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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of the eating issues were reduced with rule changes 10+ years ago. That poster is irrationally hostile and obviously uninformed.

And sure, [b]wrestling isn’t super popular around here[/b], but in some geographic areas the best athletes do choose to wrestle. Certainly many of the best football and lacrosse players wrestle to improve their grit, strength, stamina, and toughness. I have a D1 athlete in another sport, and he maintains that high school wrestling practice is the hardest physical thing he’s ever done.

With all the issues to disagree about, can’t you just let kids enjoy their activity without blatant hatred? [/quote]

This may have an element of truth to it.  But also, after 4 years, the wrestling program has turned those kids into the fittest athletes at the school.

But in reality, outside of this area, go a few hundred miles north into PA.  The best athletes wrestle.  [/quote]

I am a former PA wrestler...not too bad considering the state.  Lightly recruited for an academic college.  Wrestled for one season, but kind of realized that there was a point to my wrestling in HS (college)...but really no point to wrestling in college.  You don't become a Pro Wrestler at the 135 lb. weight class.  There were close to zero fans and honestly, it is not a sport that does much for you in terms of professional networking (at least not in the early 1990s)...unlike lacrosse, crew and other "country club" sports.

There were football players that wrestled...but 80% of wrestlers are at weight classes that are not designed for football...so many wrestlers did not play football.  Also, fair amount of kids in wrestling that were not great at "ball" sports like football, basketball, soccer.

Having some perspective, I kind of think wrestling is a great sport to condition and strengthen you for your primary sport.  Try to get my baseball player kid to wrestle because it is great for core strength and conditioning...and I tell him that if the coach tells you to drop weight just tell him No...that you are fine wrestling JV.

I feel like they are now more attuned to drastic weight loss these days...but perhaps that is still part of the drill.

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As a high school swimmer, we always thought that we and the wrestlers were the hardest working teams, and they worked harder than we did.   But — our school did a fun thing where one week, swimmers and wrestlers did a couple of basketball practices and basketball players did swim and wrestling practice.  We all sucked at each others’ sports — not just skill wise.  I was a swimmer and 400M track runner, and I did summer weights and conditioning with the football team, but I was shocked how much I wanted to puke doing basketball speed drills. Wrestlers were the same. Sport conditioning is very specific. [/quote]

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