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my first shirtless wrestling opponent

Two emails from Naked Wrestler

10-14-2009

First email:

Stan -- a Polish kid -- was my first shirtless wrestling opponent. As a teen with raging hormones and testosterone, he was my first experience with aggression and attraction in full body contact. I never forgot that first time when he tapped me on the shoulder down on the basketball floor. I had been watching the basketball players, since I was too short and uncoordinated to play that game. He came up next to me and tapped me on the arm and asked, "do you want to wrestle." Just like that. He was shy and outgoing at the same time, enough to ask another boy to wrestle him. He had the initiative, to wrestle. And he was on the Freshman Team. I was not.

I wore glasses. He didn't. I had to take mine off but it kept me from making out the beautiful definition he had. I was about to feel it though.

Up on the stage where the mats were, we faced off. Some other boys were there sitting around watching, like guys always do in a wrestling area, just being guys with other guys. Stan pulled his shirt off first. He was lean and buffed. We were both buffed. About 120lbs. Pulling your shirt off was the obligatory customary thing to do when challenged to a fight. So guys just did it. It wasn't a "Let's make love" thing by taking off our t-shirts. Taking your shirt off WAS what you did. I remember instinctively pulling my shirt up and off too. Only a faggot would NOT go shirtless.

Then we wrestled, over and over. The first few times he pinned me quick. But I started to learn. Fast. Wrestling is instinct. You take the guy down. You try to pin him. It's built in. No real need for a rules book. Boys figure it out.

I had several opportunities to pin him but I could not bring myself to do it. He was giving me a boner being chest2chest, pecs2pecs, every time I was about to experience victory. Victory gave me a super hard on. I didn't want Stan to feel my boner.

When he asked me why I didn't pin him and finish it, I said that I was tired. What a stupid answer. I wonder to this day what he thought of me at that moment. I wondered if guys could read my mind and know I was turned on.

We wrestled over and over every day, on days that we were having PE indoors. He said I should wrestle on the team. Other guys wrestled me in that mat room. Hardly anyone could pin me. I was a fire plug. The wrestling season came and went. I even went to some practices. And I could not bring myself to join the team and "become" a wrestler. That would come later in my life. Not wrestling in high school is one of the biggest regrets of my life.

I think about you Stan. Always will.


Second email:

I met a guy on craigslist who wants to learn wrestling moves/holds/basics. He never wrestled before. Age: 35, professional, etc. I said that's all cool.

I like the idea of going through wrestling moves like that totally nude. I think it focuses male genitals-energy on the activity of wrestling.

Practicing and learning/teaching wrestling moves nude, makes a male very aware of his sexuality, as well as that of his training partner/opponent.

I believe that that sexuality is what makes a guy wrestle in the first place.

THAT is why the Greeks wrestled naked. They wanted to experience full male-ness.

I really like that idea. (Some people don't, and I accept that.) I have a friend who thinks it's crazy. We argue about it all the time.

Anyway this guy I met on craigslist relates to that totally. (I think a LOT of guys do.)


Bill Weintraub

Re: my first shirtless wrestling opponent

10-14-09

Thanks NW.

Guys -- for those of you who don't know Naked Wrestler, aka NW, he's a guy who has wrestled and trained in mixed martial arts, and who has many very important posts on our Man2Man Alliance sites, including:

So NW, as we often call him, has a large body of very important work on our site, and I encourage you to read his writing.

And to train, as he has, in Fight Sport.

In his first email, NW said,

Not wrestling in high school is one of the biggest regrets of my life.

Far too many of us have those sorts of regrets.

I wanted to box when I was in junior high.

Instead, I didn't start training in karate till I was 34.

It was life-changing.

But not the same deal as doing it at 14.

I hope young people who may see these lines will understand that if they want to box or wrestle or train in a martial art -- they should.

Now.

While they're young.

In NW's second email he said:

I met a guy on craigslist who wants to learn wrestling moves/holds/basics. He never wrestled before. Age: 35, professional, etc. I said that's all cool.

I like the idea of going through wrestling moves like that totally nude. I think it focuses male genitals-energy on the activity of wrestling.

Practicing and learning/teaching wrestling moves nude, makes a male very aware of his sexuality, as well as that of his training partner/opponent.

I believe that that sexuality is what makes a guy wrestle in the first place.

THAT is why the Greeks wrestled naked. They wanted to experience full male-ness.

Exactly!

Everything you say, NW, about the relationship between wrestling and male sexuality is right.

I really like that idea. (Some people don't, and I accept that.) I have a friend who thinks it's crazy. We argue about it all the time.

Yeah -- your friend's wrong.

I know who you're talking about, and he's one of those gay-identified males who thinks that buttsex is fine and dandy, but wrestling nude is "crazy."

He has it completely and utterly ass-backwards, doesn't he?

Buttsex is crazy.

Buttsex is UNnatural.

Wrestling nude is -- normal.

And Natural.

That's why Men all over the world wrestle nude.

And have for millenia.

Anyway this guy I met on craigslist relates to that totally. (I think a LOT of guys do.)

Right.

ALL guys relate to it.

Just like ALL guys in ancient Greece wrestled and fought naked.

Not complicated.

But in our society, it's made complicated by forced hetero-sexualization, as you so rightly point out, and our bizarre religious beliefs, which are truly toxic.

Some people manage, nevertheless, to see through heterosexualization, and to fight off the bizarre religious beliefs which were usually forced into their tiny skulls when they were little kids.

The great American author Flannery O'Connor has said, rightly, that "Children are cursed with believing."

But it's also, as I've said, a matter of what you believe.

The Greeks believed that three of their major Gods -- Zeus, Poseidon, and Apollo -- had male lovers.

As did a host of lesser deities, such as Herakles.

And that one of those lovers, Ganymedes, was given immortality on Olympos.

Pausanias (5.7.10) says the gods competed at Olympia in mythical times, and presumably they competed nude, since both gods and heroes, like Herakles and Theseus, spent most of their time nude.

So what many of us need to do is reshape our beliefs -- so that they serve our lives.

That's what NW has done.

He rid himself of the destructive religious strictures of his childhood.

He didn't wrestle in high school, but he did in college.

And then he resumed wrestling as an adult; and then trained in mixed martial arts.

At the same time freeing himself of the yokes of sexual orientation and the "gay community."

NW has become a true and visionary Fighter.

For himself, and for his fellow Men.

He's a true Warrior.

How bout you bro?

Do you still remember the first guy you wrestled with your shirt off?

Or were you too scared to even do that much?

And are you still afraid?

Afraid to come out, afraid to face the analists, afraid to Fight --

even when it's for your own Life?

And will you go on being afraid until the false peace of the grave has extinguished that one sweet and precious life?

I often use that phrase -- "one sweet precious life" -- because that's all you've got.

How much of that life have you wasted -- in waiting?

It's time bro.

Time to FIGHT BACK.

Time to SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Bill Weintraub

October 14, 2009

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