alpinisto's blog

As the travel restrictions after the corona pandemic gradually opened this summer I had been looking forward to get back to wrestling again - but as I had many other travel plans than those for wrestling, it now was time and money setting the limit for my wrestling activities, as there hardly are any MF wrestlers here in Denmark. Luckily the open borders also meant the chance that wrestlers could come to Copenhagen so I didn't necessarily had to travel myself for wrestling.

This was the case with rsl4fun from Colorado, who visited my home town in June on a cruise, and I was happy that he had invited himself for wrestling me. As I seven years earlier also had received a Mexican wrestler here on his cruise I had organised that I could book a room in a nearby hotel for a few hours for our match. But this was not possible now in 2022, so the only option would be to take him home so we could wrestle on my bed. As expected this was not optional, but we spent an enjoyable time exchanging scissor holds, as I always have loved muscular masculine legs, and he certainly had a good pair of such.

Two days later it was my turn to cross the Atlantic to visit my friend in New Jersey, as I had not been in the USA since before the pandemic, and much to my surprise this gave me another chance to wrestle, as wrestlepa from Pennsylvania also had wanted to have a wrestle with me, and he didn't mind the two-hour drive to Trenton to wrestle me. Neither did my non-wrestling friend object us to wrestle in his livingroom, actually he had suggested this possibility himself. So this was another good chance to work my scissors, giving my a proof that my legs now had returned to their former strength after my knee surgeries.

Returning from the States was a return to my postponed matches, which now 'only' were 55, as two of the postponed wrestlers had left MF in the meantime. In August I visited Berlin again as I before the pandemic had made a deal with afinil, that we should have a rematch whenever possible - though none of us had expected that it would take more than three years before that rematch could happen. But this time we succeeded, and I was happy that we could swap our singlets after a good and sweaty match. Unforunately this was the only match I had in Berlin this time.

For the next wrestling travel I had hoped to cut severely down on the number of postponed matchess, as it now was possible to visit London again without any restrictions, and this was where I had the largest number of postponed matches. Thus I decided to make a week in London, where I only would focus on wrestling. However, from previous visits I knew that there would be a lot of no-shows in London, so I invited two of the guys from outside the city to stay the night(s) with me in my double room and wrestle in the daytime. Plus furthermore two wrestling visitors a day, so there would be a good chance that I could get some wrestling done this time.

I should not be surprised when this arrangement didn't work this was, but still I was surprised when both the guys I had expected to share the hotel room with never showed up, though at least the Jersey guy in the last moment told me that he had been called for unexpected work in preparing for Christmas. Maybe autumn just is a bad time for planning wrestling matches in London. At least four of the planned ten wrestling visitors did show up, so it was not all in vain.

The first guy was asianfighter10, and he showed up on time this Thursday morning. Which was a good sign, as the previous day had given me two more no-shows, but not only was Kay reliable, but also a hot guy. So we really had a fun wrestle. He was more into wrestling in briefs than a singlet, so therefore he had brought a very colourful pair of briefs for me to wrestle in. He had a pair himself, and after a quick change we were ready. Certainly I was more experienced than him, but he was much younger than me, and this gave us both the opportunity to exchange and practice various holds. I did my best to avoid making use of my weight advantage so we had a quite even fight, so we were both happy with the result. And after the fight and a quick shower he invited me for a sandwich before returning to the hotel where the next wrestler was waiting.

This was kingj, and while asianfighter10 had been ten years younger than me, kingj was ten years older, and I could clearly notice the difference. I did not expect to get much resistance from him, though he declared that he had spent a lot of time watching World Of Sports. But I know that you can't learn about wrestling by just watching it, and kingj certainly had done some practice on the side, which I could feel from his strong arms. Time to introduce my own strong legs! Resulting in a good long and sweaty match, though I had the impression that kingj ended more sweaty than me in the end.

Both kingj and asianfighter10 had been lighter than me, but I mostly enjoy wrestling the heavier blokes, and luckily one of those were ready for me the next day. It could have been londonlad80, a guy who I had been looking forward to wrestle - or rather: get wrestled by! But at least Bearhuggruk showed up! And although he was not as heavy as londonlad80 it really felt good to be handled by this muscular guy. Obviously we could do with more space than my double room could offer, as we during our preceding chat had been talking about how he would rack me on his massive shoulders, and there simply was not room for that. So we would have to meet again, and next time do so in a decent mat room so he can show all the power contained within his body. Really a good match for my 100th opponent!

My last opponent came on the Saturday, and this was GrappleFun, who indeed was an interesting guy. As an Opera singer he had a performance the same evening and rehearsal at noon, but could still squeeze in a few hours before he had to return to the opera house. But although I found him very relaxed given his busy day he had had time to pack in a small load of wrestling gear so we could start in singlets and later change to speedos as we got warmed up. This guy could certainly give some good bearhugs, which I paid back with my legscissors. We had a good two hours wrestling, and like Bearhuggruk he also was unhappy with the limited space in the hotel room - so he would also be interested in paying the £25 to have access to the mat room in Barnet. Still we had about two hours' good wrestling before he had to return to the opera house after a quick shower.

And this was the end of my wrestling week in London. I was happy that I already had a local wrestling appoinment the next month, but he also cancelled this meeting. Instead I would now start planning the matches I hopefully would have in 2023.