1. Do Not Anger Your Trainer
This I cant stress enough. You dont want to anger many people given the chance but your head trainer is most likely responsible for your first steps into the world of wrestling. If he dont like you, you ain't getting booked. You can anger him by many means. The most common though are some simple slip ups anyone could make. It could be that you ignore what he is trying to teach you and instead try to perform something completely different. He wont like this due to safety and ramifications of a severe injury. He wont like it if you show any disregard for your own or someone else's safety. He wont like it due to safety again but also, its simply not the wrestlers way. You look out for each other. Im sure many will have heard the 'rasslin biz is looked upon by its members like a fraternity, you look out for each other. In fact, any disregard of the unwritten wrestlers code will do it! But how about something i was quite rightly made a fool about. Being cocky! This pretty much speaks for itself and as a young rogue who had spent the past few years wrestling on grass, i had gained a state of big headedness early on in training that was most not deserving. This was made even bigger after i noticed how some people in the class were only performing adequately. I thought i was the mutts nutts. I was not! For some time a BYW friend had been performing the Wheelbarrow bulldog move but i had always complained he reached for my head with his wrong arm, causing quite a stall in the flow of the move. Not long into our tenure attending class we were taught how to do the move. I was correct with what arm to grab y9our opponent with. I made the mistake of being vocal about this as the trainer was still speaking. He obviously saw this as his chance to humiliate me and asked if i would look to run the class from now on. I quickly realised the mistake I made and slunk back into the ranks. I wasn't so stupid to be cocky to his face. Later that session i was put into a training tag match. Of course one part of the opposing team was the head trainer. Needless to say he wanted to kick me a bit to teach me a lesson. At this point I hadn't indulged him of my past as a yarder, as his kicks were no harder than what i had already experienced. So i showed him how to kick hard. He was shocked by my gall to kick him in the back of the head with some actual force. From then on, we got on ok. Obviously forming a strange sort of respect for one another. My trainer was an ok guy but he was also one of the lads. Other trainers wouldnt put up with this subordination, especially some of the older guys doing the rounds in the UK schools. Your career could be over before it had begun. Looking back on it it was a truly stupid thing to do and well away from some of the points I have made in this list. My closing advice to anyone thinking of becoming the next Rock or Stone Cold is to listen to what they say and dont step out of line. Impress them with your ability and you'll be noticed. Be prepared for the severe hardships that the ring and the lifestyle bring. I will be the first to admit that my experience of the Wrestling Universe was only minor, but it certainly showed me what it was like. The purpose of this article was to also give wrestling fans a slight insight into training to be a wrestler. You can look up plenty of articles and info of the backstage elements of modern wrestling but little of the toils you will go through trying to make it.