Practice Session
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:21 am
God dammit, wrestling was hard.
For one, Virgil knew very little about wrestling. Sure, rugby had tackling, but that was different. When you tackle someone in rugby, they typically have some amount of forward momentum that you can use to help take them down. You take out the center of gravity of a moving body. You even get a second wrap-up guy who helps out by covering the guy's upper body to prevent the off-load.
But wrestling was different. The other guy was trying much harder not to be taken down, and even when you did get him down, you had to pin him. Pinning was strange to Virgil. In rugby, you tackled someone and then tried to get up as quickly as possible either to contest or to get in position for the next play. Virgil wasn't used to having to hold someone down for an extended period of time. More relevant to his current situation, Virgil wasn't used to being held down for an extended period of time.
Virgil hadn't expected it to be this hard when he'd agreed to Ilya's offer to practice against him. Virgil thought it would be fun, like the contact drills he did in practice. Virgil was good at those; Virgil had a wicked rugby tackle. Ilya had seemed so nice about it; he made it seem like not such a huge deal. Ilya had been friendly with the offer, well, as outwardly friendly as the Russian ever was.
Virgil had spent a good chunk of the past 20 minutes pinned to the mat by the smaller Russian. God dammit, wrestling was hard.
For one, Virgil knew very little about wrestling. Sure, rugby had tackling, but that was different. When you tackle someone in rugby, they typically have some amount of forward momentum that you can use to help take them down. You take out the center of gravity of a moving body. You even get a second wrap-up guy who helps out by covering the guy's upper body to prevent the off-load.
But wrestling was different. The other guy was trying much harder not to be taken down, and even when you did get him down, you had to pin him. Pinning was strange to Virgil. In rugby, you tackled someone and then tried to get up as quickly as possible either to contest or to get in position for the next play. Virgil wasn't used to having to hold someone down for an extended period of time. More relevant to his current situation, Virgil wasn't used to being held down for an extended period of time.
Virgil hadn't expected it to be this hard when he'd agreed to Ilya's offer to practice against him. Virgil thought it would be fun, like the contact drills he did in practice. Virgil was good at those; Virgil had a wicked rugby tackle. Ilya had seemed so nice about it; he made it seem like not such a huge deal. Ilya had been friendly with the offer, well, as outwardly friendly as the Russian ever was.
Virgil had spent a good chunk of the past 20 minutes pinned to the mat by the smaller Russian. God dammit, wrestling was hard.