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07-26-2014, 02:36 PM | #2 | |
ON CP YOU’RE SOMEBODY’S BITCH!
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Yeah, the spandex stuff... Have heard it a billion times from a billion different non-wrestlers. I've never met a wrestler who has had an issue wrestling in their singlet. It's not a big deal. Story of how I started wrestling: My wrestling-crazy dad took me to a local tournament when I was 6 years old. I was just there with him to watch and had no idea why he took me there to begin with. I was bored out of my mind the entire day. At the conclusion of the tournament, my dad asked, "did you have fun watching the tournament?" I replied, "no." He asked, "that's because you want to wrestle yourself, right? Do you want to do this?" I replied, "no." My dad responded with, "well tough shit. I registered you in the Central Lee wrestling tournament. That is next week. Your first practice will be in our living room when we get home." I had 5-6 two hour practices in my living room...just my dad and I. I wrestled in the Central Lee tournament and walked through it... 2 pins and a tech. From that point on, my dad was a full-fledged crazy wrestling parent. He started the youth wrestling program at my school (which still exists today) and I was in wrestling practice for 8-10 hours per week. Did I like it? No, not really... the pressure from my dad along with the pressure I put on myself to succeed was unbearable. The weight cutting was horrific. It prompted a LOT of performance anxiety. Hell, the worst trouble I would get into in my life was when I would lose a wrestling match. However, when you do something for a long time and become pretty good at it in rather quick fashion, you naturally develop a passion for it. I loved winning. Hated losing to the point where I was straight up scared of it. I can't imagine my life had I not wrestled...it's just been that prominent of a part of my life. And I think I am a better person now because I did wrestle...sometimes I wonder what I would be like today had I not wrestled. It is embedded in my mind as being pretty bittersweet. I can't honestly tell you that I liked it. I love watching it now... I love following my brothers and some of the other kids I have coached. My high school really has something good going right now. |
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07-26-2014, 09:30 PM | #3 |
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07-28-2014, 12:56 PM | #4 |
ON CP YOU’RE SOMEBODY’S BITCH!
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07-28-2014, 02:27 PM | #5 |
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Enjoyed absolutely every bit of it from the time I was 7 years old until I was 20. Dislocating my elbow in the state championship match and having to forfeit the match when I was up by 5 points in the third period during my senior season is something that still bothers me to this day.
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07-28-2014, 02:36 PM | #6 | |
ON CP YOU’RE SOMEBODY’S BITCH!
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07-28-2014, 02:44 PM | #7 | |
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07-28-2014, 03:35 PM | #8 | |
ON CP YOU’RE SOMEBODY’S BITCH!
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Man...sometimes timing just makes things straight up unfair. |
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07-28-2014, 04:03 PM | #9 | |
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07-28-2014, 03:47 PM | #10 | |
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I loved it, I walked around at 165 and wrestled at 138. It wasn't even the biggest cut on our team. |
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