tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546665963755719151.post7418053003420708191..comments2023-07-15T07:17:49.535-04:00Comments on Professional Wrestling in U.S. Popular Culture: pain in repetitionSam Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233749268141980625noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546665963755719151.post-46551373035525406272007-04-17T07:33:00.000-04:002007-04-17T07:33:00.000-04:00Luis, you post two interesting questions. The fir...Luis, you post two interesting questions. The first is whether knowing it's coming changes the trauma or memory any. The other is where the memory is contained. You said something about these situations bringing those feelings back in your nose, and I thought that was an interesting phrase. I know that, literally, the memory must be housed in one's mind, but I wonder how tied this memory of body trauma is tied to the actual location of an injury.Sam Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233749268141980625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546665963755719151.post-60525475532563792742007-04-17T04:18:00.000-04:002007-04-17T04:18:00.000-04:00I suppose that knowing that the pain is coming can...I suppose that knowing that the pain is coming can be important. The shock of being in pain and the pain itself can go a long ways toward burning that memory into you and have that memory float back to the surface whenever that similar kind of pain comes into play. I have something that might fall into this category. Getting hit in the nose. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. On the basket ball court mostly or just someone accidentally hitting me. But I always go back to a memory of me when I was 8 and I fell flat on my nose while I was trying to balance myself with my arms between two bars. Even now just doing something like that brings back that sort of feeling in my nose. But wrestlers have to go through lots of pain that is controlled so it might just be hard to distinguish memories. But this begs the question, what about pain that is not controlled? Such as the hell in a cell match with the Undertaker, or the I quit match with the Rock? The fall through the cage was not planned but it could not have been worse that falling into a table just 15 minutes prior, or the numerous extra chair shots he took from the Rock. These must be similar bumps to those taken before but unexpected. So does body memory come into play here? Only in something like wrestling would one be able to find an answer.Luis Tenoriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17084055128087243838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546665963755719151.post-15873208586013621452007-04-13T07:33:00.000-04:002007-04-13T07:33:00.000-04:00Laury, Mick talked about it during our class discu...Laury, Mick talked about it during our class discussion on Wednesday, when Kate was telling him about her project. I think you are quite right that the emphasis Mick gives to the scriptedness of wrestling is key here. He points out that the distinction between wrestling and boxing/ultimate fighting is that you are always in control of your dangerous moves in wrestling and have a partner working with you, rather than an opponent against you.<BR/><BR/>You make a great point about how this autonomy could cause this same physically painful event to be much less emotionally scarring. Mick points out several times how you can't fake getting hit with a steel chair, yet I think it matters quite a bit to know that the shot is coming and to want it to hit you as part of the performance. I'm glad that his comments integrated so well with your research in this class and in your other project as well.Sam Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233749268141980625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546665963755719151.post-64027479540488903312007-04-12T19:39:00.000-04:002007-04-12T19:39:00.000-04:00This is very interesting to me, where does Foley t...This is very interesting to me, where does Foley talk about body memory?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com