the Charette's: Wrestling

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Wrestling

Connor loves to wrestle. He listens for the garage to open every evening and before Jason has the back door closed Connor is on the wrestling mat (AKA family room rug with extra padding underneath) calling out "it's go time dad!" The boys wrestle every single night. They wrestle the minute Jason gets home from work and they wrestle just before they go to bed. Before I was pregnant Connor was doing single leg take downs and fireman's carry wrestling moves on me almost on a daily basis too. Being that I'm pregnant I get to watch from the side lines now.

So, it wasn't much of a surprise when we asked him if he wanted to join the school wrestling team... he immediately said YES. I had no idea there would be so many kids on the wrestling team! We went to the first practice before we signed him up because we were concerned there might not be any kids his age or size to even wrestle with... wow, were we wrong!

Mat Maulers Wrestling Club

Practice is for 2 hours (6:00-8:00pm) every Tuesday and Thursday at the High School wrestling room. They start with some warm up exercises, pledge of allegiance to the flag, followed by a motivational speech from the main coach and then the kids break into 3 groups based on age/size and practice wrestling moves. They end with another motivational speech, which always talks about good morals. The wrestling room gets extremely hot by the end of practices! The walls are lined with parents watching, which most of the dad's are involved in helping coach the kids. I wasn't sure how Connor would do with 2 hour practices, which are non-stop. But he did awesome! He loved every minute and worked hard at getting the moves down. Half of his baseball team are also on the wrestling team and a few boys from his kindergarten class. He immediately paired up with James Oliver from his class and the two were great wrestling buddies.