A session with Nicole Bass By TomNine I enjoy encounters with powerful women of all shapes and sizes, but it is the taller and stronger FBBs who really push my buttons. It was only a matter of time before I would meet the great Nicole Bass. It finally happened on 18 July, 1998. Planning for the session began several months earlier on Diana the Valkyrie's chat room when I asked Nicole if she had a visit to Maryland planned. She did, as she was invited to guest pose at a contest near Baltimore. As the date approached we finalized our plans via e-mail and on chat. Nicole had quit doing lifts recently and she was concerned that I would be disappointed, but I assured her it would not be a deal breaker. She also had extensive surgery within a month of the visit, but she seemed assured that she would be in good shape by then. We were set to meet at 10am on the 18th, her only appointment before the evening guest posing gig. She was staying at one of the nicer airport hotels and I got there with no problem. I stopped off at a supermarket on the way over and picked up a small flower arrangement for her. At the hotel the desk clerk placed a call to Nicole's room a few minutes before 10 and Nicole told me her room number. Though it was a very high room number in a large hotel I followed some signs and was surprised that the walk from reception to Nicole's room took about 30 seconds. If you haven't checked out Nicole's homepage, I recommend you do so now: http://www.nicolebass.com She describes meeting her clients wearing a miniskirt and heels, and there she was as described. Her thick red hair was tied back in a ponytail, and she wore some light makeup. While far from contest shape, she looked great to me; thick thighs, bulging biceps and calves, nice narrow waist, broad shoulders. I really lack the vocabulary to describe physique, but I was very pleased by what I saw. Some pictures of her guest posing routine should appear on Diana the Valyrie's galleries soon, so keep an eye out and you might see what condition she was on the day we met. (The contest was the Lavrone Classic.) As chat-room buddies I had Nicole at a disadvantage as I already knew what she looked like but it was the first time she could see me. She said I was larger than she expected. We made some chit-chat as I put the flowers down on a table. She hadn't had any sessions yet that visit. One guy apparantly did show up on the previous day but didn't connect with Nicole due to a series of miscommunications which would have been a lot funnier to Nicole if it hadn't cost her $300. She posed a bit and fiddled with the radio a minute or two. Our first encounter was very friendly and pleasant. She pulled some posing suits out of her luggage and let me pick one for her to wrestle in. She went into the bathroom to change while I slipped off my pants and shirt, stripping down to the gym shorts and tee shirt I would wrestle in. When she came out she mentioned settling her fee and I put an envelope with the money on a desk. She carefully counted it in front of me, and, satisfied, the session moved on to the wrestling portion. First, a word about our relative sizes. I am 5'10.5" and my pre-session weight was 223 lbs. Nicole is 6'2" and 225 lbs. We didn't do any formal height comparisons but I would have estimated her to be an inch or two taller than me in bare feet and just a little lighter. She is a very big girl by any standard. And very strong, as I would soon discover. She asked me what I wanted, and as usual I found it hard to articulate my desires. I suggested a fairly hard semi-competitive match with an emphasis on a series of controlling holds. I took off my glasses and she grabbed me, easily forcing me onto the bed. Nicole is fast and agile for a person of any size. She powerfully worked me over, putting me in hold after effective hold. Her lower body strength far surpassed anything I had previously experienced, and her grapevines and scissors could easily shatter bones. When I mentioned that, she reminded me that she would never actually hurt anyone, and the claims that she had broken clients' ribs were very distressful for her. Her height and strength allowed her to apply tremendous force to just about any scissors hold. I've held out against other very strong body scissors, but Nicole's had me submitting almost at once. Anything around my neck was even more effective. The hotel room tussle can't really show off one's wrestling skills, but it was clear that I would be powerless against her. Concern about knocking the two of us off the bed was a greater limitation to her than the resistance I offered. A few times we intertwined our fingers. Of course I was no competition if she wanted to play a little "mercy" but if she simply tightened her grasp she could apply crushing force to my fingers. I suggested that she never needed any help opening jars, but she said jars still posed a problem. "It's a girl thing," she said. Besides the regular scissors, Nicole could apply amazing power to simple straddles, where she was kneeling over me in a schoolboy pin and squeezing her knees together on my chest. Other women can do this effectively on the head or neck, but only Nicole has really applied rib-bending power to this position. Many of her holds were combinations, showing off the power of both her arms and her legs. When I tapped out she had to ask me which of the holds I was submitting to. It was usually both. I can honestly say none of the other women I've wrestled have been able to exert so much force in so many different holds. She quickly had a good idea of how much pressure and pain I could take and she had no problem taking me to that point again and again. As the hour was winding down I asked to armwrestle. Nicole said she really didn't like to armwrestle and I didn't push it, but she stood in front of the mirror and said "I'll do something else to make you happy." She bent over and hoisted me up onto her broad shoulders and we set off on a long, fast airplane spin! When she was done she leaned forward and dropped me on the bed. I landed on her ponytail, and for a moment I may have had her trapped! We talked about the same sort of stuff we discuss in the chat room. She told me she regretted her recent outburst against Cheryl Harris on the AAWA newsgroup. She answered my questions about bodybuilding and pro-wrestling. She seemed surprised to hear that I dont weight train and she also said I looked younger than my 40 years. She turned this into a few minutes of faux anger at me for being relatively strong without working out, flattering me as she continued to twist and turn me at will and proving that I was no match for her. The phone rang a bit after 11am. With her guest posing just a few hours away she had a busy afternoon ahead of her and she needed to get on with her day. The appointment ended amicably enough as we chatted for a few minutes. She offered me the chance to take a shower before leaving, but I just towelled off the sweat and put my clothes back on. We hugged goodbye at the door, and that was it. The session is well behind me as I write this the next day. I'm still a bit sore, especially my neck, but a pleasant kind of sore. The way I was worked over I expected it to be much worse, but Nicole is a real pro and she knows how far to take it. I can't really say anything bad about the meeting, but that spark that marks a really great session never went off for me with Nicole. Maybe it was because we already had a friendly relationship from the chat room. I also chat often with her husband, Bob, and that certainly took some of the sensual edge off; I find Nicole very sexy but the erotic buzz of the session was unusually muted. My impressions of the session are very good, and I am in awe of Nicole's strength and wrestling skill. There was no negative element to the encounter, and she did everything possible to make it lots of fun. I would highly recommend Nicole to anyone who finds the above account appealling. TomNine@webtv.net