"Don't Try This At Home"

Pentecost

Rather than chat on the news thread, the talk of the curb stomp being banned got me thinking of times when I did try it at home. I definitely remember trying to put the sharpshooter on my younger brother at one stage, and the ankle lock. Also probably tried to super kick him at one stage! Anybody else got any similar memories or stories?

Hashtag_HEEL

Was a b@stard for the Sharpshooter and did the occasional Diamond Cutter. Then there was the TWF (Trampoline Wrestling federation) at which point I had a whole move set done out that was pretty slick

brianregan09

Knocked two my friends front teeth out with sweet chin music when i was about 11, He got too close or I kicked too high one or both of us were at fault,

Use to rock bottom my younger brother all the time too along with the odd stone cold stunner lol

Stereomaniac

A friend of mine asked me in a room full of people how the Sharpshooter was applied a couple of years ago. I proceeded to go SummerSlam 1991 on him and he begged for his life.

Bounty Hunter

I remember delivering tombstones and getting stunnered (and vice versa) not to mention getting put in numerous submissions from boston crabs to The Walls of Jericho (half the time it was just a Boston Crab ha) and The Crossface or Anklelock. Hell people even went up top (on top of the couch etc) to hit a Frogsplash or two.

Was always just a list of finishers though, didnt see too many chin locks, sleepers or suplexes.

That said none of us ever got hurt and if we did we would only have ourselves to blame, tis a stupid thing to do and I'm pretty sure even as kids messing about we knew that as we did it. Great laugh though

on a side note I could actually see kids being far more likely to seriously hurt each other imitating Seth's curb stomp (could include Tombstone too but WWE have already essentially gotten rid of piledrivers) than the vast majority of those moves listed above even including the submissions.

Stereomaniac

The submissions were always the best ones to imitate I thought because at least no one was going to get dropped on their head that way!

SureYWouldntYa

Myself and my brother used to do a lot of moves on the trampoline when we were younger

He's far from fat, but I once chokeslamed him through the trampoline right into the ground below, he was awful winded and gasping for air for a while, no loss on him though

Oh I also clotheslined someone across a wall, and another time speared someone through a bouncy castle

I'm not evil I swear

Stereomaniac

I put the Camel Clutch on someone with no clothes on before.

gerrybbadd

Ah ya, I used to deal out the Sharpshooters, Samoan Drops, Tombstones, Figure 4s and Choke Slams back in the day

Bounty Hunter

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I put the Camel Clutch on someone with no clothes on before.

I bet that made them humble

Omackeral

I did this in college...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDZ3wSgEyg

Virtanen

I had a 4ft stuffed toy when I was younger, so whenever I had friends over the stuffed tiger would get all the more dangerous moves done to him. I say that, we'd still do stunners, super kicks and Walls of Jerichos to each other, but with a lot less force

I did also have a friend who wasn't afraid to do Swanton Bombs off the back of the couch, mad ba$tard :pac:

My favourite thing though was to use household objects as weapons or props. We used a coffee table as an ambulance for ambulance matches, cushions were steel chairs, and two cushions propped up between some chairs were a breakable table

My best innovation, though, was using tinfoil pie plates as trash can lids

J. Marston

Omackeral wrote: »

I did this in college...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDZ3wSgEyg

I did the exact same thing with a biscuit tin lid in primary school!

Got caught though, mid-swing, I saw the teacher through the little window in the door and she saw me.

Looking back now, I could've got huge heat and went full heel if I swung at her. Missed opportunity...

Omackeral

That video is a work, backstage we're best friends and became so because of wrestling. If you look closely he gets the hands up. The class was in shock though and the person screaming out up the back was legit!

Virtanen

Omackeral wrote: »

That video is a work, backstage we're best friends and became so because of wrestling. If you look closely he gets the hands up. The class was in shock though and the person screaming out up the back was legit!

I had to watch it four times before realising you threw a bin on him at the end, I though it was a computer at first, which would have been borderline attempted murder :pac:

Brindor

Spears, Pedigrees, Tombstones the usual.
I think are favourite one was the Chokeslam though, as I was easily able to pull it off on my brother.
We always wanted to try a Swanton Bomb, but never really had a high enough clearing for it.

riffmongous

I used to with my brother, but we didn't really know about kayfabe, and since no kicking or punching was allowed (since that would lead to noticeable marks which would get us in trouble) it quickly just turned into real catch wrestling once you realise that only moves from the Team Angle,Benoit movesets work.. which was pretty useful when I did judo and mma years later

Pentecost

Brilliant stuff people exactly the type of antics I had in mind. Fun times.

Ageyev

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I put the Camel Clutch on someone with no clothes on before.

Was this a sex thing? :pac:

Insect Overlord

Great idea for a thread. Brings back all kinds of memories!

My brother's double bed was great for a safe landing when we were 10/11/12.

Moves included the DDT, Jerry Lawler's piledriver, the Rock Bottom, side-walk slam, spine-buster, Pedigree, elbow and leg-drops.
We got into WWF when Ken Shamrock and Owen Hart were always on TV so there were sharpshooters, ankle locks, figure-4s, arm-bars, Boston crab and half crab, etc.
The Camel Clutch was by far the worst. That's a really nasty position to get stuck in.

By the time I was in 6th class the Hardy Boyz were a pretty big deal. I was one of the 3 tallest/strongest in my class at the time, so me and the biggest lad used to volunteer to be crash-mats for the 5 Star Frog Splash, Swanton Bombs and elbows off the railings during am lóin whenever it was dry enough to lie on the grass.

Stereomaniac

Ageyev wrote: »

Was this a sex thing? :pac:

BUBBA YOU SAID IT PERFECT :pac:

Pentecost

Stereomaniac wrote: »

BUBBA YOU SAID IT PERFECT :pac:

As long as you released the hold when she (or he if that's the case) tapped out!

Stereomaniac

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Pentecost

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I LOVE THE WOMEN INTELLIGENT JEW PENTECOST FOREVER I LOVE THE LADY PUT ME OVER.

statto25

Pentecost wrote: »

My favourite move at home was the Rikishi driver as my little brother was light enough to get up on my shoulder. I did it once onto a cheap mattress on the floor which offered no bounce and it felt Mike my spine tried to burst out of my back. Never did anything like that again. It scared the crap out of me. It didn't hurt but the sensation I felt was scary.

Stereomaniac

Pentecost wrote: »

brianregan09

I also hit a running 5 star frog splash from the roof of our boiler house to a mattress on the lawn before as a dare, I was an rvd nut, and almost overshot it too I got such a good run at it, almost mangled myself

Stereomaniac

I became friends with a guy when I started school (secondary) because he used to just give people stunners mid-conversation if he was fed up of talking back and forth with them.

Insect Overlord

Part of me would still like to give wrestling a go sometime, but I don't think I'd ever come up with a decent character/gimmick!

Stereomaniac

I'd love to be able to do some of the shoot stuff, Stu Hart kind of job. That stuff would be handy!

Pentecost

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I became friends with a guy when I started school (secondary) because he used to just give people stunners mid-conversation if he was fed up of talking back and forth with them.

Ha that's class though I'm sure it'd get annoying after a while. I hope he did the two fingers afterwards too.

Ruu

Plenty of chops (whhhhhoooooooo !), arm bars, full nelsons. Nothing too serious. My brother was ridiculous at selling!

Sirsok

My mam came home one day to all my friends standing around wooden decking watching me and another mate have a wrestling match with all the mattresses from the house as the canvas on the decking, ladders and plaster board smashed everywhere(substitute as tables) . She probably would of being less horrified if she ever caught me w*nking

LeeJM

Same as everyone else plenty of stunners, chokeslams, sleepers were doled out when I was a kid. The big heavy crash mats in PE class were great as a base for doing flying elbows and splashes from the top of the climbing frames and for doing suplexes of all varieties.

And once in 5th year a "friend" caught me from behind in a Tazzmission and had it on so tight I was on my tip toes and I turned blue, all I remember was the girls in the class screaming to let me go........I should also point out it was my own fault as he just wanted me to tap out but I refused being the little tough guy that I was haha I turned babyface that day woooooo

A Brad Maddox Guy

When I was about 12 had a match with my cousin & some friends on a green. I took a full-on Cross Powerbomb but luckily landed properly, sold it like a champ though :P Match ended in a draw when my cousin got me in I think a headlock & I countered into some sort of Triangle Hold. Our faces went bright red but neither of us would tap out.

beakerjoe

As of 2014 Wrestlemania (IIRC), Omackeral was still doing worked shoot fights outside the woolshed, GOOD TIMES.

He hits a mean vertical suplex when drunk too.

gerrybbadd

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I put the Camel Clutch on someone with no clothes on before.

Wait now... Had you no clothes on, applying pressure, or was the guy straining on the ground face down, in the nip

Stereomaniac

Who said anything about a guy?

Mick Murdock

Likely story.

Ruu

Oh so ye also made knee pads out of old socks as well? Nearly as bad as Cesaro. No? OK... *goes back into shadows*😊

764dak

When I was young I didn't rate Ric Flair and I thought the Figure 4 was a crappy move. Until one day when I was 9 and play wrestling with my older brother and he put the Figure 4 on me. It was so painful and I never looked at Ric Flair the same way again.

razorblunt

We used to play in a friends driveway, only two things went wrong:

1. A friend doing some turnbuckle head bangs misjudged and caught his head flush on the pillar
2. The same guy was doing a jump off the top rope, slipped when jumping and ended up doing a cross body, my other friend caught him perfectly but was also knocked off balance and they both fell to the floor. No injuries but the catcher lost as he was laughing too hard to kick out

Hamhide

me,my friends and my brothers used to knock lumps out of each other but never got too hurt. my oldest bro used to make a wrestling ring out of some old mattresses and fence posts, put a white sheet over it and tie blue ropes around the 4 posts. made for some killer matches. i was the smallest so i got most of the punishment but i learned to fight and defend myself. i'm still a big wrestling/mma fan thanks to tough brotherly love.

Chip Whitley

Me and my mates were the same, even as we got older, there'd always be a snap suplex, tazzmission or sharpshooter lying in wait for someone depending on what we were up to at the time.

One time though, back in the college days, a friend of mine who was a weightlifter decided he could press me over his head, when he had me up on his shoulders (the starting point for an AA or an F5) one of the lads ran over and called for a 3D and pulled my head towards the ground. But neither of them let go and I ended up spiking in to the ground head first. I legit thought I had broken my neck. Everyone there got a fright, I saw stars and I needed a new pair of glasses after it but I was just relieved there was no damage done, so lucky.

bobby_says_hi

I got F5'd face first onto a CD player once when I was about ten

aaaaaaaahhhhhh

Secondary school back in the early 2000's, you didnt turn your back on anyone or else Tazmission outa no where

gerrybbadd

bobby_says_hi wrote: »

I got F5'd face first onto a CD player once when I was about ten

"Somebody stop the damn match! That kids gotta family!!!"

Sirsok

Me and my cousin used to call ourselves the OKPA (O'Keeffe Protection Agency) when we had wrestlin matches in school, this one time we set a guy up for a 3-D an hit it perfectly, he got up and started going mad as mid way through the 3-D he realised he was about to land in a big steaming pile of Dog poop that we had no idea was there......

LeeJM

Sirsok wrote: »

Me and my cousin used to call ourselves the OKPA (O'Keeffe Protection Agency) when we had wrestlin matches in school, this one time we set a guy up for a 3-D an hit it perfectly, he got up and started going mad as mid way through the 3-D he realised he was about to land in a big steaming pile of Dog poop that we had no idea was there......

Think Id rather go through a flaming table ala Tommy Dreamer than land in dog poo ala your friend off a 3-D :pac:

Angron

I remember the day I met one of the guys that would go on to become one of my best friends. We were standing outside the gates of our school, when suddenly he grabbed one of the other lads from behind with the Masterlock, doing the big swings and all. Still great friends a good 8 years later, and during the time we aren't both in college or something we go to either his or my house to watch the PPVs.

Stereomaniac

I was doing a course a few years ago and discovered another wrestling fan in the class. We got into a worked shoot that we played out over a couple of months in the classroom, pretending to have fallen out. Then one day we stood nose to nose and I threw him a Rock Bottom.