Once what was so clear is now a heavy fog before me. Once the path
seemed so obvious, now there is no path - just haze and confusion. Once within
my grasp, now I reach out to emptiness and black. I could once see, but as the
mist falls around me I am left lost and blind.
That’s right blog fans, I’ve had to have laser eye surgery…….for the
second time! Stupid eyes! Do they not know I’m meant to be making a huge wrestling
comeback soon?! Well it turns out, no they do not! In fact I’ve been told I can’t
wrestle for a month. Worst start to a comeback ever! To make matters worse I
have recently had my follow up appointment and one of my eyes hasn’t healed properly
and at risk of infection. Stupid stupid eyes!
Now before you start jumping on the feel sorry for JC Wagon, I must
advise that I originally received laser eye surgery earlier in the year by my
own choice and is for all sense and purposes a purely cosmetic procedure to
avoid me having to wear glasses/contact lens anymore. I could only afford this
because I was off working that highly paid job in the Caribbean I kept going on
about (hey is anyone still on this wagon?). Unfortunately for me, however, it
didn’t work as well as it should have and I’ve had to have a slight adjustment.
Despite this minor delay, things have been going well. Here’s a
quick run down of what was going on prior to my eye surgery. I just hope that
these fuzzy squiggles on my computer screen equal a coherent blog post.
Pump it up
I’ve found an awesome gym near where I’m staying that you only need
to pay tree fiddy (that’s £3.50 if you don’t watch Southpark) for a workout.
It’s run by an ex body builder and has big heavy bulldozers of men throwing
iron all over the place. Exactly the sort of gym and atmosphere I wanted.
My workouts currently consist of two sections; heavy compound
lifting exercises to get me big and strong again and then I spend quite a bit
of time doing flexibility and wrestling specific exercises (such as bridging –
a bit like the gymnastics style crab to you non wrestling folks).
This flexibility and mobility stuff I criminally ignored back in the
day, but it is so important if I want to be able to wrestle well. As a result of
how I used to train I’m finding my strength and size is coming back quite
easily, but it may take a little time before I’m doing Stretch Punches like Dhalsim
from Street Fighter.
Enter Parisio Palace
I have at least managed to attend a few wrestling sessions before I
got lasered. A wrestler I started out with years ago, whose stage name is Paul
‘the Poison’ Parisio, now runs a wrestling school by the name of Grapple in
Leeds.
Paul has a good
understanding of the older British technical style of wrestling. For those of you don’t
know, technical wrestling focuses on applying locks, holds and submissions to
an opponent and reversals to the same. If any of you readers watched British
wrestling back in the day a man like Johnny Saint is considered a good
technical wrestler, a man like Big Daddy – not so much (but the Queen liked him
so that’s ok).
If I’m going to make it in any shape or form at wrestling I should
be good at my National style of wrestling. It is part of where I am from and I
should know how to do it well. I was not a bad technical wrestler as such, but it was
generally my character and story telling that got me noticed in the past (those
things are extremely important too by the way as will become evident in future
blog posts I’m sure). As I attempt to re-build the house that is known as JC
Thunder a bit of work is needed on the foundations first.
Ginger Beard Man
I’ve grown a beard! A glorious ginger beard (well more extended
stubble if I’m honest) that makes my head hair look platinum blond in
comparison! You might be asking how this helps me be a better wrestler. Well it
definitely makes me look more rough and ready. Secondly facial hair does seem
incredibly fashionable at the moment (I can here you laughing by the way – but this
stuff is important to someone wanting to make money from the entertainment
business!). Finally and perhaps most importantly it is really really cold in
England! This thing at least keeps my face warm!
Get a job you bum!
Ok I’ll try to keep this short as it goes against the whole ethos of
this blog! On one hand, I am following my dream and transforming from a mild
mannered accountant to a dynamic real life action hero by the name of JC
Thunder. On the other hand I am a 30-year-old unemployed man living with his mum and step dad who seems to be too lazy to shave!
Initially I am going to need a source of income to support my wrestling
habit and I should probably find a place of my own to live too! In my defence I
have only been staying here two weeks and the way things are going both these
issues should be resolved soon.
Right that’s enough about silly normal life chat, now let's all have a think
about what colour tights I’m going to wear…….
Final
Thoughts
Annoying about the eye delay. However, it is a very short time in
the grand scheme of things. Furthermore I should be back at the gym soon, which
is really the first step anyway. It’s not the worst thing in the world to focus
on that for a few weeks before I hit the wrestling training hard. I do wonder
what I’m going to write about in the next blog, but that is a challenge I’m
willing to accept! (I promise it won’t be an entire blog about gymnastic style
crabs!)
Right I’m going to have to go, I think that’s Mum calling to tell me
dinner is ready!
Thanks for reading!
JCT
