Authors note: I wrote this because it’s one of my favorite sports. I love it and it my favorite thing to do.

My Heart and Soul  

Do you like the satisfaction of winning?

Do you like hard work? I dot I can that.

Do you like to pummel people without getting it trouble?

 Famous wrestler and Coach Dan Gable once said that “gold medals aren’t made of gold; they are made of sweet determination or lots of guts.”

Wrestling has its ups and downs. As any sport would. There are many things to like and many things to dislike for instance. Meet new people, make new friends, and have some good times wining.

But then there are the bad times. Working hard and sweating all the fluids out of your body. Hoping for a sip of water in the 2 ½ hours of drilling and wrestling as hard as you can. Treating everyone like your enemy on the mat .what happens on the matt stays on the mat.  But when off the mat treat them like best of friends.  That is one unique think about wrestling is that you can pick on people but you remain friends.

After all of that drilling you have to watch your weight which sucks that is the worst part about it. You can’t eat you can stay awake during class and when you get home from practice your too tired to do anything else.  When you’re watching your weight if you are over what is going to happen is getting your running shoes and running in snow or rain just to burn off the weight you have put on. When you’re running in the rain your socks get all wet and you start to get blisters on your feet and that not fun at all. Also Mornings are tough to, waking up at 500 just to go lift weights at 600 and then having school right after is not fun at all.

They day of the meets your all dress up looking good. At school that’s all you can think about is the meet your dazing off during class.

Then it is the weight INS hopping you made your weight.  You step on the scale watching it go up and down then boom its. You made it a sigh of relief. After you’re done with that you sit down and have a big snack like subway or something of that sort.

Then you step out of the locker room and you see everyone in the stands and you look over to see who you’re wrestling try to think what he is going to do.  Then you start to warm up thinking about what you’re going to do during your match. You start to warm up. Get all pumped and that sort of stuff.

Then meet starts your waiting until you have to go.

When you step on to the mat everything goes silent. You are ready to go when the referee say shake hands has you do that you stare your opponent in the eyes. Try to make him scared. Then the whistle blows. You are thinking about what to do and what he is going to do. Then you see something open and you take it. For a split second it can be the winning moments or the losing moment but you have to take risk. If you win it feels like the greatest thing in the world but if you loss you can’t even stand to look at anyone you just want to be in a punching the wall as hard as you can just to get all of your anger out.

But then there are the bad times. Working hard and sweating all the fluids out of your body. Hoping for a sip of water in the 2 ½ hours of drilling and wrestling as hard as you can. Treating everyone like your enemy on the mat .what happens on the matt stays on the mat.  But when off the mat treat them like best of friends.  That is one unique think about wrestling is that you can pick on people but you remain friends.

After all of that drilling you have to watch your weight which sucks that is the worst part about it. You can’t eat you can stay awake during class and when you get home from practice your too tired to do anything else.  When you’re watching your weight if you are over what is going to happen is getting your running shoes and running in snow or rain just to burn off the weight you have put on. When you’re running in the rain your socks get all wet and you start to get blisters on your feet and that not fun at all. Also Mornings are tough to, waking up at 500 just to go lift weights at 600 and then having school right after is not fun at all.

But after all of that you have to go back and work harder next week in practice to improve and get better to win. This is why I believe that wrestling is the toughest sport.   

This is why wrestling is one of my favorite sports you enjoy hanging with friends. You win medals you can lose matches but you still have fun and never know what can happen.

  

                                             Austin Shibilski

OUTLINE FOR WRITING PIECE:

1.       Introduction/series of questions

a.       Quote

b.      Thesis statement:

2.       First of all, (FIRST REASON WHY WRESTLING IS GREAT)

a.       You meet friends

b.       

3.        Possibly a paragraph here describing that there are some bad aspects,

4.       Conclusion