...years of my life, I have dedicated my mind, body, and spirit to the sport of wrestling. It is a sport that takes not only the sacrifice of time, but the sacrifice of my own health and mentality. The effects of this sport are evident to some aspect in all wrestlers, and I want to explore how wrestling has affected individuals who have severely dedicated themselves to the sport. In addition, many have always looked at wrestling as an inadequate sport, or even that it “isn’t a sport.” Few understand the true testament wrestlers take in their sport and the physical and mental endurance they need to succeed in it. Researching this topic would not require much or any funding, and I will most likely invest around fifty to one hundred hours to complete the project. I have already spent countless hours wrestling and completed my final season this February, so I will not have to wrestle anymore to complete this project. Researching the effects of high school wrestling will help me change others to view wrestling as a respectable sport rather than a brutish one. Reasons and Warrant...
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...When i think of wrestling, I don't think about getting my hand raised or having a fun day watching my brother do what he loves. Not anymore, now i see wrestling for what it really is. Wrestling is hard, and it takes a lot to be a wrestler. You get nothing without blood sweat and tears. Yet i love the sport, and quite frankly i love all of the hard practices i suffer through too. Even though wrestling is one of the hardest things I have ever done, it is also one of the best things I have done. Ever since I was old enough to know what was going on, I would watch wrestling with my dad everyday. I grew up loving to watch the sport, so this year I decided to love participating in the sport. Wrestling makes me feel a way that no other sport can....
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...honestly tell you that wrestling is what defines me; leadership, talent, comfort, and family. Wrestling was introduced to me at the age of eight with club wrestling, arising in me a growing desire and ache for competition and the will to win. My love of wrestling developed over the following year and throughout the years, many titles were added to my repertoire. The diversity of wrestling events further increased my exhilaration for the sport. Over the years, there were few wrestlers who I considered my mentors. I believed that these wrestlers led by example demonstrating determination, dedication, and leadership. When I look back, they were the ones that impacted my young soul as an athlete. My obvious love of the sport and true dedication to improving was acknowledged when I was chosen to represent our team in both my junior and senior year as the captain. This honorable position has strengthened my self-confidence by building strong, candid, and respectful relationships with both my coaches and teammates. Holding the title of captain has forced me to develop better communication skills while employing my gregarious personality, and experiencing the complexities of both assertiveness and humility. This leadership role has bettered me in a multitude of ways. Since my junior year, I have worked my way through a diversity of matches, each providing their unique lessons and moments of joy. The summer between my junior and senior, I was on the wrestling team that competed...
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...based on what makes each adolescent their own unique individual. The adolescent social observation setting chosen for this adolescent review is the Rainier High School wrestling practice starting week of varsity conditioning. All practices are in a combination setting of three places. The weight room is used for conditioning weigh training and is located above the gym. The gym is used for mat practice and warm-ups and the local community is used for endurance and cardio exercises. The specific setting I have chosen is in the gym for mat practice and warm-ups of which is where the team spends most of their time. The purpose for choosing this setting is to observe the dynamics of social interaction accompanied by leadership of the older more senior varsity wrestlers and to include the naturalistic form of competition that exists in sports programs. The gym environment is typical for a rural community high school as it is small in size. Laid out on the floor there are four large wrestling mats coordinated with team logos to accommodate 23 team members. Eight members are female wrestlers and fifteen are male wrestlers. Education level ranges from senior to freshman as varsity and junior varsity has not yet been decided. The wrestling team has three coaches as...
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...assignments if your mentor has indicated that you may or must do so. Academic Integrity: All work submitted in each course must be the Learner’s own. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by the faculty mentor. The known submission of another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. | | AA5008-8-5 | Dr. Thomas Pucci | | | Facility Management and Programming | Week 5: Interview 05/05/2012 | | | <Add Learner comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Writing Score> <Date Graded> Interview Onice B. Gilbert AA5008-8-5 05/05/2012 Dr. Thomas Pucci Abstract This paper will discuss an interview...
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...truthful when my mother wondered what I was doing. Lying is something that I was apparently good at as a child. I remember when the wrestling announcers on television would say, “Please, do not try this at home.” This message of safety was almost non-existent to me in my youth because I was a huge fan of wrestling. I also had friends who felt the same way, which in my mind, made it better for me. In the era of junior high school, my friends and I got together during lunch and talked about what happened on “Monday Night Raw.” We then started trash-talking and saying what we were going to do to each other when we wrestled. I remember saying, “What if we found an area, a bunch of old stuff, a boom-box for music, and a mattress, we can be about what the heck we’re talkin’ about!” My friends all said, “Yeah! Let’s do it! What are we going to tell our parents when we get home all beaten up?” I said, “Just lie and say that you were playing baseball. I’m sure they’ll understand.” After school, instead of me walking home, I ran home. I made sure to complete my homework before the epic backyard wrestle-fest, and then I called my friends. We began to devise ways to make backyard wrestling safe enough for us because we wanted to beat the crap out of each other in the safest way possible. I remember the medical tape and toilet paper we used as protection for our knees, elbows, and heads. In the nearby junkyard, we found a mattress and weapons to use for our hardcore...
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...Jose Espinoza Takedown As I come off the bus, the frost on the ground glistened from the delicate light coming from the moon. This was a mental reminder that the winter was coming to an end, and also meant the wrestling season was boiling down to the end were all the sweat, pain, sacrifice, and determination was about to be rewarded in the final tournament. I enter the small town’s local high school Doniphan-Trumbull to soon be surrounded by an engulfing ever so teasing scent of scrambled eggs with toasted crisp bread with smoothly spread jelly, accompanied by ham and mash potatoes bathed in gravy. As the restless temptation to consume the delicious breakfast self-control begins to take over. The school varsity wrestlers escort me along with my teammates where all the other wrestlers were in a small gymnasium with a mat in the middle with lights beating on the ring. I anxiously wait for the referees to begin weigh-ins; I talk to my teammate about my chances at this tournament. My teammate’s inputs were all very similar some said “it all depends on how you do”, “you could get lucky” but the one remark which was from Sabien which Rallied me up on the inside was “You’re not coming out of here with more than one win”. Weigh-ins begins as my head is filled with doubt I weigh in at the 152 lbs. class. I walk to the main gym were the Lighter weights along with mine were going to be called I eat to ease the nerves. After breakfast Coach Edmo was called to a coaches...
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...Nihon-Sumo-Kyokai Nihon explains in details how important Sumo is and how it is highly recognized in Japan by the government. He also complains about the concept of two high-naked men wrestling within a small roped ring, and the deeper meaning of it all. He goes ahead to elaborate that this encompasses both Shinto beliefs and Japan’s most understated cultural nuance. He explains how old the sport is dating back to 1500 years and professionalized in the 18th century. Gutman, B. (1995). Sumo wrestling. Minneapolis: Capstone Press. This interesting book helps to uncover the mystery and tradition of the ancient fighting arts. Gutman explains in a very interesting way how, many years back, Asian warriors found out that the human body can serve as a weapon to be used in attacking enemies and protecting oneself. Sharnoff, L. (1993). Grand sumo: The living sport and tradition. New York: Weatherhill. This book by Sharnoff gives readers an insight about the men who wrestle each other. It also talks about their reasons for entering Sumo, and the way their lives are in the sumo world. The book also gives readers rules, rankings, techniques, and ceremonies of Sumo. Sandifer, J. (2011). The unofficial history of sumo wrestling. S.l: s.n. Sandifer gives a very comprehensive history of Sumo wrestling, including how the sport is made up and how vital Shinto religion is. He also explains...
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...In my life, I was beat on both mentally and physically but only recently have I realized that these beatings have been preparing me for this ruthless world. These beatings are making me tougher and are preparing me for the unforgiving, cold world after I turn 18 and go to college. They teach me to keep fighting and to strive to better and to always get back up when I get knocked down. I started wrestling when I was 5 years old. I used to wrestle Greco-Roman, which is upper-body only. I used to be pretty good but when I turned 7, my family moved from Toledo to Sylvania, and I quit wrestling for the time being. I was not used to the environment because Toledo was way more urban to the semi rural and close-knit community that is Sylvania. I soon...
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...I believe that in life, everything in life has to be earned and is not given. As numerous of my coaches have told me, “you get out what you put in.” That has always clicked with me because I know that it’s true. Nobody can go out on to a wrestling mat and expect to be a state champion. Not a single person can do nothing in the offseason, or even in season, and expect to be the greatest wrestler of all time. Champions are built, not born. Every day, I see my peers mess around in practice. When meet time comes around, they go out there and wonder what’s happening and ask themselves what they’re doing wrong. Throughout most of the summer, I was the only one who showed up to a wrestling open mat a majority of the time. In school, grades have...
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...Who would win in a battle of George St Pierre vs. Milos of Croton in the Stadium of Olympia? The sport of mixed martial arts, which has flourished in the twentieth century, can be seen as a part of an evolution of fighting which can be dated to and associated with ancient Greece wrestling. When one speaks of ancient Greek wrestling and notable figures in this sport, often the name Milo of Croton is brought into discussion. Milo of Croton and his dominance in the field of wrestling winning five Olympic record titles consecutively creates questions of many individuals today. The dominance of Milo of Croton in his field of wrestling can be related to the dominance of George St Pierre in his field of mixed martial arts. George has an astonishing twelve fight win streak since he lost six years ago. If George St Pierre and Milo of Croton were to be set down in the Stadium of Olympia to fight, the winner of this bout would undoubtedly be George St Pierre. George St Pierre would be victorious due to the abilities he possesses with his better training regimen, his knowledge of how to use his opponents weight against him, the scientific background he would possess due to new research in which he would use to prepare for the battle and daily routines leading up to the combat event. The idea of progressive load as a form of weight training to develop the human body was first used by Milo of Croton. Milo of Croton was said to have raised a newborn bull and would always carry it around...
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...last home wrestling meet of my Sophomore year and Senior Night nonetheless. There I was, in the middle of my high school’s gymnasium. My feet resting on the blue, thick, and hardened foam wrestling mat; it gave off a rubber-musky scent. All the lights within the spacious room were off, all but the one resting just ten feet above my opponent and I, casting ominous shadows alongside the walls and bleachers. I positioned my feet at the designated starting points and waited anxiously for the referee’s signal. I eyed my opponent, a varsity Sandy wrestler. He was smaller height wise, his frame somewhat smaller than I, my mind was racing trying to ease my worries. My stomach was tight with nervousness, “Are you both ready?” the referee...
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...Returning Wrestling to the University Imagine this, you are in the gym waiting for the first practice of the season to start. Your excitement is overwhelming. You have spent your entire life working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling programs...
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...When people first see me they do not see a two-time gold medalist or an alumni coach. They only see a scrawny, short, young adult. Most times they see a High School Sophomore or Junior. Even to this day when I tell people “I coach football and wrestling,” they take a second look at me and think to themselves “is she serious?” But little do they know that I once was that same girl; not so many friends and the skinniest in the bunch and never found anything that I can stick too. Until, wrestling; Wrestling changed my life in many ways it gave me the ability to be confident, have knowledge of moves, and being able to think quickly. Along with those skills, speed and strength play a big factor in not only wrestling, but being a winner in life....
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...His first chance to enter the professional world happened when he was 20 years old. He began to train with the legend of the Mexican wrestlers Jose Lothario and soon had his debut in the National Wrestling Alliance, under the name of Shawn Michaels. His debut was on the 16th October 1984, against Art Crews. However, he lost that match, but he managed to impress veterans of the wrestling industry, including Terry Taylor, with his skills. Next few years he spent in the NWA, managing to win the Tag-Team Championship belt along with Marty Jannetty in 1985, fighting against “The Batten...
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