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Post by Kris Kobain on Mar 19, 2010 0:24:02 GMT -5
Did anyone else do it?
I don't mean the yard tard stuff although if you did that feel free to chime in.
I had a couple friends that I would "book shows" wiith and we would act out various perfomers. We would set a few big spots we wanted to hit and then call the rest of the match as it went. Instead of blading ourselves I would make fake blood and place jars of it in various spots. When it was time to bleed we would fall near the jar then put some of it on our faces. We did use real metal chairs but we never swung full force. For tables we used paneling and would find things to set it on so I could crash through it.
No one ever got seriously hurt although there was the occasional accident. I took a choke slam on cement because I got dropped. I chokeslamed a friend from about 3 and half feet high and dropped him then when I went to hit a frog splash from the area I dropped him from I hit my landing wrong and landed full force on him. I took an occasional ladder to the head. I also took a spear while hanging on a basketball pole during a TLC match. I was our big spot giuy.
So anyone else ever do this and really put time into it? Cut promos, plan cards out in advance. Try to progress storylines?
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Post by Kick Your Face on Mar 19, 2010 0:57:48 GMT -5
I used to. We didn't do the stupid stuff you see on YouTube. We built a ring and tried to start up a promotion but everything was going wrong, people moving, people changing their minds, etc. So we just had matches. We would watch 90s stuff from All Japan and try to learn from watching those guys. We actually did learn how to bump, facial expressions, timing, etc. just from watching those matches. This was like 2006 - 2009. Fun times.
I took way too many backbreakers and I regret it now that I'm about to go to a wrestling school and it's going to come back to bite me in the ass, I feel.
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Post by mschif420 on Mar 19, 2010 1:02:38 GMT -5
Never actual matches or anything.
Just finshers while having fun on the trampoline.
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Post by Kris Kobain on Mar 19, 2010 1:11:28 GMT -5
I would love to have had a legit ring to work in.
I did the trampoline stuff too. That was always really fun.
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Post by héad.casé on Mar 19, 2010 2:45:23 GMT -5
I used to with a group of friends after school in like 96-99. We used to do it over at a park that barely anyone knew about and beat each other up on tarmac by a climbing frame. We didn't know that whomever won and lost was determined by a booker, we thought it was a shoot and if that you won, you were the best, so that's how we did it...which caused a lot of arguments, lol.
We didn't even do any dangerous stuff really. Though one friend wanted to have a Barbed Wire Match with me, which I put the kibosh on (and was called a pussy for it). I also made all the belts from cardboard, detailed them as much as I could and even coloured the "gold" parts with a yellow highlighter pen, lol. I believe I was the "Intercardboardinental Champion", lol. Now it turns out i'm the only one of those who has started to do it professionally and been trained to do it properly, and I even had two of them come watch me at a show a few months ago, which was really cool seeing as I hadn't seen them in years.
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Post by Kris Kobain on Mar 19, 2010 3:30:05 GMT -5
I don't blame you for not wanting to do the barbed wire match haha
it's cool that some guys on the forum have started training.
I wanted to train when I was a kid. When I got older I wanted to be a manager but you don't really see many managers that are 6' 2" haha
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Mar 19, 2010 7:50:51 GMT -5
I don't blame you for not wanting to do the barbed wire match haha it's cool that some guys on the forum have started training. I wanted to train when I was a kid. When I got older I wanted to be a manager but you don't really see many managers that are 6' 2" haha There is actually a kid training at the school I went to that wants to be a manager. I think he's 6'1" or so. You could always go the bodyguard route.
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 19, 2010 16:07:09 GMT -5
My brother and I broke my bed in half during a splash when I was 10.
I recently finished a 3 month stint working in a daycare. On the days when there'd been snowing a lot, I gave the 3-5 year olds the weakest looking Spears you'll ever see.
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Post by JIMBOB on Mar 19, 2010 23:14:10 GMT -5
SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR!
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Mar 19, 2010 23:16:17 GMT -5
Yeah I had an awesome fed with my friends for years. Never did anything stupid, and put on some actual good matches. Yard tards give all backyard wrestlers a bad name.
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Post by Orange on Mar 19, 2010 23:25:58 GMT -5
No, but I always dreamed of having a real ring until I figured out how much they actually were (I guess my 10 year old self was hoping they were around the range of 10-20 dollars ;D)
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Post by RareTradU on Mar 19, 2010 23:47:11 GMT -5
My friends and I actually have a 'backyard' fed. Most of the shows take place inside in a garage, but in a real ring. I bought the ring in 2005. It is small (12x12) but it is professionally built. We've had some big shows, over 200+ to some of our outdoor shows. We don't do any of the crazy shit like jumping off of houses and lightbulbs. We do it for fun and enjoy planning the shows out. Plus we've all practiced with some pros as well.
Here's a music video from late 2008 i believe:
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Post by agent817 on Mar 20, 2010 13:31:33 GMT -5
I wasn't involved, but I used to watch this indie promotion that one would probably consider it to be backyard wrestling on a local public access channel. They do shows at some old theaters or ice rinks or even warehouses. It was typical wrestling, but it also involved hardcore style matches. I haven't watched it in a long time, though. Some interesting stuff. The wrestlers were trained and used a real ring.
By the way, the promotion is called TWF and it's based in my hometown of Sacramento, CA.
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Post by dabossftw on Mar 20, 2010 13:37:11 GMT -5
My friends and I wrestled around in the backyard when I was around 9 or so. I guess I'm still the Unified HCW World Champion and U.S. Champ, haha!
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Post by joeverfield on Mar 20, 2010 14:35:34 GMT -5
Who ever coined the phrase "yard tards" summed up most of backyard wrestling.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Mar 20, 2010 14:53:15 GMT -5
I don't blame you for not wanting to do the barbed wire match haha it's cool that some guys on the forum have started training. I wanted to train when I was a kid. When I got older I wanted to be a manager but you don't really see many managers that are 6' 2" haha Hell, I'm 6'4" and I've worked as a manager. Of course, I weight at most 160 lbs, so I guess it still works. But then again, Gary Hart was about 6'2" and a fairly big guy.
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spec
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Post by spec on Mar 21, 2010 16:57:26 GMT -5
Had a couple of matches, was great fun. We didn't take it seriously and never did anything too risky or stupid, but tried to make the moves look good. We had folding chairs but they were stripey canvas ones, tables were flattened cardboard boxes resting on the chairs and we used fake blood. The worst thing that ever happened i think was me getting a bit dazed after landing on my head from a backdrop. It's always fun to watch the stuff we did years later with some beers. Had plenty of outtakes when trying to do promos, always good for a laugh. It's just goofy fun, not much different to playing football in the park or playing in a garage band, being a fan of something and wanting to participate yourself. The kids that do the really dangerous stuff with lighttubes and big falls take things too far though, risking injury and for what? I can understand wanting a thrill and cool looking spots, but it's just not worth putting your health at risk.
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Post by DavidArquette on Mar 22, 2010 20:05:02 GMT -5
I used to do backyard matches all the time with various friends. From about '99 to '03. We never had a proper ring or anything and never did anything too crazy. It was mostly brawls with some actual wrestling involved. It was all improvised but certain spots that we liked would be used again. We kept it simple but also as realistic as possible.
It was awesome as there would always be a bunch of people watching, probably hoping someone would get seriously injured, which never happened luckily. The only injury I remember was a concussion and a huge bruise on my forehead after getting hit with a pedigree on to a skateboard.
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Post by Flying Leg Kicks on Mar 23, 2010 20:43:35 GMT -5
We wrestled in the house utilizing my twin beds pushed together.
First event was on the Sunday before Superbrawl in 1995. I won the battle royal and bought the foam WWF championship belt. My friend then held battle royal the next Easter, I wasn't there, so he became the intercontinental champion. 4 years later my brother and I were messing around with old appliances and cardboard boxes and then decided to film a hardcore match the next day. The finish was me powerbombing him through the announcers table which was made from 3 apple boxes and a couch cover. It looked cool, made a hell of a sound, and protected him well. Made an interview with me interviewing the intercontinental champ and his "return" to the federation which ended with him giving me a huge belt shot to the head.
Showed off the match to my friends, made another match with one of my friends. The highlight of the match was me trying to have him block a headshot with a piggy bank, but I missed and he still sold it. So I asked "What the hell was that?" and toss it at him and it shattered.
Had a couple more garbage matches after that with a "toy box" (casket) match for the Lightweight belt (made from the foam WCW belt) and basically the winner of the match was determined by who physically couldn't fit in the box.
Another 4 years later I made another recording of me versus the IC champ in the rec room. The first take didn't flow too well but had some good spots, but we re-shot it with a faster pace and some of the same spots.
1 year later my sister got a new camcorder and I loaded everything I had in addition to some unused promo footage, and added introductions and captions to the video. It was about an hour long but it's stuck on an old laptop that I need to get the battery charged on. I also made a 3 minute long video with all the best spots matched perfectly with some music from the Matrix Reloaded and had it hosted online. I can't find that either but I think it might be on a jump drive somewhere or that same computer. Man that pisses me off.
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Post by Schemer on Mar 23, 2010 21:31:51 GMT -5
I could never work a match because I have a bad back, but I always acted as a manager or announcer. I'm not the most athletic guy, but I was the best mouthpiece.
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