- My name is Magno.
I'm from Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
I've been a luchador for 16 years.
- Oh my God!
- Let's see if they're tough enough
to make it against Magno.
- I don't know anything about lucha libre wrestling,
but I'm on a roadtrip from Vermont,
and I fell into this.
I'm just here for a good time.
- I've been doing Jeet Kune Do,
which is a martial art that Bruce Lee started.
I'm not really that intimidated, you know.
I think I got it.
- They wear masks and that scares me,
because I can't read their facial expressions.
- I wrestled in high school.
I wrestled the division three level,
and most recently, I was able to defeat
sumo wrestler Yama.
(dubstep music)
(shouting)
- I thought this was, like, a fashion thing
because of, like, the mask.
- Lucha libre, it's very fast-paced.
They do a lot of flying, a lot flipping.
It's really acrobatic.
It's all very costumed heroics.
- We're gonna start off with the first move,
which is gonna be a little bit of tumbling.
A front roll.
Pay attention.
You get in your squat position, and then throw yourself.
If you wanna do it far, you can do far,
but you have to tuck in your chin,
and you gotta be fast too.
(rock music)
You see?
Rolling is not easy.
This time's gonna be backwards.
You do a back roll.
Push off harder, tuck your chin to your chest.
So I think I can show you guys how to hit the ropes now.
So it's very important, when you hit the ropes,
by grabbing the top rope with the right hand
and grabbing the second rope with the left hand.
Not good.
I'm gonna show them what a lock up is.
For locking up, you guys are gonna use your
left arm, and you're gonna hook his neck.
Wrap it around his neck.
Here I got control of of him, I can bring him over,
I can push him back, I can just shoot him.
This is a headlock.
You see what a headlock is like?
- You start off forward.
- And then you break off.
You are fast!
The most important and most basic next step
that we're going through is picking your mask.
It's about symbolizing and being a warrior.
- So the whole experience was pretty awesome.
I liked tumbling around and learning
all the cool new moves, and I'm ready to fight this guy.
That was crazy!
I think I broke a rib.
- I'm just gonna lay down if bad things start happening.
(squealing)
I'm okay.
I'm good.
- I'm ready to wrestle.
All right, that didn't go as planned.
- I'm nimble, like a cat.
I'm a disappointment as a cat.
- About to take down Magno from Cuidad Juarez.
Let's do this!
(clapping)
It was intense, physical, and hard.
I have much respect for the luchadors of lucha libre.
- I was very naïve into thinking that I had
an actual shot at beating him.
- I came here for a good time, and that's what I had.
- I see you guys saw lucha libre's very hard.
So if you guys wanna make a career in lucha libre
and become another Magno, you guys might wanna
keep on trying to practice.