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 Backyard Wrestling is by far the most hated form of Pro-Wrestling to ever emerge. Everyone from WWE's legal team to morning talk shows has lamented the existence of stupid teens botching lariats in their friends/cousins/uncles back yard. But it has a long history and it refuses to die despite existing for 15+ years in it's current form. That's probably because watching stupid people hurt themselves is fun! In the beginning... While Backyarding has always existed in some way it didn't really come into vogue until the attitude era. With wrestling pulling it's largest market share ever a ton of stupid teens began experimenting in their backyards. It really crystalized with the introduction of ECW. For most of it's infancy ECW was the primary source of influence for Backyarding along with lots of indie tapes and badly put together Frontier tapes from Japan. Almost all of it that was filmed was done so by skater kids who had cameras for skate vids and shares a lot of that aesthetic. Early Backyarding was passed around through tape trading but mostly it was a spectacle for local kids to watch. On Usenet and early internet forums you could find text files detailing how to create your own wrestling rings although trampolines have always been very common. But how does it differ from normal Pro Wrestling? I'd say it has three major differences: -An Extreme level of violence on par with the worst of ECW and Frontier. They do a lot of stunts without any of the requisite safety equipment, there can be extreme amounts of blood often without any blading. Especially in the early years glass and fire are very common. As are spots like being thrown into dumpsters. -Tricks, illusions and props. Often Backyarders (especially in the days of bad quality video) would construct props to make the match more brutal. While every promotion has fixed tables and such they take it to a greater level. Things that are common include painting plastic baseball bats/trays/chairs/pipes to look metal. They often however don't do this and will do things like use real barbed wire (most wrestling uses clipped barb wire that is less dangerous) and bladed weapons like machetes or axes. Fake weapons are common too, usually the kind you find in a Spirit Halloween store. A lot of these really gnarly bumps in the olden times came from dudes being marks and thinking that a lot of the dangerous stuff was real. -Charisma and pain threshhold over talent and skill. Almost all Backyarders are bad at wrestling. Their monster heels and big fat dudes tend to do better because that sort of straight shooting style is easier to do. You rarely see backyarders do complex maneuvers correctly although Hardy was/is a huuuuuuuuge favorite in their circles and once he became huge stuff like really dangerous backflips and swantons became more common. Also obviously since a lot of these matches are shoot heavy due to lack of skill these guys get pretty beat up sometimes and many a Backyarder is a scrawny 6'0 145 pound dude with 0 muscle mass and the ability to be kicked onto a bunch of glass. But the modern era has changed things! So early Backyarding was a outgrowth of the attitude era, and after the death of ECW the Backyarder community tried very hard to keep that style alive. The output from about 2003-2006 is pretty poor just because there wasn't a method of distribution that was easy and wrestling had taken a huge hit in mainstream popularity. But then YOUTUBE happened! Suddenly any group of terrible wrestling teens had an audience of thousands. At first a lot of the stuff on youtube was similar to the old stuff. Guys who had been doing this stuff since they couldn't scratch it in the indies had been recording and putting together shows for years. But its always been driven by stupid teens and so eventually they surfaced. A lot of the stuff now is heavily influenced by the WWF with less emphasis on blood and guts and more on running lariats and piledrivers. A decent Backyard promotion on youtube can get a couple thousand people to watch every show! But obviously a lot of people watch for the comedy. It's funny as gently caress, almost a Spinal Tap of wrestling at times. The sort of cargo cultish depiction of WWE/ECW style as done by scrawny teens will never not be a bizarre combination. A small aside about Trampolines They use them because they are common, absorb shocks and can give you a lot of air for high flying moves. This leads to a shitload of super punches, flying Knees and really really long distance lariats. Almost no backyarders will use submissions with any frequency but trampolines make them look really goofy. Also if you don't have ropes then the trampoline can let you do really high flying stuff like frog splashes. They will often attempt to legitimize themselves by using the term "Trampoline Wrestling" but its all the same poo poo from a different butt. Some hilarious things to watch: The Backyard Ok I lied, this one is actually a decent doc about the early days. It features RVD since he was a former Backyarder. http://youtu.be/BMLpNilRQP4 Backyard Wrestling Documentary This covers a scene in Cali during the heyday. It's about as well put together as your average skate video but it gives you a good idea of just how stupid some of the bumps they were taking are. http://youtu.be/vilSpSoJ44s ESW - Extreme Showdown Wrestling This is much more in the classic SoCal style. Contains such staples as "Promos shot on a bedroom webcam" and "children who are way too young to be here". It also has the requisite amount of Juggalos and NuMetal. http://youtu.be/WnNZplQ1Xps Highlights: A table break involving no less than thirty light tubes, a really bad somersault botch, lots of really poorly sold kicks to the face and a guy who might be going for some kind of capoeira thing. As the internet began to become full of youtube video making tutorials the production quality across the board began to increase. This is probably ESW's best show as far as that stuff is concerned. The wrestling is still awful tho. http://youtu.be/Btr7s_bmU4A Highlights: LIGHT TUBE COFFIN MATCH (peak Backyarding right here, too bad it's unwatchable poo poo), a lineup of every bad haircut a teenager has ever gotten in the last ten years, and Peter Andrew the 12 year old Mexican kid who can Swanton like a motherfucker. These guys also have a bazillion part doc on Youtube that is better put together and edited than any piece of wrestling they ever did. They are still around in some capacity I think and had a indiegogo not too long ago? EWA Outside of this video I know nothing about these guys. They are older than most and have a well built ring so I'd say this is almost verging on really bad Indie stuff. http://youtu.be/fw9u_X9rbDA Highlights: A 3D that somehow doesn't murder or harm anyone involved, the super jumpy black guy who oversells everything, the point where seven dudes get kicked over in rapid succession that transitions into a guy pulling the cutter out on everyone all in the span of maybe two minutes. CHW Backyard When I went to backyard stuff in the 90's as a dumb kid this is pretty much what it was. This is the kind of thing where I say that some people just never stopped trying to keep the ECW dream alive. Less wrestling and more "organized object beating". http://youtu.be/ziJir_NXruQ Highlights: unprotected toaster kick to the nuts. DGW - Dangerous Grove Wrestling These guys are my favorite. It's a bunch of dumb kids who are trying SO HARD to do a straight up WWE style thing. That's more rare in Backyarding these days then you would imagine. They also have the Mac stable/team of Big Mac and Simon "The Golden Boy" Mac who actually have any charisma whatsoever. http://youtu.be/o0tggQ6stJU Highlights: The weed addled ramblings of the commentator, El Aviador who is a jobber which is rare in Backyarding, Trampoline knee drop through a table. And Finally The three wrestlers most Backyarders will tell you are the best are Foley, Hardy and RVD. Any group of Backyarders has a 99% chance of including a Juggalo or ten. Their favorite bands will always be Disturbed, Slipknot, Sepultura and ICP. Backyarding is sort of the purest expression of being a dumb outcast teenager so it can absolve you of some of your issues with wanting to travel back in time and slap yourself for buying that Disturbed T and Amy Lee poster sophomore year.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8YzeJhOmq0 I always felt like this was backyard wrestling in a nutshell, a Darwin Award waiting to happen between two untrained guys who I'm sure pretended to walk off a stage to a Limp Bizkit tune beforehand. There's such a thing as dumb fun, except this is twice the dumb and none of the fun. I'm basically just here to prove the point of your first sentence.
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Aug 19, 2014 11:18
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I loooooooove yardtards.
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we need to bring back PSP-TV's yardtard nights. We've got a slot on Thursdays if anyone feels up to it. E: and shame on you for forgetting the majesty that is Sir William Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hke-f5TSsHw coconono fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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Aug 19, 2014 14:27
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I never really watched the movie "Backyard Dogs" but I always found it really unfortunate that a movie featuring Hayabusa had an opening rap number about getting paralyzed in a wrestling match
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Aug 19, 2014 15:48
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I'm a terrible person who loves watching people get hurt being really stupid, so I am thankful backyard wrestling exists to give me an endless supply of idiots.
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Aug 19, 2014 15:57
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Tallon Dega
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King BW is my backyard wrestling obsession http://youtu.be/vkgtewix4Pc Also trampoline wrestling is lame as hell take a bump on tires covered in tarp or straight on the dirt like a real worker woop woop oatgan fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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Aug 19, 2014 17:04
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Jesus Christ, there are so many bad decisions at work in this gif.
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are there any shoot style backyard feds. who is the akira maeda of backyard wrestling
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Aug 19, 2014 17:13
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coconono posted:E: and shame on you for forgetting the majesty that is Sir William Black Tek never gets enough love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDkI2HXkN8 Also, Backyard powerbombs are the best powerbombs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O70Nebi0T6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w02FEElYWDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R03jWZYyCs
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Aug 19, 2014 17:23
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Spermgod posted:are there any shoot style backyard feds. who is the akira maeda of backyard wrestling kimbo slice
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Aug 19, 2014 17:29
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Del Raminos posted:Tek never gets enough love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDkI2HXkN8 I winced at every one of those powerbombs, they seriously don't know what they are doing. They are either dropping onto their heads, to forcing them right down hard.
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Aug 19, 2014 17:36
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Sounds right to me, pal. Perhaps it's you that doesn't know anything about powerbombs
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Aug 19, 2014 17:46
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How many people have died due to backyard poo poo? I'm surprised you don't hear about it more often.
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Aug 19, 2014 17:52
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I like how the cinder blocks sort of hop after him
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Aug 19, 2014 17:53
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OldTennisCourt posted:How many people have died due to backyard poo poo? I'm surprised you don't hear about it more often. I don't watch Nancy Grace so I can't tell you.
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OldTennisCourt posted:How many people have died due to backyard poo poo? I'm surprised you don't hear about it more often. Wrestling isn't real, buddy 
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Sir William was a minor phenomenon around here a while back. He is pretty awesome. I think his fed mostly does ring stuff now, or whatever fed it morphed into. In the playground they even got aired on public access.
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Aug 19, 2014 18:10
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someone just post a link to all the UMAD videos
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Aug 19, 2014 19:43
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Spermgod posted:are there any shoot style backyard feds. who is the akira maeda of backyard wrestling Tallon Dega
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oatgan posted:Sounds right to me, pal. Perhaps it's you that doesn't know anything about powerbombs alright that is how a powerbomb works, the guys taking them do not look like they know how to take them though. Or the guy drops them accidentally. The way dudes are landing does not look like selling, it looks like "gently caress, that killed" They look bad for the neck the way they are doing them, and not in a pro wrestling way
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Aug 19, 2014 20:17
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Another Person posted:alright, the guys taking them do not look like they know how to take them. The way dudes are landing does not look like selling, it looks like "gently caress, that killed" A successful powerbomb.
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Aug 19, 2014 20:18
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I will keep watching them tho because seeing these idiots do them and another idiot take them is hilarious e; putting out a request for if anyone knows any clips of a knockoff of the Shield triple powerbomb. the force might just kill a guy
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Aug 19, 2014 20:19
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Whatever causes the most grievous bodily harm is the proper way to do any move. You gotta protect the business, brother and also I like watching morons suffer for a crowd of 200 views on youtube
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Aug 19, 2014 20:25
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Spermgod posted:are there any shoot style backyard feds. who is the akira maeda of backyard wrestling Bored guys at BJJ academies filming cooperative rolls could be pretty cool actually.
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Aug 19, 2014 20:30
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oatgan posted:King BW is my backyard wrestling obsession http://youtu.be/vkgtewix4Pc This is the guy I was thinking of, I couldn't remember his name. All the MWA stuff with him is hilarious.
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Aug 19, 2014 20:30
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I'm watching that doc "The Backyard" and it's making me sad. 
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Aug 19, 2014 20:40
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Spermgod posted:are there any shoot style backyard feds. who is the akira maeda of backyard wrestling Everyone on WorldStar.
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Spermgod posted:are there any shoot style backyard feds. who is the akira maeda of backyard wrestling That would be Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Caceres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ6P0k_XCGM
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Aug 19, 2014 21:22
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yea ok posted:Tallon Dega 
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Aug 19, 2014 21:49
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The gif is fine but we need the full "Wild Child" Benny Smalls experience  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxpomasskPQ
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Amy Renee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8YzeJhOmq0 Just to reflect on this. There was at least 4 people there. But still, 2 of them ended up on top of a roof where one would piledrive the other through a table. On to hard grass. He didn't even try to land the piledriver, he just went feet first. And clearly nobody tried hard enough to stop them. This is incredible.
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Aug 19, 2014 22:22
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oatgan posted:King BW is my backyard wrestling obsession http://youtu.be/vkgtewix4Pc SIGN THIS MAN NOW, VINCE. I can totally picture it, King BW coming down the ramp riding a Hoveround whilst wearing Mabels old king outfit. Halfway through the match, he has to take an insulin shot.
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Aug 19, 2014 22:27
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Does anyone have the match that was on trampolines where a guy tries to do a Swanton Bomb off a ladder and just bites it directly onto the crown of his head against the ground?
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Aug 19, 2014 22:30
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Should we watch Backyard Dogs one night?
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El Estrago Bonito posted:CHW Backyard Thank you for introducing me to this promotion, because now I know the glory of Xristo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF4Fea834do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-qyQ8VbiNg
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Kifisonfire posted:someone just post a link to all the UMAD videos Ok Here is my favorite. It has a baby doing Lucha poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNl--7oZhkM
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My personal favorite is "Wrestlemania" with the dumb kids who fight in their living room, mainly because it reminds me of my brother and I wrestling that inevitably led to him sandbagging me most of the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLo4nOq5x4
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