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Гугл аккаунт рекламы отключил, теперь бабла мне не видать и проект на чистом интересе висит

[beograde]

Вот то, что я хотел изначально запостить, но не нашел тогда.

First lets talk about Strong Style. It is the most common word used to describe the type of wrestling performed in New Japan, which is the largest federation in the country and second largest in the world. The title "Strong Style" itself describes New Japan's philosophy and the philosophy of its founder, Antonio Inoki. New Japan refers to itself as the "King of Sports," so in their eyes it must also have the strongest style of fighting. New Japan's style isn't static, but over the years has taken elements from other types of wrestling and incorporated it into their style.

Today, Strong style means hard-hitting New Japan matches, basically. It incorporates submission finishes more frequently than "King's Road", as Inoki's vision was Pro Wrestling as a Mixed Martial Art. You are more apt to see a quick cross armbreaker (jujigatame) finish in New Japan, as the move is established as a very dangerous submission that many times results in an instant tap-out. The three different representatives of Strong Style throughout New Japan's existence were Inoki himself, Riki Choshu, and then Shinya Hashimoto in the 1990s. Since Hashimoto left the company New Japan really hasn't gotten a "stylistic leader" or true "ace" at the level of those three men, and as such has been in somewhat of a quagmire booking-wise, though they are pinning their hopes on young superstars Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi to lead the company into the future.

When New Japan first opened up in the 1970s there was a heavy emphasis on a long portion of early matwork, a legacy that lives on today. Inoki would regularly work holds for an extended period of time and then turn it on for a big finish with high impact moves like the dropkick and suplexes. In later years when matwork as the major vehicle for telling stories fell by the wayside, this type of structure often lead to big New Japan matches featuring cursory matwork in the beginning of the match that didn't really play into the later portions, where they seemed to start the "real match" and bring out their hard hitting arsenal. Inoki's vision of pro wrestling presented it as a style of fighting, to be put up against other martial arts disciplines like judo and karate. This lead to him working in many "different style fights" against top practitioners of other fighting styles; worked matches, mind you, that Inoki used to put himself and pro wrestling as a whole over. Inoki would later lose sight of that goal with the later MMA-influence movement that came on the heels of PRIDE's success, but that is another topic for another time. Strong Style took a turn for the faster paced when Riki Choshu turned heel and started up the Ishigundan (Restruction Force). Choshu and his compatriots - hard-working veterans Masa Saitoh and Killer Khan, the young Yoshiaki Yatsu and the little spitfire Animal Hamaguchi - brought rapid-fire double and triple team moves to their matches and a more brisk pace in between periods of inactivity with restholds like the Figure 4 Headscissor.

Another contributing influence to "Strong Style" was the formation of the UWF by breakaway stars like Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, and the young Akira Maeda. The UWF group stressed more realistic "fighting" in their wrestling and pushed clean finishes (a concept that was directly against most booking in Japan at the time as even tournament finals and title matches often ended in screwjob finishes to protect the wrestlers from losing outright). When UWF verson 1 closed its doors, many of the wrestlers came back to New Japan and ran an "invasion" angle, where their "kick suplex and submission" style really caught on with the fans and began to be incorporated into New Japan matches. A classic match in the tradition of the two colliding styles was Akira Maeda vs. Tatsumi Fujinami from June 12, 1986.

Upon Choshu's return to New Japan in the late 80s and his ascention to the head booker of the company the type of match known not-so-affectionately as "Lariat Puroresu" became the norm. These matches regularly featured repeated hits with a wrestler's signature striking move while the opponent attempted to endure them to show his "fighting spirit." It was not uncommon to see Riki Choshu use 6 or 7 lariats in one match to finish off an opponent, and his disciples like Kensuke Sasaki and Manabu Nakanishi followed suit. Choshu's hand-picked successor Shinya Hashimoto represented "Strong Style" perfectly during his years on top of New Japan in the 1990s. Hashimoto's offense was largely based around hard kicks and chops along with his signature DDTs, but he was able to project an aura of strength and power throughout his IWGP title reigns that had audiences coming to see him and the New Japan product in record numbers. Two matches that perhaps best represent Strong Style in the 1990s are the 1991 and 1995 G1 Climax finals, the first match being the breakout performance by young superstars Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, and the second featuring Shinya Hashimoto relinquish his reign as "ace" of New Japan Pro Wrestling to Keiji Mutoh.

There is some confusion on the internet and in some circles about just what "strong style" is. Part of that confusion stems from its early usage by Dave Meltzer and others in the Wrestling Observer crowd. They often referred to what we would now call "worked-shoot" and submission style wrestling as "Strong Style," especially in reference to promotions like UWFi and Pancrase. Dave has since corrected himself and noted that it is generally just a refferant to New Japan's style. American Independant wrestlers and announcers also refer to many of their matches as "American Strong Style." To US Indy guys "Strong Style" = "Too Stiff" and features many head-dropping maneuvers more accurately associated with the All Japan style of wrestling, but such attention to detail can't be expected from people who are just using "buzzwords" to cash-in on the small enclave of pro wrestling smart marks who follow the Japanese scene.

[AlexHardy]

beograde, спасибо огромное за такой ценный материал. Не мог бы ты подкинуть парочку ссылок, где можно подробно почитать про подобные тонкости прореса.

[SkaLD]

Собственно, у нас сейчас как в последнем абзаце "Стронг Стайл = Жёсткие удары, болевые, БАМПЫ НА ШЕЮ и тп".
И лично я не вижу смысла придерживаться вот этих точных, но старых определений, учитывая как сцена пуро изменилась за последние 10 лет.

[AlexHardy]

Ну для прокачки усов никогда не помешает поподробнее узнать традицию и историю двух гланых японских промоушенов.

[SkaLD]

Ну этой статье уж точно уже лет 5))
Толи на вики, толи на сизых где-то читал уже, её постят везде где злоуботребляют выражением "стронг стайл"))) Заодно народ узнает что такое King Road

[AlexHardy]

На вики точно в таких подробностях нет. Только да, по форумам шарить.

[APD]

Собственно, у нас сейчас как в последнем абзаце "Стронг Стайл = Жёсткие удары, болевые, БАМПЫ НА ШЕЮ и тп".
И лично я не вижу смысла придерживаться вот этих точных, но старых определений, учитывая как сцена пуро изменилась за последние 10 лет.

Вообще глупо считать, что стиль может умереть с уходом одного-единственного человека.

[SkaLD]

Да как-будто один Иноки ушёл. Сейчас в NJ вообще мало кто напоминает о той эре, разве что Нагата и иногда Накамура.

[beograde]

NJ использует словосочетание SS по отношению и сейчас довольно часто. Последний пример http://www.njpw.co.jp/news/article.php?nwid=12947
SS vs Lucha.

Интересная статья про джоши, 7 страниц поэтому
http://ifolder.ru/19994567