head drop bump question

[TheDarceKnight]

Maybe some fellow Puro fans can help shed some light on this too?

Just saw the Stone Cold documentary where he took the sitout tombstone/k-driller from Owen and almost got paralyzed.

Now, I realize a lot of the sheerdop brainbusters and pildrivers land people on the back of their head and top of the shoulders instead of directly on top of the head...but...in cases like the Burning Hammer, vertical drop brainbusters, etc. How in the hell do guys practice taking those bumps?

Do you just build up your Traps/shoulders/neck and pray for the best? I know there's technique involved in taking these sheerdrop moves but for the vertical ones, like back in the heavy King's Road AJPW days, WTF

I don't understand how Misawa didn't die way before he did.

Cool video by the way

 

[TrueEpic08]

Most of those "headdrop" bumps are taken on the back of the shoulders and neck. Not that it doesn't put you in danger (or even that they don't have legitimate headdrop moves, like the Tiger Driver '91, but those weren't pulled out a lot until the late '90s), as can be seen by how wrecked the bodies of some of those '90s AJPW stars are, but it's much, MUCH safer than what happened to Austin, where that was a case of Owen doing something both extremely stupid and something that Austin explicitly told him not to do before the match.

The result there, of course, was a 230 lb. man trying to use a sitout belly to belly piledriver (a move with pretty much no margin for error at all, as one slip results in the person's head crashing into the hard mat. There's a reason belly-to-belly piledrivers are almost always Tombstone Piledrivers: It's far easier to keep the head from hitting the mat) a 250 lb man and failing. Really, they're almost two different situations.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I also remember, whether it's the 1st or the 2nd burning hammer that Misawa took, but he said he couldn't walk or feel his extremities for a week.