Posted on 07/09/2003 2:02:21 PM PDT by Brookhaven
The irony is wrestling is a much more accesable and easier sport to understand than most others. Virtually every young boy at one time or another has tried wrestling his friends for fun, and understands the basics of trying to pin your opponent.
You're right about beign the best athletes. You don't realize how demanding wrestling is until you try it. I can remember when I first started, I had just finished football season. I thought "I'm in good shape from football so I should be ready for wrestling." I thought I was going to die the first few weeks. I practicly crawled back to the locker room. When spring football came (which was right after wrestling season in our school), I noticed that the guys that had been on the wrestling team were in significantly better shape than the guys that had participated in other winter sports.
I was always in this boat.
My wrestling coach was the head varsity football coach and from double sessions for football in August until Track & Field started in the Spring...he and I were married. He rode me constantly. He was the greatest influence on me during my High School years and I'll never forget him.
He also took the time to teach me the Sanchin Kata of Uechi Ryu Karate Do. A foundation I used to great advantage and expanded on in later years. I am now teaching my son Sanchin.
Wresltling provided me with so many lessons during those years. Discipline, training, respect for my opponent and his capabilities, good sportsmanship and on and on.
One does not endure "Shark Bait" drills and remain unchanged.
PROGRESS!?!?!?!?!? What more non-lipstick lesbians with lucrative careers?
No education on my dime.
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