Recommendations

June 2017
Had the pleasure of meeting Horti down in Dresden, for an enjoyable wrestle.

Horti is a huge man, very powerful, and with some skill to go with it. His strength and weight advantage made it pretty hard to get anything on, but we had a very enjoyable and sweaty match!

Off the mats, he is a charming man, with a lovely smile, and excellent English. Very much looking forward to next time!! Highly recommended 🐾

13-16/05/2016: It was great to meet and train with horti at the fantastic 16th International Wrestlers' Camp in Lindow (Mark). What a lovely guy! Immensely strong with an amazing physique, he is nevertheless a wrestler who wants to improve technically and was keen to put into practice what we were being taught at the training camp, so it was a surprisingly gentle experience tussling with the big guy (although a super-competitive bout with him may be a different matter!). Between training sessions he was a really interesting guy to chat to, super-friendly, witty and engaging, and he speaks better English than I do! I hope to meet and wrestle him again soon, in Brandenburg or in London, and he is very highly recommended by me.
09/06/2017: The rematch finally came in the shape of a grapple in horti's beautiful garden in Dresden which was a new experience for this grass-stained wrestler! As ever there was little I could do once he got on top but it was an awful lot of fun trying. Off the grass he proved to be a superb co-host and we had a very entertaining couple of evenings with them in amazing Dresden. The ultimate in sane grass bear wrestling: and what more could you ask for? 🐾

10/06/2017: I had the pleasure of meeting and wrestling kleiner kerl at the little group meet kindly organized for me at OefightBln's matroom in Berlin by catchbear1 and OefightBln along with xxlbear and goergilein. He proved to be startlingly strong and swift and it took a lot of work and sweat to subdue him. (And, if I'm being honest, by “subdue him” I mean more “lie on top of him” than wow anyone with my technique.) We had several little grapples during the meet and all were a pleasure and I'd welcome an opportunity to wrestle this safe and sane nice guy again.

10/06/2017: I had the pleasure of meeting and wrestling xxlbear at the little group meet kindly organized for me at OefightBln's matroom in Berlin by catchbear1 and OefightBln along with kleiner kerl and goergilein. He proved to be a strong and determined wrestler and was on top of me and in control for most of our little match. I would very much have liked a longer grapple with him so I hope that we get to wrestle again soon. Safe, sane and highly recommended.

10/06/2017: During my stay in amazing Berlin catchbear1 was kind enough to organize a little group meet for me at OefightBln's matroom, so I was able to meet them both along with kleiner kerl, xxlbear and goergilein. He also took a lead in translating for me so that this lazy Anglophone was able to chat with everyone. I soon found out that a very gentle introduction to the wrestling of coffee and cake doesn't mean that I'm not going to get mangled on the mats! I was a little worried about wrestling a guy with such very impressive triple bypass scars, especially when one had very recently been redone, but catchbear1 is clearly one of those guys whom very little will slow down. A super nice, welcoming and friendly guy off the mats and a competent and committed wrestler on them, catchbear1 was safe and sane and is highly recommended.

10/06/2017: OefightBln very kindly hosted a little group meet for me at his Berlin home, meaning that I was able to meet catchbear1, kleiner kerl, xxlbear and goergilein as well as his good self. I suspect the delicious coffee and cake before our matches were a not-so-subtle attempt to slow me down, but who can complain when your opponent's hosting skills are this good? And OefightBln proved to be not just a nice guy off the mats, but on them too, as he used skill and technique to pin me rather than relying on his strength. It wasn't the longest grapple ever, but it was good fun, and I look forward to doing it again. Highly recommended and particular thanks for translating for me so that I could talk with everyone who'd kindly come along.

This guy travelled over three hours one evening to meet me in Dublin!! That speaks for itself. Added to that he is keen, tough and, excuse my language, bloody strong! He has biceps of steel! Despite the late hour we had a great session. What he lacks in skill he makes up for in determination, guts and strength! We settled that there had to be a rematch! Sooner the better! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

GrappleViking is really dynamic and strong. Hi is learning everything in a fast way. I could wrestle him in our wrestling camp and the training and can recommand him highly.I hope to fight again with him.

13–16/05/2016: It was a pleasure to meet, train with and wrestle BenAlHürxe at the 16th International Wrestlers' Camp in Lindow (Mark). He's a big guy, strong with it, and has been training for many months at the Berlin club, so only just still qualified for our beginners' group, and was therefore a real (but very enjoyable) challenge to wrestle. He's very safe though, and prefers to concentrate on using good technique, especially what we'd just been taught, rather than his size to get and keep control and get the pin, so wrestling him was beneficial to my own improvement during the training camp, as well as a lot of fun. Off the mats he's an extremely friendly, welcoming, funny and helpful guy, kindly doing some translating for us monoglot Anglophones where needed, and making us visitors to Brandenburg feel very well looked after. I'd love to wrestle him again whenever the opportunity presents itself and he is very highly recommended.
05/06/2017: It was the briefest of reunion wrestles with this big sweetheart of a guy, right at the very, very end of the 2017 Einsteiger freestyle training camp, which was a real shame, but it was an absolute pleasure as ever. BenAlHürxe is one of those guys you want to wrestle every day, not once a year!

05/06/2017: A little wrestle with patlutte right at the very end of the excellent Einsteiger freestyle training camp in Lindow (Mark) was the final lesson that the camp had to teach me, as he skillfully demonstrated the virtues of speed, good technique, conserving energy and taking the opportunities that your opponent presents you with in a superbly efficient manner, as I was gently but repeatedly pinned by a guy 13 kg lighter than me. And very modestly done, in that winning French accent! Until next year then, when perhaps I shall be a better pupil....