Ok, ready for a break from talk about photography and near death experiences? How about some scholarly work?
I've been selected to speak at the Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles in March on a panel about Professional Wrestling and Drama/Theatre. I'm currently writing the paper I intend to present.
So here's where I need your help.
This is a survey to find out what a viewer's response is to certain wrestling moves. You don't have to be a wrestling fan. In fact, hopefully, I'll have as many people who hate wrestling as who love it, thus making the data more diverse. The video to the right is just over five minutes long and the survey shouldn't take more than ten minutes to complete tops. Please watch it and answer the survey below. Fair warning, there is some blood in it, so it might not be completely worksafe depending on where you are. I need a wide variety of responses here to get accurate data, so I'd love it if you'd help me out whether you're a wrestling fan or even if you hate it. Just copy the survey below and post your answers as a comment on this blog (you can log in with a Facebook account, or create an account on this website by clicking the sign-in link, or comment anonymously. Anonymous comments won't show up until I approve them later) or email them to me at mav+cdcpaper@elseworld.com, whichever is easier, or depending on whether you want your answers published here or not.
If you wouldn't mind, please repost and get your friends to fill out the survey as well. Thank you very much for your help on this and let me know if you have any questions.
Survey
Demographics
Please list the following questions about yourself:
Gender:
Age:
How much of a professional wrestling fan are you? (1 - I hate wrestling, 2 - I don't care about wrestling, 3 - I used to like wrestling, 4 - I like professional wrestling, 5 - I am/was a professional wrestler)
Roughly how many years have you been a wrestling fan? (list 0 if you're not a wrestling fan)
The Moves
For each move in the video, rate on a scale of 1-5 (1 being least and 5 being most) whether you find the move to be believable/realistic, difficult to perform, dangerous to perform safely, harmful to the victim, exciting to watch:
Move 1 (Sitdown Backbreaker)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 2 (Stone Cold Stunner)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 3 (Springboard Kick)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 4 (Hulking Up)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 5 (Frog Splash)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 6 (Crossface)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 7 (
Corkscrew Moonsault
)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 8 (More Cowbell)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 9 (Styles Clash)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 10 (People's Elbow)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 11 (Dudley Death Drop)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 12 (Asai Corkscrew Moonsault)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 13 (Barbwire 2x4)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 14 (Boston Crab)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Move 15 (Tombstone Piledriver)
Believability (1 - unrealistic, 5 - very believable):
Difficulty (1 - easy to do, 5 - hard to do):
Danger (1 - not dangerous, 5 - very dangerous):
Harmful (1 - harmless, 5 - potentially deadly):
Excitement (1 - boring, 5 - amazing):
Extra Notes
If any move stood out to you as particularly exciting, stupid, painful or otherwise made a lasting impression, please let me know. Similarly, if you have any other comments, feel free to add them as well.
