All Elite Wrestling‘s Serena Deeb enjoys hosting wrestling seminars.
Serena Deeb recently sat down with Slam Wrestling to discuss her upcoming wrestling seminar in Ontario. During the discussion, Deeb revealed that since she’s so detail-oriented that holding wrestling seminars is one of her favorite things to do.
“I actually love doing seminars. It’s one of my favorite things to do,” Serena Deeb said. “I’m very detail-oriented with my wrestling so a lot of my seminars end up going into like, correcting very, very minute details that a lot of people probably don’t see or aren’t trained properly. So I have an idea, I have a general outline and I have a way I start and all that. You can’t really write out a whole game plan.” People throw questions at her or it all goes awry, in a good way. The last seminar I did, I had an idea what I wanted to do and it went in a completely opposite direction. And it was really fun because it was just going off of what I saw, pushing into that, rather than what I had potentially planned.”
Serena Deeb has been in the professional wrestling industry for almost 20 years. But nowadays, being prepared for live television is more important than ever. There are so many small details that younger wrestlers don’t even think about that Deeb hopes she can teach them in a seminar like this.
“Another thing just to add is breaking down elements of TV wrestling, like how to wrestle on TV,” Serena Deeb said. “There’s so many things like times and commercial breaks, and cameras, and all of these things and being able to adjust on the fly if you have to cut some stuff out and that kind of stuff. These are important things to explain to them as well, because every single person, every trainee in wrestling, I would imagine wants to work for a major company on television at some point. So just try to transfer a little bit of that knowledge as well, and just things to keep in mind as they work indies — try to put some of these things into practice.
“I like doing seminars right before there’s an indy show, because I always encourage them, ‘Hey, here’s one challenge for the show. Pretend that there’s a hard cam,’ or ‘Pretend that there’s a floor cam.’ Take one element that we discussed regarding wrestling on television, and put it into play in your indy match. And just pick one and start small and then build from there. Then every indy show that you do, keep these things in mind.”
When Deeb started in the business, the idea of things like Twitter and Instagram didn’t exist. Living in a social media-driven world has also changed the way that fans consume a live wrestling product, and she believes the people that she trains should be mindful of that.
“It’s funny watching all the wrestling shows this [WrestleMania] weekend, and just seeing three-quarters of the crowd had their phones out, recording. It’s just a totally different landscape now,” Serena Deeb said. “It’s not the Attitude Era when cell phones weren’t as much a thing, and people were paying attention the whole time. I mean, people are scrolling through Twitter or recording the matches, recording this, recording that — it’s a total cell phone game today, and it’s fascinating to watch. I mean, we’ve come a long way.”
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