The last thing on Mason's mind when he made his suggestion to Sebastian, was what he looked like shirtless. In fact it hardly factored in his mind at all. Sure- he knew he had pretty much burnt off all his childhood baby fat and was start to gain muscle all over his body. Certainly he was aware that going shirtless at the beach meant that his wiry muscled body with it seemingly chiselled abs would be on show. But so what? So would everyone else's if they had them...
Mason was chuffed that Sebastian agreed with his idea. A day at the beach with someone he considered a friend would be an awesome way to escape the confines of the school for a while. "Cool!" he smiled, "Can't wait until we do".

Of course Mason wasn't sure about riding a horse. He was stepping out of his natural comfort zone and trying something really different, that he had never done before. Naturally he was apprehensive- and excited, about the possibility. Mason gave an audible sigh of relief and visible relaxing of his body when told he would be given a 'friendly' horse to have his first ride on. "Thank God!" he said with relief. For a Freshman, he had a pretty cynical mindset when told the school would like to avoid a lawsuit if he got hurt riding a horse. He gave a derisive snort and rolled his eyes like teenagers were apt to do sometimes. "Cool..." he nodded when Sebastian told him he would look into it.

Indeed Mason had seen a TV show called 'Cobra Kai'. He watched it for a while, but then lost the run of the plot of it, missed a few episodes and then stopped watching it all together. For some reason he always figured he could beat Tanner Buchanan in a MMA cage match- oh yeah...it would be an epic fight and he knew that he'd make that guy squeal like a piggy. "Yeah...I used to watch it" he said, slightly distracted by one of the horses that was ambling over to sniff him and see if he had any food to feed it.

"Nah...got a little boring after a while. And I missed a few episodes of the show, so it was kind of hard to get what was going on". Mason shrugged. Sometimes you grew out of things you used to like.
The description of the move that Sebastian wanted to know if Mason knew, made the Freshman seemingly turn white with horror. "Uhh- no' he answered with a little horror in his voice. "Never seen that move, or know what it is called. All I know is if I did that in a wrestling match, the referee would fry my ass from here to Sunday". Mason shuddered. The very idea of doing something as dangerous as that to an opponent in a match- unthinkable!

If Mason had been older and a more experienced wrestler, he would have actually told Sebastian no, he wouldn't show him wrestling moves that he might use in matches with his friends back home.
Or more accurately- not yet.
It wasn't that he didn't want to show him, it was just that it would only be far to Sebastian if they BOTH got Sebastian into better shape first. From his own experience Mason knew how intense wrestling training could be. It wasn't just the strength thing. They would have to work on Sebastian's stamina. Having more 'puff' in him, would allow Sebastian to war down his opponent in a match until they were out of breath- then Sebastian could pick the guy to pieces. Then there was the whole flexibility/coordination thing. Training with Mason, he would almost literally get turned into a human pretzel by the little grappler. Once they worked on his flexibility, Sebastian would not only be able to wriggle out of his opponent's pinning moves- but also use it against him.

"Mmm- yeah I have" Mason hummed in reply. "I guess you kinda can call MMA 'submission wrestling'. And yeah, guess you can say I did do submission wrestling with my friends". One of the ways he stayed in shape and kept his edge at wrestling, Mason did Mixed martial Arts. His fierceness and 'never say die' mentality made him quite good and a hard kid to go up against. Of course it was up against kids his own size (usually). "Its kinda of intense- like really going at it" he said.

As far as Mason was concerned, the match- if and when it happened, would be 'regulation' match as Sebastian thought of it. He wouldn't take it too far- basically he would try and pin him, as well as avoid doing any throws on him, focusing more on trying to escape any hold that Sebastian tried to get on him. If nothing else, it would be kind of amusing to seeing the 'how the hell did he do that?' look on Sebastian face when he pulled off an escape move on any hold Sebastian tried on him.
Wrestling to a pin boring? Not with Mason. Not with him executing escape moves. Also there was the situation of Sebastian being on top and then finding himself on his face with Mason turning him over to pin him. Yes- hitting a Reversal move on an opponent could freak out people that Mason wrestled.

"Nope- not kidding..." Mason replied before letting Sebastian go on. "No...I don't elbow them in the face when they are down on the ground" he admitted. Usually he and his friends were body padded up- waist and fist, and held back on how hard they went. After all, who really wants to hurt their good friend and training buddy? Of course when it came to grappling, neither Mason and his friends held back on each other. There was no better way for Mason and his friends to reassert their abilities to take a beating for their buddies, than to give one out.
Being called 'intense' made him chuckle in an impsh way. Yeah...he could come across as intense by some people. "Mmm...yeah I can be I guess" he admitted.

Sebastian wasn't the first person to give Mason a look up and down. Some people when they found out about what sport he did, gave him that look as if to say: "You wrestle? No way- you're too little". Other times it was guys who thought they could mess with him. Most of the times they read the signs loud and clear and backed off. Some didn't- and learnt real fast he wasn't to be stepped on. Personally, he had noticed a few pretty girls over the summer doing that approvingly, when he was at the beach. For some reason...he liked it when they did that.

He was about to answer Sebastian's next question when he said something that Mason felt he needed to answer.
"Actually....I THINK, that might actually be stunt work- the back-flip thing I mean. Not even I can do that in real life" he said in a slow and careful way. Mason was pretty athletic- but he wasn't THAT athletic. True- with his physical prowess and height/build, he could probably be a bad-ass gymnast.

Resting his head on his hands, that were crossed on the railing of the fence, Mason listened to Sebastian's description. He also kept an eye on the horse that was meandering in his direction from across the field. He followed what he was saying nodding every so often at what was being described to him. At first it sounded like the 'Flying Squirrel' move that people had been going nuts over a few years ago on the internet. Mason thought that was a stupid move- so much could go wrong with it and it could get you into uber-trouble if you tried it.
It was where the kid's legs hit the other kid in the head that Sebastian lost him. His cocked his head in a confused manner and it extended to his quirked eyebrows. He had no doubt the move looked awesome. Some moves did look that way- if they were in real life. But mason still thought this might have been a stunt move of some kind.
However he did smile when Sebastian told him he could probably do the move. It was cool when people thought that about you sometimes- even if he had no idea what Sebastian was on about. The fact he was going to show him the scene sometime meant that he would finally understand what Sebastian was talking about. "Probably will..." he answered, "Might know the move or I might not. We'll see" he said confidently.

It was true that both Sebastian and Mason were dedicated to something in their lives, that they seemed to live and breath. Each dedicated their time and energy to become better at it and then find a goal that would make them each better still at it. It was on the cards that Mason and Sebastian would end up going for runs together. For his part he wasn't sure if Sebastian would go running in the winter when it snowed. Of course he wouldn't go out if the snow was coming down hard- that was stupid. No, he would find some other way to do cardio work- like using the treadmill in the gym- that way no one could complain about him running up and down stairs in the dorm area. Always good to stay in good with the other kids in the dorm he was finding out...