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Whilst I’m going to be losing subscribers by talking about my wrestling days, I may as well do this other blog on the same theme 😉
By the time I’d been wrestling a year, I was a regular with All-Star Wrestling (which had been on ITV in the latter years of World Of Sport for any older readers).
By that point the main regular crew usually consisted of a North East car (driven by me) with me, Drew, Ollie (both from Leeds) and Robbie (Leicester) in.
Or I’d be in with Doghead (Sheffield) and Lee (Rotherham).
A Wirral / Stoke car with Whippy, Nathan, Dean and Dean’s wife Tish (who MC’d).
And ‘The Beast’ (a Citroen C4 Grande) coming from the Wirral (where the office and the digs were).
The digs was a house that Brian the promoter owned, where he’d put up any foreign wrestlers who were over working for him. Or the English guys who wanted to stay there.
One of the Americans over at that time was called Joe Legend.
For the four people reading this who might have a slight interest in wrestling; Joe was ‘Just Joe’ in WWE in 2000 and was to become one of the coaches on Celebrity Wrestling in 2005.
Joe took me aside one day and told me I was taking too many ‘bumps’.
Ie: Too many high impacts to the body from giving or receiving moves.
He explained that we all have a theoretical ‘Bump Card’.
A card with so many bumps on that we can take before our bodies have had too much (the feeling I’ve had in my back and neck for the last decade suggest I pretty much filled mine).
And every time we take a bump, we’re ticking one off.
So the key wasn’t to not take any bumps (that would make a pretty boring match)……..
But to make them count.
To do them at the right time for a worthwhile reason.
Cake and Weight Loss
We all have a ‘Cake Card’.
## You can, of course, replace cake with biscuits, chocolate, alcohol or anything else ##
It’s not about never ticking that card.
It’s about making the ticks count.
If you’re going to eat cake, biscuits, chocolate, etc.
Then enjoy it.
Savour it.
Get the most from it.
Choose the less damaging option where available, sure.
But just enjoy it.
Not getting that much from it sometimes?
That biscuit at work that’s in your stomach before you know what’s happening and you immediately ask “Why did I do that?”
That slice of cake someone peer-pressures you in to and you regret within seconds?
When you tick off your cake card for next to no benefit?
Then what’s the point?
Why bother?
Remember that ‘Cake Card’.
When you’re going to tick it, make it count.
And just don’t fill it in too quickly!
Much love,
Jon ‘Tock’ Hall and Matt ‘Tac Toe’ Nicholson
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