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I don't really like to talk too much about myself but if you are reading this, you probably know that I live, eat, and breathe wrestling. I wanted to just share with you how cool it has been to spend a few days with my friend Karl Gotch while here in Tampa over the holidays. At 81 years-young, believe me, Karl can still cripple you . In the past year and a half, I've talked to Karl on the phone a few times every week, picking his brain about this and that about grappling. But this was the first time I was going to actually spend time face to face with the man. Karl answered wearing his exercise jump suit and a big smile. He poured me a glass of red wine, handed me a cigar and invited me outside to his patio to smoke where we talked wrestling for a good hour and a half. Toward the end of our cigars and wine, and after a few laughs, Karl looked at me very seriously. You come all this way here from California, you got to let this old man show you a thing or two! To be honest, after smoking a huge cigar and drinking a glass of wine on an empty stomach the last thing I felt like doing was one of Karl's brutal workouts. Now, I have been grappling in one form or another since I was 4 years old but I have always had trouble developing my neck ever since I had radiation and chemo-therapy on my neck when I was 16 years old. In fact, my neck broke back in 1992 during a challenge submission match with a collegiate wrestler that outweighed me by nearly 50 lbs thank god my judo coach, former Senior Nationals Champ Bernd Busch, was a stellar chiropractor . Well faster than you could say Great Gama Karl had me twirling his Indian Clubs no easy feat since each weighs 10 kilos each ! After a few more exercises Karl was kind enough to show me a few toe-holds, the crooked leg-scissor, some thumb hooks, take-downs, etc. The next day, Karl is going to run me through the Gotch-Bible. .the second day with Karl was fun. I am just an old man and I probably won't make any friends, but I was always that way. I remember Old Man Riley came over to the United States to wrestle once. Well, they must have tore him a new asshole because he back to Wigan before he left! He never ever talked about it after he came back. Back then you took a ship to America, not an airplane. It took about 8 or 9 days there and about 8 or 9 back. Well he never did, and when Ben showed up at his gym looking to wrestle, well he left before Benny could even lace up his boots. Old Joe Robby took a liking to me and showed me the ropes. He was a real tough bastard Karl and I talked for the rest of the afternoon and enjoyed another cigar. The day after Xmas I had an extra few hours so I head to Karl's. Get Karl's Conditioning For Combat Sports DVD, dumkoff! as he called me several times Well I had 8 cards left and I could do no more. I used to do this twice in a row , Karl said, meaning would go through the deck once, then start all over. In part one of My Xmas With Karl I told you that at 81 years old, Karl can still cripple you.
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