Shawna Reed is trying towards the longer term.
As she quickly approaches the ten-year anniversary of her skilled wrestling profession, Shawna Reed is eager on establishing the way forward for the enterprise. Throughout a latest interview with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay, the present BOTB Girls’s Champion expressed her need to transition from a competitor to a coach, as soon as her in-ring profession concludes.
“I’m gonna be sincere. I’m 30 years outdated, so I do know my window is closing, and I’m very conscious of that I’m simply going to maintain wrestling until I imagine my physique is like ‘It’s important to cease.’ I did dabble in coaching somewhat bit, so I’d love to have the ability to prepare folks and assist them develop.”
“… I feel my actual coronary heart in it’s coaching,” Reed continued. “I’ve sort of discovered that. And so hopefully perhaps sometime I get to perhaps not open a coaching faculty, however perhaps go to a coaching faculty and assist prepare folks. However I’m going to maintain going till my physique actually tells me I can’t go anymore, and we’ll see the place that takes us.”
Studying The Fundamentals
When requested in regards to the classes she would instill into her hypothetical coaching college students, Reed made it clear that fundamentals have been key, at the beginning.
“First I’d be certain that they’ve the fundamentals down. Fundamentals are key, important,” Reed mentioned. “So many individuals these days and coaching faculties are like, ‘Okay, certain. Lock up. Cool. Headlock takeover. Cool. Alright, get on the highest, moonsault.’ Or numerous the locations now, folks are available there they usually’re like, ‘I don’t need to be taught the fundamentals. I simply need to go do a 450. May you educate me how to try this?’”
Along with the in-ring fundamentals, Reed can also be intent on shaping the personas of her future college students. Reed herself has undergone a drastic character change in her profession, notably remodeling from the “Fairly Little Psycho” into the “Daughter of a Thousand Maniacs.” Outdoors of the ring, although, Reed desires the subsequent era to take care of a way of humbleness.
“I positively would additionally speak about egos and attempt to instill in my college students like don’t have one. Hearken to your veterans. I’ve personally even had [situations where] I’ll attempt to give folks recommendation after which they go and speak crap about me behind my again. However they are saying that in entrance of my pals and my pals inform me, so it will get round. If I may assist to not make the identical errors I did, then I’d really feel good.”
Take a look at our full interview with Shawna Reed beneath:
