Diamond Dallas Page on DDP Yoga and Issues with Vader

Bang. Wrestling is a very physical business that takes a toll on everyone who ever steps inside the ring. Unfortunately that causes several injuries to a lot of wrestlers, many of whom never quite recover. However, one person has done some amazing work in helping to restore some wrestlers to their previous health and thankfully it seems to be a lot more than a fluke.

Diamond Dallas Page was recently interviewed by Wrestlelist.com about his DDP Yoga system and some of the names that he’s been trying to help with it. Page talks about his development of the system for years, a major name who seems to be annoyed at him, and a wrestling legend who might be benefiting from the system at a very advanced age. Here are some highlights with transcription courtesy of Wrestlelist.com:

On Wrestlers Taking Care of Themselves

You have to remember, no-one even iced their knees or their back or their shoulders. No-one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer. I did chiropractic, I did deep muscle massage therapy, so I was already doing all that stuff before. And I stretched!

I stretched my whole career – it didn’t save me when I blew my back and and of course, that’s where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from. There’s probably about 40 wrestlers who do the DDPY program in WWE and God, I don’t know how many independent wrestlers.

On Terry Funk Trying the System

I just sent Terry Funk the program, because I know he’s talking about getting back into the ring for one time at 73 years young. I love Terry to death so I said, “Terry if I send you this will you take a look and try it?” Terry was an amazing athlete at one time, so he’s done a lot of stuff. He’s never tried this before but I said Jerry Briscoe loves it bro, and said it gave him his life back. I hope it helps him. If I had a relationship with them, I think it could’ve helped a lot of the guys, but it took a long time. DDP Yoga is a 10-year overnight success, which means it took me 10 years to get anybody to give a shit.

And on Vader Being Angry at Him

I love Vader, but he got his feelings hurt because I said “Leon I really need you to live here in Atlanta. I need you to take off wrestling for a while,” and financially he just couldn’t swing it. And he got kind of mad at me, and I said “Leon I can’t really help you,” and I didn’t mean it like “I won’t help you.”

A lot of the guys need that hands-on thing until they understand the DVDs and the App. Because I’m married now I can’t move any of the guys in, I can have them for a couple of days or whatever, but I just want them to come and move to Atlanta. I understand this business, it’s tough, but I just didn’t want him to think I didn’t want to help him because that’s absurd! (Laughter)

You can listen to the full interview here:

Diamond Dallas Page talks about Vader rejecting his help

Opinion: The more I hear about DDP Yoga’s success, the more amazed I am. You’ll hear about athletes coming out with this kind of stuff from time to time but this one actually has some results. It’s helped a lot of people and if it helps even more, good for both them and Page. Hopefully Vader and Funk can get some help out of it too and that’s a great thing.

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