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Defenestrategy posted:You're underestimating a lot of stuff, in combat sports or pro-wrestling your opponent isn't a perfectly balanced weight and moving optimally. Imagine doing HIIT weight training with a 200 pound, 6 foot cylinder of water, you'd probably die in a few minutes trying to go at a speed that would make pro-wrestling interesting. I've seen newer marathon athletes absolutely die in five minutes of BJJ and my fat rear end can roll at a decent clip for about thirty minutes. To add to that, consider how tired you are after lifting a particularly heavy set, and how you need a break before doing another. Now make those weights a wriggly sack of meat that you're expected to throw around gracefully, and do like 100 reps of it.
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What's wild is how I've never seen PAC gas out in a match, so either he's really good at hiding it or his cardio meter is broken.
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sticklefifer posted:To add to that, consider how tired you are after lifting a particularly heavy set, and how you need a break before doing another. Now make those weights a wriggly sack of meat that you're expected to throw around gracefully, and do like 100 reps of it. And that sack of meat is yourself.
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CombineThresher posted:What's wild is how I've never seen PAC gas out in a match, so either he's really good at hiding it or his cardio meter is broken. Goblins have two sets of lungs
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Building the kind of cardio you need to be able to go in the ring is really hard. You have to do HIIT with barbells and explosive movements (CrossFit or something like it) plus you have to do longer, moderate intensity cardio (running, cycling, swimming, elliptical, etc) to build your Vo2 max.
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Davros1 posted:A lot of the "bodybuilder" types simply don't focus on cardio. With all the travel, if they can get a workout in, they're going to stick to workouts that target their looks, because in the case of WWE, that's all that matters to Vince. Kind of makes me think of former Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro. He got injured and decided to up his training and get super jacked. He was in amazing shape but he put on so much muscle that he lost a lot of flexibility and ended up getting hurt much worse. He had a ton of lower body injuries after that and was never really healthy again.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Why is the Stretch Muffler called the Stretch Muffler? What the hell does that mean? You're "wearing" your opponent's leg like a muffler and stretching it, methinks
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Ganso Bomb posted:Why is the Stretch Muffler called the Stretch Muffler? What the hell does that mean? Named after Dusty Rhodes?
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CombineThresher posted:What's wild is how I've never seen PAC gas out in a match, so either he's really good at hiding it or his cardio meter is broken. PAC has been in insane condition since childhood. Supposedly the nickname "pac" is because he legit had 6-pack abs even when he was a kid.
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Are Bear Country bears, as in members of the gay bear subculture? Or are they just big lads Edit: Like I noticed nobody seems to mention them as LGBT wrestlers
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Ganso Bomb posted:Why is the Stretch Muffler called the Stretch Muffler? What the hell does that mean? I’m going to guess Japan is to blame, because a scarf is often also called a マフラー or muffler over here. So you’re stretching somebody and wearing them like a scarf. Sure.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Are Bear Country bears, as in members of the gay bear subculture? Or are they just big lads Just big lads as far as I know
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People really underestimate how bright, hot, and intense pro lighting rigs are, they will drain you incredibly fast especially if you’re just someone who perspires a lot, I have no idea how Brock does it but I imagine that’s why his matches never top 20 minutes these days.
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harperdc posted:I’m going to guess Japan is to blame, because a scarf is often also called a マフラー or muffler over here. So you’re stretching somebody and wearing them like a scarf. Sure. Ohhh this explanation makes the most sense for me so far, and it'd make sense for it to be a slightly messed up version of something originating in Japan (like Rolling Elbow and Tope Con Hiro). Thanks!
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Are Bear Country bears, as in members of the gay bear subculture? Or are they just big lads They are just from upstate New York.
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I have a question and it’s probably a dumb one - AEW has a booted roster of signed people they pay but don’t wrestle but dark and elevations are full of what is clearly jobber matches with no-namers who aren’t signed Why not book dark and elevation with these people - bring more eyes to the web shows, they can be as long as they like as it’s online and everybody is used Sure there’s an obvious reason I am missing
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Manwithastick posted:Sure there’s an obvious reason I am missing It's less expensive to fill a show with half AEW talent and half local indy talent instead of 100% contract dudes as well as being able to get a good look at current indy talent they may want to hire. Also as SG said, it helps protect the lower card from looking like complete mooks whose only job is to get run over by upper-card talent. As much as I would like more time for all my boys stable to wrestle every week it wouldn't be interesting if they got the time losing all the time instead of resting or taking an indy booking instead.
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What's the story behind the term "forbidden door"? All it does is make me think of The Scary Door from Futurama.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:What's the story behind the term "forbidden door"? All it does is make me think of The Scary Door from Futurama. It came from Tanahashi and Jericho's feud.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:What's the story behind the term "forbidden door"? All it does is make me think of The Scary Door from Futurama. Tanahashi mentioned that if he beat Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom then he'd need to open the forbidden door & defend the AEW Championship against him. This was at a time when New Japan was especially pissy towards AEW & them working together seemed exceptionally unlikely. And now suddenly it's used to refer to any time a guy from one company works for another company & the term has lost any meaning. Guys who got released by ROH turning up in Impact? FORBIDDEN DOOR IS OPENED.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:What's the story behind the term "forbidden door"? All it does is make me think of The Scary Door from Futurama. And then Tony Khan embraced the phrase in the most wonderful, dorkiest way possible, firmly entrenching the phrase in the lexicon.
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For awhile this forum was translating Tanahashi as saying the Forbidden Portal which is much cooler than Forbidden Door
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Future Jericho appearing from the Forbidden Portal, stating they have to team up to prevent Mecha Vince from obtaining immortality.
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Defenestrategy posted:It's less expensive to fill a show with half AEW talent and half local indy talent instead of 100% contract dudes as well as being able to get a good look at current indy talent they may want to hire. Also as SG said, it helps protect the lower card from looking like complete mooks whose only job is to get run over by upper-card talent. It's probably cost neutral to use local talent because AEW pays jobbers pretty well, maybe more than the cost of hotel and transportation for a roster talent who they are paying regardless if they wrestle or not.
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fez_machine posted:For awhile this forum was translating Tanahashi as saying the Forbidden Portal which is much cooler than Forbidden Door I’m pretty sure NJPW’s own subtitles called it the forbidden portal when he first said it. Edit: News sites were also saying portal, and it seems like Jericho might have been the one to say door instead and that stuck I guess. https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/chris-jericho-taps-out-hiroshi-tanahashi-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-14-forbidden-portal-shut?amp History Comes Inside! fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Future Jericho appearing from the Forbidden Portal, stating they have to team up to prevent Mecha Vince from obtaining immortality. Where we're going... we won't need wrestling rings.
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sticklefifer posted:Where we're going... we won't need wrestling rings. We're going to WCW Backstage Mayhem?
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sticklefifer posted:Where we're going... we won't need wrestling rings. "Haha, Chie's got too much energy, Excalibur, I love it!"
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Deathlove posted:"Haha, Chie's got too much energy, Excalibur, I love it!" Look at Yunamon, Tropical Jones over here
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Lamuella posted:Look at Yunamon, Tropical Jones over here I didn't know I needed Dark commentary on ChocoPro, but now I'm gonna miss it 
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I know Brock is pouring sweat and red as hell in 90 seconds but I never feel like he gets gassed in the ring.
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