Personal Narrative: How Wrestling Changed My Life

From the first time I walked into the hammer circle, I knew that the hammer throw was going to become one of the most important things to me. My first time throwing the hammer was a complete failure. I actually threw it in the wrong direction and fell onto the ground. After practicing nearly every day for the past three years, I'm finally at a point where I'm confident in my skills. I’ve competed in national meets all over the country.

My First Wrestling Match There were about two weeks before my first wrestling match. After a tough practice, I went to check my weight like everyone else does, and my heart sunk as I realize that I am six pounds over my weight class. The weight class I am wrestling in is one hundred and thirteen pounds, but I weigh one hundred and nineteen. I was very nervous that my coach would find out and be displeased with me. I began to worry because being six pounds over meant that I could only eat a little bit each day, and work extra to lose all of the weight.

Growing up, I was never athletically inclined. I was a disaster at any sport that required hand-eye coordination, and running made me want to rip my lungs out of my chest. However, when I was nine, my girl scout troop participated in another try-it day. This time it was for synchronized swimming. The girls on the team knoxed our hair, did our makeup, helped us decorate suits, and taught us our very own routine.

The Greatness in Grit There are many important human traits but I am only going to be talking about one that one trait is grit. Grit is a strong trait that some people have and other people don’t it is not something that can be taught it is something that must always be there and most people have some amount of grit big or small it always makes a difference in their character and their integrity. Grit is strength and courage it is the ability to stand up to a bully or stand up for your beliefs or the beliefs of other people and the ability to keep going when everyone else gives up It is the ability to go past your comfort zone and to stop being mediocre or normal and to never give up and to push past the breaking point even when it feels

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” Unknown Befor wrestling I was out of shape and couldn’t run. During wrestling I had to give up a lot of my favorite treats. By doing that I had steps set.

Wrestling/ Greco-Roman Wrestling Possibly the world's oldest sport with traces that go back 5000 years in the sumerian era, in which contestants struggle hand-to-hand attempt to throw or take down their opponent without striking blows. Some wrestling styles include freestyle, greco-roman and catch-as-catch-can. According to UFC fight maker Shawn Shelby, “... Wrestling is really I think is the most crucial element of MMA.

When I think of pure fighting the one combat sport that always pops in my head is Boxing. This combat sport is usually the first thing you think of because the blows to the head and bloody faces. The sport of boxing is known as an English sport, but in the early 1900s the U.S and France gained a liking of the sport (Boddy 1). In the early 1900s there was conflict, trying to figure out whether the U.S or Great Britain is better at boxing than each other. The United states started to adapt and discovered a style of Boxing called the “American Style” and the opposite was the “English Style” (Boddy 1).

Professional Wrestling is something a person either loves or hates. But, a lot of people judge it before they even watch it. Line: Something that is always being debated is whether Pro Wrestling is a sport or not. Argument/Claim/Thesis: Pro Wrestling is a sport, this is why. It is backed up by the definition of a sport and it is wildly popular.

No one can avoid failure. No person has ever been 100% successful at everything. But people hate to talk about their failures, and try to avoid it at all cost. Having participated in the interscholastic sport of wrestling, I have been given many opportunities to succeed or fail. I generally succeed most of the time.

Sitting on the bed watching video after video on police ruthlessness against African American guys, I particularly recollect tears moving down my face as I thought "that could be my siblings, my uncle, my cousin, my father," while these contemplations shaped in my mind I started to cry more, until I understood I was balling. At that point I started to quit crying and I began to get irate, as I felt the outrage ascend in my body considerations hurried through my head. "What was it? What did it? What changed everything?

I wish I could include a picture of me playing soccer with this essay because that was all I did from age five to fifteen. Soccer was life for ten years so most people are surprised to hear that the fall of my senior year in high school I will Captain of my high school Cross Country team. How I became Captain of a running sport is an accomplishment I never saw coming. If you had asked me in elementary school, middle school, or even my first two years of high school if I would do anything but play soccer I would have said never. I am the youngest of three boys.