Thank you Robert.
Changing subjects entirely, I was talking with C-Cyborg the other day as we were training on the mat at RAW/R1 and he expressed regret that there would be no walls, or better yet, corners into which to back one's opponent. He remembered True Dog doing exactly that to him.
The fight area of this Gathering is, within a foot, identical to the space at RAW. The difference of course being the absence of walls (but there are some 4x4 posts the padding of which I am working out with Dan Jackson). The point I would like to make is this. When back your opponent up against the boundaries of the fight area, PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT (within the context of "Friends at the end of the day" of course!). We are still looking for wrestling mats to stack around the perimeter.
I am toying with the idea of preparing some volunteers to patrol the periphery with Muay Thai pads or something of the sort to protect fighters as well as possible from hard landings outside the fight area and to push them back onto it. What do y'all think?
TAC,
CD