Wrestling-Personal Narrative

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It was freshman year of high school I was 16 my first year wrestling it was my first jv tournament we were at pacific high school in there gym at 8:30am and it was hot it felt like desert my match was about to start as sweat ran down my face I started to get nervous because i'm always nervous before a match it feels like there's a pit in my stomach but I was to focused on winning a medal and excited because wrestling is fun and it got a fire going in me I was ready to become a beast and fight for and earn my win. First my opponent and I shook hands the ref blew the whistle we locked up head to head we were pushing each other back and forth and I head snapped quick fact a head snapp is when you and your opponent are locked up head to head your hand behind their head and you push their head to the ground I got my opponent down …show more content…
We scrambled to see who would end up on top my opponent and I rolled around on the matt my opponent and were fighting to see who would end up on top at the end I ended up on top then I got him in a half nelson and ran it clockwise and rolled him to his back we got chest and chest I made sure I was on my tippy toes so there's more pressure to keep both my opponent's shoulders were down and I held him there for three seconds and I won my opponent and I shook hands then I shook my opponents coaches hands then I got my hand raised by the

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