a tough career. It is a road paved with doubt, fatigue, and sacrifice, both mentally and physically. But just as the negatives are tough, the rewards are great....the greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward. The roar of the crowd, the camaraderie of the boys, the memories, the ability to make people laugh, to make people cry and to really touch their hearts. Along with the obvious, traveling the world, meeting and wrestling the great ones, gaining a fan base, making the big paydays, and becoming WORLD CHAMPION.


To be the Man you have to beat the Man! So says the 16 time World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair. According to Flair's autobiography, "..the best matches are called in the ring and on the fly, not laid out on paper." This ability to call it in the ring and on the fly is one of the reason's Ric Flair is the best at what he does and is so well respected. He not only knows all the moves, but is a pro wrestlers perfect opponent. To be able to "wing it" or do it without "practice" shows that you are a true pro wrestler, not just a show guy.


You have to be prepared for whatever is thrown your way, whether it be a cocky veteran who likes to tear into green boys or a green boy who does'nt no shit who needs you to carry the match.

Santino Bros Wrestling Academy has earned the notorious reputation for really bringing the pain! We are hard hitting, fast paced and in your face! Only the strong survive here at the Santino Bros Wrestling Academy, it's not for the weak, the faint of heart, the timid or the cowardly.......


The Santino Bros Wrestling Academy has a raw passion for the spirit of professional wrestling, it is in our blood, it is in our hearts, it consumes our soul. At Santino Bros Wrestling Academy, we are in it to win it and so should you. To be the man, you have to be prepared and to be prepared is your key to success.

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Clothesline


A move in which one wrestler runs towards another and extends his/her arm out from the side of the body and parallel to the ground, knocking over the other as he/she runs by.[1] This move is often confused with a lariat.

Cactus clothesline
A clothesline used by Mick Foley that is named after his "Cactus Jack" gimmick.[3] The attacking wrestler charges at an opponent who is against the ring ropes and clotheslines him/her, and the force and momentum from the charge knocks both the wrestler and the opponent over the top rope and onto the floor.[4]

Clothesline from Hell
A clothesline used by JBL, named while he was working as one half of The Acolytes. The attacking wrestler gets a running start (usually off the ropes) first before hitting a high-impact clothesline, in which he swings his arm forward while running toward his opponent.

Corner clothesline
A clothesline used by a wrestler where instead of knocking a standing opponent, the attacker charges against an opponent on the corner.

Flying clothesline
While running towards an opponent, an attacking wrestler leaps up into the air, before connecting with a clothesline. Another version sees an attacking wrestler leap up into the air and connecting with a clothesline onto an opponent leaning against the corner turnbuckle.

Short-arm clothesline
Also known as a short clothesline or short-range clothesline, this variation is set up by Irish-whipping the opponent, but holding onto the arm. When the held arm is completely extended, the wrestler pulls the opponent back and clotheslines him with the other arm.[1] Alternatively, this move can be performed in the same fashion, but following an Arm wrench or Wrist lock instead of an Irish whip, or by simply grabbing hold of one of the opponent's arms with one the attacker's hands, pulling it towards the wrestler and clotheslining him with his spare arm.

Three-point stance clothesline
Also known as charging clothesline. In this move, a wrestler uses three-point stance and then clotheslines his opponent. This move was invented and popularized by "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan who calls it Patriot Lariat.

Double clothesline
Two wrestlers both hitting a clothesline on a single opponent by joining hands is referred to as a double clothesline. A variation has both wrestlers charging from opposite sides of a single opponent with a clothesline.
A double clothesline can also refer to two clotheslines being performed by one wrestler on two opponents at the same time.

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Don't try this if you're not professionally trained and remember that even a pro can get injured or can seriously injure an opponent with this move.

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My Journey Part 1


My interest in pro wrestling started out as a fan. I loved wrestling. I couldn’t get enough of wrestling, even though wrestling was on T.V. a lot back then (this was the mid 80’s). I’d watch the WWF (World Wrestling Federation) programming. Shows like, Wrestling Challenge, WWF Superstars, Saturday Night’s Main Event, and Tuesday Night Titans. I would also watch the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) and their T.V. shows, like NWA World Wide, NWA World Championship Wrestling, and NWA Saturday Night Wrestling. Then of course there was the WCCW (World Class Championship Wrestling), and the AWA (American Wrestling Association) T.V. programs. So as you can see, for a big wrestling fan like myself, it was great to be a fan in the mid 80’s.

At this point I was consumed by wrestling. Wrestling was all I thought about. I would sit in class and draw wrestlers. When I was in the third grade, I had to write a paper on what I wanted to be when I grow up. You can probably guess what I wrote about. At home, if I wasn’t watching wrestling on T.V., I was watching it on videotapes (Again, this was the mid 80’s. No DVD’s). I also collected the wrestling action figures. I still do today (What a mark).

By the time I was twelve years old I knew that I really wanted to be a pro wrestler. From that point on I lived my life acting like a wrestler. I remember one time, my sister was just messing around with me, and she pushed me. Now she didn’t push me that hard, but I sold it hard. I threw myself into the wall, and fell to the floor, all the time selling that she really hurt me. My younger brother and I would act out wrestling matches. A lot of times we wrestled each other, but there were some times that we actually teamed together. Now that was crazy, cause when we teamed together we had to pretend there were opponents across from us. In other words, we had to wrestle the air. We would copy all of our favorite tag teams. We would copy The Road Warriors, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, The Rock N’ Roll Express, and The Midnight Rockers.

Back then I had two goals in life.
1 was to play football.
2, was to be a pro wrestler.
I accomplished my first goal rather early in life. I started playing football at eight years old, and continued in the sport till I was eighteen years old. While I was playing football, I still watched a lot of wrestling. And of course, when Nintendo came out (Old school baby) I had whatever wrestling games they had for the system.

Back then I was a pretty good street fighter, and I admit that I really didn’t know how to really wrestle, but I thought I did. So one day, as I was walking home from school with some friends, and for some reason some guys walked up to us, and one guy got in my face, and asked me where I was from. Now in most towns people would think that this guy was asking me my country of origin, but I grew up in East L.A., so I knew that wasn’t what he was asking me. I told him that I don’t gangbang, but that wasn’t a good enough answer for him. He pulled out a mini baseball bat. You know the ones that they give out at Dodger Stadium. Anyway, this little cholo( ha ha) pulled out a mini bat, and tried to hit me with hit. I dodged the swing, and now it’s on. I backed up a bit to give myself room, and waited for his second attack. When he did, I gave him probably the worst looking arm drag that I’ve ever done. After the ugly arm drag, the bat flew out of his hand, but he still charged after me, so I gave him a well, placed super kick. The super kick hit the “little cholo” right in the nose, and broke it, but just to make sure that this fight was over, I walked over and picked up the mini bat, and walked over to the guy, and applied the camal clutch. But I didn’t apply your normal camal clutch no, I applied it with the mini bat under the guys chin. Basically I was choking the guy out with a combo of the camal clutch, while pulling on the mini bat that was on his throat. The “little cholo” finaly gave up. And I won the fight (And won my first hardcore match).

While in high school, I did dabble in high school, amateur wrestling. I tried out for my high school’s wrestling team my sophomore year, but I didn’t last long. I found out real quick that amateur wrestling, and professional wrestling were, two different monsters. A lot of the moves I saw on T.V. were actually illegal in amateur wrestling.

So I quit the team. But not before I learned how to take care of myself on the mat. What I learned in that small amount of time has helped me still today in my wrestling career.

When I graduated high school, I had no idea where, or how to get into pro wrestling. A couple of years went by, and then one day I was at home listening to a cable T.V. radio show, and the host plugged a wrestling school that was located in Sun Valley, California. The school was called Slam U (Slammers University). I wrote down the number, and called the next day. I told the person that answered the phone that I was really interested in becoming a professional wrestler. So they took down my name, address, and my phone number, and told me that they would get in touch with me. A couple of weeks later I got a package in the mail from Slam U, and the SWF (Slammers Wrestling Federation). After I read through everything, I came across an order form, with a note on top of the form saying that I was required to order, purchase, and watch some video tapes in order to get an appointment with the owner of Slam U, Verne Langdon. So I ordered, purchased, and watched the videotapes. It took a while but I finished watching the two videotapes, and when I was done, I called Slam U to set up an appointment, but there was one problem, no one would answer the phone.

I tried calling for a couple of weeks, and still no answer. So finally I gave up. I later found out that Slam U, and the SWF had closed down right around the same time I was trying to get into the school (1st road block). So there I was, wondering when, and if I would be a pro wrestler. Another couple of years would pass before another wrestling company would start up a wrestling school. That company was XPW (Xtreme Pro Wrestling).

The school was the Asylum. The asylum’s head trainer at the time was “The Real Deal” Damien Steele. But by the time I contacted the Asylum, there was a new head trainer. His name was Dynamite D. Now I had been to a few XPW shows before I contacted the Asylum. So I was real familiar with XPW’s product, and characters. Out of all the characters, or wrestlers in XPW, including some wrestlers that were previously in ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling), there was four wrestlers that became my favorites. The first wrestler was a young dare devil, high flyer named Kid Kaos. The second wrestler was another athletic young guy named the Messiah. Now the third wrestler was a crazy, out of control, hardcore, human horror film named Supreme. The fourth wrestler was a real entertaining character, and a real good wrestler named “Mr. 80’s” Dynamite D.

So now I contact the XPW office to start my training. The person I talked to was XPW’s vice president Kevin Kleinrock. Kevin informed me that there would be an orientation a couple of weeks from our conversation. Kevin also informed me that I would be in the second Asylum class. There was an Asylum class that started when Damien Steele was the head trainer, so Dynamite D just took over that class. So now I’m excited, I’m finally going to start training to be a pro wrestler. I’m going to live my childhood dream. The next week while I was at work, I was driving a stand up forklift. As I was passing by a big doorway, out came another guy on a forklift full speed, and crashed into me. The guy hit me so hard that I bounced out of my forklift and crushed my ankle (2nd road block). The day after my accident, I called Kevin Kleinrock, and told him what had happened, and also to cancel my orientation. Kevin was real cool about everything. He told me to give him a call when I was healed, and he also told me get well soon. Now here’s a guy who number one, doesn’t know me at all, and has a wrestling company with all kind s of wrestlers to worry about, but yet he still took the time to wish me well. I always thought that that was cool of Kevin.

While I was recovering, the then WWF was in town for Wrestlemania. Ten months of relaxation, and rehabilitation, and I was healed. The first thing I did after I went back to work was called Kevin Kleinrock. He told me that he was glad to hear that I’m all healed up. We set up another orientation, but this time I would be in the third Asylum class. Now this is it, it’s now or never. I was going to be a professional wrestler dammit!!

…Stay tuned for part 2 coming soon!
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

To Be Under-Rated


Hmm…well Pain..yeah that’s my last name. It’s a big factor in my life. I know you can relate.Underrated, that’s me. 7 years in the indy circuit. I’ve beaten a lot of indy wrestlers, hung with the best. Even pros like Alex Koslov, Ultimo Dragon, Rey Bucanerro & Valdor Jr just to name a few. Those are just my most memorable opponents. I’ve been trained in Lucha Libre, Japanese and American Strong-Styles. I’ve worked for Torymon and AAA out of Mexico City, Mexico & wrestled in front of 20,000 fans in Arena Mexico for DragonMania , that was a dream come true, but like any wrestler you always want more.

I’ve trained at 3 different schools – at the age of 15, I started training in Anaheim, CA with a small time company known as WPW. Lucha Libre was their style. Lil Cholo trained me & taught me a lot of Lucha. I thank him for that knowledge. I was in Ladder matches, Hardcore matches & then tagged with Infernal, quickly winning the WPW Tag Team belts, which we held for about a year! Unfortunately, none of this was recorded as WPW was a low budget company and the owner was pretty shady. I soon grew out of this company after doing all there was to do there. I wanted to learn more and needed better competition. I soon discovered the Inoki Dojo, a Lucha Libre/Japanese style company with an amazing trainer known as Durango Kid….OMG!!! I learned so much, everything from Springboards, Back Flips from any rope or part of the ring, even just standing. I love to back flip all my weight onto somebody. It’s very effective and my aim is dead on. I shot straight up to the Main Event. Main eventing every show. I gained some muscle and learned my shit in the ring. I mean Japanese style plus my Lucha was so much better. After making it to the top of this promotion also, I felt an emptiness and needed more, so once again I was in search of more.

I was soon introduced to Santino Bro Wrestling Academy, the hard hitting, the respect, the love , the heart I felt every time I went to training was like a breath of fresh air! Oh man and did I need that, living under rated and sick and tired of all my actions being unseen or unnoticed. This company loves the spotlight and the spotlight loves this company! And me known for stealing the spotlight fell in love with S.B.W.A. and soon fell in love with its sister company, Evolucha!! I am having some of my best matches that I have ever had in my career………semi main eventing & proving that I am under rated living up to my name, expressing my pain and talent in each fight, knowing I belong in the main events like every other company I wanted to main event for. I shot straight to the one of the top dogs and like the Undertaker, this is his yard. I am talking about the XPW Superstar, the Human Horror Show Supreme…crazy huh? I think smart…everyone on So Cal has a fear of this man, but I have my reputation on the line and something to prove to myself and everyone else!

Stay up to date with Evolucha and find out when this match will take place. Love is Pain…Pain is only me and I want the whole world to love Pain. Steve Pain = Ratingz!
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