Our life lately revolves around WRESTLING, WRESTLING and more WRESTLING! Seems like that's all we do. Troy and Tanner decided that they wanted to try it out this year and found out that they love it. Can't say that I am 100% into it but I go and support them. I really had no idea what we were getting into when I agreed that they could do this. They practiced for a couple of months then had two tournaments a week for 4 straight weeks.
We walk into the high school gym for our first tournament and it was insane. There were so many people there to watch these kids wrestle. We start walking around trying to find our team and we notice that not only do the kids have on their team shirts but most of the parents do too. Wow talk about getting into a sport :) Anyone could take a look at us and realize that we have no idea what is going on here. We finally figure out what we are suppose to do and the matches start. And that's when the AWFUL parents come alive! You would have thought we were in the HUNGER GAMES and these kids were fighting for their lives. The parents are yelling at their kids "pin em down, flip em over, grab their arms, control their arms, grab a leg....." Really at this point I have no idea what any of this really means, I just know I don't like the fighting.
During Tanner's very first match, he accidentally injured the other kid. The kid was in tears holding his shoulder and saying he was done. I watch this kid cry in pain and I start tearing up too. I can't take this. The little boy's dad helps him off the mat while his mom comes over and puts her arm around me and tells me that everything is OK. This is her 4th kid to wrestle and things like this happen all the time. I couldn't even believe it. I jokingly tell her I wasn't cut out to be a wrestling mom. She kind of just laughs and says oh it gets easier. AGHHH! I so do not like this sport :) Clint keeps telling me that they are learning some really good life saving skills. I just think he doesn't want me to worry about them.
Long story short. We finish up the season and Tanner's coach asked if he wants to try Free Style Wrestling that starts the next week. Free style = Way more practices and more tournaments. He was thrilled! So we signed him up. He is really committed to this sport. He loves the moves that he is learning and loves trying them out on his dad and brothers! We only have about a month and a half left. YAY!!
SOME OF TROY'S MATCHES
SOME OF TANNER'S MATCHES
The kid above has the "Wrestling Parents from Hell" During this match, these two ended up in a tie. Which means we have to do one more sudden death round. Well the parents didn't think it was a tie, so they start yelling "My kid slaughtered your kid" "There's no way they tied" "He is so much better than your kid" like we were the ones that were refereeing the match. Like I said, don't think I am cut out to do this. We watched them throughout the season and they were like that every match. PSYCHOS!
I know I made wrestling sound like it was all negative. I didn't mean to do that at all. My boys did really well and I am very proud of them. I love that they gave this sport their best effort. It is just so hard to watch them fight and even harder to watch them get hurt.
