Post by Old Line Jeff on Mar 1, 2021 6:11:43 GMT -5
Jeff Andrews was trained by a luchador named Cito Conarri. Cito was a third generation wrestler who suffered a severe neck injury and shifted over into coaching. Jeff believed heavily in Cito’s training philosophy - to expose new wrestlers to a wide variety of wrestling styles, and then train them based around which styles they showed aptitude for. Back then Jeff Andrews was a luchador himself, but then, back then being six foot two and two hundred twentyish pounds counted as being small. As a secondary thing, he’d practiced karate as a kid and worked assorted martial arts kicks into his luchadoring.
That being said, Jeff Andrews did get his grappling experience.
He got it by being for years Heidi Christenson’s favorite sparring partner.
In the early 2000s Heidi just had a background in Brazillian jujitsu - she’d been a blue belt at the time she switched over to pro wrestling. She spent the next half decade combining that jujitsu with the traditional Mexican grappling style, Llave, until she’d developed a mat grappling style entirely her own that was as unique as it was dreaded by everyone who had to get in the ring with her. During her admittedly numerous stints away from pro wrestling she’d bounced around various legitimate martial arts dojos and wrestling schools, always on the lookout for the next new trick.
And before she tried that trick in the ring, she practiced it on Jeff Andrews.
And by the time he and Heidi split up for good in 2014, Jeff Andrews had developed a well above average mat game merely by osmosis.
Of course, when you’re 272 pounds of chemical-enhanced surlitude, you haven’t got the patience for mat grappling, and when you can smash open a watermelon with an open hand slap you don’t really need mat grappling too often. This does not change the fact that Jeff Andrews knows about grappling, is respectful of anyone who actually gets good at it, and knows that The New Untouchables don’t have much of a background in any form of it and really need some.
He looks out over the training mat.
Jeffrey Daniels and Lee Scott Rothlesberger need a LOT of help with their grappling game.
Daniels is partnered with Kirsty McKinney and he feels the need to freeze and apologize every time he touches her leg, no matter how many times she ignores the apology and plants his shoulders on the mat.
LSR has a chronic case of “hang on a minute let me try something.” He’s a long, long way away from the point where he has any business ‘trying something’ when someone is attempting to instruct him. The guy instructing him - the instructor’s name is Ike Stevenson, just for the record - is nearing exasperation. His grappling partner, who is too unimportant to name, is way past that point.
“I wonder how Leon Van Zandt is going to feel about those two. I can’t help but think he’d actually get along with Kirsty.”
“If he gets along with her, that would make two and a half people total that she gets along with.” Cole Christenson was dour. “I’m worried about her attitude causing her to burn out before she gets anywhere.”
“Yeah, right now, I’m more worried about our doods. LVZ seems alright, he’s just a plain talking unpretentious guy, the kind that doesn’t irritate me by existing, but he’s more of a fish out of water than Kirsty is.”
“Sounds to me like you need to be talking to Van Zant yourself.”
“Yeah… figure out what book he’s playing from and then try to get the New UTs onto the same page. Mind you, I’m pretty sure the dude’s good enough on the mat he’d give your sister a difficult time.”
That being said, Jeff Andrews did get his grappling experience.
He got it by being for years Heidi Christenson’s favorite sparring partner.
In the early 2000s Heidi just had a background in Brazillian jujitsu - she’d been a blue belt at the time she switched over to pro wrestling. She spent the next half decade combining that jujitsu with the traditional Mexican grappling style, Llave, until she’d developed a mat grappling style entirely her own that was as unique as it was dreaded by everyone who had to get in the ring with her. During her admittedly numerous stints away from pro wrestling she’d bounced around various legitimate martial arts dojos and wrestling schools, always on the lookout for the next new trick.
And before she tried that trick in the ring, she practiced it on Jeff Andrews.
And by the time he and Heidi split up for good in 2014, Jeff Andrews had developed a well above average mat game merely by osmosis.
Of course, when you’re 272 pounds of chemical-enhanced surlitude, you haven’t got the patience for mat grappling, and when you can smash open a watermelon with an open hand slap you don’t really need mat grappling too often. This does not change the fact that Jeff Andrews knows about grappling, is respectful of anyone who actually gets good at it, and knows that The New Untouchables don’t have much of a background in any form of it and really need some.
He looks out over the training mat.
Jeffrey Daniels and Lee Scott Rothlesberger need a LOT of help with their grappling game.
Daniels is partnered with Kirsty McKinney and he feels the need to freeze and apologize every time he touches her leg, no matter how many times she ignores the apology and plants his shoulders on the mat.
LSR has a chronic case of “hang on a minute let me try something.” He’s a long, long way away from the point where he has any business ‘trying something’ when someone is attempting to instruct him. The guy instructing him - the instructor’s name is Ike Stevenson, just for the record - is nearing exasperation. His grappling partner, who is too unimportant to name, is way past that point.
“I wonder how Leon Van Zandt is going to feel about those two. I can’t help but think he’d actually get along with Kirsty.”
“If he gets along with her, that would make two and a half people total that she gets along with.” Cole Christenson was dour. “I’m worried about her attitude causing her to burn out before she gets anywhere.”
“Yeah, right now, I’m more worried about our doods. LVZ seems alright, he’s just a plain talking unpretentious guy, the kind that doesn’t irritate me by existing, but he’s more of a fish out of water than Kirsty is.”
“Sounds to me like you need to be talking to Van Zant yourself.”
“Yeah… figure out what book he’s playing from and then try to get the New UTs onto the same page. Mind you, I’m pretty sure the dude’s good enough on the mat he’d give your sister a difficult time.”
“Quite possibly. I’ve never seen him roundhouse kick his way out of trouble.”
Authors note: I know this RP is posted late and can't be counted for much. It's 75% of an RP I started a week ago, wasn't quite happy with, and put on hold before losing track of the time.