Sam did wrestling this whole winter - November through to April! He rocked at it, and I was so relieved to notice that he wasn't complaining about going to all the practices this year! He just buckled down and practiced hard, and he was able to walk away from the year with a great feeling of triumph. Since this is all getting turned into a journal at the end of the year, I don't feel to bad bragging about how well he did. There were some meets that no other kid could even score a single point on him. He has got these certain moves down so that as soon as the match begins, he's got the other kid pinned in two moves and 10 seconds later! As a mother, I have a hard time really enjoying wrestling because it can be such a gut-wrenching thing to see a child when he gets stuck and can't move and loses. That's why I'll never be in love with wrestling like I am with the other team sports my kids do throughout the year, but Sam never walked away from a match feeling down on himself - he was always floating through the air. So, as for this year, I enjoyed watching him do wrestling. It was a great thing for his self-esteem. The sad thing is that even though these pictures show how great Sam was, it's a little sad for the little boy he was wrestling! Sam is in the red singlet.
So, a funny thing . . . . . Joe taught Sam a kind of dirty move where he covers the other kid's nose with the crook of his elbow so the kid will automatically lean back to breath and that would do the final act of getting the kid pinned. SO, Sam did that move on a tougher kid and it worked! He pinned him! The teenage judge didn't disqualify him or anything because Sam is so innocent and humble when he's doing the matches, but he did tell Sam that it's illegal to cover another kid's nose when he's wrestling. Sam looked over at Joe and said in a VERY loud voice, "Dad! He said I can't cover the kid's nose!!!" I'm hoping that Joe was convincing as he tried to play it off and act like he didn't coach his son to do that illegal move!!!!
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