Scholastic wrestling

adequate is a tough pill to swallow. For me wrestling was my life in high school. Nothing was more important being on the mat. Wrestling knowing at the end of the day that only you could stop yourself. It wasn't until i reached college and tried to make the leap for high school to college that reality sat in. I applied to San Francisco State providing film hoping to insure a scholarship. In return they told me that my skill weren’t at the level they need. Wrestling in high school was the life. I started

air. I was on a school bus headed to a wrestling meet in York, Nebraska on a cold winter day in December. I figured my wrestling meet would be like all the other wrestling meets in the past, win most, lose a few. Never really thought this meet would be the final meet for the season. This meet would change my way of thinking towards wrestling and affect my confidence level. After a loud and unpeaceful ride on the bus from Crete to York, I grabbed my wrestling bag and headed out to win a couple of matches

So in wrestling there are multiple moves you can do. These moves are probably the most basic moves you are taught and the most commonly used moves done today. The first move is the double leg takedown.”The double leg takedown is a flying tackle similar to a football tackle”(Douglas).For a double leg takedown there are a lot of little steps that you may need to execute this move correctly. The first thing you need to do is perform a setup and then to perform a penetration step. The next thing you

origins and history of wrestling date back as far as 15,000 years with depictions of wrestling found in cave drawings in France. Wrestling is one of the oldest historical sports rivaled only by track and field, and has been seen in ancient literature and games of Greece and early Egypt. The most notable influence of wrestling comes from the Olympics, where it was introduced in 708BC . There are many forms of wrestling including Greco-Roman, Freestyle, Folk style, and Catch wrestling; all of which operate

harder, I can accomplish anything. My past experiences as a wrestler have shown me that even through tough times, I am capable of doing anything I set my mind to do. My life as a wrestler began in my sophomore year when I walked into my first wrestling meeting. All the guys were staring at me because I was the only girl and they looked at me like I was in the wrong place. Soon after that we began tryouts which consisted mainly of conditioning (running laps, running stairs and carrying around other

It was the beginning of the new wrestling season and all that Tom Allen could think of was his match he lost last year against Joe Kendall. Joe beat Tom at the state tournament to win the 145-pound bracket. The whole day he thought about the entire match and how he should win the final score of the match was 3-2. He was up to the entire match until the third period when Joe got a takedown with 30 seconds left in the match. Tom tried extremely had to get an escape however he wasn’t able to cause him

life), many achievements, and even his family. Jordan’s story is definitively one to remember. -Early Life- When Jordan Burroughs was 5 years old, he brought home a flyer for wrestling one day and wanted to join. No one in his family had ever wrestled before, so it was a new experience for him, and the family. The wrestling team opened an opportunity to make

beginners to Olympic Champions, the sweep single is a trenchant takedown used by all types of wrestlers. It really is a shot that everyone can use no matter the wrestler’s size, shape, or skill level. There are many different variations to this wrestling move with countless set-ups and finishes to it. To successfully complete the sweeping single, a wrestler must focus on creating a variety of movements that lead to the actual shot which can then be finished to score the two-point takedown. Before

Jiu Jitsu is an ancient samurai unarmed fighting. Japanese Jiu Jitsu mostly focuses on grappling. The idea of Jiu Jitsu is to manipulate your opponents force against him. Japanese Jiu Jitsu is meant for close combat in order to defeat an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon or only a short weapon. Because striking against an armored opponent proved in effective , practitioners of Jiu Jitsu learned that the most efficient method for neutralizing an enemy is forms of pins, joint locks

Wrestling has been a huge aspect and a great experience of my high school career. Wrestling has taught me a lot over the past three years from hard work all the way to ethics. But the most important thing has taught me morph my failure into success. That with hard work anything may be achieved. My freshman year I was really overweight and could not keep up with any of the intense exercises we would do. I did not win a single match all year and basically did not improve all year. The worst part is