3. Respect
When you start your first day of wrestling school, it's important to realize that everything you've ever loved about the sport everything that made you want to pursue it as a career paved your way into the ring. It sounds obvious, but everyone's a veteran compared to a first-timer, and needs to be treated as such. Just as with the code of conduct, there are certain regulations to which a rookie must adhere around his seniors. An experienced grappler must be addressed with respect just like in the locker room environment, neophytes must make a formal introduction. This even held true when students of Storm's from previous sessions would come back to visit we would line up to shake hands. It's also proper rookie-to-veteran etiquette to offer up a seat backstage to someone with more experience. Lance Storm made sure we grasped all of these fine points.