alpinisto's blog

I have never been a fighter. For I had no reason to fight when I spent most of my spare time in the outdoors climbing mountains all over the globe as far as my wages would allow. This way I since 1981 have climbed more than 200 mountains, among those about 70 peaks higher than 4000 metres and 3 peaks higher than 6000 metres, the highest being Aconcagua in Argentina with 6959 metres. Towards the end of my climbing career I became the Dane having climbed the most 4000-metre peaks in Europe. Sure I had challenges on some of these climbing trips, but those challenges would not be conquerred in a man-to-man fight.
Following a severe frostbite I was befell by on a winter climb of one of the North Faces in the Alps I also started running in 1989, which in spite of my heavy frame worked well, and within a year I had proceeded to marathon running. Since then I have managed to run nine marathons and even finished one in less than three hours. The last marathon I finished was in Ottawa in 2013, just a few weeks before I was struck by a blood clot.
I was hospitalized for six weeks after the blood clot as the doctors tried to find the reason for the clot, but they never found it though they are still investigating. But they all agree that all the physical activity I had had the previous more than 20 years has helped me to overcome the clot better than most other persons.
Two years before I was struck by the blood clot I was visiting a friend in England, and with him I had my first wrestling experience, though this was just for fun and a bit of bondage. But I remembered this fun we've had, and a few weeks after I was discharged from the hospital I had a visit to another friend in Germany to have some wrestling with him, even though I was still pretty impaired from the clot. But he was easy on me, and after the match he showed me to this site.
Initially I felt sure that the damages to my body from the clot were only temporarily, but as time went by and I no longer was able to climb any mountains and hardly could run more than 10 kms, wrestling became the straw I was clinging to. The years after the clot I gradually did more wrestling, even though I had no club to go to or friends here in Denmark to wrestle, but I was happy to find new friends here to wrestle with. So I had to travel to do my wrestling, and since I lost my job because of the clot money was rare and left not much surplus for traveling abroad.
Though I have the idea that wrestling is so much better for my body than any gym work, for simply lifting weights in the gym is so predictable - which wrestling is not! For you don't know the whims of your opponent and what to expect, which is a challenge I like. But it is difficult to keep wrestling year round, especially in the winter season, and therefore I have decided to aim for doing some wrestling every month; so far I have had some wrestling done every month since July. Then the future will tell me where it leads to.