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My Christmas with Karl

I do not really like talking too much about myself, but if you're reading this, you probably know that I live, eat, breathing and wrestling. I tried to experience everything from folkstyle false things.

I just wanted to share with you how cool it has been spending a few days with my friend Karl Gotch, while here in Tampa over the holidays. At 81 years young, believe me, Karl still can paralyze …

In the last year and a half, I have spoken with Karl on the phone a few times each week, picking his brain about this and that about grappling. But this was the first time you actually going to happen face to face with the man time.

I stopped in my rented Chevy Geriatric (the name I gave my less than cool to rent a car) to his apartment and rang the doorbell. Karl responded with his costume next year and a big smile.

He greeted me with a sincere "Jacob!" and led me inside. I poured a glass of red wine gave me a cigarette and invited me to his outdoor patio smoking when we talk about wrestling over an hour and a half.

Towards the end of our cigars and wine, and after a few laughs, Karl looked at me very seriously.

"Jesus," he said. "Look at your neck. You look like one of the boys who were in the camp with me during the Second World War. You have these big muscles everywhere but his neck looks like a tube of God Dammit cleaner! You come all that far from California, you have to let this old show you a thing or two! "

To be honest, after smoking an enormous cigar and drinking a glass of wine on an empty stomach last thing I wanted was one of the brutal practice of Karl. Luckily I had been doing and many of the exercises shown in preparation for Combat Sports DVD independently.

Now, I've been fighting in one form or another since I was 4 years old, but I have always struggled to develop my neck since I had radiation and chemo-therapy on my neck when I was 16 years old. In fact, my neck was broken in 1992 during a party filing a challenge with college wrestler than me by about 50 pounds (thank God my judo coach, Former Senior National Champion Bernd Busch, was a chiropractor stellar).

Well faster than you can say "Great Gama" Carlos had me turning the Indian Club (no easy task since each weighing 10 kilos each)! Then went inside to work on some Hindu push-ups and push-ups crescent.

I think she was surprised when I fell on the bridge of a wrestler standing. However, I was even more surprised when I learned more kicking coach Bridge fighter. That was something that was never able to do before he gave me some clues. He said: "Well, a lot fast, you really only need work in that neck "

I was doing a head stand, shaking his head forward and backward, sideways and in circles coming!

After some more exercises Karl was kind enough to show some restraint feet, twisted leg-scissors, some hooks thumb, to carry downs, etc. It was quite slippery!

The next day, Karl is going to run me through the Gotch-Bible. I'll tell you more about that later …

… The second day of Karl was fun. We went to a steakhouse and had some ribs. Both eyes increasingly one another "big bones" customers were seated around us. They sure could benefit from some fifteen minutes of squats bridge.

Anyway, we finished and talked a little more about history. He was particularly interested in talking about the DVD sent to him called Catch: The Not hold Tomada. While he enjoyed the pictures and address of a fine, felt that his criticism was that no respect was given to the capture of America-As-Catch-Can style.

'United States had the best of men in the world, everyone knew it. Perhaps now, some of the veterans say this and that, but believe me, I have nothing to gain by saying this. I'm just an old man and I probably will not make friends, but it was always the way. "

"I remember the old Riley came to the United States to fight once. Well, I must have ripped a new asshole because back to Wigan before moving ever! The ever talked about it after his return. "

"Back then took a boat to America, not a plane. It took about 8 or 9 days there and about 8 or 9 again. He was back in to send Wigan As it landed. "

"Of course it's because America had all the best to catch men. Men like Frank Wolf, Fred Grubmeier, John Pesek, Ad Santel, Toots Mondt, and Grandaddy of them all, Stangl Lewis. "

"Seeing the movie there, I could not believe the American amateur Dan Gable did not even know the history of their own sport! "

"Lancashire came to the U.S. style. Everyone around the world, opened a bit of each of their countries to form the capture of America-As-Catch-Can style. The American style was unbeatable by anyone on the planet. "

"Then the Americans, when they went to Europe, everyone went to Paris. London No no, Prague, Frankfurt. The Americans all wanted to go to the City of Light. "

"That's why the French had so much catch-as-catch-Can wrestling at that time. FILA When we started, they had three styles, freestyle, greco, and the amateur catch-as-catch can. "

"Robert Arneaut (sp?) They had a good school. I was a student, a guy named LeDuke, which was good too. Although he had been out of mouthing that he had taught him a lesson old Ben Sherman. "

"Well, he never did, and when Ben came to his gym in search of fighting, and he left before Benny could even tie their shoes. He went so fast that left your street clothes behind! "

"What was also amazing was that there was virtually no mention of man with gun Riley, Joe Robinson. "

"Old Joe Robby liked me and showed me the ropes. It was the best one no, Riley. Riley was a businessman. Now Riley could fight but was by no means the best there. "

"There was also no mention of the man who taught Riley, Irish Pops Charnock. It was a real hard bastard …."

Karl and I talked for the rest of the afternoon and enjoyed a cigar.

I spent Christmas Day with the family eating and glad to be. The day after Christmas there was an overtime, so that the head of Karl.

Well, this time, when I called, all I heard was a severe "Enter." There sat at her desk with a deck of cards. I knew I was in the Gotch Bible.

Here's how do, shuffle a full deck (Jokers included) of cards. Every time you try a black card, you have to do twice the amount of the nominal value. This mean, you get a black 8, you do 16. You get a black Ace, you do 22 squats. Spades are regular squats Indian clubs are squat jump.

Each time it receives a red card, do push-ups. This time he does the real value of the card face. You get 8 red, makes 8. You get a Red Ace, makes 11 push-ups. Diamonds are regular Hindu push-ups, hearts 1 / 2 Moon push-ups (do not know what this is? Get Karl To combat sports conditioning DVD, dumkoff! (As he called me several times))

Well, I had 8 cards left and I could not do more. My legs just would not go. I was huffing and puffing harder than ever I have on tape. Ask anyone who knows me, I'm fit. Well, it kicked my ass.

"I used to do this twice," said Karl, that is, would go through the deck once, then back again. Now wonder I was a terror on the mat. He always has gas in the tank.

In the first part of "My Christmas with Karl" I told you that at age 81, Karl can still stop. It is true, I can not walk a flight of stairs today …

Well at least I know my New Year resolution for 2006, read Bible heheh go back twice, Gotcha.

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