Great point Mrs. Burleson, In fact many of the young men and women who succeed in wrestling come from small farming towns. I did some research on it and found that fifthteen of the top twenty five wrestling states are Midwest Agricultural states and two were logging states. I truly believe this it is the work ethic instilled in these young kids at an early age that makes them great wrestlers. To wrestle or work the farm takes discipline and dedication. Wrestling and farm work are a lot alike, they are up early before school working, and they finish out the day working after
Wrestling is one of the oldest sports, and it has a lot of historical background. Wrestling was established in the 15th and 16th century, but it was not a competitive sport at the time. There have been cave drawings of wrestling found from 3000 B.C., which shows that either the sport or at least ideas about the sport have been around for a long time (Olympic). It was during the pioneer days that wrestling’s popularity began to grow. In Canada, there was a wrestling champion from each of the small villages and settlements. After the champions were crowned, they would all compete against each other and whoever won was the best of the best (Wrestling). A wide variety of people were involved in wrestling, even some presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Washington was good enough to win a tournament, and at one point in history, there was a style of wrestling named after him. That style, however, is no longer used in today’s sport.
Wrestling is a sport with a long history and offers many benefits in today’s world. This paper will explore the history of the sport of wrestling as the sport of wrestling has been around since biblical times. There are many facts and myths about wrestling. This paper will take you through the history of wrestling and address the benefits it provides to children and athletes of modern times. Wrestling can change lives, let’s learn how.
A wrestler has to be in great physical shape because they have to have speed and strength to be successful in the sport. For example if a wrestler was quite big, but was a little chubby he does not have the speed as someone that is the same weight but a little leaner. The wrestler the same weight but leaner has a slight advantage because he has the speed over the other wrestler. Now getting to that physical fitness is the hard part. It takes excessive workouts to get there than a wrestler has to continue the workouts to maintain being fit. Now to the mental aspect of wrestling. It is hard to go out on the mat against a good wrestler and actually take a shot. MAinly because in the back of their head they are thinking I do not have a chance whatever I do this guy will counter. Now getting past that thought process is the tough part. Another time the mental aspect comes in is during practice. While a wrestler wants to stop doing a workout during a practice they have to think to themselves would I be able to do this in a real match and win. The answer is obviously no, during a wrestling match every second counts you do not stop moving during those six
The origins of wrestling go back to 15,000 years ago Wrestling is one of the oldest sport played. The Greeks feared the true history of the sport would be lost therefore Greco-Roman wrestling was born from that one type of wrestling many forms were elaborated. The first real traces of the development of wrestling date back to the times of the Sumerians which is 5000 years ago. Drawings , as well as many other vestiges, witness the existence of corporations of wrestlers in Ancient Egypt, wrestling rules and refereeing codes. Fights were similar to those of freestyle wrestling, as shown by drawings and inscriptions from that time. The most famous of all wrestlers was Milon of Croton, six times Olympic champion, ten times winner of the
The sport forces a wrestler to go out on the mat and put out their best performance and show their strength is madly impressive. Coach Evans once said, "you can't just wait for things to come your way, you have to go and take it." In order for a wrestler to get what they want, they have to put in work and go out and get it. Dedication is a huge factor in wrestling. Throughout the season, wrestlers have to cut down weight for at least four to five months and make their weight class two times a week. Often times, wrestlers will wrestle off-season, to help stay in shape, as well as, improving their
Wrestling has and always will be a big part of my life, that’s not to say I have had a pleasant nor a fair time on the wrestling mat, but I guess life’s not fair. I have always enjoyed wrestling from the first time I stepped foot on a mat in kindergarten in my singlet that was 2 sizes too big, from the last time leaving the mat as a junior in high school limping off the mat in some of the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life. It’s been in my family for as long as I can remember. My uncle has not missed being mat side, yelling for his favorite wrestlers at the Minnesota State Wrestling Tournament in 20 years. My cousin wrestled for Iowa State University before coming back to his hometown in Mankato and suffering a career ending injury as well.
If any of you are television wrestling fans (WWE or any other league) you'll see that most of the men are literally huge. Not many are less than 250 pounds, and that's just the starting weight. It's utterly impossible to be as big (muscle-wise) and not weigh at least 250. That's all well and good for the pros. They're mostly on display and we all assume it's fake. But I'm talking about the kids in this sport. They range in age from 14-18 years old and for the most part it's a great sport. It, as in all competitive sports, teaches camaraderie, sportsmanship and working with others. Wrestling is a sport that builds character and strong bodies. So where's my beef? That's just it, in some cases there's just not enough of it. Take the 103-pound class. How is a grappler supposed to maintain this kind of weight throughout a high school career? He isn't. Most kids as they mature go on to the next weight class. Now that's all well and good if everyone moved up as they progressed through school, but that's just not the case. I'm sure if any high school coaches are reading this piece I've now caught their attention. My problem starts right here. I'm not accusing any coach or parent of purposely trying to
Much of my life has been influenced by the sport of wresting. My father is the head wrestling coach of the high school I attend; my whole life I have watched the sport, and spent time with his past teams. In the fifth grade I told my father that I no longer wanted to continue wrestling; we made a deal that when I reached high school I would join the team and if I still felt that wrestling was not a sport I wanted to pursue, I could quit again and end my career. When I entered high school, my brother had already been attending the same school and wrestling for my dad on the school team, so adapting to high school and high school sports was more simple for me than other students. The winter of my freshman year I was, as I had promised my father, out for the wrestling team.
How Wrestling Became a Part Of American culture Although wrestling started in Greco-roman, times now a days Americans adapted their own version from the native americans that was a combination of the native americans, and the greco-roman style of wrestling. The Greco-Romans used wrestling as a way to train warriors hand on hand combat among one another. They later changed it into a sport and put it the olympics.
The sport of wrestling became my entire life when I was eight years old and it is the reason I am the man you see today. Wrestling helped me discover who I am as a person, and it is also a big factor in the career path that I am on today. There are countless times during my wrestling career that have been life lessons and eye openers to me, one incident that stands out from the rest was the first wrestling tournament of the season.
Wrestling is one of the oldest sports around. they have found mural in Egypt of people wrestling in the ascent times. but it has changed a lot over time. For example, my dad wrestled differently than we wrestle today. So it is constantly changing over time, people are finding better ways to do it
In wrestling there is no fighting. there is only takedowns and grappling. its a sport that combines technique, strength, cardio and strategy.
I never was the person that got along with others, for some unknown reason everyone hated me. The only problem with this is that they didn’t even try to hide how they feel. They always made me try to feel like I was worthless. They made me feel like no one loved and that no one would ever love me.The only place I could go without worrying about what anyone said was on the mat. I started at a young age and so did the bullying, but they never happened at the same time. I thought that wrestling practice was the only safe place for me to be. Then they started to merge and i no longer had a safe place. No matter how many people told me that I was worthless, that I was a piece of trash, that nobody loves you, I always just gave everything all I
Wrestling involves many skills, but people need something even more than skills, and it is a balanced DIET. Furthermore, people must eat healthy for wrestling, it is the #1 thing! Pasta can work out very much, but it should be whole grain, just like yogurt, but it has to be low calorie! Wrestlers can eat almost anything, all it should have to have nutrients! If you eat healthily you might have a better chance of winning!! After all, If you want to become a wrestler, if you want, you can eat anything,
World Wrestling Entrainment (WWE) Network was original announced to be in the works back in 2011. It would launch in February of 2014, which many saw as a potential threat to the company in terms when it came to its revenue streams of PPV’s and Television deals (Solomon,2014). Despite its initial rocky start the network has seen a stable rise of the pass years with has reached 1.95 million as of this past years WrestleMania (Maziaue, 2017). The network offers the company 12 yearly pay-per-views, original content in a 24/7 format, along with its standard weekly wrestling programming, along with video on-demand archive that dates back to the 1970’s. Overall the network is one that the loyal wrestling fan has in their collection of streaming