Backyard Wrestling In The UK Whats Your Thoughts On It.

[Rob McKay]

Backyard Wrestling in the UK. Personaly I don't have anything against backyarding unless there using light tubes on each other and risking serious injury by doing dumb moves they don't know how to perform. Whats your thoughts?

[Inno]

Backyarding - stupid, stupid idea - anyone who does it deserves to get injured. The scourge of wrestling fans everywhere.

[The Crippler]

Yeah I agree with Dreamer.

Its all a bit silly I think.

[TsuMirren]

The common excuse is "We don't have anywhere else to go!" Well, sorry, but that is just the biggest pile of horse sh...erm.

I'm sure you probably have some level headed people doing it, but then you also have the ones who think they are some subsidiary group of the Insane Clown Posse or they think that they're a mini-CZW.

Fortunately, Scottish Championship Wrestling are now considered the enemies of Kid Krazy and the Psychopathic Krew. Though, I wasn't aware I was booking a series of "major" events in someone's back garden or asking people to hit moves that Jeff Hardy would think twice about. I'd tell you what they've been saying, but I 'd need an interpreter to decipher it for me first.

It's plainly stupid to begin with though, I mean who hasn't play wrestled...but to leap off of a ladder and through a table on grass, that's when you decide to stop.

[Andy]

The people that do the "extreme" style of backyard wrestling are just stupid. Those who do it safely in no risk type things or to try and practise arent so bad, but when it comes to the ones that feel they have to basicaly kill themselves I have a disliking for them

[Dan]

Any form of Backyard Wrestling is Stupid. In my opinion Backyard Wrestling is giving the Pro-Wrestling a bad name. With all due respect, if any-person was hurt in the process of BackYard Wrestling, then Pro-Wrestling would get the blame, WWF and others.
The WWF tends to be a scape goat if any people get hurt doing wrestling moves, at home, BackYard Wrestling or any other way. I do agree that in some cases people may copy the moves of the 'Professionals'. But as far as Backyard wrestling goes, it gives the WWF and other Pro-Wrestling federations a bad name, and if anyone was seriously hurt in a Backyard Wrestling then the same old thing would be said, "Is it right to have Wrestling on Bristish TV...............?"

People need to know that Backyard Wrestling is Stupid, dangerous and it is giving the Pro Wrestling a bad name.
These are my thoughts anyway.........

[Syxx-Pac]

I hate the term 'Backyard WRESTLING' because it has nothing to do with WRESTLING!.A bunch of kids trying to cripple each other can not be classed as wrestling.Kids have been doing crazy stunts for years but because of the state of wrestling today and its popularity it is wrestling that gets the blame.

[Dean Douglas]

Ditto to everything just said.

[Russ]

Not only is backyarding unsafe, dangerous and very very stupid, but it also gives the media an easy shot at the WWF. When a boy gets injured backyarding, it's because "The WWF influenced him". Can you not read the constant Don't Try This At Home " messages on each show? They put them there for a reason, and that reason is to discourage that kinda behaviour. There is no excuse for backyarding. None what so ever. Even if you are working with someone who seems to ne safe, with no hardcore weapons, even the smallest of moves when botched can be fatal. Just don't do it at all.

[NJC]

I used to play wrestle admittedly, but not in a frickin' backyard!

The furthest mine went was being powerbombed on a bed, oh, and wait...I think I was the victim of a sharpshooter once. That's as far as it goes..

Whoa, hang on...I guess I did to a dropkick on a bouncy castle once...but not to anyone! Just for the comical effect really! Oh, and I did once do a people's elbow in my local leisure centre's swimming pool.

I wouldn't say I did anything to really risk injury..backyard wrestlers should be packed off to the CZW in my opinion. Get the lunatics who make a living out of it to smash them with a light bulb or to put salt in a wound. I'm sure they would love it.

If anyone has read Foley is Good, he says about his experience with ABC show 20/20...they completely used his words in the wrong context, and for the wrong thing and he was made out on TV to think really stupid, extremely dangerous was 'fun'. That is part of the reason why he states the real world is faker than wrestling.

Backyard wrestlers are absolute fools, they really must have something mentally wrong with them to piledrive each other on grass. If the WWF wouldn't get hammered for it, then I would say that I wish they did break their necks, but as the WWF would get the repercussions, I hope there are no serious accidents because no doubt the injured will say"Mick Foley is my idol.".

[Chatmission]

Backyard wrestling is utter stupidity. We all know that kids will mess around play fighting with each other. That's natural; that's what kids do. However, when its people who are of an age that should know better, then that's a different story.

The excuse of "there's no where to go and train" or "I'm not old enough yet to leave home and travel somewhere else in the country to learn" is crap. If you are dedicated enough to want to learn and really believe that you want to try and make a career out of wrestling then you will move away. If you are not old enough, then you will prepare yourself for a time when you are old enough. This would involve working on your body and eating right in order to have done some sufficient preparation for a time when you will be old enough to go out and be taught.

To go and try to pretend you know what you are doing without any training is not only putting yourself at risk but others at risk also. It's like trying to drive a car on the busy roads without having had any lessons: You would be a danger to yourself and other road users as you would be unaware of basics things that would protect yourself and others.

:xyx

[Cactus Jack]

I hate backyard wrestling. But why does the WWF get blamed? If you get hit by a golf ball, you dont blame Tiger Woods. If your in a car crash, you dont blame Formula 1. If you pick up an injury playing football, you dont blame the F.A. and so on. TAKE RESPONSABILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS

[nytemare]

ok it is time for the voice of reason, now I will admit that I am talking from expierence I used to do backyard wrestling for about a month about a couple of months ago It was a sort of couriousity thing really i was like "i wonder what happens at these things" well I did a match and it was fine but i only did a technical match with another submission "wrestler"(and i use that term loosely) but on like my 4th match the wrestlers were getting a little out of hand and I saw something that scared the f<>k out of me (which is hard to do) I saw a kid about 16 or 17 moonsault from the car roof through a table with a man under it who was laying on a table and they had set the table partialy on fire, that was my que to leave.

I admit that what I took part in was the most stupiest thing I will ever do and I even wrote a column for a wrestling site about the stupid things they do and I did an interview with the owner of a fed I got some quite pathetic answers from him basicly he kept saying it was ok because he never let his "wrestlers"(again loosely) get extreme and i then said to him at what point does the word extrem come in to it and he clould not answer it anyway i have posted the coulmn i did here because i think it is a good one which needs to be read.

I now i am going to get some flack now over this (which i proberly deserve) but i have learned that they are not cool but morons oh yeah and the reason they do it is because it is too expensive to go to a school and some even say they do it for the love of it not to gain money.



BACKYARD WRESTLING
Back yard wrestling is becoming increasingly populer among the youth today, which quite frankly is an alarming notion to take in, a lot of people write about subjects they know nothing about(like journalists writing about millwall) but i know about this as I was a backyard wrestler so I know what I am talking about.

In America there are at the last count 684,973 backyard "promotions" operating and the figure is rising rapidly every week as new feds open and get more extreme, in Australia there are 564,238 feds doing shows and in England there are 15 which is not a lot compared to the above named countries but it is still 15 too many and there are new ones opening as speak.

As i said, i used to be a backyard wrestler and believe me when i say it is as painful as it looks it is not like the wwf(who are trained professionals and know how to land to minmize injury) these guys really hurt themselves they are putting there and other peoples lives at risk and they don't seem to care if kids die or not, in america there are a number of cases that have resulted from people getting hurt, take the 14 year old boy that is serving life for powerbombing his little 6 year old next door neighbour he did not realise that he was doing a dangerous stunt that only perfessionaly trained people should do, then there is the kid that died from being rock bottomed, and the girl that is now confined to a wheel chair after taking a stone cold stunner from her boyfriend, the list goes on and on and it is getting out of control.

I have been looking through the internet at different backyard efeds and I came across a company that actuly shows you how to start an efed and promotes them which is not a responsible attitude from them, and to slap people in the face some people have on their sites that wrestling is a professional sport and is dangerous and should only be done by professionals yeah right like you lot are professional wrestlers, the only professional thing you lot are is professional morons for doing such a dangerous sport, some thing needs to be done to ban this sport once and for all.

There is a fed that runs in south london and they had the cheek to ask me if I would help them run it bwhahahahahahahahaha I wrestled for a backyard fed that used to put on shows in south london but they are exstinct now thank god and I saw first hand some of the inhumane things they do to each other on every show I only stuck with it for 1 month then I gave it up it is not worth the pain and broken bones(although i have never broken a single bone in my body i did not want to start) to keep doing it every week although I never did any of the extreme stuff that you hear about but I did see a guy moonsault from a car roof through a table which was on another table with a bloke sandwiched in between and did I mention that the table was on fire? that was the worst thing I saw and I saw a bloke being powerbombed on to a shopping trolley it is this kind of crap that should make people ban this idiotic sport now.

The reason they do backyard wrestling is because they say it is too exspenive to go to wrestling school which is a load of crap because there are many schools around in England and America that cater for the poorer kids, they also state that if they mention that they are a backyard wrestler then they get some respect from their peers, that is complete and utter codswallop, when I mentioned this people tell me I am mad or insane and stupid, which I realise that I was, but what about the mum's and dad's?, do you know that your son is doing this shit every week? I now of a web site which is dedicated to getting backyard wrestling banned and there are hundreds of photo's of wrestlers going through ladders, being suplexed in the damn street and more it is quite scary and sickening to watch and I dare you to look at them and tell me that backyard wrestling is not dangerous.

The fact of the matter is that backyard wrestling has no place in our world and we need to stamp it out and ban it because there is a chance that your son or daughter is doing it and they will end up in a wheelchair or a coffin it is your choice.


sums it up well don't it? :xyx

[TsuMirren]

"codswallop"

YES, that word so deserves to be used so more often in every day language. Haven't used that word for so long...I think I was playing marbles at the time.

[nytemare]

i have nott used that word for years and it came in to my head so i thought it was a funny word and i could not think of another word that ws not a swear word :tony

[Rob McKay]

Yeah this no swearing thing is pretty dumb.

[Max Moon]

I used to play wrestle at primary, so not so bad, not too much damage done, then tookthe same fun attitude to wrestling with friends on the grass, and it was all just the more technical stuff(i.e submission stuff) no-one really trying to hurt each other, no punches, no kicking, no big stunts. until one day i held my submission hold of choice on him(had never managed that feat before) the Crossface chicken-wing(the one bob backlund used) anyway he was stupid and just wouldn't give up! so i put more pressure on(never had to before as people normally gave up easilyto it) than more pressure, and then *snap* his arm twisted out of the hold so assumed his arm popped out of joint, but no finally convinced him to go to hosptial, and found out he had a spiral fractre to his arm, in apparently the hardest place to break an arm!!! to this day he can no longer straighten his arm fully, and it's my(well and his) fault. Wrestling wether it be the backyard extreme stuff(i know people like that too) or just play submission wrestling, is fun, till you hurt someone, and realise no matter how safe you think you are, something could happen. I'll never forget doing that to a good friend of mine, and how could he ever forget, he's got a metal plate in his arm, and can't straighten it. So i suggest no-one sould wrestle unless you're acully trained, or training, cause the riskd just aren't worth it!! I'm gonna stick to watching, and not play anyomre!!!

steve

[charlie]

my brother dropped a sidewalk slam on me whilst we were drunk a couple of years ago - I landed on a stone in the back garden and had the prettiest bruise you ever did see for a couple of weeks afterwards. good job I got a big butt and was able to absorb the blow quite well! I can't understand why or how anyone would want to put themselves through anything more than just a bit of silly play fighting - it effing well hurts!

[Saz]

I don't know if anyone saw that program on Backyard wrestling they showed an channel four about 6 months back.

The simple fact is that Backyard wrestling is a way for kids to get status and recognition amongst their peers online. They record and send video shots of themselves doing more and more extreme stuff in the hope that they will be recognised as a superstar!

Because we have many people revealing the inside "secrets" of Wrestling online, many people think that they are able to perform the moves and reperform the moved of the WWE. However, as I was told at university, anyone can create a webpage and write complete codswallop (there, I used it) and because they have put it eloquently, they sound like they know what they are talking about. At university you are taught to correlate evidence brought before you on the net or don't use it at all. But that unfortunately not the case with a backyarder kid.

It isn't the WWE who are to blame for this, though I think their "Don't try this at home" advert is a minimal attempt of prevention, and this program on channel 4 never blamed the WWE, they blamed the internet.

Perhaps our Smark friends may think twice before they convey their "insider" knowledge to the masses, as it can cause damage to people who believe them, that isn't to every smark, but the ones who are doing this secret telling.

Of course blaming Smarks would be the easy option, the back yarders have to take some responsibility on themselves. I do find it ironic though that these kids do tend to grow out of it after a while, they either join a wrestling gym or just give up.

Thank god....

Saracen

[Hope4ICW]

I think the reason for backyarding is cost.Kids just wanna do what there stars are doing but don't wanna pay the £8-10 for training and don't wanna travel far.So they try to wrestle,get hurt and think they're good.

I would be all for the guys to be trained for a few months then get a few mats and do it on them,they know the risks & know what they can and can't do in moves to be safe.

1 thing wrestlers could do to stop backyard wrestling would be to offer Backyarders a 1 day training session,to show what they could do in wrestling and how they're risking there bodies.

[Evil Gringo]

I did it, we were organized, we didn't go the extreme route, we also did it not to hurt each other but to try and learn techniques and moves in a safe enviroment.
This led to a guy we knew giving us a shot at real wrestling, bump training and all... we knew how to do the moves but he taught us how to chain wrestle and link them together...

I wrestled infront of 500 people thank to backyard wrestling, it gave me a start and gave me confidence plus allowed me to hone my shooting star press. The funny thing was when I finished backyarding and moved into the ring it was then I blew my knee out! The irony!