alpinisto's blog

As a part of my recuperation (and for the fun of it) I for some time have tried to get to wrestle every calendar month, and this June I had hoped to get to wrestle when I was having a visit to my non-wrestling friend in Dresden. But those wrestlers I had talked to were not able to show up while I was there, which is some thing we just have to accept. And in July I did not have the money to travel for wrestling, which is what I normally have to do, as there are very few wrestlers here in Denmark, and those appear to have no interest in wrestling me. But in August there was an American guy coming to Copenhagen on a cruise ship and I was happy when he wrote me and told me that he wanted to wrestle me in my home town, just like a Mexican guy had done it back in 2015.

This Mexican guy I had wrestled in a local park as I had not any room for wrestling in my small apartment, but although I liked the outdoor wrestling in the sunshine on the lawn it was not much of a success. An alternative could be to rent a hotel room, but this would be too expensive, even for just a few hours.

Unlike in the U.K. there are no private mat rooms here in Denmark, but now 2018 another possibility had opened, for my local gym had been renovated during the winter, and among the new features the gym now also had a boxing ring. I had never seen a wrestling ring, but I had seen several pictures of guys wrestling in a ring, though mostly Pro wrestling. But I expected that a mat was a mat, so I guessed that this boxing ring could be used for wrestling as well. I asked the caretaker about the possibility of using the ring for wrestling - but he seemed not to know anything about wrestling. But as a member of the gym I could use it while there was not any boxing planned - and for responsibility reasons I was not allowed to use the ring for boxing without qualified boxing instructors.

Nothing said about wrestling - apparantly the gym did not have any regulations for that, and while I regularily have been there since the gym reopened after the refurbishment I have never seen anybody wrestling in the ring; most of the time it was only standing unattended and a bit desolate. With this American guy coming in on the cruise ship I thought it the perfect chance to bring wrestling to my gym, also because he had some experience in Pro wrestling (which I don't), so he should be able to show me how things are done.

The week before my American opponent arrived I checked with the gym again if the ring would be free on the day he was in Copenhagen and was informed that it would be free the whole afternoon. I should just register him at the entrance and he could have free admission as my guest to the gym. But a few days later he told me that he was retiring from action and he would not wrestle me anyway! Which I was unhappy with, for now I had everything arranged and was looking forward to try out what experience it would be to wrestle in a ring.
But the ring is still there, so I will keep it in mind if in the future there could be other wrestlers coming to Copenhagen - so we can wrestle in a ring and not the local park. Any takers?

Thus there will be almost three months for me without wrestling, but I should look ahead and not back. At the end of this month I will be leaving on my annual visit to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and have added a few days in the beginning of September where I plan to go to New York, expecting to meet some of the local wrestlers there then.

My limited finances had impeded me from meeting potential wrestling opponents in April, but this gave me the opportunity to wrestle in May. As always I had the chance to have a lot of good wrestling in the Wrestling Camp in Lindow, close to Berlin, but then I got an invitation from g6fighter in Düsseldorf. Him I previously had got to know in 2016 when he had visited Copenhagen and again in February, and he would love to see me again, as he was about to organise a set-up with other wrestlers at his place in Düsseldorf.

From my February trip I knew that a cheap way to get to Düsseldorf would be to take a bus to Berlin and then continue the next day by train to Düsseldorf. But coming by way of Berlin I would also have a chance to wrestle Sperling while there, but after a long winter it had suddenly become too hot, so even though I love to build up a sweat in a wrestling match he figured that in this hot weather it would be too hot for him to wrestle. So I never got to wrestle him that day, and the next day I continued to Düsseldorf.

So I arrived in Düsseldorf in the early afternoon, and soon after the first other opponent arrived. roy65 had arrived from Augsburg and had taken some days off so he could stay in Düsseldorf, but before I was to meet him g6fighter also wanted a match with me, maybe just to make sure that he still was the stronger of us. I had wrestled him the days he had been in Copenhagen and again last February, and every time he had come out as a winner. This time I had not had any real wrestling since I had been with him in February, so I would only be happy to get started again with him. After a while I could feel that it was his intention to put me in a schoolboy pin, and even though he was a bit lighter than me he had the advantage of being on top of me. So we fought for quite some time until he finally could press my arms into the mat. Having his victory confirmed by roy65, who sat on a chair next to the mat, he now rose and told him that now he could take over!

I was not really happy about that, for while I was totally exhausted after the fight with g6fighter, roy65 was all fresh and ready for a fight. Though maybe g6fighter had taken into consideration that roy65 was about 50 pounds lighter than me and had been considering that I maybe would be a too hard nut for him to crack. Anyway, much to my surprise I did quite okay from the beginning, but obviously I soon ran out of power so roy65 could get on top of me and I couldn't produce force enough to turn him over. But I would not tap out, so we put the fight on suspense until the next day where we were to meet again.

Late the following morning roy65 returned from his hotel, and soon after two other wrestlers arrived: Rookie and robertvogt, who both were from the area, and none of them I had seen before. We were expected to become six wrestlers in our tournament, and when the sixth had not arrived by noon the five guys of us started now. Though this soon ended up in quite a mess, for now the other guys wrestled all against all, which I was not used to - and when the sixth guy, Ringermatte, then showed up didn't help much, for he only got on top of the bunch to add to the confusion. However, I could think that I was the heaviest of the group so I should be well adequate to take the bumps which might come, so I laid down on top of the largest group to pour oil on the troubled waters and see what happened.

It appeared that I was well received by the others as that they now had another body to wrestle - and actually it wasn't so bad to participate in such mass wrestling, though it was a bit confusing because I could never know which person this body part belonged to! Apparantly I also had the most hairy body of the bunch, so in the end I was mostly wrestling Rookie as he liked to have my hairy body over me. Though I relieved some of my weight on my elbows so I wouldn't crush him.

And then we stopped fighting, for I was to catch the train in the afternoon so I could get back to Berlin. So after a shower and a sumptuous lunch I was taken to the Central train station so I could rest during the train ride back to Berlin.

Back in Berlin I stayed one more day with kleiner kerl, which I often do when I am in Berlin, for he not only had a bed to sleep in but also a set of mats to wrestle on. Usually he also sees to that there will be other wrestlers I can have a match with, and for the next day he had invited berlinfunfighter and catchbear1, and both guys I had wrestled before. I had the impression that berlinfunfighter was an even match for me, though he was younger than me and therefore also more agile and faster in his movements. On a good day I should have a chance to win over him, but it was not my day today. For after having fought back and forth for some time he used a weakness in my defence to put me down on the mat - and keep me there. Later I found out that he also was a bit heavier than me, and that might be the reason why I from then on never could get on top of him. So after a while I had to throw in the towel so I also could keep some strength for catchbear1 who was waiting on the sideline.

Him I knew was considerably heavier than me and I have often wrestled him when I was in Berlin, so it felt good to wrestle him again. Actually catchbear1 should have no major problems in winning a match with me, for not only he was heavier than me but also had more experience. But either he was more interested in both of us having a good match or he was just kind to me because he knew about my weaknesses after the stroke. Though I felt certain that he did not have as much stamina as I had, so if just I could keep the engine running I would have a real chance. Though we never got a decision this time.

My next planned wrestling match will be in the middle of June, where I hope to meet one or more wrestlers during a vacation in Dresden.

In the beginning of this year I had hoped that I could get to wrestle in every calendar month, though it seemed that this plan was doomed to failure right from the start, for I couldn't get the chance to wrestle in January. But luckily it was possible in February, when I could have some good wrestling in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Therefore I had not completely given up, though a planned visit to the UK in March was cancelled.

In my humble opinion wrestling is much more than just headscissors. For even though I often try to make use of headscissors when in a wrestling match, wrestling is much more than that, for I only use it to pin my opponent for my next move. And headscissors alone I probably would find a bit boring. But when another MeetFighter guy in February put a message in the Headscissors Interest Group about exploring headscisssors while in bondage I replied to him that he was not alone with this idea! I imagined it could be interesting to become head scissored while I was defenceless in my neoprene sleepsack.

Much to my surprise I received a message from another MeetFighter member the same day, for he declared that this was his ultimate headscissor fantasy, and for this he needed a headscissor jobber he could practise on, and this jobber should not be able to fight back. This was not my normal way of wrestling, for when I wrestle I always try to fight back with the little experience I have. So if we should meet and he didn't want me to fight back, I saw it ideal if he could put me in my neoprene sleepsack with only my head sticking out for him to play with.

We agreed that when he came on a business trip to Malmö in the end of March I should meet him in his hotel there with my sleepsack. But since he was there for business and not for pleasure we could not meet earlier than 10 pm, which is the time I normally go to bed. But I saw this as my only chance to get some wrestling done this month, even though it solely would be as a jobber, so I found my way to Malmö with my sleepsack in my backpack.

Presumably my opponent was not a Giro d'Italia cyclist, but indeed had some strong legs, which I found out during our first test runs, but still I hoped that I could last the whole night, which was what I fancied about. He then helped me in my neoprene sleepsack, which has internal arm sleeves, so once he had fitted me into it and zipped the zipper shut I could not move either arms or legs. Only my head was sticking out of the body of slick black neoprene and I hoped that this soft fabric could help me withstand the squeezes which were to come.

I had always liked to be enclosed in a sleepsack, especially the neoprene version, for I enjoyed the overall compression of my whole body. Though some times I have wondered whether a sleepsack was a friend or a foe. For while on one side a sleepsack feels like a friend which protects your body from everything outside the sleepsack, on the other side you are totally dependant on what the outside guy could think of doing to you. Sure you need to have trust in the outside guy when you are sleepsacked by him, and I felt certain that I could have trust in my opponent, as we had agreed that his session with me should be safe and sane - and hopefully also fun, like I always say. Indeed it was cosy being enclosed in the warm sleepsack, and I had a feeling that I sometimes fell asleep. But whether this simply was because of the late time, when I normally would be sleeping in my bed, or it was from my opponent squeezing so hard that he had given me a sleeper I can't say.

I have never tapped out from a simple headscissor, and also this time I was unable to tap out because my hands and arms were immobile in the sleepsack. As it had been planned my head was just a toy for him to play with, though I had expected that I could communicate with him by calling a stop if needed. But his scissor was so powerful that they closed my airways so I also was unable to call a stop. I have always liked the feeling of massive muscular masculine legs, and these were perfect suited to do a good job on me. Luckily he squeezed in pulses of maybe half a minute, and this gave me a chance to recover before his next squeeze.

Apparantly my body had other ways of communicating than tapping out or calling a stop, for after maybe an hour with constant pulses of squeezes I got sick and had to vomit! I had never vomited because of neither bondage nor wrestling, but it seemed that his legscissors was more than my body could take. All sweaty I was taken out of the warm sleepsack and left to recover for a while on his bed.

As always it had been a good feeling to spend some time in my neoprene sleepsack, but whether it this time had been a friend or foe I was not certain. Possibly a friend, for even after I had vomited it had kept me warm and cosy and not freezing from cold sweat. But I am probably not going to use my sleepsack for wrestling again some other time, but keep it for bondage.

It could not come as a surprise for me that I also was to start the year of 2018 with a month with no wrestling matches. For with January as the first month I knew that I would have no money to travel for wrestling, so I could only have a faint hope that there could be other wrestlers visiting Denmark. But at least I had budgetted with a visit to Berlin in February instead.

However, I could have wrestled in January if I had had the money for traveling, because in mid-January I got a message from a guy, Michi, in Remscheid, who very much would like to wrestle me. Apparantly we had a mutual friend in Sperling from Berlin, and here he had seen pictures of us wrestling, and he had felt so attracted by my hairy body that he immediately would like to wrestle me. But as said, I had no money for traveling that month, so if we were to wrestle it would have to wait until February, where I would be going to Germany anyway.

Approaching the travel date it appeared that he also was in contact with g6fighter in Düsseldorf, and from then on everything went more smooth. For then I could not only wrestle Michi but also g6fighter, a guy I had wrestled when in 2016 he had visited Copenhagen. Furthermore I could also stay the night at his place so I also could see a bit of Düsseldorf after our wrestle and return to Berlin the following morning for more wrestling there.

I had kleiner kerl as good friend in Berlin, and with him I not only could stay the nights, but him being a wrestler himself I would be sure that I also got to wrestle. So I had the long travel to Berlin on Thursday and early the next morning I took the morning train to Düsseldorf so I could have almost a full day there wrestling Michi and g6fighter.

I was happy that I this way got to wrestle g6fighter again, even though I knew that I would not have many chances with this strong guy. For he had started wrestling while in the military and in the meantime wrestled close to 300 guys. But I knew from our previous match that he was safe and sane and wrestling him had always been fun. Although I knew that he always got what he wanted - the only question would be when.

In the first round I was able to remain on top of him for maybe half a minute, but then he flipped me over and before I knew it he was on top of me, and not as easily flipped. I was able to outbalance him a few times, but before I could make use of this situation he had all my body under his control - and after a few minutes I tapped out to save energy for the next round. In this I managed to stay on top for a bit longer, but in the end it was the same. From my heavy breathing I could clearly feel that I was rather unfit, which I mostly am after a long winter with little outdoor activity.

After a break Michi was my next opponent. I have mostly fought other MeetFighters members and then always had read their profiles so I would know what to expect. But Michi was not on MeetFighters and I knew nothing about him, except for his stats which he had emailed me: 14 cm shorter than me, 12 kgs lighter and with the age of 24, which was 30 years younger than me. And a muscular build, which I could see myself when he stood in front of me in his speedos.

Only a few times before I had fought such young guy, and most times the result had been the same, for these young guys can be very agile and turn the tables in any second. Only rarely a young opponent had been out of shape because of lack of training - but Michi surely looked well-trained to me. I could only hope that the little experience I had would be enough and that he would be content with his body contact with my hairy body. Wrong! He indeed liked to have contact with my hairy body - but only once he had got that body down on the mat and unable to move much - in which situation g6fighter also joined the fight, for he also was keen on hairy bodies. And then the fight turned erotic as Michi had planned, now they had the hairy body to play with. Michi was to leave for work at 2 pm, so he went for a shower while I relaxed on the mat after having had the first matches this year.

On Saturday I returned to Berlin where I could have my usual wrestling session with kleiner kerl. When in Berlin I usually also wrestle Sperling, the guy who had inspired Michi to invite me to Düsseldorf for wrestling, but this time I had not planned to wrestle Sperling or any other Berlin guy, except for kleiner kerl. Kleiner kerl had his own in-house mats and I obviously left it to him to decide who should get to his apartment for wrestling. This time he had planned with berlinfunfighter that he could come by for wrestling on Sunday. So it appeared to become a normal Berlin visit for me.

berlinfunfighter arrived as planned on Sunday afternoon, and kleiner kerl started wrestling him in a naked match. Personally I am not much for naked wrestling, but I accept that other guys can have other opinions about that, as long as I can wrestle in my leotards or singlets. This I could do when I came next for wrestling berlinfunfighter. I had also wrestled him half a year earlier, and at that time our fight had been deemed unsettled. So how was it going to turn out this time? With a weight of 100 kgs berlinfunfighter was a bit heavier than me, but not much. Still it didn't take long before we both were down in a ground fight. I usually think that I am best in ground fight, so I should only flip this guy over so I could get on top of him. I did get a good hold of his leg and was about to get him in a leg split but then were to stop for technical reasons!

The afternoon developed into a small tournament for three. Next I was to wrestle kleiner kerl, which became a rather short match. In general I am quite level with kleiner kerl when it came to who of us being the stronger, though kleiner kerl often wins the first match when I am tired after the long journey to Berlin. But this time my travel to Berlin was several days ago and kleiner kerl had had several days of rest, so supposedly our match would be quite even. So I made use of my weight advantage to keep him down so he had to tap out after only a few minutes. I normally don't do this on kleiner kerl as I don't see that as very fair for him, but I was still a bit tired after the match with berlinfunfighter, and I felt sure that we were going to have one more round that afternoon.

berlinfunfighter then had another session with kleiner kerl, again a naked one, and then I was to have the last session with berlinfunfighter. This time he stayed on top of me no matter how hard I tried to flip him off. So after a while I decided that it would be in vain to continue, maybe because I was still unfit towards the end of the winter. So maybe the general outcome of today's fights with berlinfunfighter could be deemed unsettled again. berlinfunfighter and kleiner kerl finished that day's wrestling with an arm wrestling match and then berlinfunfighter went for the shower.

For Monday I had planned a bondage session with a non-wrestling friend near Tempelhof, and afterwards I did not have to return to kleiner kerl, for he had already lined up the next wrestling match. Inviting host was this time Kuschelringer, and much to my surprise berlinfunfighter also turned up here again. But since the three of us already had shed plenty of sweat the day before it was obvious that it now was Kuschelringer, who was to decide what would happen. And indeed he made sure that all of us were to wrestle the three other guys. Of course I was most interested in wrestling the man himself, for I had not wrestled him since 2016. We had about the same stats, so I had to work hard in trying to keep him under control - but he did the same, and it ended in a very sweaty match - just like last time. But I knew that he liked the body contact and developing a good sweat with his opponent - and he was not a guy to give in, which is why our fight last time ended unsettled - and maybe also did this time. Wrestling at Kuschelringer's place we had to do with his mattress, and this was too small for me for comfort. So most of the rounds ended with me half down on the floor. Then better kleiner kerl's jigsaw mats.

In total I had wrestled five guys this extended weekend, and for a first wrestling weekend this year this was more than I could have hoped for. Sure I could look forward to more wrestling this year, and I had previously planned that I could go to UK next month. But this is probably not going to work, for the guy who had invited me over is no longer out for a meeting. So probably next wrestling session might be a headscissor session in Sweden next month.

Time for my half-yearly visit to Dresden, where I six months before had wrestled my heaviest opponent so far, the 132 kg horti. A match which didn't give me much chance, for he just laid down on top of me so I could hardly move, not to mention wrestle. With my opponent this time I expected to have a better chance, for Bennyfighter weighed only half of what horti did and I was also taller than him. But he was almost twenty years younger than me and therefore I could expect a rather intense fight, as with his youth he surely would be faster than me.

Still I was both larger and heavier than my opponent, so if I opened the match the way I had done since I last month had been told by my friend in Berlin that I should be more aggressive, I expected that I still would have a chance.

It also worked quite good from the start, but Bennyfighter was not as compliant as my previous opponent had been. So even though we had a relatively even match in the beginning he soon saw the opportunity to gain control of my body and I found myself trapped between his legs. Probably because of my limited experience. Bennyfighter had about the same number of opponents as I had, but I felt sure that he likely had had more challenging opponents than me.

Before our fight I had read his recommandations, and there were several of his past opponents who had warned future opponents about his leg scissors being very powerful. However, I have always liked to see and to feel some good muscular masculine legs, so I only took a note of these warnings, and saw it more as a challenge for me. For I had always had some good legs myself, and actually I was looking forward to having a leg scissor fight with him.

My God! how he had strong legs, like steel cables wrapping my body. I managed to get free a few times, but every time he swiftly moved around to attack me from another side, without giving me a chance to prepare for my next move. I have never had problems with being bodyscissored, but this guy went more for the head. And not just by a standard scissor, but clearly he knew how to apply a Figure4! I have previously read about that hold, but never experienced it on my own body! But Bennyfighter knew how to apply it. He told me that he had started to wrestle at the age of 18, so he had four times more experience than I had.

There was no way I could break free from his Figure4, and he amused himself by keeping me in this hold. With the pressure he made on my throat with his legs I could hardly speak, but so could he. His Figure4 had really surprised me, and he told me that he had felt needed to learn this hold to have a viable defense to his other opponents which always had been heavier than him. And told me that there was no way of breaking free from a Figure4 - which I believed. Whenever I tried he just increased the pressure, and he was very close to knock me out when everything went black. I just managed to tap out while I still was conscious to do so. That this can be achieved simply by the use of the legs was really a surprise to me.

Saved by a bell - suddenly his mobile phone rang and it was time for him to proceed to his next meeting. He was working from home, and he had only had these two hours' time between two of his meetings. On the other hand I would not be sure that my body could take wrestling him any more today. Though I hope that I can wrestle him again some other time - maybe he can teach me how to apply this Figure4. Going from a standard leg scissor to a Figure4 felt like moving from the Stone Age to modern technology. And the nausea I felt after our match lingered on the next days, so I better had to postpone my planned dinner appointment that evening.

Now I can look back on a year with good wrestles and hope I can continue that in 2018. Though I have no wrestling planned for January yet, so time will tell if I also am to start the next year with a month of no wrestles. If not I can only hope that there will be more wrestlers coming to Copenhagen this January.