The philosophy that Bryan Danielson has when it comes to professional wrestling is fascinating because he has a unique way of looking at things.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Bryan Danielson was a recent guest on The Sessions with Renee Paquette to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked by a fan about what he looks for in another professional wrestler, Danielson said he believes that there is a never-ending scope of improvement in wrestling.
“I think there’s so many things to learn in wrestling that you can improve on, and you can constantly — that’s one of the things I love about it,” Bryan Danielson said. “There’s a never-ending scope of improvement, right? Whether it’s connecting with the crowd, whether it’s your technique, like I love things like hammerlocks and my hammerlock, but I don’t think everybody needs to know everything I know about hammerlocks to be a successful wrestler. But if they wanted to learn it, that’d be great whether you could use any of it for any extended period of time.
“But when I look and I watch, I just kind of want to see magic. There’s something magic about somebody special. So like, what is special about you? I think everybody has something special that they can tap into, right? So it’s like when you watch Dante Martin, and I see him do a sunset flip like I’ve never seen it. A sunset flip is a basic wrestling move that like I haven’t seen anybody win with a sunset flip in years. But you see Dante Martin do a sunset flip, and you go like, Whoa, dude, that’s f*cking awesome, right? You just did a f*cking awesome regular sunset flip.
“So when I watch things like that, especially after a match, they’ll say, Oh, what do you think I could get better on as I’m watching it, I think, okay, they could get better on these certain things. But what I’d really like them to do is enjoy wrestling while they’re out there because I think the more that you enjoy it, the more you’re going to there’s certain technical things you can work on before. But if you work on going out there and feeling that moment and enjoying the experience, you’re going to be a better performer, and then you’re just going to get better all around.
“So yeah, there’s just so many aspects to wrestling that you can get better at and stuff it’s I hate criticizing anybody for like minor things that you could anything that you could point to be like, Oh, well this guy’s got he’s not a very good wrestler or his technique sucks. You could point to a lot of people who have made millions of dollars being horrible wrestlers.”
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