[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MdAGqQi96I&w=420&h=315] At wrestling this evening, we worked on shooting for a double leg (a classic) and shooting a high crotch. A high crotch essentially involves going for a double leg takedown, with your head on your opponent's hip, but shooting your a...
Continue reading ...Last Monday and tonight make it three weeks back at boxing training for me, and I'm starting to get my eye in a little. There are a few old habits, however, that refuse to die. I blame them on wrestling. In wrestling, I stay low and circle my opponent, looking for a moment to catch him off guard ...
Continue reading ...After boxing on Monday night, I decided to spend Tuesday freestyle wrestling at Genesis Gym in Marlow. Although they have had their wrestling class running since early in the year, I haven't been able to attend very often because the class has been on a Friday night. Now, however, it has been move...
Continue reading ...
Tonight, for the first time in his decade-long "career" (or "existence" as it should be known), Murorga Sim Bowa has won a GENUINE title! He is now the Entertainment Wrestling Association (EWA) British Champion, having defeated both former champion Dave Maddox and last minute challenger, Xander Coop...
Continue reading ......and by "enough", I actually mean "not enough". I have come to the realisation that, through a combination of eating atrociously, drinking far too much, doing a very stressful self-employed job AND suffering grave vehicular-related misfortunes on a daily basis, I have fallen from shape. Now, i...
Continue reading ...For those of you that missed it, here is a collection of clips from Murorga Sim Bowa's return to glory at EWA Revenge.That's right, not only did he compete without killing himself or eating anybody, he actually WON the match, using his patented DOOMBUTT!! Seriously, check it out: [youtube http://...
Continue reading ...
Local people of High Wycombe and the surrounding area, please pay attention! This Saturday (2nd of June) will see the proper return to power of Murorga Sim Bowa - wrestling's most baffling combination of super heroics and unbridled rage, at EWA Revenge. Staring at 18:30 at Wycombe Judo centre,...
Continue reading ...[caption id="attachment_830" align="alignleft" width="295" caption="Photo by the brilliant J.Gardner"][/caption] It's just gone midnight and I've just finished my forth, three-hour wrestling training session in the last seven days. I'm about to set foot on an hour long tube to my car, so I can dri...
Continue reading ...
A month ago, I declared that I had returned to entertainment wrestling. Well, here are my first few minutes back in the ring! [youtube height="360" width="640"]www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4882doAU_g[/youtube] Or here, from a different camera angle: [youtube height="360" width="640"]www.youtube...
Continue reading ...I was born in High Wycombe. I grew up in High Wycombe. Between 2005 and 2009 I lived away, then I came back. Not through choice, I should add. All my life, I've known about Wycombe Judo Centre. When I was a tiny child, my mum took me there to learn gymnastics. (For those who are interested, I ...
Continue reading ...One of my many New Year's resolutions is to become schooled in the art of combat. To achieve this, I have decided to start attending London Shootfighters - a fantastic gym and MMA school in West London - with my friend and lifting nemesis, Simon Lowe (aka Grand Vizier of Murderbeers) Last nigh...
Continue reading ...
This evening, I turned up at wrestling, only to discover a competition in full swing! Paris vs South England! Although I agree to fight (I don't know who was more surprised, me or the coach!), it turned out there was nobody of my weight available.) Interestingly, my first ever competition was ...
Continue reading ...Having been suffering from a horrible cold/chest-problem-type-thing, I was surprised to find it cured, by an extended period of running, jumping, rolling and wrestling! Here you see some evidence, in the form of training footage from Slough Freestyle Wrestling Club, where I am training for 1/30th...
Continue reading ...Tonight, after six years away, I returned to my old wrestling club. Having fond memories of my time at Slough Freestyle Wrestling Club, I was amazed and overjoyed to find the same coach there, who was just as welcoming as he had always been. His son, who was hip-high last time I saw him, is now ra...
Continue reading ...