Influence of Wrestling To a lot of athletes, when they graduate high school, it is the last time that they will be involved in the sports they have grown up loving. To the select few who get the opportunity to participate in a college sport, their sport will have an impact on them for the rest of their lives. Ben Wilcox is a perfect example of how a sport has influenced his life. He has gone from wrestling as a student, to being a collegiate wrestler, ending up as a high school wrestling…
Wrestling is a sport well one person battles it out with another, you can basically call wrestling a street fight with rules. If your not ready for the fight ahead then maybe you go look for a different sport. I was not physically ready for this match. I got hurt pretty bad with a concussion and it did not feel good. My painful concussion happened at Mountain View High School almost a year ago. I was wrestling this kid named Kyle Rice, Kyle is a kid who has wrestled for so long and beat me…
brothers wrestling for the High School. His head coach was close with my brother so he also knew me. He was and still is an social studies teacher at Heritage Middle school which is connected in the School district of 197. Every morning at Heritage he would see me and always call me by my brothers name and always bug me about wrestling and trying out for it. Over time of always bugging me about wrestling, I ended up taking his advice and decided to wrestle. When i tried out for wrestling at the…
Wrestling and Boxing are two contact sports that have different ways of making contact, rules and have similar setups for their competitions In both Wrestling and Boxing physical contact between the opponents is made. In wrestling contact is made by using your bodyweight to maneuver your opponent where you need them to be. In boxing on the other hand contact is made with the force of a fist inside a padded glove. Although both sports have different types of contact each is made very specific…
an athlete like no other. Yes all athletes and athletics require a great deal of physical activity however wrestling is on a whole another level. My first example is that itself; physical requirements. Now I have done just about every sport there is and not practice I have ever been in even compares to a practice I go through for…
I used to be very nervous and scared wrestling at big tournaments. The big crowds and big brackets made my stomach turn. I was scared to lose and disappoint my Dad. I never really has a lot of success as wrestler in elementary school. The first time I wrestled in a national tournament I was in fourth grade and it was in Tulsa Oklahoma. The competition was very fierce, I had never experienced any thing like this. It was nothing like wrestling in small northwest Iowa. I didn't even win a single…
on me. When the referee blew the whistle the match began and it was close. In the end I won because I knew what he was going to do and how to counter it. In the end I won because I used my intellect to best him. Wrestling is a sport for the people who are intellectual. A wrestling match involves predicting the opponents move before it happens, almost like a chest match. Also being able to recognizing his flaws and venerability during the match, to get an advantage. The sport…
Wrestling is a sport most people do so they can do better in other sports. They want to do good in wrestling to show their coaches that they are very strong athletes physically and mentally. Most people tend to not know the real ways of becoming good. Wrestlers have so many ways to becoming great, and they have to go on the bumpier road to get better, not the smooth one. Skip Practices One of the steps to becoming a wrestler is that practice does not make people better and, definitely, won’t…
Delan Ossman The Wrestling Tournament Championships 2007 was taking place at Killarney Secondary School. I was in my late teenage years, and I can remember standing on those thick wrestling mats. Across the mat from me was a big bulky kid. The kid looked pumped, excited, and ready to take me on. I knew this was not going to be an easy match. I stared in his eyes; he stared at mine I could see how bad this kid wanted to win. I was his last opponent, and he was my last too…
The unique experience I’ve had as a wrestling coach will be the influence of my 2 academic work and goals at Colorado Christian University. Fifteen years’ worth of experience at two schools and in two separate periods of my life. I started coaching wrestling right out of high school and after seven years quit for various reasons. Four years later I returned and have been going strong since. One could argue that my influence comes from a talk I had with my son Adrian when he was eight years old…