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Chapter 1  How We Fight

A Concept

Our Club is designed to be a Wrestling Neighborhood or Wrestling Community.

So we use the following terminology:

‘Community’ means the Club or all the membership.

 

‘Family’ means Family Members of a Wrestler Member

 

‘Neighbor’ means a Club Wrestler Member

 

‘Fight’ means a Wrestling bout and also a series consisting of several Wrestling bouts between the same two men.

 

‘Social’ means an event or meet or session of the Club where a minimum number of Wrestler Members gather and some wrestle Fights.

 

1        The Wrestling

When two neighbors meet or are together in the neighborhood, they want to FIGHT. The BWC channels this desire into three kinds of Fights called Neighborhood Social Wrestling.  

Chapter 2  Summary of Social Fights

 

The Fight

Type

Club Goals

Wrestler Results

One-on-One encounters

Lock-in

Casually every one wrestles

Every Neighbor eyes other for a fight or making his girl. Girls want to eye wrestlers.

Western

Wrestle in jeans/ briefs

Wrestling in Public

LEISURE ACTIVITY of Neighbors. You get used to Wrestling in Public on any beach or public recreation area

Superiority

Wrestle in swim briefs

Wrestle for Dominance & Dates

THE SPORT. You get used to Wrestling to dominance with another wrestler and also to wrestle to win Dates

Submission

Wrestle in close-fit jeans jerkin and swim briefs

Wrestler Self- Confidence/ The Desire amongst Wrestlers

THE FIGHT. You gain Confidence to be and behave as a wrestler.  You can confidently go anywhere simply in speedos and be confident in meeting that guy who wants to fight. Ultimate of meeting a rival or neighbor Man-on-Man

 

Chapter 3  Submission Fights

A Role

This is the ultimate fight in the Community for two Wrestlers.  One Wrestler establishes “permanent” Submission over another.  The winner has to be acknowledged as Superior by the Loser in the Community.

The wrestlers fight for submission until the Community accepts that one Wrestler is fully Superior and the other is in Submission Status as a Wrestler.  The loser can challenge to reverse this status only after showing considerable Wrestling improvement in fights with other Wrestlers.

 

B Attire & Mat

Fight Attire is strictly only close fit jeans jerkin and swim briefs (Speedos, fight specified) only.

Wrestle on beach or moveable/ expandable mats laid out in large area.

 

C Start

Wrestlers who want to fight for Submission must get Community approval for the fight.  This is done through the Club Wrestling Captain’s Office.  They must select a set of persons from the Community who represent a balance and are approved by the Captain (Fight Board) to accept the fight and see it through.  They do this by convincing their neighbors that

1        The Fight will be a keen one

2        The result of win or loss is meaningful to the Wrestlers.

The wrestlers gain this group by wrestling at Socials.

 

The Community will then invite the Wrestlers to Fight for Submission in a series where they will provide facilities and minimum audience and public viewing.  The two wrestlers will agree to timing of fights and neighbors will help organize each fight.  At each fight, they will wrestle till one of them concedes a submission FALL for each Set of that Fight.

 

D Fighting

Standard Wrestling Rules of Hermes Beach apply.  Modification for Submission fights is mainly that a Wrestler has to gain certain riding time and points in a Set before he can gain a valid Fall.  Further, for the end of a Submission Set the Fall must be a Submission Fall as specified in the Rules.

Wrestling is not space bound and the fight must go on; if they reach a practical bound, by continuing wrestling against a real wall or neighbor set up artificial bound.

Wrestling is not time restricted and the fight must go on till one Wrestler wins by a valid SUBMISSION FALL.

 

E End of a Session

Each session Fight is for Falls leading to SUBMISSION by Submission Falls and cannot end except by the submission of one to the other.  The wrestling has no time or space limits and must be wrestled to a finish at each fight session.

 

F End of a Fight

The Fight Board will watch all the fights and look at Falls scored, Points scored and their trends before a collective decision when Submission has been clearly established and the fight should end.  They will then give a final fight of three or five sets that the winner must win to end the series. This decision is final.

 

Chapter 4  Superiority Fights

A Role

This is the normal “Meet” fight in the Community.  The winner is accepted as Superior at the time of fight by the Community.

The wrestlers fight for a Fall for each Set of the Superiority Fight.  The fight can be for the best of one, three or five sets.  The loser can challenge to reverse this status on another day.

Tournaments and Family Meets feature Superiority Fights.

When two Wrestlers are engaged in a Submission Fight, their family wrestlers are expected to wrestle for Superiority at that time in Family Meets.  Friends of each may also fight Superiority bouts at that time.

 

B Attire & Mat

Fight Attire is strictly only swim briefs (Speedos, fight specified) only.

Wrestle on beach or moveable/ expandable mats laid out in large area.

 

C Start

Wrestlers who want to fight for Superiority must get approval for the fight.  This is given by the Club Captain’s Office and the persons in charge of the venue of the fight. 

 

The Venue Host will invite the Wrestlers to Fight where they will provide facilities and minimum audience and public viewing.  The two wrestlers will agree to timing of fight and neighbors will help organize each fight. 

 

D Fighting

Standard Wrestling Rules of Hermes Beach apply.  The modification for Superiority fights is mainly that a Wrestler has to gain certain riding time and points before he can gain a valid Fall.

Wrestling is not space bound and the fight must go on; if they reach a practical bound, by continuing wrestling against a real wall or neighbor set up artificial bound.

Wrestling is not time restricted and the fight must go on till one Wrestler wins by a valid FALL.

 

E End of Fight/ Session

Each session Fight ends only when Superiority by Falls has been established.

 

Chapter 5  Westerns

A Role

This is the normal fight wrestled whenever two Wrestlers meet. The Wrestlers test themselves with some wrestling.  It is a purely social matter.  It is normal social behavior in the Community to wrestle a Western whenever two Wrestlers meet and are going to be at that place for a short while, for instance while wives and children chat/ shop/ work/ take a class.

Wrestlers may also call each other to meet for a Western at a specified time and place as well as wrestle a western at casual meeting or a neighborhood social.

Frequently, Wrestlers meet at public events or while on the beach and wrestle a Western.  These are the fights at public places that others have seen of the Community when they are at a public event or area.

If a Western generates some heat, it is normal for the Wrestlers to wrestle a Superiority Fight at a later date.  This can in turn lead to a Submission Fight.

 

B Attire & Mat

Fight Attire may be

1        Swim briefs (Speedos, fight specified) or

2        Wrestling jeans and jeans jerkin or top or

3        Swim briefs with jeans jerkin or top only.

Wrestle on beach or other safe area.

 

C Start

No approvals are needed.

The two Wrestlers need to agree to fight.

At a venue, if there is space, room must be given for the fight.

Community members are obliged to find the wrestlers the space and conditions for the fight.

 

D Fighting

Standard Wrestling Rules of Hermes Beach apply.

Wrestling is not space bound and the fight must go on; if they reach a practical bound, by continuing wrestling against a real wall or neighbor set up artificial bound.

Wrestling is restricted by time to a time agreed by the Wrestlers and the Community person officiating.  The following table applies on time.

Adults             normal 20 minutes                Maximum 35 minutes

Seniors                       15                                            20

Juniors                        10                                            15

Kids                            5                                              10

 

E End of Fight/ Session

Each session Fight ends on a Fall or time limit. 

Winner is by a Fall or Points Superiority.

If at the time limit, the Wrestlers are at a Draw, the official will not whistle the end but keep the fight open till a lead point is scored; and if the wrestlers are in a Fall Move, keep the fight open till the Fall is scored or the Fall Move Broken.

 

Chapter 6  Notes

A Greetings or Encounters

Leisure Wrestling is simply wrestled like a Western without points keeping and with modifications of reduced techniques allowed, etc.

 

B Attire

Wrestling shoes may be worn, but useful only when wrestling off the sand.

Knee pads, elbow pads and other protection may be worn but are likely to cause more harm than good in beach use.

 

C Fight Progression

Wrestler members will normally wrestle at least Three Westerns at a Social, if they are not fighting a Submission or Superiority.  On an average day, Wrestler members will have about three fights as Westerns or their equivalent.

In one day, Wrestlers will fight only once with another specific Wrestler except sometimes when in a Submission Series.

If two Wrestlers fight more than three Westerns within a week, the wrestlers are expected to wrestle a Superiority Fight.

If two Wrestlers fight more than 3 Superiority Fights within two weeks, the wrestlers are expected to wrestle a Submission Fight.