So here's a look at what's been going on over the past month or so.
The BIG event recently was that on Feb. 8, I finally left my office job to concentrate full time on wrestling, training, sessions, and videos. I'd been planning and looking forward to this for a long time. There was delicious cake and terrible snow storm to mark the occasion. And then...
I had thought, naively I suppose, that I was going to have SO much time to do everything I wanted once I got out of the office. I was going to increase my training schedule, never have to turn anyone down for a session due to a time conflict again, and travel several times a month.
Phew! Well, I shot out of the gate and hit the ground running. It was quite exciting. I booked trips to Texas, D.C., and Chicago. D.C., especially, was a super-trip -- I don't know what it is about that city, but the guys there love their wrestling. I was going non-stop -- domination, competitive, boxing, and -- a rare treat for me -- a real, serious, can-actually-handle-the-pain beatdown. Drove back to New York in the afternoon (through more snowstorm warnings), and met a favorite regular client for a late session that same night.
I cranked up training too. I joined my academy's "elite" Muay Thai program and added sparring classes to my BJJ, MMA, and pad work regimen. I thought I was doing awesome to have made it all the way through winter untouched by cold and flu season...then March arrived and I was finally brought low by a hideous fatigue-sinus-throat thing. I had to admit that as much as I love being busy, I needed better planning and balance. It was actually lucky that the sponsor for my Chicago trip, originally planned for right now, had to pull out and look to reschedule at a later date.
NOW, I can say I feel like I'm beginning to get the hang of this full-time wrestling thing. I made a few excellent discoveries -- plan trips further in advance whenever possible. Evening training does NOT work well for me. That one's still killing me, actually, since my academy only offers sparring and MMA at night. And I haven't yet figured out how to get as much lifting in around my martial arts as I want to. But I've ID'ed the challenges, and I've got the destination in mind -- just working on the map!
There's been exciting stuff going on with other ladies at Doom Maidens too. Indra's back in the US -- for a long stay this time! For her welcome-back present, we got her victims! First, we offered up Ben for some classic, cheeky Indra domination, and next it was Thrash for some bondage tickle-torture.
BUT Athena spiced up the party -- like the giver of birthday spankings, she turned the tables on Indra and dealt out some tickle torture of her own. There will be more to come from Indra this very Sunday -- she'll be taking on a visiting victim in a new bondage wrestling match, and possibly subjecting him to some judoka foot domination too!
We've also got a new lady training with us now. Well, not entirely new -- some may remember Sircee from her matches with Clobberetta and Athena last year. But after a recent bondage wrestling shoot, where she had a lot of fun being introduced to bondage wrestling and even more fun showing off her wily escaping skills (to my ultimate frustration), Sircee is newly fired up and ready to start rolling in earnest. She's been coming by the Brooklyn studio for practice to beef up her wrestling skills, and she's a quick pupil. Must be the dance background -- show her a movement, and she soaks it right up. The next training is this Friday with me and Orlandoe.
Ah, Orlandoe! The ongoing drama between Orlandoe's and my secret agent characters has been the video theme of the month. This was both really cool and a little funny. You may recall that last year we launched the Stockholm Syndrome Collection, which was soon retitled the Lethal Leotards Syndicate series -- a video series featuring the Doom Maidens ladies as black-leotard-clad super-villians, who seduce, capture, torture, subjugate, and occasionally assassinate their male prey.
And fans loved this! So much that they began sending custom video requests that carried on the story of the Syndicate. It has been truly fantastic to see how different guys all writing separately have been creating different episodes of this story. BUT here's the rub -- in the hands of our fan writers the Syndicate has strayed from its original purpose of persecuting men and fallen to in-fighting -- a continuing power-struggle between the Grand Domina herself (me) and the Second-in-Command (Orlandoe). In the past month, Orlandoe and I have struggled through two death-matches and one bondage torture abduction. Way to protect your own necks, guys, turning us on each other! No worries, we'll get you soon enough!
And, finally, a look ahead -- not wrestling-related for a change. I would like to announce that my birthday will be here in just two weeks, and I'm looking forward to a fabulous present. My mother and two sisters are all coming to visit me, and we are preparing to hit NYC in true girls'-weekend style. Dining, theatre, wine bars, warm springtime Botanic Gardens if we're lucky, wedding planning for baby sister, and maybe (if I can talk them all into it) kickboxing for everyone ;) So if I'm a little incommunicado at the end of the month, it's because I'm partying on the town with my guests!
The BIG event recently was that on Feb. 8, I finally left my office job to concentrate full time on wrestling, training, sessions, and videos. I'd been planning and looking forward to this for a long time. There was delicious cake and terrible snow storm to mark the occasion. And then...
I had thought, naively I suppose, that I was going to have SO much time to do everything I wanted once I got out of the office. I was going to increase my training schedule, never have to turn anyone down for a session due to a time conflict again, and travel several times a month.
Phew! Well, I shot out of the gate and hit the ground running. It was quite exciting. I booked trips to Texas, D.C., and Chicago. D.C., especially, was a super-trip -- I don't know what it is about that city, but the guys there love their wrestling. I was going non-stop -- domination, competitive, boxing, and -- a rare treat for me -- a real, serious, can-actually-handle-the-pain beatdown. Drove back to New York in the afternoon (through more snowstorm warnings), and met a favorite regular client for a late session that same night.
I cranked up training too. I joined my academy's "elite" Muay Thai program and added sparring classes to my BJJ, MMA, and pad work regimen. I thought I was doing awesome to have made it all the way through winter untouched by cold and flu season...then March arrived and I was finally brought low by a hideous fatigue-sinus-throat thing. I had to admit that as much as I love being busy, I needed better planning and balance. It was actually lucky that the sponsor for my Chicago trip, originally planned for right now, had to pull out and look to reschedule at a later date.
NOW, I can say I feel like I'm beginning to get the hang of this full-time wrestling thing. I made a few excellent discoveries -- plan trips further in advance whenever possible. Evening training does NOT work well for me. That one's still killing me, actually, since my academy only offers sparring and MMA at night. And I haven't yet figured out how to get as much lifting in around my martial arts as I want to. But I've ID'ed the challenges, and I've got the destination in mind -- just working on the map!
There's been exciting stuff going on with other ladies at Doom Maidens too. Indra's back in the US -- for a long stay this time! For her welcome-back present, we got her victims! First, we offered up Ben for some classic, cheeky Indra domination, and next it was Thrash for some bondage tickle-torture.
BUT Athena spiced up the party -- like the giver of birthday spankings, she turned the tables on Indra and dealt out some tickle torture of her own. There will be more to come from Indra this very Sunday -- she'll be taking on a visiting victim in a new bondage wrestling match, and possibly subjecting him to some judoka foot domination too!
We've also got a new lady training with us now. Well, not entirely new -- some may remember Sircee from her matches with Clobberetta and Athena last year. But after a recent bondage wrestling shoot, where she had a lot of fun being introduced to bondage wrestling and even more fun showing off her wily escaping skills (to my ultimate frustration), Sircee is newly fired up and ready to start rolling in earnest. She's been coming by the Brooklyn studio for practice to beef up her wrestling skills, and she's a quick pupil. Must be the dance background -- show her a movement, and she soaks it right up. The next training is this Friday with me and Orlandoe.
And fans loved this! So much that they began sending custom video requests that carried on the story of the Syndicate. It has been truly fantastic to see how different guys all writing separately have been creating different episodes of this story. BUT here's the rub -- in the hands of our fan writers the Syndicate has strayed from its original purpose of persecuting men and fallen to in-fighting -- a continuing power-struggle between the Grand Domina herself (me) and the Second-in-Command (Orlandoe). In the past month, Orlandoe and I have struggled through two death-matches and one bondage torture abduction. Way to protect your own necks, guys, turning us on each other! No worries, we'll get you soon enough!
And, finally, a look ahead -- not wrestling-related for a change. I would like to announce that my birthday will be here in just two weeks, and I'm looking forward to a fabulous present. My mother and two sisters are all coming to visit me, and we are preparing to hit NYC in true girls'-weekend style. Dining, theatre, wine bars, warm springtime Botanic Gardens if we're lucky, wedding planning for baby sister, and maybe (if I can talk them all into it) kickboxing for everyone ;) So if I'm a little incommunicado at the end of the month, it's because I'm partying on the town with my guests!
