Nice!

I wrestle, And nothing makes me more glad that I'm wrestling than doing the same thing. Did it last night in a dual in fact. He wasn't wearing a flashy uniform, but pinned me twice last year, both in the second period and wearing a snazzy uniform. I pinned him, Ironically, In the second period!

I wrestled in High school for 2 years , and my daughter did youth wrestling for 2 years.

it was a good experience , but I am not a "wrestling parent" , here it is like it's own cult , they are happy to let you join and you can leave any time but they are intense about their wrestling , the whole family , it can be an all consuming sport for the whole family all winter , there is a tournament every Saturday and Sunday some people go to both , then practice minimum of 2 nights a week for the kids and it starts in kindergarten.

when i was a kid wrestling started in highschool , I did it for 2 years it was fun , I learned a lot and got in better shape made it near impossible to buy a dress shirt without having to custom ordering the neck size thats ok I hate dressing up any way

As a sport, I'd love my 9 year old to get into it because he'd be very good and he'd love it. But because of the "cult" like culture, and the way they force kids into horribly unhealthy and dangerous situations, it's out of the question. Football gets all the bad attention, but IMO wrestling has become one of the most dangerous youth sports when considering long term health. And as usual, the fault falls on the adults.

My youngest wrestled. He was good when he wanted to be. He always put in 110% in practice, but he'd let himself get inside his own head or just get plain burnt out after months of practice, tournaments, then district matches. Even at 6% bodyfat there were weight struggles I didn't agree with in the least. Several times I told the coach to bump him up, or bench him. He's not "cutting" when he's 6%body fat. I drive by the highschool each night, and think back to the nights I got to watch the team, and my son give their best on the mat.

My son wrestled in High School, bumped from 189 to Heavyweight and won the districts. He had several offers to wrestle in college but did not take them.
My oldest grandson, Tim, wrestled thru high school,(blew his knee out as a Senior), but he was a far better baseball player than wrestler, 470 average in 2 years of varsity ball, 1 error in 56 games at first base. In the Commie state of New Jersey he was blacklisted by the newspapers and was not on any of their all star teams because they mistakenly thought his father was my brother Parker, a Republican State Assemblyman! He now does TV interviews of high school wrestlers after matches for Mugs Media.
My 2 younger grandsons (5th and 2nd grade) are wrestling in the grammar school leagues now. Both of them are also very good baseball players. The 5th grader has been invited to and played in Florida the last 2 summers.

My parents never wrestled much. But did have a fist fight occasionally. lol

One of the proudest days I had my boy placed 4th in last years state qualifier tourney out of 16 kids. Not good enough to get to state but I was happy he placed.he lost his first match that day to the champion of the bracket and wrestled himself all the way back to 4th place.

What age/lbs does he wrestle?
This is my sons first year(kindergarten). He and I both are having a blast.

3rd grade 9 yr old

That is awesome! Tell your son thank you for his service as well.

I wrestled from when I was in 1st grade thru high school. I was a walk on at a small college in Colorado but only stayed for 1 semester. My nephew has state today and tomorrow for Jr. high. I'll be headed there shortly.

My 4 year old will do the bantam wrestling starting in March. This will be his 2nd year.

Wrestling was the best thing let alone the best sport I ever did, from 6th grade through college. Never was real good, but I did the summer tournies and wrestling camp at Penn State a bunch of years. Made me strong, and competitive. It is the best sport for shaping a young man, though my son is into Tai Kwan Do, which is kind of similar, if not as physical as wrestling. Great to see the photos of kids in it. Here in central PA it is still a big deal. Then again, we are not afraid to be men here, either.

... he's pretty good at it and seems to like it, that's all that matters I guess, but its not baseball! lol



or football! ....

Yep. My 18 yr old boy is currently ranked 3rd in the state (Ohio) (182#wc)



This was last years pic before he started getting to the gym seriously.

My son wrestled all 4 years of HS back in the late 90's. I loved going to all the meets. Did not hardly miss one. However he was a heavyweight and his matches were almost always the last one. There was some long, long time sitting in the bleachers for me. His senior year he blew his knee out at practice. Wrestled with it all wrapped up tight the whole year. It was important to go to the state meet being a senior. The Monday after the meet he seen a Dr. Then straight to the specialist. Had surgery to stich up all what was wrong in the knee. Them High School years went by pretty fast.

He loves that bow-fishing too...

Good stuff, PB. All-American kid. Way to go, Dad.

My son wrestled in high school. He graduated last year. He went to state the last 3 years and placed 3rd his senior year in the 170 weight class. High School wrestling isn't as big here in the south as it is up north. I hated it at first but was hoping that it would help him with football. I got to where I loved it. I am having serious withdraws this year since he is now out of school.

I wrestled Junior and High School. Started coaching JH after one year out. Coached JH JV and then Head Coach, for 27 years. Son wrestled all the way through. We helped develop many fine young men. When I wrestled it was the extreme weight cutting etc. With Hydration and Body Fat testing in WI we see little of the extreme weight cutting. Learn many great life lessons in wrestling.

Nice looking kids guys. Good job!