Paragraph About Wrestling
After months of preparation and dedicating all of your free time to the sport, January 24 you finally get the one moment that all of your hours of practice have led up to. At the wrestling GAC there is one major difference between the wrestlers who train all year for this one moment and the ones who wait until the last minute; the feeling of the medal around your neck at the end of the day. 4:30 A.M., the morning of January 24, you wake up on this day knowing that you either have a really good day or very disappointing day ahead of you. We arrive at the tournament around 8:00 still not quite awake, as soon as you enter you can smell the concession stand beginning to make food for the long day ahead. As we enter the gym to begin practice the
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We are all sore from our first 3 or four matches and from sitting on bleachers all day without being able to move much. Unfortunately, most of us, if we have won all of our matches so far, still have one remaining. The match that will decide if you get first and move on to the next tournament, or get second and go home in shame. I have waited all day for this match and even though I was relaxed at some points was still nervous for it since I had woken up. Scoring in wrestling is typically an easy thing to do if you are fairly good. All you must do is escape or perform a takedown to score 2 points. At the end of the allotted six minutes of my finals match the score was only 2-2. We had to go into overtime where the first person to score points won. I had won the coin toss so I got to pick my position. By this point I had already figured out my opponents weaknesses and also realized that he was much more tired than I was. I chose to be in the bottom position knowing that I would have a fairly easy time escaping. Right before the whistle was blown to begin I decided that to win I would have to do something unpredictable that many people don’t do often. As the whistle blew I immediately arched my back towards the ceiling and stayed that way until my opponent moved. His first instinct was to try to grab my arm and pull me back down, this mistake is what won me the tournament. As he grabbed my arm I swiftly kicked up into
We are all sore from our first 3 or four matches and from sitting on bleachers all day without being able to move much. Unfortunately, most of us, if we have won all of our matches so far, still have one remaining. The match that will decide if you get first and move on to the next tournament, or get second and go home in shame. I have waited all day for this match and even though I was relaxed at some points was still nervous for it since I had woken up. Scoring in wrestling is typically an easy thing to do if you are fairly good. All you must do is escape or perform a takedown to score 2 points. At the end of the allotted six minutes of my finals match the score was only 2-2. We had to go into overtime where the first person to score points won. I had won the coin toss so I got to pick my position. By this point I had already figured out my opponents weaknesses and also realized that he was much more tired than I was. I chose to be in the bottom position knowing that I would have a fairly easy time escaping. Right before the whistle was blown to begin I decided that to win I would have to do something unpredictable that many people don’t do often. As the whistle blew I immediately arched my back towards the ceiling and stayed that way until my opponent moved. His first instinct was to try to grab my arm and pull me back down, this mistake is what won me the tournament. As he grabbed my arm I swiftly kicked up into