Informative Essay About Wrestling

Wrestling isn't a well known sport, but it is one of the most mentally and physically challenging sports there is. To wrestle people must be dedicated to what they have to do and what limits that have to be overcome. The long grueling practices, rules that need to be followed, weight loss and maintaining the same weight. Wrestling is a fast paced sport. The season feels long and horrible but in the end its all worth it. The sport drains people mentally and physically. The sport is know across the world but isn't really big. There are several styles of wrestling that people could participate in. There's lots of rules to learn and understand. The sport is advertised multiple ways, through social media and television. There are different tournaments and meets to wrestle at. These are just several

things that involve the sport of wrestling.
The sport of wrestling consists of difficult practices and maintaining a certain weight. The practices are usually around two hours long. It can reach up to 95 degrees in the room, and end up drenched in sweat. Conditioning and technique for an hour, the last hour of practice is live wrestling. Live wrestling is when the team gets with a partner and wrestle a full wrestling match. A match is usually six minutes. Wrestling is more of a demanding sport because there is certain weight that a wrestler must maintain. Maintaining weight is difficult, drinking water and eating food could put the wrestler overweight.

Wrestlers go days without eating a proper meal or drinking enough water.

If the wrestler or wrestlers go over weight they don’t get to wrestle their weight. They have to wrestle or don’t get to wrestle at all. Wrestling has a big toll on the body physically, due to the extreme practices and conditions that have to be followed. During a match wrestlers can get injuries in a number of ways, being thrown, knee being twisted or landing to hard on the mat. Knee injuries are common in wrestling because wrestlers land on their knees when taking a shot on an opponent. Shoulders and arms can get broke doing certain moves but a referee is there to make sure that doesn’t happen. Wrestling has a mental toll on a wrestler due to being sleep deprived, hungry, and just exhausted. Being tired has an effect on all athletes but wrestlers feel it more due to losing weight and trying to maintain that weight. Wrestling challenges people in long matches when people want to give up but have to find it inside to win. The want to have your hand raised at the end of the match. Wrestling is a very demanding sport that’s fun in a number of ways but it also has that difficulty that some athletes

love.
There are a lot of rules in wrestling. Moves that can and cannot be done. Rules to how you can cut weight and how much weight and wrestler can lose. There are multiple ways to earn points as well. Different shots, throws, turns, tilts. There are three types of wrestling. Folkstyle which is what high school is involved in, freestyle which is wrestling that is going on when high school wrestling isn't going, and greco-roman, this is going on at the same time as freestyle. There are multiple moves that can't be done in wrestling because you can be hurt. A big move that can't be done is a full-nelson, a full-nelson is when a wrestler is in top position and tries to hook both arms on top of his opponents back. This could break the defending wrestlers shoulders or even the neck depending on what the wrestler on top is doing. There are a lot of wrestlers when it comes to losing weight, wrestlers can’t go below seven percent body fat. Once a wrestler goes below seven percent they are not allowed to lose anymore weight. Ways to losing weight that aren't aloud are running with a lot of clothes on, using a plastic bag or sweat suit on bare skin to sweat more or sitting in a sauna to lose weight as well. When running with a lot of clothes on gets wrestlers very tired and can begin to pass out due to the lack of oxygen they get. Using a plastic or sweat suit arent aloud at all, this sucks the moisture out of the body and wrestlers begin to get light headed and pass out. Sitting in a sauna is nice but not when there is a bunch of clothes on your body, this is to make wrestlers sweat to get to the desired weight. Ways to score points are taking shots, the most popular shots are a double leg and a single leg. Both shots require the wrestler to maneuver their opponent to a good position to take a shot of their choice. Throwing an opponent happens after a shot is taking trying to put the opponent to the ground. When turning an opponent you can get points depending on the type of wrestling type. A tilt is when the top wrestler has control of the bottom wrestler and turns him to a forty-five degree angle to get near fall, points, near fall points are two points if held for two seconds and three points if held for five seconds. A takedown is two points which is when of the wrestlers takes control of their opponent and returns them to the mat. A reversal is when the bottom guy is being covered by the top and maneuvers away and takes control of the top opponent and ends up on top. Folkstyle wrestling is what high school athletes partake in. This style of wrestling has a neutral position when both wrestlers are on their feet trying to take each other down, this is usually for the first round. The second round usually starts with the losing guy down or his choice of top, bottom, neutral, or defer. The opponent can chose any one. If the opponent chooses down then he gets down in position and the other guy covers him. When the top guy covers he puts his back leg up, head in the middle of the back, and his left hand on the opponent's elbow. IF the opponent chooses down then the guy that is winning goes into the bottom position while the top guy covers. The wrestler could chose neutral which is when both wrestlers are on their feet just how they started the match. The losing opponent could also chose to defer which he lets the winning guy chose what he wants. When it comes to the third round it comes down to whoever didn’t chose during the second round. So if the losing guy chose down it is the other wrestlers turn to chose what position he wants. If during the second period the losing guy deferred, it is now is now his turn to chose in the third round.
Wrestling is known of the United States pretty well. The sport is big in college and it's even in the Olympics. Wrestling is one of the first sports to ever be in the Olympics, it is an extremely old sport but is still played the same. The wrestling program in college is big and there are several large tournaments. One of the largest tournaments is the NCAA Championship. Division one colleges come to this tournament to compete to see whos the best individually and as a team. There multiple stages of wrestling, wrestling starts when you turn four years old. The first stage of wrestling is pre-bantam this is for kids from four years old to five and a half. The second stage is bantam this is for kids that are six to seven years old, after his its intermediate, intermediate is the middle stage for young wrestlers. This is the stage where wrestlers begin to understand different moves and the rules of wrestling. After intermediate its Novice this kids are a little older and bigger and are more capable of realizing what they need to do. School-boy and cadet are the same just a year difference, school-boy is for kids under eighteen and cadet is for the kids older than eighteen. High school wrestling isn't really that big. Some schools don’t have teams and some have really good teams. High school wrestling is leading up to how wrestling is in college. Practices are long and difficult and that’s how college is going to be just on a much larger scale. Wrestling is pretty big across the world, a lot of countries participate in the sport for fun and for a career. Russia has a really good wrestling team and there are some really good matches when watching the Russians against the USA in the Olympics. Wrestling is a sport that other countries practice for hours to be great at and the US does that but not as hard as other countries. The sport is started when you are young and as wrestlers get older and more experienced they begin to understand what is expected in high levels of wrestling.
There are many ways to have a wrestling match. There are different tournaments and team duals. A tournament is a competition between multiple teams. All the wrestlers in the same weight class wrestle and if the wrestler wins they continue to the winning bracket. IF the wrestler losses he or she then moves to the loosing side of the bracket. Wrestlers score points by winning a match. Winning a match in a tournament is decided on a pin, tech, decision.or major. IF the wrestler pins the opponent they get three points for their team, if they tech them its two points, if they get majored they receive one point and if they get a decision its half a point. Most tournaments are a two and out style. This is when a wrestler loses two matches they are out and are down wrestling. Some tournaments are a round robin style and this when everyone in the brackets gets to wrestle each other and to win you have to beat everyone in the bracket. Most tournaments do a two and out style because its easier and faster. A dual team meet is usually when two teams wrestle against each other. The points inn the watch are the same but when a wrestler wins the points awarded to the team are a lot different. If a wrestler wins by a pin it is six points a tech is five points, a major is four points and a decision is two points. The best score a team can get is ninety points to zero. This is only down when a team beats another team with all pins.

Wrestling may not be a sport that is popular or that everyone does. It is a sport that takes a lot of heart and want. It's tough and challenging and can be confusing. In the long run its makes wrestlers into better people mentally and physically being able to participate in such a hard sport. The sport has a number of rules and different technique styles.