A Newbie's Perspective: The Dummy Cycle

When I first started coming to Beat the Street practices I was pretty much a dummy for the experienced wrestlers, and I bet at one point everyone was. But recently something changed, I met a couple of guys who started wrestling around the same time I did but took a couple of months off. You can already see where this is going, they're now my dummys. Did a snap, they dun nearly fell to the ground, pulled down on their neck, fell to the ground. Now I know I'm tooting my horn so.

I'll get straight to the point, for you new wrestlers out there, it'll get better. Everyone starts out as a dummy for another person, eventually that person gets a dummy. Believe it or not, Coach Carlos, a behemoth of a wrestler, started out as a dummy for four weight categories. Imagine that, getting your ass kicked by the same seven guys every day. 

Now you're probably saying, "David that's bull, there are no new guys at my gym." And to that I say, there doesn't have to be new guys, Coach Carlos wrestled the same seven guys for years and he beat them one by one from the 57kg to the 86kg category.  You just gotta do some suffering before you get the beat on somebody. Hell, if I didn't get my ass kicked for five months by the guys and gals of Team Xtreme, don't think I would've been able to defeat those guys. And as long as wrestling isn't boycotted, there's always going to be new guys.