Simple Bret question

Hey Scott,

Knuckleberry Pinn from the blog here. I just have a specific question about Bret that surprisingly doesn't involve politics or Montreal.

Bret's pinfall covers involved him usually laying across the shoulders, but on many occasions, the commentators (especially Gorilla Monsoon) would talk about how nonchalant and uncharacteristic of Bret this was. Was there never any communication where one party could say to the other "your covers are coming across as lame, can you hook the leg?", or "this is how I've been taught to pin a guy, mind changing the commentary up?"

Thanks for the insight, and keep up all the great work.

That is a frighteningly specific question.  

OK, here's the deal with pinfalls, because Lance Storm was raging about the subject a few months ago.  Basically guys develop their own style from training onwards, and someone like Lance always tries to instill a sense of "realness" by getting his trainees to actually attempt to hold the shoulders down.  Lance made it sound like he was kind of beating his head against the wall trying to get people to change, so it's probably something very ingrained.  I too have noticed that Bret is pretty lax in his covers.   There is actually a psychology about it, in that you start with a simple press of the shoulders, and then move onto hooking the leg if that doesn't work, and then both legs, which gives you three pin attempts and makes it seem like a struggle.  

So there's your wacky discussion for the night.