This past week we had a bunch of the ladies come on over to the small Brooklyn studio for a little filming get-together. The result was a long, crazy evening of wrestling holds. Would you expect anything else?!
Indra, VeVe, and Orlandoe were the first to arrive, so we first set up for a new Escape & Attack bondage challenge. Indra and Orlandoe were to go head-to-head in a hogtie escape race. VeVe hogtied each of the ladies (using the exact same tie method on each), we got the camera fired up, and off they went.
Now, I tried an Escape & Attack with Indra and VeVe before, and both ladies were able to escaped so quickly that the video was just too short to do anything with. So, I kind of suspected Indra would have an edge in this challenge. And, of course, as fate would have it, after a good bit of struggling, Indra made it out first. Orlandoe, on the other hand, could do absolutely nothing to get out of her bonds. At all! I was distinctly reminded of the last Escape & Attack video, which pitted VeVe against Orlandoe... That resulted in the video being titled
VeVe's Vengeance. Same thing then: Orlandoe just could not budge the ropes. Sorry, Orlandoe!
After she escaped, Indra enjoyed some victory posing and strutting, and then she ate some cookies over the bound Orlandoe, dropping crumbs in her opponent's face. How nice. And that's how we kicked off the evening.
The ladies then went on to show off some of their favorite wrestling holds on each other via various "XYZ Domination" demonstrations.
This was inspired by VeVe's
Boston Crab Domination, which she performed on your humble narrator as we were waiting for Hanz to arrive to film us for our
Shiny Pro-Style video a few weeks ago.
The Boston Crab Domination itself was inspired by a fan requesting, a little while ago, that VeVe perform the move over and over again. The fan's comment was, in turn, inspired by VeVe's Pro-Style video with Indra. Talk about degrees of separation!
We decided that we generally liked the idea of Individual Hold vignettes. They are nice and neat, and they are appealing to people who are drawn to a particular lock-up. They produce great imagery. And furthermore, they are just deliciously gratuitous!
The ladies each selected a hold they'd like to perform, and they then selected their opponent. By this time, Orlandoe's friend (and soon-to-be victim) Benji arrived. So he got a chance to watch the ladies performing these somewhat outrageous holds on each other. More on Benji later, when the ladies turn their holding power on him...
Indra selected the Camel Clutch as her choice move. Her victim: Orlandoe.
Now, the Camel Clutch is a strange choice, I felt, because it doesn't have that many different entries. With VeVe's Boston Crab video, the camera was on a tripod (actually, a piano bench), so VeVe was able to use different entries to give the camera different angles of view for the hold. Granted, now that I think of it, the fixed camera will force the wrestler to perform a number of entries. But with a moving camera for Indra's hold, varied entries weren't that necessary. The camera was able to catch a variety of angles, all while Indra kept poor Orlandoe's shoulders locked up.
Indra displayed her classic cheeky, bullying, trash-talkerly style as she yanked on Orlandoe's chin and pulled her into such an uncomfortable position. Orlandoe, for her part, held in like a real trooper. It was a wild time, with both ladies making a lot of noise: Indra with her gift of gab and Orlandoe with her groans of pain (and some occasional little weird high-pitched noises which I found incredibly amusing).
Orlandoe then selected her favorite: the triangle. Her victim: Indra. Of course.
Now the triangle choke has a lot of variations, so this was a big change from the Camel Clutch. Orlandoe enjoyed the standard triangle from guard, the mounted triangle, the reverse triangle, and the body triangle as she paid Indra back with a torture session of her own.
And next up was VeVe. Ever a scene-stealer, VeVe chose a combo power-move + torture hold: the Over-the-Knee Back-Breaker. Her victim: Indra.
So, with this move, which scared me a bit, VeVe would pick Indra up and then slam her lower back down over VeVe's knee. Thus to break the back. But that's not all. With her victim draped supine over her knee, VeVe would push her victim's body down further, creating quite a back-bend over the knee. VeVe lifted Indra and slammed her down several times in the video, spending a lot of time with prolonged back bending after the slam. Hmm. Ouch.
How's about that, Benji?
Yes, and by this time, the ladies turned their sights on Benji.
Also by this time, Amazon Annie arrived! Annie was coming over to film a foot video, but since our wrestling shooting ran late, she arrived just as the ladies were donning some pantyhose and setting up for their Scissor Contest.
The idea of the scissor contest was for Benji to receive various scissor holds from each of the ladies and judge who had the strongest/hardest scissor hold for each category. The first event was the basic head scissors. VeVe went first, followed by Indra, and then Orlandoe, who seemed intent to take Benji's head off. Just as Benji was about to decide the winner for that category, Amazon Annie jumped in and grabbed Benji in a head scissors. Annie made Benji submit almost immediately with her squeeze-power. The win for that category went to Amazon Annie, who had now officially joined the contest.
The next event was the reverse head scissors (a real crowd-pleaser). Again went VeVe, Indra, Orlandoe, and then Annie. Feeling competitive, Orlandoe put a little extra bit of sadistic pepper on her reverse squeeze, bringing Benji close to tears and gaining the victory for that category.
We then went on to the body scissors, where Orlandoe again took the W, concluding then with a victory scissoring round for the winner.
Whew, ok. Getting there! Let me try to fast-track this recounting.
We then filmed
Annie's Foot Comparison video, as well as a scissoring video where Indra put the squeeze on VeVe, and a Scissors & Facesitting video featuring Orlandoe in tight jeans and VeVe getting squeezed once again.
And I think that's it. Yes, whew. It was nice getting all the ladies together, but they can indeed get a bit wild when they are together. It's actually very interesting in that they have relatively diverse personalities, so watching them interact is fun (and often hysterical).
So! That was last week's little Wrestling Holds Party of sorts. And I've been burning rubber trying to get all of the footage out of the To-Do queue!
