For the benefit of the members there is a full description of all the Ad codes on thsi and the following web pages. These were descriptions are taken from the �Grapevine�s predecessor �Alternative Wrestler�
This suggests that you have somewhere to do your wrestling not necessarily in your home. It may be somewhere local, possibly very private, even a sports centre where you can hire a room for a few hours. Disused warehouses even, for industrious wrestlers.
B Need a Place to Fight
The opposite of A of course. Many people take this to mean that they cannot provide a facility at their home. However, if you are imaginative then you will probably be able to identify a place near where you stay or within reasonable travelling distance.
C Experienced
You have already had considerable experience of wrestling and know reasonably what you are doing. You Should be able to use a decent range of wrestling throws and moves and be aware of the dangers inherent in the sport. You should be able to pass on your knowledge.
D Inexperienced
You are an absolute beginner or only recently started actually wrestling. However this condition will be short term if you get in a reasonable amount of wrestling. Experience usually comes quickly once you start wrestling at a practical level. It will be worth your while joining a wrestling club if there is one local to you. If not there are probably judo and ju-jisu clubs which will probably be a value to an aspiring wrestler, particularly if you enjoy the submission style. Not all wrestlers enjoy the restrictive free style of wrestling or the children who seem to dominate these clubs.
E Gives Instruction
This rather goes hand in hand with being experienced. If you can pass your experience on then, there are many guys out there who will gladly listen to you and take lessons. Make sure your instruction is based on a sound theoretical as well as a practical understanding of wrestling. There have been a number of guys in the past whose understanding of wrestling was purely book based.
F Needs Instruction
Don�t let lack of wrestling knowledge be a barrier to your participation. You have to start somewhere of course and if you are desperate, there is no harm in two guys new to the sport getting hold of a good book on wrestling and trying the holds out between them. Just be careful how to go and do nothing dangerous until you have many hours of mat time under your trunks. As in being inexperienced, this need for instruction can be satisfied, by joining a wrestling or martial arts club that has a strong ground fighting or wrestling component.
Be careful though of using pro-wrestling videos as your source of instruction, as some of the moves can cause serious injury if you try them out on your friend. Professional wrestling is a training course of its own which requires a great deal of skill and understanding.
G Private Fights
You are only interested in one to one, maybe a little tag in a private setting without an audience or group of other wrestlers.
H Public Fights
The opposite of G. You�re not too concerned about wrestling in front of an audience or group of other wrestlers.
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