Maybe you've never been in a match before, Mister... But let me tell you something: when you're in there scrappin' and grapplin' and your opponent grabs your arm and swings you toward the ropes-- you ain't expectin' that.
And it comes as such a surprise that it happened (like a bus accident or a space shuttle mishap) that you can't stop your momentum and just continue forward. (like a bus accident or space shuttle mishap)
In that very moment, you can't believe what is happening to you (like Chris Reeve gettin' thrown off a horse) so you just physically concede.
Sometimes, I'd snap back and think about something suddenly (like my wife screwing me outta the house in the divorce) and it'd give me just enough time to duck a clothesline. One time, I felt my opponents arms grab me and throw me to the ropes-- again, a total surprise, mind you-- and while my body was temporarily out of my control, I thought about how the local car wash screwed up my antenna, and how the punk kid was being a shit about a refund. That memory alone, snapped me out of it, and I was able to reverse the Irish whip into a drop kick.
So that's the science of the Irish whip. It scares ya into paralysis, but you can recover with an angry memory.
(Begins savagely eating over-sized pretzel, while never breaking eye contact)
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