Essay About Wrestling

I believe I will be a wrestling state champion. I have been wrestling since I was eight years old and I haven’t stopped yet. Since I started wrestling my goal was to be a State champion. Just this past year I came up short and got state runner-up. I lost to a kid from Glendale he was a junior and I was a sophomore. We wrestled two other times before the finals match and he’s always beaten me by 5 or more points. We have become really good friends off the mat but when we are on the mat we are enemies. He’s a good wrestler but I believe I can beat him in the finals next year if we both make it. When I was eight years old I was wrestling and since then I have been going to tournaments to wrestle. My very first tournament was called the Thunderbird
A captain has a lot of responsibilities like getting everyone stretched out and everybody focused. Also sometimes the captains run the practices and have to learn all the moves we go over. My favorite move is called the cross face cradle. It has been my move for three years and nobody can ever get out of them. People say wrestling is just rolling around with guys. It’s not, it’s a very technical sport and there are over a hundred moves. Wrestling is easily the toughest sport on my campus. I played football and honestly the practices were a joke, I also led the team in tackles. Sometimes there are those team members who challenge my authority but since I got state runner up this past year all I’m going to do is point to the wall.
People around the school people talk smack and doubt you but this year I proved them wrong. People also say I’m never going to get first and I will always get second. But I know what it takes to become a state champion and I will become one. I hate to see people on my team slack off in practice because there are other wrestlers across the state focused and preparing to be a state champion. Every time they slack off, I make them do bear runs for a punishment because bear runs tire them