Folk wrestling

Originally from London, the saxophonist Will Vinson is a frequent presence in the fervent New York jazz clubs like the Smalls, where he recorded a live album in 2012 with a quintet that included the guitarist Lage Lund, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Brewer, and drummer Marcus Gilmore. For his latest release, “Perfectly Out of Place”, Vinson not only convenes a new quintet but also extends it by adding a few guests for the strings, vocals, and percussion. The cats that follow him are also…

When I was a lot younger playing sports wasn’t always easy because of asthma. In the eighth grade, instead of playing basketball after football season, I decided to wrestle instead. One time in the seventh grade I went to the 2013 OKWA Novice State wrestling tournament. After several matches in the tournament I made it to the semi-finals. I won that match in double overtime. It might not seem like much, but I learned a valuable lesson. During that double overtime, I was so exhausted that I…

and excruciating process, but well worth the pain to reach the pinnacle of his journey: to be a state champion. Before the wrestling season, a wrestler needs to be mentally and physically prepared. This journey is anything but easy, and sometimes to have the most success, wrestlers must cut weight. Cutting weight puts the wrestler at a lower weight, helping him control wrestling matches easier. The wrestler has to create physical goals through exercise, dieting, weight checks, all while…

with my coaches for wrestling. Spending so much time with them has led me to get to know them very well over the years. My two coaches for wrestling, Esvelt and Falcon, when looked at initially, appear immensely different. Their facial expressions to their body types differ significantly. Once they begin to talk and coach, the similarities in their attitudes at tournaments and their coaching styles become evident. The greatest difference between all seven of the wrestling coaches would be…

I’ve been only wrestling for one year, but yet it feels like it has been a lifetime of memories. Wrestling as a sport, teaches you character, strengthens your mind and your core. Practices are hard and long; they suck in all honestly, but I’m an athlete, I live for hard work and a challenge. Even though it hasn’t been long, I have just fell in love with wrestling, it’s like that one family member nobody really likes, but everyone learns to love them anyway because they are family and they will…

Wrestling is a one of a kind sport that teaches you more about life then any other sport in the world. It humbles you and proves to you that what you put in is what you get out. Anthor big lesson is to never stop fighting no matter what and in life this could be anything from a passing of a family member the rent being late or just being heartbroken the lesson that wrestling teachers you is that times are tough are now but soon they will get better. Or if you get pinned or beat you know that…

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…

Once you’ve wrestled everything else in life is easy. Wrestling starts around October so by that time anyone who wrestles is settled and comfortable in terms of the classroom while starting to get focused on the upcoming season. That comfortability I was gaining would soon disappear for a long time. I learned this my freshmen year after I joined the small 13 man team at my high school that pretty much no one had even heard of. Wrestling interested me although I had no expectations of success…

collegiate athletics. I competed in wrestling at both the Division I and Division III levels. Through wrestling, I have obtained a large amount of experience that will help me in physical therapy school. One of the greatest American wrestlers and coaches of all time, Dan Gable, once said, “Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” While life is in no way easy, this quote describes how wrestling prepares someone for the struggles in life. Participating in wrestling requires an…

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…