Wrestling Observation

The individual I observed was a varsity wrestler from Socastee high school. When I was observing the whole practice he was the one wrestler who stood out to me the most. He was a returning wrestler from the 2 past year and it was finally his time to rise in the spot light. From the way it looked he has matured a lot since last year when the team was full of senior leader. He also looks like he has developed a lot physically with additional muscle gains and height. The wrestler I observed told me grew 2 inch’s over the past summer and has been lifting weights. From my calculation the cause of the grow spurt was the act of puberty due to rapid to result in physical development. He also told me has been a very strict nutritional diet due to the …show more content…
When he did our coach approached him in a respectful manner trying to teach him the correct way to execute the wrestling technique, but he seemed very embarrassed and became very ignorant when the coach was attempting to help him. He never had encounter these problem till this year when he took the “leader” role. This showed me that has encountering development in the cognitive stage by the way he kept question authority (our coach) that he performed the move correctly. A sign of cognitive growth I saw in the varsity wrestler was when I asked him what his future plan with the sport of wrestling was. The wrestler responded very quickly and told me that he wants to wrestle at the next level and then told me how he was going to achieve his goal in a very confident tone. The sign of cognitive growth I saw was that he started making long-term plans for his self with obtainable goals. One of the solutions I though of to encourage cognitive growth in the wrestler I observed was by challenging him think about possibilities for the future or by trying to assist him in re-evaluating poor