known as the Michael Jordan of wrestling. His name is Dan Gable. He was born on October 25‚ 1948 ‚ Waterloo‚ IA. He had one sister who was raped and murdered when she was in high school‚ and Dan was only 16. This is what drove him to win and compete in wrestling. I admire Dan Gable because he is hardworking‚ mentally tough‚ and a wrestler. First‚ not only is Dan Gable an olympic gold medalist‚ but he is also a very hardworking man. Dan Gable had a high school wrestling record of 64-0 winning four state
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My First Trophy Honestly‚ I have not really accomplished too much in my life but there is one achievement for which I received an award that depicts the effort and devotion I exerted into wrestling. Last year I was voted the most valuable junior varsity wrestler by my teammates and I received a trophy to honor my outstanding season. It is not a spectacular trophy. Rather‚ its value comes from a more personal sentiment‚ being a reminder that hard work and determination is the key to accomplishing
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case‚ I am not a typical 11th grader. Because this year‚ I decided to try wrestling for the first time. I’ve always had experience with martial arts such as boxing‚ kickboxing‚ and Capoeira – a fight that was disguised as a dance by Brazilian slaves in the 1500s. Also‚ I’ve done school sports and athletic activities such as indoor and outdoor track‚ and lacrosse. But‚ until this year‚ I had never done any form of wrestling‚ which is a sport that has always piqued my interest. The exhilaration of
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and its athletes for being barbaric and unsafe. This is actually the opposite of this sport. Mixed Martial Arts is a sport where fighters who are trained in many different kinds of martial arts (i.e. judo‚ Brazilian jiu jitsu‚ Maui Tai‚ boxing wrestling‚ kickboxing etc.) and then they are put into a ring or sometimes a cage‚ to test their skills against each other. Mixed martial arts competitions originated with the intention of searching
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The Fall "Fall" is a term in wrestling where a wrestler is pinned to the ground on his back. Being beaten by fall is one of the ultimate forms of humiliation for the loser and a demonstration of absolute domination for the winner. I won most wrestling matches during my eighth grade year. My ego began to inflate more and more‚ as I began defeating most of my opponents by fall. However‚ I was not becoming a positive role model. With my undefeated record‚ I found myself fooling around in practice
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school wrestler he sought to take his talents further. Without receiving any major scholarships for wrestling he chose the University of Georgia to attend college. The college does not have a traditional wrestling team like many of the top colleges‚ however; they do have a wrestling club in which they do participate against other colleges‚ and for all intensive purposes is exactly like a real wrestling team. Since his story has been gaining nationwide notice Kyle can be seen on HBO’s Real Sports
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match‚ but I lost in overtime. I knew that I probably will wrestle him again during Regionals at the Jackie Joyner Kersee Center in East Saint Louis. That morning during weigh-ins I talked to Bo and looked at the brackets and the odds of me and Bo wrestling again were slim because he had to win all his matches and I had to win all my
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extra hard for something and you accomplished it. What did you feel? a sense of joy and accomplishment? well that’s what I felt in these next few stories Imma gonna tell ya. It was 2012‚ football had just ended and I’d never been so excited for wrestling season. I was coming off a season where I went 34-8 and was a state qualifier‚ getting second at both regional and sectionals. I had wrestled 75 pounds last year‚ but this year I was weighing 90 pounds and was gonna have to lose some weight to make
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APPLE CREEK -- Waynedale is about to complete a "Decade of Dominance" in wrestling‚ which was born out of a pair of single-digit setbacks at the little Wayne County Athletic League Tournament in 2005 and 2006. "We were so upset by those close losses to Northwestern (162-159.5 and then 188-187) that we decided we didn’t want to just win County the next year -- we wanted to win it the next 10‚" said 23rd-year Waynedale head coach Louie Stanley. "That was our plan and we’ve won nine of 10. "What it
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(factual illustration) according to ezinearticles they called their fighting competition “pankration” which was pretty much an anything goes battle with no real referees. II. When it first started people basically looked at it as a very physical wrestling match‚ and now there are so many different styles of fighting. a. (expert testimony) Fights were becoming Jiu-jitsu and boxing matches‚ which was basically submission fighting against punching. According to Dana White “the best fighter is someone
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