www.SCIENTIFICWRESTLING.com Meeting Mr. Robinson

In role as the "Johnny Appleseed" of Catch Wrestling I have had the great fortune of being able to directly pick the brains of Fujiwara, Karl Gotch, Dick Cardinal, Billy Wicks, Frank Cain, Josh Barnett, and scores of others. Well Wednesday morning I went and picked up one of the greatest Catch Wrestling masters in modern times, Billy Robinson!

Like Karl Gotch, Robinson learned at the Wigan Snake Pit and become one of the world's most renowned masters of Catch As Catch Can wrestling. Bill is 13 years younger than Karl and eager to teach.

Most recently he was teaching the craft at Miyato's UWF-Snakepit in Japan. Before that Bill was the trainer for the UWFi. This is where he coached perhaps his most famous pupil, Kazushi Sakuraba.

The first day with Mr. Robinson was really a ton of fun. After spending the day with Bill talking about wrestling, history, etc. we got to the wrestling room and put on our wrestling shoes around 6:30. We had about 10 people present and Bill ran us through conditioning drills like squats, bar muscle-ups, pulling (aka pummelling), and more. In attendance were MMA stand-out Josh Barnett and his trainer, CSW's Eric Paulson.

We then began working on a variety of takedowns I had never seen anywhere before. Very efficient, and most of them very painful.

Bill then had us circle around and shared history and philosophy of Catch-As-Catch-Can. Again more stuff I'd never seen anywhere before. Very interesting...

Then we worked on a variety of submissions (hammerlocks, double wrist lock entries, etc.). The clinic was only scheduled until 10pm but we went until nearly 11 with Billy sharing with us. Then we went to the pub for beers (until about 1am).

Can't wait for tonight!

I really look forward to seeing what the men of the UWF were able to learn from this brilliant wrestling tactician (I suppose we've caught brief glimpses of it in Sakuraba's Pride FC matches) as UWF-Bushido.com unfolds...

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