Erik Isaksen Blog #4: "A trip to Japan"

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00martedì 18 novembre 2008 17:36
-ERIK ISAKSEN BLOG FOR WRESTLEUROPE.COM-
A trip to Japan


On Tuesday morning the 21st October, the day had come. I was ready to go on my first wrestling trip to Japan. Travelling from Oslo to Tokyo via Moscow, I was supposed to meet Chris the Bambikiller, my ProWres EXPO tag team partner, at the Moscow airport. Too bad that his flight from Austria was delayed so he would not be able to get there in time for his connecting flight to Tokyo. Anyway, I spent six long hours at the Moscow airport waiting for my flight to Tokyo. Thankfully, I slept well on the flight to Tokyo so that I was not too tired when I arrived there Wednesday morning local time.

The Hotel Bellegrande where I was staying, a great hotel by the way, was just a minute walk from the Ryogoku Korugikan (Sumo Hall). On the first day in Tokyo, I was doing a taped interview and then some sightseeing at the Asuka temple and in the Shibuya area together with the great guys from the Inoki dojo and also some of the other international wrestlers. The next day we went to the dojo for some training, supervised by Shinjiro Otani, Masahiro Chono and Steve Corino, before going to the Samurai TV studios for promos and interviews in the evening.

The ProWres EXPO event was divided into three parts, taking place on Friday 24th October and on Saturday 25th October:

"PROWRES EXPO 2008 IN JAPAN ~ PART I: GREEN CHAPTER", 24.10.2008
Fire Pavilion: Shinjiro Otani, Kohei Sato & Minoru Fujita beat Eric Young, Bambikiller & Erik Isaksen (15:31) after a German Suplex by Sato on Young
"PROWRES EXPO 2008 IN JAPAN ~ PART II: WHITE CHAPTER", 25.10.2008
Continent Confrontation Tournament - Block B: Masato Tanaka & Daisuke Sekimoto beat Bambikiller & Erik Isaksen (16:26) when Tanaka used the Sliding D on Isaksen
"PROWRES EXPO 2008 IN JAPAN ~ PART III: BLUE CHAPTER", 25.10.2008
Continent Confrontation Tournament - Block B: Bambikiller & Erik Isaksen beat Durango & Naruto (5:02) after the Bambi Death Shot from Bambikiller on Naruto.

This was the first time I met Steve Corino since 2003 and Masahiro Chono and Scott Norton since the New Japan event in Milan, Italy in 2005, and it was nice to meet all of them again. Danny Hodge, the legend from the «Golden Age» of wrestling, was at the ProWres EXPO as a guest of honour, and it was fascinating to meet and talk with him. He even demonstrated some holds on me:-) The ProWres EXPO assembled wrestlers from all parts of the world, making this a truly international event. It was great to be part of this roster and to meet all of them from Japan, Europe, Australia, USA and other places.

On Sunday morning I was on my flight back from Japan, returning to Norway many memories richer.

The whole trip was great for me; the culture, the people, the food and the whole experience. I would like to thank the whole ProWres EXPO committee for bringing me to the event.


I will hopefully return to Japan again in the future. Then I will be happy man!



Erik
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