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Created on: July 18, 2008
So you want to be pro wrestlers. Chances are you won't make it big, but it's possible. First of all you want to start working out. Bulk up; duplicate the bodies you see on top WWE superstars. Maintain a diet, keep an intense workout and stick with it.
Wrestling is a very tough business to break into, most wrestlers' advice is to go to college and get a degree to fall back on if you fail to make it big. Next you need to join a wrestling school. This is where most hopeful's fail before they even start. They join the first wrestling school they find, because it's the closest available, or maybe because it a big name superstar owns it such as the "Shawn Michaels Wrestling Academy". If you think if you go to Shawn Michaels School you'll be trained by the legend himself, then the career you've dreamed of having is already on its way to failure. You will pay big bucks to train their, only to be taught by lazy no names that, and end up learning very little. An extremely successful school is WWA4, in Atlanta. Many now famous superstars have started their journey of pro wrestling at that school. Sadly even if you do train at a great school like WWA4, you will never be guaranteed a spot into the big named companies. It sure does help though to tone your craft at a great school.
(For more wrestling school reviews visit http://www.wrestlingschools.org)
Study wrestling! Watch the top stars carefully and study their style. Read as many Wrestlers auto-biographies as you can. Not only are they very entertaining to read, you learn a lot about the business and their journey to the top.
I know you've heard it before. Wrestling involves tons of travel. You need to live very cheap on the road during your early years. The gas prices are already rising. Think of sleeping at the trashiest motels, driving 12 hours+, trying to find time and a gym to workout, wrestling for maybe a hundred people, and not even making much if any profit. Now picture doing this every day for years and years to come. Be prepared to miss your friends and family back at home! The sacrifice of being a pro wrestler is unbelievably hard to deal with.
Wrestle as many independent shows as possible! Even if you're wrestling for free, it's the publicity that you need. Give it 100% every time, and work your way to the top. The big name companies won't come over night. You'll be wrestling for years in the bottom of the barrel. Hopefully you get that lucky break into the big leagues, but it's very rare. If you truly believe
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