Authors note: The Authors purpose of this piece is to show my passion for wrestling and why it is one of my favorite sports. You’re able to really let out your anger on your opponent and it makes you stress free.
My heart and soul
Do you like the satisfaction of winning? Do you like hard work? Do you like to pummel people without getting in trouble? Famous wrestler and Coach Dan Gable once said, “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold, they are made of sweat, determination, and hard-to-find alloy called guts.” Wrestling is my favorite sport ever and always will be.
Wrestling has its ups and downs, as any sport would. There are many things to like and many things to dislike, for instance; you meet new people, you make new friends, and have some good times wining. But then there are the bad times also. Working hard and giving fourth all your effort. You start to break a sweat easily. Hoping for a sip of water in the 2 ½ hours of drills and going all out. Treating everyone like your enemy on the mat, you must forget about friendships if you are to wrestle your friends. What happens on the matt, stays on the matt. But when you’re off the mat, treat them like best of friends. One unique thing 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’t 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 you should get 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. All Mornings are tough to, wake up at 5:00 just to go lift weights at 6:00 and then having school right after is not fun at all. The day of the meets you dress up and are looking good. At school that’s all you can think about is the meet. Sometimes, you even start dazing off during class.
Then, it’s time for the weight INS hoping you made the weight class you wanted. You step on the scale, watching it slowly go up and down when suddenly, boom! You made the weight class you wanted. You sigh in relief. Although, not everyone makes the weight class they want. After you’re done with that you sit down and have a big snack, such as subway or something of that sort.
Afterwards, you come out of the locker room and you see everyone in the stands and you look over to see who you’re wrestling while trying 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 try to think of tactics that would be useful against your opponent. You start to get pumped, and now, it’s your turn in the spotlight.
When you step on to the mat everything goes silent. You’re ready to go when the referee says “shake hands” as you stare your opponent in the eyes. Trying to intimidate him, you must not get carried away in the glory and get cocky. Now, the whistle blows you’re 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 could be the winning moments or the losing moments, but you have to take a risk.
If you win it feels like the greatest thing in the world, but if you lose you can’t even stand to look at anyone. You just want to kill someone because you’re so furious. 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.
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