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    I used to struggle with failure. I used to never want to try something new because I was afraid I would look stupid and mess it up. Eventually, I would try wrestling as it seemed interesting and would get me out of the house, something I tried to achieve frequently. When I first did wrestling I was a freshman, I was awful at it as I expected, I got beat up, hurt, and failed frequently. After the first week or so I wanted to quit, but I was afraid of looking like a wimp, so I decided to stick…

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    Essay #3 Mixed martial arts is one of the fastest-growing sports on the market. The sport’s fan base is excited, dedicated, and extremely supportive. While sports such as football or baseball are far more well-known, mixed martial arts or MMA, as it often referred, is featured regularly on sports news stations, and magazines, such as ESPN. The biggest stars of the sport, such as Conor McGregor, are famous celebrities in their own right. However, there is no college feeder program for the sport,…

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    Arm wrestling with my father is about a boy and his father being competitive in arm wrestling and them having a physical relationship, more than your typical father son relationship. Arm wrestling was a thing he did with his father and how they expressed their love for each other. His father didn’t really know how to express his love for him son so he showed it through physical sports which was arm wrestling. The love him and his father had for each other was always there, even though they…

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    home to see who will win. Many sports advertise challenging competition similar to that of wrestling, but very few can follow through with these promises. This happens because these other sports do not build themselves on set standards such as mental and physical strength and technique. These important parts of wrestling have set it apart for centuries. As a wrestler, I know that these standards make wrestling not only a sport, but a lifestyle. Mental strength comes from the long hard practices…

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    and safeguard starting from the earliest stage permits them to win, even from their back. Through refined utilization of influence and situating, jiu jitsu plans warriors to be more adaptable in their hostile and cautious moves. In like manner, wrestling instructs warriors to utilize catching systems, tosses, and takedowns to rule a battle. Capable wrestlers have superb adjust, quality, and mental sturdiness which are all characteristics of a fruitful…

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    Olympic Wrestlers

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    Olympic wrestling was being dropped from the Olympics. Two of the many wrestlers who participate in the Olympics are Jordan Burroughs and David Taylor. They were both dejected by the news they got from the Olympic officials. Jordan Burroughs states, “I was thinking about wrestling in 2020. But, any thought I had about wrestling in 2020 is basically... well, I’ve got nothing now.” Jordan Burroughs was enthusiastic while looking forward to winning another Olympic medal. However, now that wrestling…

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    I wanted to do I chose wrestling, because as Dan Gable eloquently said “Once you’ve wrestled everything else in life is easy.” When I first started wrestling I was lazy and disinterested. I tended to float through life not putting forth my best effort. I soon realized wrestling and anything else I decided to do would require massive amounts of dedication; it caused me to reevaluate myself and what I wanted to do with my life. The strenuous and demanding nature of wrestling practice and the sport…

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    Wrestling Observation

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    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…

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    failure may seem to be dreadful at the time, but my times of failure are actually the key to my success. The first time that I experienced failure was during my freshman year of wrestling, when I came across a senior from Carmel High School by the name of Karl Wilhelm. I first meet Karl Wilhelm at the 2013 Hamilton County Wrestling Tournament. Karl and I were both in the 106lb weight class and we were both seeded. Karl was seeded number one in the tournament, due to him being the returning…

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    Boys Club Case Study

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    As one of the three judges during the fight between Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas, I believe the representative for the Boys’ Club should be announced to the audience. From what happened during the boys’ fight, Felix Vargas should be declared winner. Although both players were equally matched in skills, Vargas had more punches than Cruz. During the fight, Felix was the first person to injure his opponent. He trapped Antonio between the ropes of the ring and started punching his midribs with…

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