What is Wrestling? Wrestling is an man to man sport that needs strength, mobility,skill, and passion for the sport to defeat your opponent and to win the round. Wrestling is a sport that is all over the world and is done professionally and is in the Olympics for many of years. I believe that wrestling is one of the toughest sports in the world because of its harsh training and skill you’ll need to prosper in the sport. Wrestling was founded by ancient Sumerians and they were the first ones actually holding a wrestling match. It was in 706 B.
C that wrestling was actually created,they held wrestling matches to win arguments and to judge them based off if they win or not. Many years later the Greeks took upon themselves wrestling and put it in the Olympics, which was a very big deal back then. They wrestled man to man and sometime for punishment they put a man’s on the trail to go against a tiger. Which was very unhuman to the man because of the tigers strength and its claws. The tiger would easily win the match between the man. In the mythology of wrestling, a demigod named Hercules was the son of Zeus and a human.
Hercules only power was super strength so he only went hand to hand combat, which at the time was called wrestling. When the humans saw him wrestle creatures they took it upon themselves to anctually give it a name and do as a test of strength of human men. they did it test their strength and to find the strongest man in their town. Most men were built themselves up towards greatness by turning their skills in the art of wrestling by doing friendly wrestling matches with their friends so they can get better in the sport.
For thousands of years wrestling was a man sport and no women ever thought of actually wrestling men or other women till now. For some years now, women started to create wrestling groups for young girls that want to become a wrestler. Some women go on from high school to college because they love to wrestle. The women that go beyond college become an Olympic wrestler and go on to win gold and silver medals in the Olympics. But unfortunately most women don’t go to college wrestling because most schools look for men that can bring wins for their school.
Since the beginning of girls wrestling there has been up to 50 women from the United States of America that have gotten the gold medal in the Olympics. Many people have ideas what wrestling is and what it deals with. People think that because wrestlers touch other men that wrestling is weird, it makes them uncomfortable and they don’t want their friends to make fun of them. Many people don’t do things because of peer pressure, especially when the things they want to do seems to be weird.
With wrestling on the rise, many people joined wrestling when their young and go to high school and wrestle. After high school they stop and go to college to get a job in the world. But half of people that move to high school wrestling get accepted to colleges that have wrestling in their schools. There are three divisions in wrestling, there are D1,D2, and D3 wrestling, it stems from the skill level that the wrestler has. Most go to D2 because of how many people there are in D1.
Many people going to a D2 school for their first couple of years then go off to a D1 school because they can get better at wrestling. Also to get a better education as well as a more skillful type of wrestling. I hope that I can go to college and wrestle, because I really love to wrestle also because it is the most skillful sport to date in the Olympics. Colleges look for men with skill and strength to add to their team because of the same concept of high school wrestling. They need a max of 12 people in each weight bracket to do a duel against another team or school.
In high school there is 13 weight classes 106,113,120,126,132,145,152,160,170,180,195,225,286 and they have all, a backup just in case an accident happened. In college wrestling after they wrestle other schools, many wrestlers go to a organisation called NCAA to wrestle. They go there to get spotted by managers so so after they finish college they can get sponsored and get I the Olympics. A wrestler that did this is named Jordan Burroughs he is a African American man and is a 2 time Olympic gold medalist.
He was in college wrestling and got spotted by sponsoring and became one of the well known wrestlers in the world. also is part of the all American team that goes to the Olympics every 4 years to wrestle. He and his team brought home many gold medals for the United States since he was granted a spot in the team In high school there is one type of wrestling and it’s called Folkstyle it is the only one in high school. But as a hole there is three the first one is Freestyle, Greco,and Folkstyle. We only do folk style because we won’t get as hurt as the other ones make people.
Folkstyle is a type of wrestling where you cannot lock hands in any way when you are on top of them,you also can’t punch or scratch that is illegal in wrestling. When you enter a tournament they have refs that check you if any regulations are broken, you can only have long hair if you have a hair cap which holds your hair in a stable place in your headgear. You also can’t have long fingernails because you can really hurt someone with long sharp nails. During the check in they look all over your body just in case you have a skin disease like ring worm.
The other type of wrestling is called Freestyle it has the same basics of folk style but you can lock your hands. For women the only type of wrestling in college is freestyle, but in high school they can do folkstyle with other boys their weight. For men they can use a single which is a skin tight full body clothing. But for women they could either use shorts and a shirt and or the singlet they can decide on the spot. Many referees can make or break a match in many cases the referees make a bad call and destroys someone’s chance to go to state.
In one case one of my friends needed one more match to win to go to state, but the referee made a bad decision and gave a takedown for someone that didn’t get the takedown. But in the end he loves wrestling and he knows that he’ll make back there in a year and go to state. But my coach had a different idea he walked up to the referee and started to yell at him with full intent to make my teammate win the match and go to state. But they had other referee. The other type of wrestling is called Greco it is all upper body throws you can not touch the other person’s legs in any matter.
In Greco during the match if you get sweaty at the end of the first period they will wipe off the sweat so no one has the upper hand in the seronera. Mostly bigger men go out for grace because they can throw. They like because for bigger men it’s an easy win if they get someone that is new to the sport itself. These were the few questions many people have on the subject of wrestling and everything that deals with it as well as their skill level in schools, and their way of as a wrestler.
