Gwinnett County Tournament

Ya done fine. Good for David on his 3rd place finish.

11 boys? It sounds like you fed a small army! Tell David to keep eating and just go up to the next weight group for wrestling- he doesn't need to be watching what he eats. My boy is pretty puny himself. I just had lunch with Katie, Denise DeGruy, and a friend of hers, Sharon, who happened to graduate from OLPH with Katie. Anyway, Sharon had an 8 month old son with her and he was twice Samuel's size. He was 6 pounds when he was born so they started out close together, but her little boy really outsized Samuel. I've known that for a while though. Samuel is 5th percentile for height and weight. I guess he takes after my petite size. His namesake was also very thin in his day- some used to call him "Roadrunner" because of his size, right mom? Joey wouldn't like me calling him petite. He's pretty average on weight and height so Samuel might catch up one day.

There is nothing wrong with being in the 5th percentile (especially in the height range)! Some of us turn out just fine! I am sure David would be proud of me for putting this on here, but he is now towering over me and Patrick will not be long.

I love these new entries. Congratulations to David on his excellent showing. I think he's so good at this because of his ability to rehearse and practice at home on you. You with the "I got the bad back." Angela, Daddy was called "Roadrunner" not because of his size, but because of his dart here and dart there, always on the move, never stopping for long persona. That's how he operated as a young man; as he got older he slowed down. Brianne, I think you are the perfect example of a perfect person and I just can't wait to get a letter telling of your New York trip. Can't wait.

Hey Sue, great job posting! I offered the boys steaks on the grill for dinner last night and Brian begged me to save them for Friday night because he wrestles again on Thursday night. He got moved up to varsity temporarily for the meets last Friday and Saturday as the wrestler at 135 has the flu. Friday night's meet was a triangular, won both of his matches. Saturday's tournament he said he should have stayed home instead as he didn't do too well. I will be happy when the season is over too because of the weight cutting.

Both of my boys were on the low end for height/length when they were younger. Joan's boys were like bookends for weight, mine were more like bookmarks!

Sue I cut weight every year for 6 years. Sometimes too much but in the long run I don't think it hurt me. Just monitor it, maintaining his weight and cutting 5-10 pounds a week is a big difference. I wrestled 112 as a senior but could have wrestled 126, that's not healthy! Congratulations David!
Phil

My girlfriend's boyfriend wrestled and we went to North Carolina to watch him wrestle in the NCAA Tournament. We had to talk to him in a sauna, while riding a bike, wearing a sweat suit, trying to cut weight (her boyfriend, not us). I didn't understand that much dedication to a sport.
I also had to have a play-by-play explanation from my friend, because I didn't understand how you could have a call in wrestling like "unnecessary roughness" when the sport itself seemed unnecessarily rough.

Good luck to both David and Brian and stay away from any unnecessary roughness.

When I went out for football in high school (Two of the worst weeks of my life), we were required to wrestle. The wrestlers helped us with our flexibility while they were training against bigger and stronger guys. At 145 pounds, I trained against our state champion 105-pounder. He pushed me all around the mat but he couldn't pin me. Anyway, after training against me or even bigger guys, he had no trouble with smaller guys. Cutting weight has a similar goal. Guys who should weigh 130 pounds wrestle in the 98-pound class.