Dillah810
Flat Girther
From tumblr. I guess because I don't watch death matches that I didn't know they used gimmick light tubes and that they break differently.
fluorescent light tubes, straight from the hardware store. there is, from an interview i remember reading but have lost by now, a certain thickness that breaks "safer" than others, but i really couldn't tell you the specifics. i also feel like i remember something about taping the ends because it makes them shatter differently? once again, not a wrestler.
here, have nick gage getting tossed through a bunch of light tubes by rickey shane page
so, here's where they "clearly gimmicked" bit comes in.
those light tubes are fully intact, and still full of all that mercury vapor (tho an extremely, extremely small amount), argon, neon, and all those other chemicals that make them light up. deathmatches are, at the core, spectacle matches. theyre big and crazy circus shows. obvs, wrestling is some carny shyt.
light tubes are used, not to do max damage, but max out the spectacle. all those chemicals, and the whatever specific thickness of tube they use, shatters on impact into a puff of sharp, glittery magic. it looks huge, right? and it maximizes the blood visual without making massive, massive lacerations. you get a shytton of superficial cuts. big explosion and a lot of tiny papercuts. a good shower and youre off to church the next day.
(OBVIOUSLY i am aware of freak accidents, see: that time gage hit one bad and literally died. but real deathmatch guys make a big effort to be as safe as possible, given the circumstances. that's an outlier. he essentially fell and got stabbed by one, it wasn't broken over him.)
so the dynamite tubes.
the thickness of the glass is definitely different. the glass breaks into bigger chucks (which seems, to me, maybe a little more dangerous? oh well), instead of the tiny pieces you'd expect. you also dont get that great big puff of spooky dust, because i dont think even tony khan could afford the insurance on a crowd of people that big.
hopefully that made sense, i'm mad sleepy.
fluorescent light tubes, straight from the hardware store. there is, from an interview i remember reading but have lost by now, a certain thickness that breaks "safer" than others, but i really couldn't tell you the specifics. i also feel like i remember something about taping the ends because it makes them shatter differently? once again, not a wrestler.
here, have nick gage getting tossed through a bunch of light tubes by rickey shane page
so, here's where they "clearly gimmicked" bit comes in.
those light tubes are fully intact, and still full of all that mercury vapor (tho an extremely, extremely small amount), argon, neon, and all those other chemicals that make them light up. deathmatches are, at the core, spectacle matches. theyre big and crazy circus shows. obvs, wrestling is some carny shyt.
light tubes are used, not to do max damage, but max out the spectacle. all those chemicals, and the whatever specific thickness of tube they use, shatters on impact into a puff of sharp, glittery magic. it looks huge, right? and it maximizes the blood visual without making massive, massive lacerations. you get a shytton of superficial cuts. big explosion and a lot of tiny papercuts. a good shower and youre off to church the next day.
(OBVIOUSLY i am aware of freak accidents, see: that time gage hit one bad and literally died. but real deathmatch guys make a big effort to be as safe as possible, given the circumstances. that's an outlier. he essentially fell and got stabbed by one, it wasn't broken over him.)
so the dynamite tubes.
the thickness of the glass is definitely different. the glass breaks into bigger chucks (which seems, to me, maybe a little more dangerous? oh well), instead of the tiny pieces you'd expect. you also dont get that great big puff of spooky dust, because i dont think even tony khan could afford the insurance on a crowd of people that big.
hopefully that made sense, i'm mad sleepy.
