Creating The Ring



Ring Equipment:

- 4 poles approx. 7 ft. long or less(the poles' diameter should be about 5 inches)
- 4 buckets approx. 1 ft. in height
- 60 lbs. of dry cement
- 3 bags of 100 ft. rope
- 4 queen matresses
- 1 blue tarp 22x14ft. (tarp should be big enough so you can tuck in the sides)
- 4 steel tent spikes (do not use plastic spikes!)

Ring Instructions:

Step 1 (ring posts) - The first thing you have to do is mix the cement. Poor 1/4 of the dry cement into one of the 4 buckets(see the cement bag and figure out the correct amount of water to add). Then start mixing a little and put in one of the poles in the middle of the bucket. Try to make it as straight as you can. It's better to have at least 2 people doing this so one can hold the pole straight and the other can keep mixing the cement around it. After about 5 minutes the pole should be able to stand on its own and then you can repeat the process with the other 3 buckets and poles. The purpose of this is so when you build your ring you can dig a hole about a foot deep in the ground and put the cemented pole/bucket into the ground and it will be extremely sturdy. The only thing you have to be careful about is making your hole too wide. If the hole is way too wide for the bucket then all the support is gone and the bucket will be easily moved. When placing the holes you should lay all your matresses on the ground in the place or position you want them to be and spray paint or dig marks on the four corners of the connected matresses, then move them and dig the holes there.
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Step 2(the ropes) - Many of you who are making rings might not be able to get 4 queen matresses so whatever matresses you are using you need to find the total area of the connected matresses and estimate x3 how much rope you'll need(x3 obviously because there are 3 ropes). Usually you'll want more rope than how many feet the ring's area is just in case you wanna tie whatever knot you want to use and then cut it. With the excess rope you have from the three bags make four pieces of rope about five feet long and drill a hole at the top of the back of the turnbuckle pole. Tie a knot at the the end of the rope and pull it through the hole and pull the rope to the ground. This is where the tent spikes come in. Tie the other end of the rope to one of the four tent spikes and hammer it into the ground. What this does is makes the pole a lot stronger both ways. Because when you tighten the ropes it tends to pull the poles inward.

Step 3(turnbuckles) - The only thing we didn't think of is turnbuckles. There are certain screws and bolts that you can use to to drill into the poles and pull the ropes through and those would make perfect turnbuckles but then you gotta figure out what you're gonna do for turnbuckle pads.

Step 4(ring padding) - Like most other backyard feds we use mattresses as padding but you could also use olympic mats to make it look not so sloppy or, if you don't even care, nothing at all. We got lucky a few times because all we did was look around the streets of Monrovia and hope that there were some decent unwanted matresses. And we got extremely lucky when we found a queen and two twins in good shape across the street from one of our wrestlers. Then another queen just down the street from that one (Those matresses made our third ring which was 13x9 ft.) Recently we got two more queens and that's what we're using for our current ring(14x12ft). To make it not look stupid we use a blue tarp which covers the whole ring and more so we just tuck the sides underneath.

And that's how you can make a great backyard wrestling ring for only about $100.

P.S.- All of the stuff listed above you can get at Home Depot for good prices, and they also have plenty of other things that you can use as weapons for your fed, too.

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