A Swing and a Miss

A very very simple one this time that, since I first noticed it a few months ago, I have now seen numerous times and I think is a very effective way to set something up that can often look very forced and staged.  I've seen this most often in Junior Heavyweight matches but it's that …

Don’t Mix It Up (Sometimes)

Today I wanted to explore one of the things that I think takes matches from being decent or even really good to great.  It came to me when I was watching a match the other day. Early on in the match the heel cut the face off using the below sequence (generally I dislike that …

A More Positive Tone

I'm very aware that the last few blogs that I have written have been pretty critical of things that I have seen so I thought I'd bring a more positive view back to proceedings today by highlighting one of those moves that I haven't seen for a while that I really like and was well …

Pins

So I've been waiting nearly 30 weeks to post this blog, mainly because I see this as a huge problem in a lot of wrestling I see, both independently and also on TV shows and PPVs. Pins, where to start with pins? Well, aside from having people in the ring, pins are an essential part …

Wristlocks

It seems like no time at all has passed since I was talking about positions of strength and this certainly ties into last week’s blog about helping out too much but please, please, please will people start to take wristlocks more seriously?  Now I'm not necessarily talking about your general starting point with two hands …

Let Me Help You Out There

I've said many times that this blog is here to help people out and any of you that know me personally will know that helping others is a big thing for me. You might also have picked up that I am of the belief that a lot of what we do in the ring is …