With the wrestling season now starting, there are a lot of things that one must know about the sport and the responsibilities when wrestling for FHS. Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling and using different moves and techniques to gain advantage in a match with the end goal being to score more points than your opponent or to win by pinning your opponent on their back.There are several other coaches that donate their time to the wrestling team, and help players achieve their goals and improve. Wrestling teaches players responsibility, teamwork and life skills.
In wrestling, there are no cuts or eliminations. Everyone gets in, whether the athlete is short or tall, or big or thin, the sport allows all who are willing to join. Another big requirement in this sport is your weight and maintaining it. Athletes wrestle in a set weight class and changing weight class may also change the types of moves a wrestler can do.. This is also an individual sport that has the athlete and their opponent on the mat imploring different techniques and move sets to score points or get a pin. Athletes wrestle against others from schools like Homestead High School, Mona Vista High School and Gilroy High School as sort of prematches before wrestling in League, Sections, Sectionals and County, as athletes move up by completing and winning matches to move forward and continue their season. Even though this may seem like a long a difficult process wrestling teaches athletes more than moves and techniques.
The coaches and the sport teach many things like responsibility, how to operate in an individual sport, teamwork and life skills. The coaches emphasize keeping and maintaining weight to wrestle in a weight class, and repeatedly coming to the practice that may take place early in the morning in the effort to better not only an individual in the sport but also to help teach responsibility and maintaining grades and school work but also respect for yourself, your team and your coaches. It teaches how to be reliable on your own skills when you must use your training and your mind to not only get an effective win but also how to be self-sufficient when you are in the real world and holding a job or going to college. All together these are valuable life lessons that an athlete will use in their future and that the coaches teach on and off the mat.
In conclusion, there is a good system here at FHS and all the coaches encourage people join and learn these skills to better your future.
