A session with Tigra
By TomNine



This is an account of a private mixed wrestling session I had with
Tigra. It took place on 28 March 1999 in a Washington DC hotel. 

A few words about myself. I am 40, 5'10" and 230 lbs. I am fairly fit
but never particularly athletic. I enjoy the entire experience of a
semi-competitive wrestling match with an attractive, strong woman. I've
been doing these sessions since fall 1997 and I've had about a dozen
sessions so far. Other accounts of my sessions can be found on wb270's
site and on Diana the Valkyrie's library:
http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/tomnine/index.htm

I host a message board on Diana's site and I am a regular in her
chatroom.   Please feel free to discuss this review or any other subject
with me.

The set up: 

I knew I wanted a session some time during March and there were several
contenders for my wrestling dollars. I asked for help on my message
board and I heard plenty about whom other guys would like to see. I
eventually decided on Paloma Parra but she backed out of her tour. My
next choice was Tigra and I contacted her directly through e-mail a few
weeks before her visit. 

I can't say why I picked Tigra. I knew she has been wrestling for a
while (she told me 12 years) and I had a sense that she may not be
touring and wrestling much longer.  I suspect that she will instead be
doing more than ever in the future.  She says she is back training and
wrestling again after a long hiatus and she should be a fixture on the
wrestling scene again for years to come.

Tigra certainly has a great look. Check out her website:
http://www.tigra.com (I just looked at it as I was wrapping up these
comments and the site was empty except a note that it was being
upgraded.  I suspect it will be back soon, bigger and better than
ever.)

Tigra also has a page on the Iron Belles site.  Her e-mail address is
the easily remembered Tigra@tigra.com .

There were a few false starts in setting up our appointment as my work
schedule changed but it was pretty well squared away before the match.
Tigra was very professional in all her correspondence with me.  She
called once from California then again when she arrived in town to
confirm the appointment.  Her voice was very sweet sounding, and her
intelligence and professionalism remained obvious.

I usually arrive very early for my sessions but for some reason I
grossly underestimated how long it would take to get to her Georgetown
hotel.  Getting lost a few times didn't help.  I was almost a full hour
late when I called from a pay phone near her hotel, once I was certain I
knew where I was.  She told me there was still time for our session
before her next appointment and she asked me to come right to her room.

Tigra:

She met me at the door wearing a loose tee shirt and baggy shorts.  Her
hair had a reddish tinge to it and was loosely tied back.  She looked
terrific, with beautiful skin and a great smile.  I would've guessed
that she was about 30.

She took off the shirt and shorts and had under it her wrestling outfit,
a one-piece jungle-cat designed thing with a brass ring over her
sternum.

Here currently posted stats say Tigra is 5'8" and 165 lbs, and that
sounds about right.  When I checked her posted stats before the session
they said she was 5'9".  An anonymous informer told me she was a bit
shorter now due to a back injury and surgery.  I think it's very
commendable that she changed her posted stat.

She has a very athletic and feminine build, the physique of a general
sportswoman more than that of a bodybuilder.  Her upper body was
especially impressive, very hard and strong (as I would find later).  I
took some measurements at the end of her session and her upper arms came
in at a very nice 14.5 inches.  (Her posted stats still say 16".)  Her
lower body was sturdy and powerful as well.

Her abs remained covered but I could feel them during the session and
they were very solid and I couldn't miss the six-pack seperation.

We talked very briefly before getting on with the session.

Wrestling:

I like a fairly playful but hard semi-competitive wrestling match.  A
satisfying session requires that the wrestler overcomes at least some
resistance from me.  I will avoid holds and try to escape.  I won't work
any submission holds on the woman, but if I can pin her using basic
strength I will try.  Tigra seemed eager to follow this plan.

I usually don't give a move-by-move account in these write-ups, just a
general impression of what happened.  A few days have passed between
session and writing so the physical memory is a little faded, but I'll
do my best.

The majority of the match took place on the carpeted floor of her hotel
room, not very comfortable but what the heck.  Most of the falls started
on our knees, which I found a bit painful after a while.  A few started
from a standing position, and her judo background would've been much
better displayed in her takedowns if we had more room to work in.

The falls began with us being a bit wary of each other.  Tigra usually
took a very serious expression, a "game face" that I found very sexy. 
 
As time went on I was pretty confident that if I really took the
initiative in a fully competitive bout I would've "won" but it would not
have been a slam-dunk by any means.  Like most session wrestlers, Tigra
went for the neck early and often.  Once she settled into a headlock she
had little problem bulldogging me down and fixing me in a hold I could
rarely escape from.

In fact, holds involving her upper body were the most overpowering
elements of our match.  Several times she pulled my face hard against
her chest (and that brass ring over her sternum) in an amazing,
inescapable display.  She also took great pleasure in working a very
strong bearhug, but I'm a big-boned guy and it never came close to
hurting me.

I can't remember the context this happened in but after one submision to
a hold she invited me to kiss her biceps, which I was only too happy to
do.  

I love being held in a school-boy pin, and Tigra did these pretty well.
She really couldn't pin down my arms without using her knees too, but
they weren't easy to escape.  Her grapevines were okay, I can't recall
if I submitted from any or not.

I'm a little too big for an effective body scissors from her, but she
certainly tried.  Of course her head scissors were awesome, and once in
them she could get a submission at will.  She usually took the
opportunity to toy with me a little and sometimes wouldn't release me
right after I submitted.

She also invited me to do something I really enjoy.  She let me get on
top and try to hold her down while she tried a reverse.  Her success at
this was mixed, and she could only really get away if I cut her some
slack.  I suspect the busy travel schedule was wearing her out a bit and
she wanted to save something for upcoming customers, and a few times
during the match I could detect a clear shift as she stopped going
all-out and eased back a little.

As the hour wound down she gently let me know the session was over.  The
phone rang a few times as we wrestled, and I encouraged her to answer it
while she seemed willing to let it ring.  After being so late for the
session I could hardly complain. 

Strength:

The most impresive parts of the session involved direct contests of
strength.  A few times we clenched each other's hands in the challenge
sometimes called "mercy" and Tigra definately put up a good fight.  I
may have been a little reluctant to take advantage of any advantages I
had, but she never gave me a break and eventually made me submit.  She
took it very seriously and I was amazed at how she held her own, and
more,  against me.

We also armwrestled a few times, which she really seemed to enjoy.  With
right arms she could push me back a little from the starting position
and I couldn't budge her, eventually wearing me out.  We did this twice,
same result.  She said an injury kept her from comfortably taking me all
the way down.  On left arms I eventually took her down after a very hard
fought battle.  I had to give it everything I had to move her that last
inch.  

There were no lifts, for some reason I didn't ask.  In earlier e-mails
she said it I wasn't too heavy, and I believe her.

Summation

The satisfying feeling of being overpowered was only intermittent during
the session, but Tigra is such a great competitor it was always fun.
She is a very classy woman and very easy to talk to.  I imagine a
session on her home turf, without the constraints of the hotel room or
the hectic pace, would be much more exciting.   If she is this strong
now after a long absence from the gym I can only wonder how powerful she
will be once she gets back to a good training schedule.  I would rate
her wrestling skills as good.  I was hoping for better, but I suspect we
were both holding back.

I am very glad that I had the chance to meet Tigra.  It would be very
interesting to wrestle her again in a year or two.  I would recommend
her to anyone who would enjoy a fun semi-competitive session with a
beautiful, strong, highly competitive woman.

TomNine@webtv.net