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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrestling. You compete against your own size and a great college team needs all the weight classes.[/quote]

Cutting weight is so unhealthy. I love wrestling as a sport, and would be happy for my kid to do it if they could compete at their actual weight, but at least back in the day, that wouldn't be allowed. [/quote]

I wrestled in HS and had to cut weight.  I'm sure it still happens at the varsity level, but at the youth/MS level there is no cutting weight.

Heck, the kids end up wresting kids plus/minus 10-15 pounds of your kids weight just because its all about getting as many matches in on meet day as possible.

It's absolutely not a risk for a middle school kid.  And for a freshman or sophomore, content to just be on JV, they won't have to worry about cutting weight either[/quote]

The coaches say one thing to parents and a different thing to the wrestlers. You are fooling yourself if you think cutting weight isn’t encouraged in youth wrestling.  No, they don’t have to make a certain weight class to wrestle but if they drop x pounds before weigh in they are told they will have an advantage.  There can be some real eating disorders for these boys.  By son had issues for years.  I was glad when he stopped wrestling.  It all depends on the coaches and the mentality of your kid.  I never thought mine would be susceptible to that.  [/quote]

Okay, fair enough.

But that was one poorly coached program.  I'm very involved in our area's youth program and their is no cutting weight.

Like with most sports, there are good programs with good coaches and bad programs with bad coaches.  It's the duty of the parent to find the right one[/quote]

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