People ask me, “Why... Why do I wrestle?” Then they say, “Wrestling is so gay.”
My answer to that question always seems to be, “I don't know. Why do you play with balls?”
But, to be honest, I don't really know why I wrestle. I mean, rolling around a mat with sweaty guys isn't exactly my idea of what I call fun, and imagine after all of that you lose. That's just a lose, lose situation. The only win, win situation is when you win by either disqualification or default. Maybe I’m overreacting, but that’s how I see things.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some good qualities to wrestling; the feeling you get when you win, the teammates, although there are some I just want to kill, and the food, how can you forget about the food. I think these qualities …show more content…
Practice was difficult, we ran so much; as if we were training for a marathon and we fought even more. We just took turns pummeling each other at an endless rotation, it was antagonizing, and every five minutes there would be a buzzard telling us to run down and back. But it wasn’t all that bad because we found a way to beat the system. As a team, we would wrestle out hard for the first four minutes then the last minute we took it easy on each so we could catch a breath before having to sprint down and back. It helped prepare for meets so we wouldn’t have to go to a meet sore and exhausted.
My first wrestling match was in a gigantic high school, it looked like the school had its own zip code. The high school was covered in red bricks; inside were narrow hallways, but the big classes made up for it. We made our way to the gym, with big bright mats that read “Chippewa Valley.” It's funny their school colors were red, but their singlet colors -the terrible fashion choice we wore to wrestle- were green. I walked in stressed, wondering how the match would play out.
Coach yelled, “Seydina!” My eyes darted towards him, “Get ready you're in
My answer to that question always seems to be, “I don't know. Why do you play with balls?”
But, to be honest, I don't really know why I wrestle. I mean, rolling around a mat with sweaty guys isn't exactly my idea of what I call fun, and imagine after all of that you lose. That's just a lose, lose situation. The only win, win situation is when you win by either disqualification or default. Maybe I’m overreacting, but that’s how I see things.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some good qualities to wrestling; the feeling you get when you win, the teammates, although there are some I just want to kill, and the food, how can you forget about the food. I think these qualities …show more content…
Practice was difficult, we ran so much; as if we were training for a marathon and we fought even more. We just took turns pummeling each other at an endless rotation, it was antagonizing, and every five minutes there would be a buzzard telling us to run down and back. But it wasn’t all that bad because we found a way to beat the system. As a team, we would wrestle out hard for the first four minutes then the last minute we took it easy on each so we could catch a breath before having to sprint down and back. It helped prepare for meets so we wouldn’t have to go to a meet sore and exhausted.
My first wrestling match was in a gigantic high school, it looked like the school had its own zip code. The high school was covered in red bricks; inside were narrow hallways, but the big classes made up for it. We made our way to the gym, with big bright mats that read “Chippewa Valley.” It's funny their school colors were red, but their singlet colors -the terrible fashion choice we wore to wrestle- were green. I walked in stressed, wondering how the match would play out.
Coach yelled, “Seydina!” My eyes darted towards him, “Get ready you're in