>>18047144 You know its bad when some yardtard does something more impressive and cleaner in a wrestling environment, knowing he's completely untrained and just a fan lucky enough to have friends to practice with and on, compared to the shitters on national television today.
>>18047175 I think most trainers these days are either clueless and got the job from a sympathy angle, or are intentionally sabotaging their students because they're jealous of them and bitter their career was cut short.
>>18047193 No, it was because they failed to learn from those who either failed to teach or were incapable of doing it. Shawn Michaels opened up his own wrestling school and he taught a while there before handing it off to others because he came to the conclusion he couldn't really teach or show what it is that just came naturally to him. AEW is basically the most successful yard tard thread on that premise alone because several guys tried to impart wisdom onto the younger talent but they would rather go out tot eh ring to play grab-ass and tickle taint with their fucking friends as opposed to piecing together a compelling wrestling match instead of just a sequence of cool looking moves with no substance except for mimicking an anime fight.
>>18047240 Yep. Hardy's had their own fed and they helped train Shannon Moore and Shane Helms. Foley got famous for yardtarding. CM Punk got his name from his yard tarding days. DEAN yardtarded as a coping mechanism for a bad childhood. "Sick" Nick Mondo started in a backyard. Its wrestling's bastard, autistic, pants on head drooling retarded stepchild twice removed at this point.
The Bung Yucks, Seth Rollins, Liv Morgan, Daniel Bryan; lots. That's probably going to continue now that you can basically buy a ring and your own belts and start from there.
>>18047133 (OP) I watch street beefs but thats as far as ill go.
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 10:55:38 PM No.18047395
>>18047353 You probably do. The line between outlaw mudshows and yardtards is ill defined at best. Some fat schlub booking your local banquet center doesn't mean he ain't a yardtard.
>>18047353 With a lack of schools or even the means in which to pay for training, many just opt to bounce around with their friends for fun and the more serious seek out bookings and go from there. Its more or less something you learn on the job anyway.
>>18047133 (OP) With BJJ, no-gi grappling and other martial arts becoming normal pasttimes we can expect a generation of backyard shooters. Maybe in a weird way this is how we're gonna get real tough guys back in wrestling. Some meth/fent/kratom heads with legit shoot credentials will appear out of shit holes throughout the US looking for easy work and voila the business is full of insane people once again.
Even some of the wrestling ring vendors sell rings made for training and yard tarding and market them as such. https://www.monsterringsandcages.com/products/backyard-wrestling-ring
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 11:05:59 PM No.18047463
>>18047443 There's a fine line between backyard shooters and unlicensed boxing/MMA events and the law comes down on those hard. Yardtarding may be something that circumvents such restrictions.
>>18047469 Crazy Hardcore Wrestling https://www.chw-backyard.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@CHWbackyard Tennessee Backyard Wrestling is kino https://www.youtube.com/@TBW2017 P.O.R. was the one Jim Cornette commented on about the guy getting hit by a car at full speed and with any publicity being good publicity, they just used it to make themselves more popular. https://www.youtube.com/@PORWrestling https://www.youtube.com/@nd_backyard_wrestling
>>18048512 I hear ya. You're not main eventing MSG, Steve. You're the opening match at Phil's Bar.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 6:36:12 AM No.18051836
>>18047133 (OP) I remember back in like 2010 there was a video on YouTube that was highlights from some trampoline fed. It was set to The Kill by 30 Seconds To Mars and I watched it probably 100 times. Wonder if it's still out there.
>>18051836 Trampoline's wrestling is based its beyond unpredictable where the fuck you're going to even land or what's going to happen. Could beam yourself off the frame, could break your ass on the ground; wild times.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:34:03 AM No.18052173
>>18047133 (OP) >Any stories from your /yardtarding/ days? Yeah I got a few >grow up in small midwestern town in the mid 00's >less than 1000 people >close friends with 5 other dudes since birth >all of us obsessed with wrestling >when I was 12 my Mom saved up enough money to buy a trampoline >we immediately use it to start wrestling >just exhibition matches at first >nobody had a video camera or anything so we just did it for ourselves to have fun >2 more kids show up over the summer to join in >decide to put on our first show on the last weekend before school >8 of us so 4 matches >hand make flyers and post them around town >nobody gives a shit >day comes, I'm booked to open the show and run in during the main event >first match is me, ring name Cloud Explodo vs my best friend , ring name Leonhart >matches are all called in ring outside of some big spots >none of the matches have planned run times >basically just go until we get tired and then go to the finish >finish for our match was a spear off the trampoline >hit my head on the bump like a shitter >midcard matches are Jason Bronco vs Just Brandon and Brick Hogan vs Matty Sunday >fast forward to the final match >Matt Redfield vs The Hellspawn in a hardcore match for the BCW (Badass Championship Wrestling) title >quickly devolves into a clusterfuck with literally all of us running in >Hellspawn wants to do a dive off the garage >goes off without a hitch >massive pop >Hellspawn wins the title >continue doing these shows almost every weekend for the next year and a half >even wrestled in the snow >we all vow to do whatever it takes to become real wrestlers >fast forward to today >2 of them are now dead and 1 is in prison and 2 more are meth heads who never left that town >the last 3 of us got out alright but have normal boring lives >haven't talked to any of them in years >we will never get to relive the time we were backyard superstars
>>18052173 bumps to the frontal lobe are probably the cause of 30% of nutcases on earth. a lot of the psycho girls I knew had an abusive parent or a bad hit to the head somewhere. Henry the 8th was apparently normal before a jousting accident in his 30s/40s. one bump was all it took
>be me, oldest of 3 sons >have trampoline we wrestle on for fun >during late 2000s we have the idea to do WWE finishing moves on each other for a youtube vid >since I'm the biggest, I do the power moves like Batista Bomb, Cena's FU, Tombstone >middle brother did a spear but since the trampoline was small, he got a running start from the grass and jumped up to hit me on the trampoline in one jump >smallest brother hits a frog splash from the trampoline on me laying on the grass >smallest brother also hits a 619 using my arm instead of the rope >some other moves I forgot, the video was like 3 mins long and set to Seether - Remedy >comments praising the 619 spot but mostly just calling us retards and me using it as an excuse to beat up my smaller brothers >delete it 4 years later out of cringe >find out dad had found it and downloaded it, brings it up sometimes
I used to watch highlight videos of 2KW (that one backyard wrestling channel who used to do stuff on children's playgrounds)
https://youtu.be/zlxBTWCV264
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 3:22:56 PM No.18054610
>>18054521 Maybe, but no other English king drew more dimes than him
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:03:51 PM No.18054798
I used to watch a LOT of Matt Demorest highlight clips. It's like peak indy garbage of dudes throwing themselves into their necks for a hotdog, handshake and a few thousand views
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:09:11 PM No.18054815
>>18053621 Died drunk driving when he was 17. Just Brandon went away for attempting to kill his girlfriends Dad.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:12:54 PM No.18054832
If it wasn’t for backyard wrestling we wouldn’t have many of the aew super stars we love and respect today. I always thought they bucks should have their own harts dungeon style match that takes place in the lit childhood back yard.
>friends older brother did yardtard stuff >would show us vhs tapes of him and his buds wrasslin >people frog splashing others off the roof onto mattresses >breaking florescent tubes over their heads >barbed wire spots and chairshots I don't remember them ever having a ring. I think they just used a trampoline, mattresses, or just took bumps on the grass kek
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:31:11 PM No.18056043
>>18047133 (OP) I used to watch a lot of backyard wrestling vids back in the early years of Youtube. My favorite fed was this one where this skinny black dude was their champ and he would powerbomb people into their neighbor's yard.
>>18047133 (OP) clever finish wonder if wrestling execs watch this shit to steal ideas not like these poorfags could afford to sue
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 6:07:09 AM No.18060586
bump
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 8:41:26 AM No.18061659
It sounds like an interesting way to spend an evening if you get a few beers into you and just watch a shit show. Its always good to see people be passionate about what they love doing and dig as opposed to those that just go through the motions to get to the bar the fastest.
>>18058613 >>18058835 Unfortunuately it's been gone for years. Deleted it in like 2011, I didn't keep it downloaded and my dad doesn't have it anymore either (I asked about it a few years ago)
>>18064629 The games were something else, weren't they? I remember them being ADHD shitshows, but it embraced the trash edgelord attitude of the early 2000s. They also had some choice words about New Jack's shenanigans: https://youtu.be/UP0IIliIhYc?si=FKWHg_35upbJ5Heb