Constant drilling, sweat dripping, and four days before our Napa Wrestling Tournament, open to the whole state of California. Some of the best wrestlers all over California were coming to Napa. But it had to be that week when my knee had begun to swell. In folk-style wrestling for a takedown to count, you must touch the mat with your knee before the person hits the floor. The constant friction between my knee and the mat made the pain in my knee unbearable. All this pain called for a visit to the school’s athletic trainer, Jorge Maldonado.
I knew I wanted to be in something that had to do with kinesiology, but I also knew I had to interact with people. When I saw Jorge work with other athletes, taping, evaluating, all while sharing a quick laugh with them, I had to learn more. I had to get hands on experience.
Spring time came around and it was time to pick my classes for senior year. Science was my favorite subject, but I liked a specific type. I wanted to learn kinesiology. I wanted to learn more about how the human body moves, like the way humans walk, what makes it so different that we walk at different paces? Why does Usain Bolt run faster than an average person? What makes athletes’ bodies different from everybody else’s? …show more content…
I took intro to athletic training for personal experience on taking care of athletes and students. I was able to help them go through rehab and taped their body parts for support. Since I was helping students to move their body normally, I took something similar to kinesiology which was human anatomy and physiology. Physiology was the closest I could get to learning about physiological movements, or part of kinesiology. It also goes hand in hand as I learn about the specific parts of the body in athletic training and the in depth description of how the part works in