10 ways to get your kid hooked on wrestling, and be good at it too

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I in the past dealt with this topic because I watched the dialogues of children with their parents in a wrestling club.
I was very interested to learn about the technique of encouragement of the child.
It was quite an interesting discussion.
 
And why should I want to kid a kid hooked on wrestling? :crazy_face:
 
Because our whole life is a wrestling.
What happens in wrestling is a reflection of what happens in a person’s life and what a person needs to be a person in this life.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Wrestling teaches you nothing comes easy. Nothing in life comes easy, so you have to work at it.
If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give. The last you earn. Give it. Earn it.
Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
If your goal isn’t to be on top, then you don’t deserve to be here…
All these thoughts about the wrestling are a reflection of real life in which we must wrestle and most importantly- we must win!
 
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I’ve never known it to be compulsory at any level of schooling in the US, with one exception: when I was in 8th grade we did a couple weeks of wrestling in gym class.

My own kids have never had any exposure to it in schools.
 
Many years ago my son wrestled for several years. My husband did judging and I worked the clock. In his second year of high school he had a new coach that completely focused on the star wrestlers and was very dismissive of all the others. My son wanted to quit but I insisted he stay and learn how to deal with a coach that didn’t give him pats on the back meaningless platitudes…until I witnessed his style at a match. He was obnoxious and I told my son it was his decision. He was almost in tears when he said, “Thank you, mom. I’m done”.

It’s a shame when a bad coach can ruin a love of a sport. My son looks back on it now with fond memories up until that coach. He still does not regret quitting at that point.
 
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Who can answer me?
In the United States of America, wrestling is included in the compulsory program of physical education at school? or in college? or at university?
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It’s not compulsory anywhere. Some schools, especially high school and college, have it as an optional sports team activity for males. Usually you have to try out, be selected for the team, train, and if you fail to train properly or just aren’t good enough, the coach will cut you from the team.

Why would you think a sport would be “compulsory” in USA? We usually have a compulsory gym class in grade school and high school that does a little bit of everything, but we do not force students to join sports teams. Sometimes colleges will require like one or two physical education electives but there are usually about 50 things to choose from.

I have to agree with Irishmom that you seem a bit oddly obsessed with wrestling. In USA there are dads who are similarly obsessed with their sons playing football or baseball or whatever other sport the dad is interested in. If the kid likes the sport it works out, but often the kid is only doing the sport because his dad expects it. It’s better to let kids choose what they want to do.
 
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I loved wrestling! I was introduced to it in Middle School as part of a regular gym program. I joined the wrestling team in high school and loved it! Our coach was a former pro football player.
 
The trainers from the former USSR who emigrated to the United States and continue to work there,sometimes are surprising that very talented wrestlers, students, abandon their professional career as a wrestler, and wrestling simply as a hobby.
Even such a great wrestlers (and today the coaches) as brother’s Beloglazov’s sometimes spoke about such cases, but I think that the wrestling school still hardens young people for the future solution of life problems. 💪✊👍
 
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I also was wrestling at the veteran international freestyle wrestling tournament a few days ago, so I decided to reflect on the topic of wrestling 😁
 
Sometimes at the age of 30, wrestlers end their careers, but veteran movements in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling prove that life on the wrestling mat after thirty also exists. 😁
 
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Who can answer me?
In the United States of America, wrestling is included in the compulsory program of physical education at school? or in college? or at university?
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The only schools in the United States where you’re likely to find compulsory wrestling are military schools, and even then it’s combatives more than classic Greco-Roman wrestling. Most schools have wrestling teams, but these are optional, just like the baseball team, the track team, the marching band, etc.

It does seem like you’re a little overly fixated on wrestling. I agree with the idea that sports helps kids learn important skills/stay fit, but it’s not like wrestling is the only option. Maybe the kid hates wrestling but loves swimming, or running, or soccer, or baseball, etc.

If your kid isn’t into wrestling, don’t force it. Encourage him to find something he does like.
 
One of my few objections to wrestling in high school is that coaches try to get kids to drop weight…too much and often too fast. It’s one think if the kid is overweight but most of them are skinny beans to begin with…my son was…I refused to allow him to drop weight. He was 6’3” and weighed about 150 as it was! I witnessed kids fainting. There is no way that is healthy.
 
I agree that a lot depends on the coach. Some coaches may have been good wrestlers in the past, but as educators and psychologists they may not be professional.
 
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Today, young people have a fashion for fitness.
Sometimes this fashion grows into such an obsession that people become entangled in their life priorities.
The same can happen with wrestling, and with any sport.
Beautiful body is secondary, compared to marriage, family, the ability to earn money, give birth and raise children.
This also should not be forgotten.
 
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Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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Your data to back this up? This is an outrageous claim. Christ promised us that our lives will have suffering and pain.
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Nothing in life comes easy, so you have to work at it.
If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
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These are “bumper sticker affirmations”.

Sometimes people do not work at all and things do come easy for them.

Sometimes people try and try only to fail.

It is VITAL that we teach our children how to deal with failure, how to be gracious when they lose, how to not put all of their self worth into an ability that can be gone in a flash.
 
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