This is a step by step process that we done to build our ring it took us a very long time to get the materials but we did it in the end and now we have a really good ring.
STEP 1: Gather all the materials you will need:
4 ten foot wooden posts
loads and loads of tyres
fucken heavy wood
1 bag of cement
under lay carpet(padding)
55 foot length of rope
12 eyelets
ducked tape
plastic sheeting
bed bases/mattresses
STEP2: Measure out the area you want. Then dig four two-foot deep holes where you want your corner posts to be. Now put your ten-foot posts in the holes place about 3-4 half bricks around them then fill the holes with your cement. I’m not sure how many parts of sand or water we had we just kept on adding till it looked right. Wait for the cement to dry which will take about a day and a half-then cover the cement with the soil you dug out on the first day.
STEP3: For step 3 you need as many tyres as you can possibly get. You may be able to go down to your local scrap yard and ask if you can take any tyres away for them. Once you have the tyres you place them inside the square you made yesterday. Make sure the tyres cover the whole floor or it won’t be springy enough.
STEP4: Now you need about six bases of beds or mattresses the bases are better because mattresses are too floppy and the ring will be un-level. You may need to walk around your neighbourhood to find bases or mattresses in skips or outside people’s houses if there is just knock on the door and most people will be grateful to you for taking their rubbish away. When you’ve got these, lay them down on top of the tyres.
STEP5: Wood, this is the hard part it took us a year to get the right bits of wood for our ring. You have to get big heavy pieces so they don’t snap when you’re wrestling on it. We were fairly lucky because there was a house being built at the bottom of the road right near our backyard. Every now and then we would sneak out about 2:00 at night and walk up the side of this house and nick a big heavy piece of wood for the ring this is also the same house we got our scaffolding from silly bastards. Lay the wood on top of the bases/mattresses.
STEP6: This part is fairly easy you just have to get loads of padding like carpet, under lay, foam, wool, etc. then just put it on the wood.
STEP7: You have to do the next step quite quickly after the last step because you don’t want the padding to get wet. You need to get some sort of plastic sheeting to keep the rain out. We got ours from a house that was being re-venerated round the back of where we do REC IS WAR but the bad bit of the trip was that some one who was helping us lost their shoe in quick sand. Put the sheeting over the padding and staple it down with a staple gun this should keep the rain out for a while.
STEP8: Ropes, this bit was the worst for us because we had to pay for it. At first we had decided on having hose pipes for ropes but we couldn’t find any long enough. So we went down to our local hardware store and bought sixty metres of rope and we only needed fifty-five at the most. Anyway we had spare if we needed any. The next day we went back to the hardware store and bought some eyelets, which are little circles with screws on the end, so we could thread the rope through and put them on the posts.
STEP9: Turnbuckles, this bit is easy just get some foam from pillows or something, put it in the corner then wrap ducked tape around all of the foam. This works really well and you can bounce your head off them as much as you like without getting a headache.
STEP10: Do any little bits to the ring that will make it look different to ours like tape the ropes up with different colours or spay paint the name of your fed in the centre of the ring.
WHERE DID WE GET THE MATERIALS FROM:
1.The posts we nicked out of a garden down the road.
2.Cement, we got from Andy’s house.
3.Tyres, we got from a local boat marina, scrap yard and hedges.
4.The bed bases/mattresses we got from our own houses (with mum’s permission)
5.Wood, from the house down the road ha ha.
6.Padding was from skips, bottom of backyard and trailers.
7.The plastic sheeting came from a re-venerated house.
8.The ropes we bought from a hardware store.
9.Eyelets were from the same place (we nicked most of them even thought they were only 26p each)
10.Ducked tape and spay paint also came from the same hardware store.
XBW WOULD LIKE TO THANK ANDY REYNOLDS FOR HIS HELP IN THE RING (as he did most of it)
PICS KAOS TOOK WHEN BUILDING THE RING:
