The end of the year is just around the corner. New Years usually means new resolutions for everyone and new paths we want to take in order to find happiness with ourselves and/or family. Through reading her blogs and talking a little in texts, I’ve found that Dia Zerva decided to take a new years eve vow earlier. She’s stepping out of the spot light and focusing on family and a different career that will allow her to stay close to her family and friends without having to be on the road too much. Dia was infamous for travelling the world to wrestle. She is an international star in the wresting world. What I think most of us take for granted, as just being on lookers, is that girls who travel for session work are never ‘home’. They live out of a suitcase and go from town to town for other people’s amusement like a freakn’ carny. If there are any family emergencies, it’s almost impossible to get home in time to be able to do anything about it. If you have a husband or significant other, you pretty much never see them unless they travel everywhere with you but we wrestlers kinda like guys who have jobs so we can’t exactly take a dude with us everywhere we go.
The sessioning is a daunting task. Just to book sessions is a pain in the ass. You have to get references to make sure you’re not gonna meet up with some psychopath who’s going to try to hurt you. YOu need to get deposits from people so you know your trip will at least cover itself even if 60% of your sessions flake. YOu need to make sure you go at a time when you’re not going to be stuck due to weather issues. You need to really know your geography so you can figure out which stop will be your next without going too far out of your way. You shell out money upfront for a plane ticket and lodging and hope that guys don’t flake and or cancel on your wrestling matches so you can at least break even. I personally do not travel for sessions for all the reasons I listed. Its a huge pain in the ass and I just don’t’ find it lucrative enough after all the expenses are said and done. I will, however offer sessions if I am already going out of town for a trip I have planned already.
I have family at home I need to look after, elderly parents and a son. I can’t be gone for too long at a time. It’s not that they can’t function without me, it’s that I can’t function without them. And this my, friends, is a dilemma for all session wrestlers. Most these girls are very sweet women with good hearts and family bonds. We are loyal to a fault. We can’t and wont’ leave family behind. Every family has their trial and tribulations and someone needs to be the glue to keep everything together. Session girls are often that girl in the family. Obviously, I can only express how MY situation is. I can only speculate on every other girl’s situation. I know most these session girls and most of them are the sweetest things you will ever meet, with so much empathy for the world around them that it hurts them deep inside.
Dia Zerva is one of the kindest girls I’ve met in all my years in the adult and wrestling industry. I’ve seen her go through ups and down in both her personal and professional life. I’ve seen that girl be so sad that it affected her will to do well in a single day and then I’ve seen that girl be so determined that it affected her will to do well over several months. 2010 was definitely Dia’s year. She had more determination inside her than I’ve ever seen in a person. It was a warrior spirit. She broke down personal and professional walls and conquered what many said she couldn’t do. She took all the negative crap in her life, the negative shit that some of these so called “wrestling fans” dumped on her and used it to drive her to do what ever she wanted. She strived on proving some of the wrestling fans who told her she sucked wrong. I believe 2012 will be another great year for Dia, not in the world we know her in but in her personal life with her family. She’s doing what is right for her. She’s being the glue for her family and I am nothing but supportive of her decision. We love you Dia. We wish you the best. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Dia’s clips4sale sites are still up and running. You can support her by purchasing clips from any of her stores or simply by emailing her encouraging and kind words. I also advise that you read her blog to find out more details about what’s going on with her rather than emailing other models about her. Get your information directly from the source. I will be blogging about her all month in honor of Dia-cember but i can only blog about my experiences with her and I can’t and won’t speak for her or put words in her mouth…so if you need an answer about her..you’re gonna have to ask her directly 🙂