After I won my first fight my family was screaming and jumping for joy “he won he won”. I felt great, I was unbeatable, no one could touch me. I continued my professional fighting career for four more fights, and did not lose a single fight. I couldn’t believe that I had an undefeated fighting streak; it all reflected back to the day I was bullied and laughed at. After my last fight I decided that this was not for me, I wanted to do a different martial art style more of a Chinese…
“No sport is older or more widely distributed than wrestling” (Encyclopedia Britannica). Wrestling has been part of people’s life styles in hand-to-hand combat, to actual competition till one of the opponents die, and now present day where the sport is for winning but not causing death.…
Wrestling is tough, it is a sport much from its participants, but if one has the courage to step out on the mat dressed in a uniform that leaves a little imagination and challenge another human to a match to see who the better man is. Danger can be found in every sport, and wrestling are no more prone to injury’s to soccer, football, track stars, lacrosse. Wrestling creates a sense of accountable for one’s actions. Those that work hard, succeed. There is no one to hide behind; every flaw and mistake is brought forth in a match. It takes a great deal of mental toughness and sacrifice nights with friends for extra practice and consideration, favorite food to lose the extra pound, and sleep when one needs to wake up at 4am to go for a run before school begins. That competitive nature of clashing with another human being creates a sense of community within the wrestling world. Those that have never participated in the sport have a tough time understanding this. Opponents’ must shake hands before and after, showing respect for the other fighter, win or lose. It is uncommon to see administration in the form of an embrace even after one has lost a tough battle. These values are created through combative sports, and stay with a wrestle for the remainder of their…
Everyone has at least one natural talent in a certain field.Some people show their talent very early when they are kids, but some people just find their talent until they become adults.Marlen Esparza’s talent was revealed in the sports field when she was youngand the author suggests, "Marlen was always desperate to compete against her brothers” (851). Although Esparza’s father desired one of his sons become a boxing legend, his younger daughter had an interest in boxing than his sons.Boxing is a sport that requires strong, healthy and high endurance, but Marlen who is a girl did not fearless when she dared to fight boxing with her brothers.This action showed a passion of a young girl who likes playing boxing that is mainly for boys instead of play activities for girls.In addition, a girl who could beat her brothersdemonstrated that she is very strong and have good stamina to pursue boxing.Inside her, talent seed had been budding when she was young.…
Wrestling is a perfect Olympic sport for the modern world. It is a combination of speed, strength, agility, hard work, and dedication. Because of these traits, wrestlers in general are better, harder working individuals than non wrestlers. Also, wrestling is a coeducational sport meaning that both men and women can compete in it (albeit separately in the Olympics). These factors combine to make wrestling the perfect sport for the world to join in together for competition. The removal of wrestling from the Olympics may remove a large motivating factor for dedicated wrestlers to work hard. As the great wrestler and coach Dan Gable once said, “[o]nce you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy”. This quotation personifies the soul of wrestling and shows that wrestling is the perfect sport for a hard-working, motivated society.…
I started wrestling in sixth grade. Even though I didn’t win one of my first seven matches, I developed into a successful wrestler. In high school I won tournaments and beat high-quality wrestlers. During my junior year I was determined to become a great wrestler. I worked harder than ever and didn’t let anyone stop me. That year I lost the Illinois state wrestling tournament championship match by one point. Over the next six months between my junior and senior season I was runner up at AAU national tournament and wrestled at Disney Land in Florida at the Disney Duals with over 50 other teams and only lost 1 of 8 matches. These are a few of my achievements in high school. Now that I am in college there are many similarities and differences between high school practices and college practices.…
Stepping into a dojo that is also used as a rec room, the smell of sweat instantly hits you like a slap in the face. The front entrance is blocked with shoes that were owned by little kids to older adults. You have to tip toe your way through the sea of shoes. You can see a big room full of karatekas, which is the Japanese term for karate students. There are several groups of karatekas all around the room and they all possess different colored belts. If you look towards the back, you can see a group of black belts on their knees surrounding a combat. One of the fighters is a sixteen year old girl named Breeanna Wade. You can see the passion in her eyes as she high kicks her opponent on the side of the head. Her opponent instantly falls to the ground, making Breeanna the automatic winner of the combat. Of course, she had to go through many struggles get to where she is now. Let me tell you the story of how she got here, but to do that we have to go back to the beginning.…
I had been overweight since my early teens, as time passed it continued to worsen. at the age of 15 I was on the brink of obesity; I had to decide a change in my life. My life had consisted of school and video games; these combined had led me to an unhealthy lifestyle. I had dedicated years into my video game hobby, but this was the least active of my time. My hobby had to go, a new hobby had emerged: bodybuilding. Bodybuilding had given me a satisfaction that my previous hobby did not give, the satisfaction of working; that patience and efforts lead to greater satisfaction than momentary things like video…
The sport of wrestling is extremely Global, and more than 200 countries world participate in sport. Just in the US there are over 250,000 thousand young men and women who wrestle. Also there were 70 country’s represented in the Olympic Games, 29 of those country’s came home with at least one medal. “We are a diverse sport that young kids participate in everywhere -- all you need is a mat and some shoes” (Coleman…
On Saturday, December 12th, 2015, when arriving home around ten o'clock from a long wrestling meet that lasted till around nine o'clock, I got home, then ate dinner, and then went on the couch to relax. My mom complained "You're always so tired after wrestling and you come home so late." After a little conversation, my mom got to the point where she admitted "I don't want you to do wrestling." Prior to when she said that, on the way home, my stepfather also admitted "Your mom and I have been talking about how you should quit wrestling." Eventually during the conversation my mom and I shared, it all made sense. I knew I wasn't ready to give up wrestling because of what i think it means to me, but of course I started crying. This is that moment…
My career in wrestling all started in eighth grade, after months of wrestling parents and wrestlers urging me and pushing me to join I gave in and went out for the junior high wrestling team. So, when wrestling season rolled around I signed up and showed up for practice ready to go. The season was great; I was with my friends doing as we pleased during practice…
When you don’t feel well, you go to the doctors, and at the doctors, they tell you what's wrong. But what if they can't? For over three years, doctors haven't been able to find what my mysterious condition was.…
Wrestling is on of the oldest combat sports. It was the corned tone of the ancient olympics, and the only sport where its champion is crowned.It was the most thrilling and worshipped sport of the ancient Olympics.The popularity of wrestling has diminished greatly over many centuries , as new sports formed.In countries such as Iran and Russia the adoration surrounding wrestling is still vivid , contradictory to Canada especially in the province of manitoba. However I was fortubate to attend a high-school that did offer wrestling ;which has changed the course of my life. Wrestling enabled me to become who I was designed to be , shaping who I…
As a result of most of my family being athletes, I was pretty much destined to carry on the torch in the world of sports. Wrestling took me by storm early at an early age and continued to grow on me throughout my teenage years. The topic that I want to express to readers is that of how wrestling affected my life.…
During my sophomore year I was wrestling and I was on track to qualify for state I was beating many good people; in December, at one tournament I was wrestling and I ended up breaking my thumb. After I broke my thumb I was out for about three months so that hurt me really bad. It was hard for me to train while I had my cast off, but after I got it off I had a week before regionals to get ready and I had about ten pounds to lose and it would be hard for me to qualify for state. Once I got to regionals I started wrestling I was doing good I won my first two matches by pin; then in my semi finals match I was wrestling against the number one seed and he was pretty tough. While I was wrestling him I started off good and was beating six to two,…