Big Week!
This is a big week for my athletes.
After just over two weeks of practice, the boys are ready to head to their first competitions this week. The first match and meet is Thursday.
Unfortunately, Matt and I won't be able to see the boys compete because we have a previous engagement at CenturyLink Field to watch the Sounders close the book on the Western Conference Championships and head to the MLS Cup Finals!!
Although I'll miss the first day of competition, I was so excited to have the chance to watch Gabe compete in a "Take Down" meet tonight.
If a record were playing, this is the moment where the needle would scratch across the record making that horrible sound that everyone cringes at when it meets their ears.
No.
Take Down competition is a total and complete nightmare.
Instead of having wrestlers complete with the normal rules of wrestling matches every. single. wrestler. from all five wrestlers in the district all gathered in one giant gym to "wrestle" for two minutes. Points are given for take-downs only. Sounds innocent enough, but you have to trust me it was not.
1 million wrestlers packed into the gym with two mats. The two mats were divided into three wrestling spaces. Then wrestlers were matched up and called to compete in these little two minute drills.
THREE referees were blowing whistles, three buzzers were indicating time, three sets of coaches were yelling instructions to their teams and one guy was yelling into the microphone the names of the next 1000 people who were next to wrestle.
Because this was taking forever and a day about 1.5 hours into the disaster, the organizers decided three mats wasn't enough and so they taped off the two giant mats to make SIX take down spaces all running at one time.
I am not kidding, I spent 3 hours listening to this chaos, sitting on the uncomfortable bleachers and waiting impatiently for Gabe's chance to compete. I am pretty sure the experience gave me the flu.
Gabe wrestled during the very last minute of the marathon competition.
Please Lord, make the rest of the matches way shorter, with less whistles.
After just over two weeks of practice, the boys are ready to head to their first competitions this week. The first match and meet is Thursday.
Unfortunately, Matt and I won't be able to see the boys compete because we have a previous engagement at CenturyLink Field to watch the Sounders close the book on the Western Conference Championships and head to the MLS Cup Finals!!
Although I'll miss the first day of competition, I was so excited to have the chance to watch Gabe compete in a "Take Down" meet tonight.
If a record were playing, this is the moment where the needle would scratch across the record making that horrible sound that everyone cringes at when it meets their ears.
No.
Take Down competition is a total and complete nightmare.
Instead of having wrestlers complete with the normal rules of wrestling matches every. single. wrestler. from all five wrestlers in the district all gathered in one giant gym to "wrestle" for two minutes. Points are given for take-downs only. Sounds innocent enough, but you have to trust me it was not.
1 million wrestlers packed into the gym with two mats. The two mats were divided into three wrestling spaces. Then wrestlers were matched up and called to compete in these little two minute drills.
THREE referees were blowing whistles, three buzzers were indicating time, three sets of coaches were yelling instructions to their teams and one guy was yelling into the microphone the names of the next 1000 people who were next to wrestle.
Because this was taking forever and a day about 1.5 hours into the disaster, the organizers decided three mats wasn't enough and so they taped off the two giant mats to make SIX take down spaces all running at one time.
I am not kidding, I spent 3 hours listening to this chaos, sitting on the uncomfortable bleachers and waiting impatiently for Gabe's chance to compete. I am pretty sure the experience gave me the flu.
Gabe wrestled during the very last minute of the marathon competition.
Please Lord, make the rest of the matches way shorter, with less whistles.
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