I've had about half a dozen massages with Trankie so I feel like this review is long overdue. I was referred to this salon by word of mouth. A friend at the gym told me Trankie did a fantastic job at structural/deep tissue massages which is my jam and what I like. Upon entering the salon for the first time it was the typical experience. I checked in, they offered me water, I read a magazine with pretty pictures for about 5 minutes before Trankie came to grab me and head back. The thing I remembered most about my walk back to the room for the massage were the friendly hellos from pretty much every staff member that was not with a client. I got into the room and immediately felt disarmed by Trankie. He's such a sweet guy. He's very smiley (yet professional) and made me feel at ease by cracking a few jokes about something stupid I had mentioned on the way to the room. I gave Trankie the run down of my problem areas and he obliged, let me disrobe, and came back to start his work. HOLD UP PEOPLE! This is where ish is about to GET REAL! Trankie starts in all nice and warm right? Like I'm about to get a typical lady Swedish massage then about 30 seconds in he tears into me like that scene from Hannibal with the boars except my back is the dude about to be thrown in and his impressively muscled hands are the hungry boars. You get the picture? Good. If you don't, go watch the movie for a frame of reference and come back to this review. (btw this intensity was per request, I prefer a massage that gets results not just someone to lather lotion on me.) Given Trankie's build I could have guessed it was going to be as intense as I requested. Not only was I impressed with Trankie's intensity but also at his ability to remain at that level throughout the duration of the massage up until the last 5-10 minutes where he slowly wound me down. After leaving the room I truly felt like like Jello meets Bologna. Jello because I was loose as all hell and Bologna because I was just a combination of meats held together by the shear force of compression. I'm sure that my body was probably being held in place by my skin. He is THAT GOOD. Needless to say I found my massage guy. He's professional, excellent at what he does, and he's super sweet like a little Mexican teddy bear with ridiculously strong hands. Please people don't let him hold your babies he may crush them unknowingly.