Career opening

from Miami Herald video

My son sent a link to a story in the Miami Herald about freestyle alligattor wrestling competition. A local wrestler wants to promote the pastime and gave a demonstration in a hotel pool:

Minutes later, Holt dove head first into the pool, still wearing his green cargo shorts and yellow button-down shirt.

The alligator, lying at the bottom of the pool, hardly budged.

Holt, 31, waded slowly toward the gator, explaining that he always approaches one face first. Then he jabbed at the water, and grabbed the reptile by a flap of skin under its jaw. The gator splashed around, rolled free of Holt’s grip and sidled away to a corner of the pool.

Holt then approached the gator from behind, grabbing it by the tail. The gator didn’t react as Holt pulled it toward him and slowly slid his hand under its jaw, where he once again grabbed the flap of skin, then the top of the gator’s mouth, and pried it open.

Holt poked his head into the gator’s mouth, and then pulled out.