"is freestyle wrestling to dangerous for middle schools?"?
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Absolutely not - injuries in other sports (okay, Football) are much more common and generally more severe. With good coaching, wrestling is extremely safe.
131895
When I was in high school, we had to wrestle in gym class.  They made us all weigh in in just a jockstrap to classify us by weight.  It was a little uncomfortable, but we all survived.
863148
I have been training in Judo for over 13 years. I competed in wrestling in highschool and usually won easily. Because of my Judo it made it very easy to naturaly to move around the matt and leverage my opponants. The wrestling also held my competitioin Judo giving me new ways to take guys down. \nBoth can compiment each other well. Just remember though in Wrestling you can't do most of the Judo throws or submissions so becarefull not to get disqualified.
93628
I coached middle school lacrosse 7th and 8th grade for 4 years and I have assisted with the lower school program.  Lacrosse can be a dangerous game, I have seen hands busted, cups cracked, collar bones broken and more but it is a safe sport.  The most important thing you can do with someone age 10 and under is find a coach that understands that the childern need to learn the basics and it is more about having fun then winning the game.  Also Make sure that you have all of the proper equipment (AND MAKE SURE THE CHILD WEARS IT!!!) I have seen children get injured because they didn't think that padding was nessasary.  I encourage childern to get started at a early age but as with any sport it is just a game to have fun.  Also some children have anger problems and this game is certainly not for them if they can not control their temper then they should NOT play the game.
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1 what can we do to p[revent it?\n2 what is causing this sudden escalation from fist-fighting to knifings to shootings?\n3 why aren't the usual punishments enough?\nwith the schools so dangerous now, should children be taken to jail for fighting in school? should the police handle it?\n4 what are parents doing to help?\ncould the problem be related to the new phenomenon of working mothers (as in they are working and not raising their children)?\n5 whose fault is it? the media's? the school system's? the children's? the time's? the parent's? the community's?\n6 what is the public school system going to be like when my children are starting school? will i have to worry about my child getting stabbed over a game of hopscotch?
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Um... High school wrestling , I have two brothers in High School wrestling and they've taught me everything there is to know about wrestling, I LOVE IT! anyway, wwf is totaly fake and technically it's not really wrestling there are so many illegal moves in there, and I've yet to c an actual wrestling move in there, of coarse I don't watch it I stopped after one show because in my OPINION it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
174847
ahh come one man!! Its not even close to that. Its the soap opera for guys to watch. And there have been plenty of wrestlers to get hurt also. Its not as safe as you think. Jumping from ladders and top rops. Its for entertainment. Don't hate on it cause you don't like it.
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Did Kurt Angle think it was gay when he won the gold medal?\nIt takes strong men or willing to get hurt boys to do any type of wrestling, I wrestled at Cleveland high in seattle.....it was great and i am trying to get my sons to get into it.
310670
I think you should be careful about the questions you ask on this forum. There are alot of dangerous people out there.\n\n\n11 is too young for you. What would your friends say? :-)
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Hey, \nMy husband and I coach a youth wrestling team. I think girls wrestling is great, my daughter wrestles she is 8 years old. She is a New England Runner up, Maine games bronze medalist, NC state games bronze medalist and has several championship titles. She was recently asked to be on a NC  wrestling team and represent our state and area @ 45 lbs in the girls Nationals...She does great. Will you be there? How long has your daughter been doing it? Mine has been wrestling for 3 years now, and while it was hard for me at first, it is much easier on me now and I often find myself feeling sorry for the boy she is out there throwing around. She loves wrestling, and I for one am not about to tell her that it's only for boys...Girls generally have better technique than boys, since they cannot out muscle boys, it is great conditioning for their bodies, and teaches them self disciplin it is wonderful. You should try to see if you could find her some girls competiotion, you will see then that you are not alone. My daughter wrestled in her first all girls tournament this year and had a great time. I think it is great, tell your daughter congratulations on her wreastling achievments. Encourage her, girls wrestling is really growing and there are new opprotunities opening up to them every day. I also have 2 boys that wrestle and it wasn't any easier for me to see them out there at first....so if you are new at the sport, it should get easier for ya!! Good Luck to you and your daughter.
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I thought it was wonderful! This program should be mandatory in every middle and high school. You have to wonder, what has changed soo much in our schools over the last decade or two?\nWhen I was in school (class of 94) we might have had a few "bad apples" but never the violence you see today. I'm almost afraid to send my kid to school. In fact, his school was on lock-down today for an incident at a nearby high school. He came home with a note that gave no actual details but he claims to have heard gun shots. This scares the crap out of me!\nIf you know a teen, sit them down and ask them what's going on in their life. If you know they have a sick parent, offer to cook them dinner or clean the house for them. Be their "soft place to fall". This is not just a teen problem - it's up to ALL of us to fix this.
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Yes.  Not often but yes.  I'm very competitive but not very gifted.  While that can be frustrating it also makes the payoff when I win that much sweeter.\n\nI started wrestling in second grade in area that is known for its wrestling programs.  I was always third string a best, in fact the guy i moved thought the ranks with in my weight classes ended up winning the state championship twice.\n\nJunior I started going to a private school that didn't have a wrestling program and although I played soccer i really missed wrestling.  Senior year I approached a staff member who was a coach with the public school in the area and told him i wanted to go one last time.  He found me a tournament and helped me train.\n\nNow at the age of 42 I still count winning that trophy as one of the greatest moments of my life.
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My sons have been in wrestling for years, if we are talking about school wrestling teams, not the TV WWW stuff.\nWrestling has fewer injuries than most other sports. I am always relieved when football season is over and wrestling begins because the injuries are fewer and less serious, usually ( my son does football and wrestling.)\nIn the past few years Ive been going to school tournaments, I've only seen one serious injury; a young man injured his neck and could not move and the ambulance came to take him to the hospital. But I believe it was not a permanent injury like the paralysis and brain injuries that happen in football. Most of the injuries I've seen, and my son has had, are lots of bloody noses, bruises, and mat burns from rubbing against the mats, broken or sprained fingers occasionally, and sore muscles. If you decide to take wrestling, make sure you shower and wash your clothes after every practice and every match. Skin fungus is rampant in wrestling and there is a problem with it in most schools , but our school doesn't have a problem because of the strict shower rules.\nhttp://www.unc.edu/depts/nccsi/AllSport.htm\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5538a1.htm\nhttp://www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/archive/wrestling-injuries.html\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/10777/wrestle.htm
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I wrestle at 120 in school
349779
if u search 'freestyle friday' you'l get a lot of these battles...some are bad some are good...and some are craaaazy.....if u wanna see the crazy ones look up jin, poster boy and whyteout....those are my favorites!
64657
wwe is fake. I, however, am a highschool wrestler. I just got home from an all day tournament, in fact. And let me tell you, High school wrestling is as real as it gets. It is the hardest six minutes of any sport. I had to have my coach open my fingers cause i used my arms so much and my hands wouldnt open. So "pro" wrestling is fake and a waste of time, where olimpic and high school wrestling is unimaginably difficult and real.
670710
No, it's choreographed.  Although there are times when the blood is real, and so are the deaths.  The wrestlers are really athletic, and if they make a small mistake, it could be extremely painful and sad.