It was 6:04
Then began the session that changed it all. It started when she knelt across from him (she never wrestled from a standing position, both wrestlers always started from their knees) and he tapped her outstretched hand to "tag in" and begin. To set the tone, she rushed him immediately to try to catch him off guard, but he ducked to avoid her and hip checked her side. She managed to catch herself with her hands to not fall face first to the mat, and when she did he mounted her back with his arm now snaking around her neck. With him on her back she could not get off her hands and knees to grab his arm: he had her in a sleeperhold in about 9 seconds.
'Damn it he was fast!!' Jamie said to herself.
She had never experienced a person that quick. She fell to her side to get her weight off her hands and knees and tried to roll on him and smash him with her weight. As she tried that he wrapped his legs around her stomach and rolled her to her side. Now she was on her side, his skinny yet python like arms were secured under her chin and around her neck while his 5'5" frame left his legs around the soft part of her belly: above her hip bones but below her rib cage. He began to scissor with his skinny yet also python like thighs. After about 15 seconds of trying to break either vice like hold she began to see stars and tapped his thigh for mercy.
He released her immediately. It took her a moment to catch her breath, when she did she looked over at his smiling, excited face.
"Wow!" he said. "That was amazing!"
"I bet....." she said, stunned, completely speechless. He sat on the bed to give her a moment, then held his foot out so she could see the bottom of it and said:
"Want to worship my feet now? Or use your mulligan?"
She was speechless again. Worship his feet? She didn't think so, not now, not happening.
"No. Sorry bud, that's not happening now, not later." she tried to say confidently. Despite trying to sound confident, she was shaken just a bit at the speed of her defeat.
"Ok," he said without missing a beat "but that's your only mulligan. I hope you used it wisely." he continued with that same confident smile.
She collected herself, adjusted her top, and said "Ok, I want some payback."
"Ok, let's go!" he said as he knelt on the mat in front of her.
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'Perfect start!' Ray thought to himself proudly. He and Shannon had a feeling she would consider him a pushover, despite what he had told her about how the two wrestled, and Shannon thought she would try to establish dominance early. He used that against her perfectly. He thought he may be able to read her and outwit her, they both knew she was bigger and stronger than he was, but that first fall was too easy. He had read her perfectly! She declined to worship his feet after he forced her to tap out, but he thought mentioning it to her would put doubt in her mind, maybe even some fear now that she used her one mulligan. He could see that it was working as he heard a bit of a shake in her voice after the fall. Was this going to work? Too early to get greedy, it was only 6:06 and he had a long way to go.
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Jamie thought about how to start the second fall. Bull rushing him didn't work, almost like he was ready for that and knew what she was going to do before she did. Now she was nervous. Almost anxious.
Wait, anxious? Jamie had never, ever felt anxious or nervous in a session, not even in her first one.
But here she was, deciding how to take this guy who had made her tap in about 45 seconds. She decided to play it slower and held out her hand. He tapped in and bull rushed her.
This was perfect, Jamie thought, he would come barreling into her and push her over while she rolled back and caught him in a body scissor. However, to her surprise, and dread, he stopped in his tracks and pushed her shoulders as she started to roll back. She tried to grab him with her legs like she initially planned but he quickly pushed her right leg over her left and climbed on top of her. He quickly straddled her thighs and slid up to sit on her hips and forced her butt to the ground. She reached up with her arms in a bit of a panic and he grabbed each of her wrists with his hands. Not good. Not good at all.
This was new to Jamie. Even when the short skinny guys went hard they usually weren't strong or quick. This guy was both and, to make it worse, skilled and knowledgeable. Panic hit a bit more as she tried to pull her arms back out of his grip, not paying attention so him slowly inching forward across her bare belly. She stopped fighting with her arms and thrust her hips into the air and to the left, trying to throw him off, but by now he was seated on her belly and the thrusts did nothing.
'Damn!' Jamie thought! 'Damn, damn, DAMN!!!'
"What now?" he said, in that same confident tone with that same confident smile. She tried to free her arms again, nothing. His grip didn't have to be strong to control her wrists, he had all the leverage, but it was strong enough.
"What now?" she tried to say without showing fear or nerves. "What now is I roll out and get my payback!"
She pushed her right arm left and tried to roll her body the same way, trying to knock him over but he held firm, his ankles locked in under her butt. She tried rolling right with no luck. She tried throwing him off again, but again he held firm. She tried throwing him straight up and slide out from underneath him backwards, but the bedspread over the sleeping bag padding didn't allow her to slide easily. She tried again and made some progress, but her boobs got in the way and she wasn't able to slide under past his legs.
'Damn again!' she cursed to herself. She never thought she would ever curse her breasts being too big, but she may have made it if they hadn't hit his legs. Or maybe he would have ended up seated on her neck, that would have been even worse. His perch atop her was solid, so she pondered her next move.
"You are starting to breathe heavy," he said. "and you still haven't answered the "what now" question." he said jokingly.
"If you keep this up you aren't going to last the hour, and I plan to be sitting on you again before this is over. I would save some strength if I were you."