IN FUNK’s CORNER: WHY SAFETY IN PRO WRESTLING??
- 10/28/2005 (8:18:04 am)
- Press Release
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In Funk's Cornerwww.dory-funk.com
Over the years, football and boxing have worked hard to overcome injury
and even death in their respective contact sports. Even ultimate
fighting, even though they have been recently panned as a violent sport
works hard at protecting their athletes when they are at risk of injury.
In pro-wrestling there is a certain badge of honor if we do the extreme
and dangerous maneuvers.
If you are really pro, know what you are doing and and have calculated
the risk reward, maybe it is okay, however there is a certain
responsibility shared even by the promotion if they are informed and
allow the risk. (Mick Foley off the cage through a table and Kurt Angle
with a moonsault off the top of the cage come to mind.) They were
calculated risks done by professionals that paid off for the talent and
the promotion even though very risky.
There is another safety factor and that is the execution of the standard
basic moves of professional wrestling. When we were children, very
young, much smaller and with much more supple bodies, we could practice
wrestling on our parent's bed when they were gone or in the living
room, furniture included and through all the various wrestling holds we
emulated as kids we still didn't get seriously hurt.
As mature athletes 18 and up we become much bigger and much more prone
to injury. As professional athletes there are ways to perform each
maneuver properly to insure maximum safety.
There is a proper way to perform every maneuver we do in professional
wrestling. Any move done carelessly can result in injury causing loss of
time and money for the wrestler and the promotion.
There is a proper and safe way to perform a headlock, arm drag,
dropkick, body slam, suplex, brainbuster, hit someone with a chair,
moonsault, shooting star press, slam through a table and a choke slam
through a cage or a moonsault from the top of a cage.
To perform all of these maneuvers from the basics on takes training.
Training in the safety of professional wrestling.
Dory Funk Jr.
www.dory-funk.com
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