Posted by Faron Foxx
on 11/8/2009, 7:58 am, in reply to "Chase Stevens slams the "so called" wrestling trainers"
Well, I definitely think Chase has some points with the comments that he made. A solid foundation is key if you want to do well and the "training mills" that are prevelent today will take anyone who has the 25-30 bucks a week and put through some paces. These guys get the short term affects of the money and the temporary boost in attendance when the student debuts (a couple of weeks after starting to train) but the long term damage to the quality of the show is what ultimately hinders their ability to draw a good house.
Now, all of those who have ever seen me or know me understand that I have always considered myself an entertainer and not an athelete. I was never in shape but I was a pretty good story teller and that is what I think is missing from most wrestlers coming up today. You have guys training others that can't tell a story. They may can take the bumps and do all of these high impact flippity, floppity feats but they lack any psychology on how to tell a story. A match is composed like a piece of music, you bring them up (Crescendo) and then you bring them down (decrescendo) back and forth then you have a big finish. There is no emotion behind the work these days. Crowds are not hard to work, you just have to know how to do it and when you are working infront of 50-300 people, it is important to know how to work them because its such an intiment setting and they expect to be drawn into the show.
Final thought, when doctors finish medical school, they start their residencies. They use this time to build up their specialty and increase their skills. Wrestlers benefit from this same concept, working in different places and learning from different guys. One of the biggest problems I see with guys these days is they always work the same places and work the same guys. You are never going to learn more than you already know if you do not diversify your experience. You learn when you work a different guy (good or bad) and you learn when you work in front of a different audience. Heck, you learn business skills when dealing with different promotors.
Sorry for the long response, the topic just sort of struck me.
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