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My formative experience with pro-wrestling is from the 80's (dating myself…) In that era holds and moves like sleepers, Boston crabs, figure four leg locks, suplexes, powerslams, neckbreakers, and so on… Well every one of those was often a match ender, frequently with the adjective "dreaded" applied before them.

At the same time, women's wrestling was already turning into… Well outside of Japan it was kind of become a joke. An exercise in titillation and a laugh. As for any suspension of disbelief that you were watching a genuine contest? Well forget it…

Part of me wishes I'd been able to see more of the women's wrestling from the 50's and 60's. Like this.

Inspiration taken.

This is a workout. There's no ref but there is a Ladies' agreement (as opposed to Gentleman's) that the goal is not to mess anyone up. Tap outs are recognised and our various slams and throws are all holding back - just a little bit. Teah's high flying style doesn't lend itself well to 90% effort (gravity doesn't know how to back off), so this one is staying well within the four corners and top rope or lower.

Unfortunately for Teah, that means her one potential advantage against Hinako is lost, and it's been showing. Hinako is quite open that she's got something she wants to try out and work on today. After being forced to tap out the third time Teah has a pretty good idea what it is. Looking out for it now, Teah is aware of and on high alert for Hianko's (dreaded) cobra clutch attempts.

Alas, alertness and preparedness doesn't seem to be making much of a difference. Sometimes she even sees it when it's coming…

Does not seem to be making much of a difference alas…

Teah has lost count. The number of times she's be caught like this now is easily up in the double digits. She can't figure out how to see it coming reliably. Whether she sees it coming or not she can't figure out how to block it. And once she's caught?

Teah knows that Hinako isn't cranking down 100%. She tried to fight it twice and went to sleep. The other times she tapped out. The frustration is getting pretty real, and she's really asking herself if she's willing to tap again.

When Teah wakes up Hianko thanks her for the workout, but reckons that's enough for both of them today.

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #sleeper hold #cobra clutch

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Gwen is used to overpowering her opponents, either out brawling them, picking them up and smashing them into the mats repeatedly, or just grabbing hold and hitting the squeeze until the submission pops out (or their lights - Gwen isn't choosy).

Trying to out brawl Lucy is an interesting strategic choice. In addition to a chin of stone Lucy has a brick at the end of each arm when she throws a punch. The high school state wrestler knows how to bounce off the ground, and she also knows how to bounce her her opponent. And as for that squeeze?

Gwen gets close with the bear hug. Lucy is obviously in trouble and is struggling for the angle that would enable her to throw an elbow or punch to the side or top of Gwen's head with enough force to break the hold. In the end, almost desperately, Lucy pushes herself even higher in Gwen's embrace, to the point that the Crusher can lift her legs and cross her ankles around Gwen's ribcage. Awesome though Gwen's bear hug may be, under a level of pressure that will make her own ribcage separate she has to let go. Fortunately the spine buster she uses to plant Lucy on her back breaks the scissor hold also.

Back to work, the match has been largely one way since then, but Lucy won't stay down and Gwen is getting gassed. The attempted body splash into the corner misses when Lucy moves out of the way. Staggered and ribcage feeling like it's injured, Gwen wobbles backwards into Lucy's waiting belly to back. Gwen ends up completing the rest of the move into the centre of the ring in the air.

Gwen is injured and dazed, but Lucy is not taking any chances and moves quickly.

Gwen regains her senses very quickly. That's a common side effect of this much pain.

Lucy has escaped Gwen's signature. Gwen does not escape Lucy's.

The bell rings....

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #figure four leglock

[afwfan]

Featuring my muse @bexyfights :)

That is all.

#female wrestling #daz3d #female fighter #bexyfights

[afwfan]

Let’s begin, shall we?

On paper the rules for tonight are quite straight forward. Lilith has been providing entertainment to her audience for some time now and is keenly aware that true success is in the details.

This is a 60-minute ironwoman match, submissions only, and Lilith knows that when she promises this, her audience is expecting a 60-minute match, and if these two women go all out then the first one to lock on may well be the end of the affair where her opponent can’t use her arm or stand unassisted.

No hairpulling. No biting. No gouging. Easy enough?

No kicks, punches, or slaps. No elbows or knees. A cross body off the ropes is ok, but no jumping off the top rope and no drop kicks. Basically, no part of your hands, elbows, knees, shins, or feet can touch your opponent unless they are part of something to hold, squeeze, or twist.

Throws and slams are perfectly ok – but only onto your opponent’s back and only onto the mats. So, no picking someone up and dropping them on your knee, the turnbuckles, or the ropes.

And this is the important part. Yes, it’s expected to be competitive, but… If you know you’ve been caught there’s a hand signal. Touch your opponent twice with a free hand or kick the mat twice with a free foot. Now we work. The wrestler that’s caught needs to let the world know they are suffering. They don’t need to scream; in fact, it’s preferred that they do not – the crowd isn’t that big nor is it that noisy. Just make sure the audience can see your pain, take your time… And then tap out.

“What if she doesn’t know I’ve caught her?”

Then apply more pressure, slowly, until she does. One thing must be perfectly clear – you both need to be professionals and you both need to be smart enough to protect yourselves. And if either of you gets hurt, I’ll be watching. If the person to blame is the one who came on too hard and fast, you’re done here. If the person to blame is the idiot who doesn’t surrender, then it’s on you.

“What about a strangle or choke?”

Lilith pauses for a moment….

You could just follow the same as above, tap twice then sell. You could tap out/surrender properly, or you could even sell going to sleep.

“And if she doesn’t tap twice to begin with?”

Then apply more pressure and if, between the two of you, the decision is that someone is going to tap or go to sleep… Lilith decides she’s ok with that.

It’s almost the full hour now, and the score is tied at three falls apiece. Both women have put on a show and Lilith is happy with the audience engagement and response while trying to figure out how long before she sets up one of these matches again.

The smaller wrestler has deceptive strength and has already lifted and slammed her larger opponent at whim. Both women are near exhaustion, surely the size difference must be a significant advantage by now? Not so much it seems as the larger grappler is lifted off her feet for a hip toss. The smaller wrestler very literally “hops” into the air, twists suddenly, and crashes her opponent flat on their back, coming down on top to crush her ribs into the bigger woman’s solar plexus.

Stunned and gasping for air, it takes a moment for Bexy to get back to her feet. Looking around the spotlights beaming into the centre of the ring make it even harder for her to see her tormentor, and then Bexy realises Teah isn’t to be seen?

That’s because Teah is standing directly behind her…

The sleeper hold is clamped on like nothing less than a lover’s embrace. There’s no pain. Teah’s bicep is squeezing against one side of Bexy’s neck and the flat of her forearm is against the other. The expressions on Bexy’s face convey the rest. Surprise. Concern. Realisation…

Lilith knew that Bexy was both competitive and expecting to win tonight. The draw would have been bad enough, but with the clock ticking down she is moments away from a 4-3 loss. That’s probably why she didn’t tap twice. Teah just squeezed harder.

Lilith is ok with that.

The final bell rings, seconds too late… For Bexy that is.

4-3 for Teah on the night. And the crowd is most impressed indeed.

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #sleeper hold #bexyfights

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Giselle is a new addition, she's be introduced properly soon. As part of switching over to DAZ install manager her character was something I didn't realise I already had (must have gotten it in a bundle and not realised).

Regardless, she's been working at Lilith's all week with great success. The only reason it's not a full week dancing and serving is that the Saturday is another oil wrestling session, but Giselle is excited to be part of that. She wrestled in high-school and has a purple belt in BJJ. It's probably not going to be that much of a challenge, but it should be fun.

The match maker, Lilith, makes a few phone calls, scouts her newest arrival, and finds out about the purple belt.

Corveena it is.

I've said it before, it takes a special kind of something to enjoy losing. But that's grappling. So definitely a challenge, notes taken that when Corveena locks on the body triangle no amount of slippery anything makes it possible to escape, and still a lot of fun.

We'll meet Giselle properly soon...

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #sleeper hold #oil wrestling

[afwfan]

Victory pose

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #victory pose

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You need a certain kind of weird mindset to enjoy Jiu Jitsu I feel. There will be times when you know you have no hope and that you are the one who is going to tap out, but still you're trying desperately to postpone the inevitable. This is extra especially true when you start gassing out. Your opponent doesn't seem to be that much more skilled than you, it may feel like it's less even, but somehow you keep having to use all your strength and energy to escape a disadvantage, only to be swept back to bottom position under their mount or some other bad position before you've had any kind of opportunity to catch your breath or recover, and then dig into those dwindling reserves to try and escape again.

You know that tank is running to empty. You know you need a different plan. You know you can't come up with one. You know what's going to happen. You keep struggling anyway, right up to the point where you tap and don't have enough left to even stand up after that.

You need  weird sort of head to enjoy that sort of thing and want to go back for more of it...

This is a 30 minute match with no breaks between falls. Pamela knows that Candi is more experienced and skilled, so she discretely asks Sandra if there is any advice to be given.

Sandra purses her lips for a moment in thought, then offers this...

"You're heavier than Candi. Every chance you get try and get some kind of top position, anything, and then put all of your weight onto her. Force to work against that while making yourself as heavy as you possibly can on her. She may run out of energy as you keep going.

Advice noted, the match begins. Very quickly it's a sweaty affair, and Candi is up three falls to nil in the first 15 minutes. But after that last fall, Pamela notices that Candi is struggling to gulp air into her lungs. The next fall is 5 minutes later, and this time it's Pamela who scores against an opponent with strength enough to resist about as effectively as the grappling dummy. Falls five and six go the same way and now it's a draw and there's still a couple of minutes left to go.

And now this.

I know what Candi's predicament feels like right now. Running on fumes, it's just a matter of time.

Candi at least manages to make it to the last seconds before she taps, so Pamela only wins this one today four falls to three.

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #choke her #chokehold

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When there's a significant skills gap between two grapplers the better of the two is invariably going to decide how things go.

Does the better grappler want to practise their escapes, or their finishes. The thirty minute video match Kyong and Teah just finished for Sandra was a very sweaty affair, and because it's the finish that people want to see, Teah has dropped a lot of submissions. Taping over, on a whim, both women are wondering if the other would like to keep going. Teah asks. Kyong happily agrees.

It bears repeating, in Jiu-Jitsu you win or you lose, and Teah feels like she's already improved her game after 30 minutes with the Judo black belt. In fact, all of a sudden it seems Teah has the advantage. Full mount, back control, side control and north south. This close to the choke out. Missed the arm bar by *that* much. And then, all of a sudden...

Nothing is working any more.

Kyong wanted to practise her escapes for a bit. Now she's back to practising her finishes. And although Teah is caught tight in this triangle, when Kyong starts trying to grip the arm she can no longer decide whether she needs to worry more about the choke or the arm bar....

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #triangle choke

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Gwen tried her hands at straight up submission wrestling with Dani. No ropes, no strikes, throws for sure, but you're not likely to land anything flashy without a ring.

Gwen got choked out pretty fast.

So she asks to try again in a ring. With the ropes and turnbuckles and elbows and knees maybe that will even things up a lot more?

Gwen still has eyes, and Dani now has her thumbs.

Gwen got choked out pretty fast.

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #sleeper hold #rear naked choke

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Sandra's video business is competitive, but it's also a business. She gets heaps of requests for customs that still go straight into the garbage and her email block list is pretty formidable looking accordingly. She tries generally to be not too judgemental, but what some guys want to see... Shaking her head and swearing at the sickness is an occupational hazard alas.

This request is a bit lengthy and detailed. Normally that's a warning flag, except the first line in bold at the top is "no-one gets hurt please!". Curious, she reads further.

Topless isn't an issue, Sandra has already started the list in her head of who she might use. Tattoos are highly desirable. The list just got a lot shorter. Highly skilled. Sandra isn't arrogant, but she's not falsely modest. A few other grapplers come off the list, she adds herself. And here's the kicker. This patron wants to see repeated use of arm strangles to unconsciousness, but scripted. So the slow collapse and fade and off to sleep, acted, not for real, just as real looking as possible.

Which is mostly ok by Sandra because if you get caught for real on Sandra's mats you tap out for real.

And idea forming in her head, Sandra narrows it down to two names and the call goes out. And both women say yes. There are a few hushed whispers in the corner that Sandra isn't part of, but before the camera rolls both women tell Sandra that they've got this and that the camera man is to keep her mouth shut and just film the action. The match begins and it's actually more competitive than Sandra expected. Corveen'a D1 wrestling is controlling a lot of the position today and Hinako is working hard for anything she can get.

And several times Sandra can't quite believe what she see when choke holds cinch in tighter than the belt on your waist after Christmas dinner. But after each bout of lost consciousness and the camera cuts the sleeping party is up an awake again.

But this?

Sandra is in a panic that something legitimately bad is happening here. Corveena's face is going red and puffy and this can't possibly be an act... Wait a second? Is Corveena... Smiling?

What Corveena and Hinako had been discussing earlier was the best way to apply a discrete signal. Tapping is a surrender obviously. But closed fingertips pressing into an arm or shoulder? All that means is back off a bit. Fingers spread, pinky and thumb pushing in? That means squeeze harder.

Corveena can feel the blood swirling in her head, but she's breathing deeply and she's ok, which is why she hasn't released the pressure of her pinky and thumb on Hinako's shoulder.

Match done, Sandra can't quite believe how well these two have done and the thanks is effusive.

Breathing deeply, Hinako looks Corveena up and down once more and tells herself she has to ask, so she does. After a moment's thought, Corveena says yes. She prefers guys, but she's also lived a little, and something tells her she's going to enjoy her evening.

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #sleeper hold

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If Gwen has a weakness, metaphorically speaking, it's the level of technique in her ground game. She knows that going up against a shoot wrestler that can drag the fight to the mats is going to be a challenge, so she needs to get better at that. Alas, old habits die hard and rather than concentrating on the technique aspect, Gwen tends to fall back onto her strength to defend or attack.

Today, she's defending against Dani. While she's grabbing wrists to control Dani's arms, Dani's legs are coiling around Gwen's waist. While she's trying to free herself from Dani's legs, Dani's arms are coiling around her head and hunting for Gwen's throat. While Gwen is trying to defend arms and legs at the same time, Dani is twisting and sliding onto Gwen's back. Now that Gwen is starting to worry, she's trying to use the strength of her arms to control Dani's legs. Gwen's chin tucked here come Dani's arms again. And now the surprise, astonishment perhaps even. For all Gwen's strength, Dani's constriction is irresistible - inevitable even.

Surprised indeed…

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #daz studio #sleeper hold #daz 3d studio #daz3dart #rear naked choke

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I've written before that, when you roll with high belt BJJ practitioners, one of the things you notice is how "heavy" they are if they get on top. Putting aside that Sandra is no weakling, of course no-one is strong enough to beat Sandra's back, arms and hips with their single arm, not even when they are as strong as Gwen. But that tree trunk lying across the side of her face? Surely Gwen is strong enough to push that off her shoulder so she can release the pressure?

There is nobody named "Shirley" on the mats today.

Gwen can fell the way her hand has been pulled between Sandra's breasts, and is also keen aware of the feeling of Sandra's things around her shoulder, her hips pushing the back of her arm, and that (other) heavy leg across her chest. But it's that telephone pole across her face that's drowning out everything else, except for that thing in her elbow that's starting to get attentive. Time to tap...

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #daz studio #daz 3d studio #submission hold #arm bar

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Valkyrie is very surprised, unhappy, and several other things over the way Gwen is powering out a camel clutch, which has been a reliable technique in past.

Not today.

Gwen’s bear hug, on the other hand, is working up to standard.

#women wrestling #female wrestling #womenwrestling #female fighter #daz3d #daz studio #daz 3d studio #daz3dart

[afwfan]

Owwweeee!

Gwen is a power lifter and bodybuilder. Hinako’s grappling and striking game may well be superior. But if Gwen gets her arms around any part of you and decides to squeeze?..,

Ouch!

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #daz studio #daz 3d studio #headlock

[afwfan]

To say that Mark Coleman, the godfather of Ground and Pound, had an illustrious and trailblazing career in MMA would be one of the more spectacular understatements of all time. On that one "off" day, Coleman found himself late in the match and completely gassed, which is about as deep in the water as you can get. And I'm pretty sure I read an interview once where Coleman talked about how much that sucks, but that the worst part was that Petey Williams' kick to the face for the KO wound up being on the goddamned UFC highlight reels for... Well forever...

Sandra produces videos, Lilith runs a club, and there's kind of an informal partnership going on here - particularly when it comes to promotional materials. One of those agreements is that, when Sandra takes photos during a video session to help market the video, she'll also often share photos with Lilith to advertise an upcoming show.

On the day it's not just warm, it's *hot*, and filming a video for Sandra against a recognisable tattooed redhead, Corveena is well and truly holding her own. I mean obviously keeping herself inside this particularly revealing suit is a lost cause, but that's not hurting anything. Late in the match, both women are tired, soaked in sweat, neither of them is actually gassed however. Well maybe Corveena is a little bit? There's only a minute or two left in this match, and Corveena is up five falls to two today. Corveena loses her back, and then her neck. She grabs hold, she struggles... And as the pressure closes around her neck she has that moment where two things happen. First, she realises she needs to tap out. Second, she makes eye contact with the camera.

Ah s--t. Is the immediate though, and then that she needs to tap now.

Corveena is a dancer also in case anyone had forgotten, an exotic dancer to be precise. But a couple of days later when she gets the email that Lilith is putting on another wrestling show Corveena is almost a given, but of course she's asked and of course she says yes. But the show is a few weeks away, and tonight it's serving and dancing.

And that's when she sees the promotional poster, very large, just inside the entrance to Lilith's club.

And now the immediate thought is a much more impolite word.

The worst part? Every single damn guy she ends up within earshot of... "Hey, is that you?".

Three weeks until the show. Please... Please... Please... Do not let this be the photo Lilith uses to advertise any of the ones in future...

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #sleeper hold #daz studio #daz3dart #daz 3d studio

[afwfan]

Bexy in the full-nelson hold

And maybe not hating it so much?

#women wrestling #female wrestling #daz3d #womenwrestling #female fighter #sexy wrestling #bexyfights #daz 3d studio #daz3dart

[afwfan]

Left to right....

Lucy, Corveena (kneeling), and Vixen.

Wishing everyone a suitably scary and Happy Halloween this year!

#daz3d #female fighter #daz studio #daz3dart #halloween