My First Trophy Honestly‚ I have not really accomplished too much in my life but there is one achievement for which I received an award that depicts the effort and devotion I exerted into wrestling. Last year I was voted the most valuable junior varsity wrestler by my teammates and I received a trophy to honor my outstanding season. It is not a spectacular trophy. Rather‚ its value comes from a more personal sentiment‚ being a reminder that hard work and determination is the key to accomplishing
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case‚ I am not a typical 11th grader. Because this year‚ I decided to try wrestling for the first time. I’ve always had experience with martial arts such as boxing‚ kickboxing‚ and Capoeira – a fight that was disguised as a dance by Brazilian slaves in the 1500s. Also‚ I’ve done school sports and athletic activities such as indoor and outdoor track‚ and lacrosse. But‚ until this year‚ I had never done any form of wrestling‚ which is a sport that has always piqued my interest. The exhilaration of
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The Fall "Fall" is a term in wrestling where a wrestler is pinned to the ground on his back. Being beaten by fall is one of the ultimate forms of humiliation for the loser and a demonstration of absolute domination for the winner. I won most wrestling matches during my eighth grade year. My ego began to inflate more and more‚ as I began defeating most of my opponents by fall. However‚ I was not becoming a positive role model. With my undefeated record‚ I found myself fooling around in practice
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and its athletes for being barbaric and unsafe. This is actually the opposite of this sport. Mixed Martial Arts is a sport where fighters who are trained in many different kinds of martial arts (i.e. judo‚ Brazilian jiu jitsu‚ Maui Tai‚ boxing wrestling‚ kickboxing etc.) and then they are put into a ring or sometimes a cage‚ to test their skills against each other. Mixed martial arts competitions originated with the intention of searching
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talented human beings‚ who dedicate the majority of their lives to a sport. Specifically wrestlers and gymnasts invest extensive amounts of their prime years into training‚ where they solely live and breathe that sport. Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling‚ where the ultimate goal is to pin and/or win by points over the opponent. This is accomplished using a series of grappling attacks‚ body throws‚ and defence mechanisms‚ all executed on a circular ring with a diameter of seven metres
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school wrestler he sought to take his talents further. Without receiving any major scholarships for wrestling he chose the University of Georgia to attend college. The college does not have a traditional wrestling team like many of the top colleges‚ however; they do have a wrestling club in which they do participate against other colleges‚ and for all intensive purposes is exactly like a real wrestling team. Since his story has been gaining nationwide notice Kyle can be seen on HBO’s Real Sports
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finally learned he was made the way he was‚ when he was only the age of 14‚ in Mesa‚ Arizona‚ when he tried out for the wrestling team. Anthony first year was horrible. Was Anthony the smallest kid on the team weighing in at a whopping ninety pounds but without question‚ was the worst wrestler; finishing his first year at 5-8 records and in last place at the Mesa City wrestling tournament. People started to believe that a tiny kid born with one leg who had to use crutches to get around‚ the worst
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match‚ but I lost in overtime. I knew that I probably will wrestle him again during Regionals at the Jackie Joyner Kersee Center in East Saint Louis. That morning during weigh-ins I talked to Bo and looked at the brackets and the odds of me and Bo wrestling again were slim because he had to win all his matches and I had to win all my
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extra hard for something and you accomplished it. What did you feel? a sense of joy and accomplishment? well that’s what I felt in these next few stories Imma gonna tell ya. It was 2012‚ football had just ended and I’d never been so excited for wrestling season. I was coming off a season where I went 34-8 and was a state qualifier‚ getting second at both regional and sectionals. I had wrestled 75 pounds last year‚ but this year I was weighing 90 pounds and was gonna have to lose some weight to make
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APPLE CREEK -- Waynedale is about to complete a "Decade of Dominance" in wrestling‚ which was born out of a pair of single-digit setbacks at the little Wayne County Athletic League Tournament in 2005 and 2006. "We were so upset by those close losses to Northwestern (162-159.5 and then 188-187) that we decided we didn’t want to just win County the next year -- we wanted to win it the next 10‚" said 23rd-year Waynedale head coach Louie Stanley. "That was our plan and we’ve won nine of 10. "What it
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