alpinisto's blog

For February an invitation to visit sportynord in Hildesheim came very appropiate. I had never before wrestled in February, and until this winter I had never wrestled in any of the winter months, but sportynord had invited me after I the previous May had wrestled one of his friends in Sachsen-Anhalt. Sportynord was rather old chap but very fit for his age, and my Berlin friend, Romano, had only succeeded it winning over him once. This was planned to become a larger tournament, for besides me he had also invited four other guys to come on Sunday, but in the end only two of them showed up. At least four would be a good company.

One of these visitors was one I had not heard of before: Ringerbuddy from Mülheim an der Ruhr, and on Saturday evening he joined sportynord to pick me up from the train station. Sportynord lived in a big house in central Hildesheim where he had plenty of place so we both could stay the night there. Marko75, the other guy, showed up the following morning, so now our small group was complete.

These two guys opened the tournament on Sunday morning. With more than 50 opponents on his belt, marko75 was clearly the most experienced of us all, while Ringerbuddy with about a dozen previous opponents was the least experienced. Therefore it was no surprise that marko75 could win this match rather easily. But he was good with beginners, and even from my couchside point of view I could learn a thing or two. But I could not expect that marko75 would be just as easy on me when we came to wrestle - and our match was the next!

Marko was 12 years younger than I was, and like all other younger guys, very agile. I had always had a keen interest in good muscular masculine thighs, and Marko indeed had a good stable pair of such. Obviously I much too soon ended up tightly scissored between them, but even though he impressed me quite a lot, for I have never been in such tight scissors before, he could not make me tap out. But he was well trained, for as soon as he realised that I would not give in to this hold he swiftly moved position for some other attack. I sure could see the combined effect of experience and good agility, for with his good legs he managed to keep me controlled one way or the other.

Ringerbuddy came next, and with him we had similar weight and height stats. He had the sense of attack, which many other of my previous opponents have complained that I didn't. But I have always had a rather defensive tactics, see where it goes and then find my best time to strike. It was a probability that Ringerbuddy took home most points but after last month's match I was more focused that I would not give him a shoulder victory. Also it was a bit frustrating to hear Marko call his various advices to him while we were wrestling. Though in the end I apparently was more fit than he was, for after a nice sweaty match he gave in to me.

In the meantime sportynord had appeared in the matroom, so while Ringerbuddy and I took a rest Marko could wrestle him. Sportynord was six inches shorter and 50 pounds lighter than me and not to be underestimated, for he had worked all his life as a gym master in the school. I therefore knew what I was up to, and so that sportynord also could have the same knowledge on how I wrestled I had another match with Marko. Not that it made much difference for me, for even though he now had had numerous fights today it apparently was impossible to tire him out.

I must say that sportynord was incredible fast for his age. Normally I am pretty good in not making too much advantage of my larger weight, but with sportynord it sometimes was needed, for this was my fourth match that day, so I was getting more tired now. But in the end I managed to press him up towards the wall bar, so to avoid further problems he now called it quit.

But I was staying at sportynord's place for several days, so I would have plenty of time to wrestle him again, so on Monday we again went down to his basement matroom for another match, and this time I started out in a quite unusual way for me, as I went right on him and soon we were down on the mat with me on top of him. I remembered what Marko had told Ringerbuddy the previous day about the importance of getting your own weight on top of your opponent right from the start and keep it there. And it also worked for me, though I found it a bit embarrassing to use my superior weight on an old guy like sportynord.

Yet he seemed to cope well, and maybe my experience had increased, as it seemed to work well now I for the first time ever had wrestled all through the winter. I normally don't remember much from the particular match, but in this match I at one point realised that I was about to put sportynord in a spladle! I had never been put in a spladle myself, and those times I had tried to do it on someone else it had always failed. This time it worked so well that sportynord felt forced to tap out because he was not flexible enough for such holds.

I was pretty content with the fights in Hildesheim. I had had a total of five matches: two with marko75, one with Ringerbuddy and two with sportynord and I had won most of them, except for the two versus marko75. Sure it would be interesting to wrestle marko75 again, and he later told me that he would be happy to wrestle me again next time we met. Next month I had hoped to get to Paris for wrestling, but my finances will not allow this. So this instead will be another visit to Berlin, where there always are guys who would enjoy wrestling me.