NCAA Mens Finals

Congrats to the guys who won Nationals this year. the tournament was really tough with a lot of good guys this year many of the top 8 in each division already placed in the tournament or won it last year. The top 8 guys are now All Americans and get an exclusive invitation to tryout for the Men's National/Olympic Team.

The Winners were: 125 Angel Escobedo , 133 Scott Coleman, 141 J Jaggers, 149 Brent Metcalf, 157 Jordan Leen, 165 Mark Perry, 174 Keith Gavin, 184 Jake Varner, 197 Phil Davis, 285 Dustin Fox.

Congrats gentleman you really deserved it. Too bad the mass media doesn't care about real sports that demand hard work and excellence even perfection. they tend to stick with the basketball tournament all march long and don't even show other championships that deserve mentioning like hockey for example. I am really disappointed that it isn't on television a lot because it is a great sport to watch. don't worry guys true fans know who you are and appreciate what you do for the sport.

Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction is a style of writing that blends the literary techniques of fiction with the truth of nonfiction. This style of writing is very interesting and it makes the book become more real. Using this style of writing the author can write more of an interesting view or spin on the nonfiction.

This new genre of writing, you have more freedom to bend the book. It gives the writer a way to express the novel their way while still saying the truth. With more freedom you can make the book more interesting and get the reader more involved into the story. The author uses creative nonfiction to make the factual parts of the book more interesting for the reader. Using this method of writing you are freer to write.

A great example of creative nonfiction would be John McPhee’s “The Curve of Binding Energy”. He uses a true biography of Ted Taylor to explain the dangers of nuclear technology. He makes the terminology easy to understand and read. He also makes a dull subject interesting for the common people who really don’t know much about it. This book is proof that creative nonfiction works and it helps the reader stay into the book longer.

By using creative nonfiction, McPhee can get his point across better than if he placed an article in a magazine or newspaper. By using the creative nonfiction he made the subject easier to understand and read.

Creative nonfiction is sort of like journalism. You write about a subject just like an interview. You’re telling a truthful story about a certain person or thing, and explaining to the reader what you got out of that interview. The difference between creative nonfiction and journalism is that with journalism you are asking the questions but with the creative nonfiction you are observing the object and writing about what you see. This makes it more interesting because creative nonfiction takes the story and makes it more appealing.

I see this genre as a tool for young writers to use when they need to write about a certain subject. It forces you to become more informed about the subject you are writing about. If you are more informed with the subject you know more about it and can thus write a better paper. This would be a great tool for me personally because sometimes I find that I can’t write much about any subject.

In conclusion, by using creative nonfiction the writer can find it easier to get to the point and get that point across. It makes the reader more interested in the subject and it helps him or her understand it better. It helps you find a way to express the truth in ways that make the reader and writer connect. Creative nonfiction is easier to write and easier to understand.

Cael Sanderson wrestling's A-ROD

Cael Sanderson is a wrestling legend in the making. this man like other legends of the sport has made a deep impact on the way people look at the sport. Cael is a living legend in the sport meaning that he still wrestles today. He is an Olympic Champion, World Champion, a National Champion, and a 4 time NCAA Division 1 Champion.

Cael is amazing to watch. some describe it as poetry in motion when he steps on the mat. He wrestles at 197 but has the quickness of a 125 pounder. his signature move is an ankle pick. He always finds a way to hit the move even though the opponent knows it is coming. He has been on the national team and Olympic team since 2001 when he graduated college.

In college Cael went 159-0. That is amazing and has never been done before. he was truly unstoppable and to some point still is today. One way that the sport shows that a wrestler is in sort of a legend caliper is to get a shoe names after them. Cael has the most popular selling shoe on the market.

Cael also runs training camps for wrestlers aspiring to get better and better. he makes special appearances at other camps also. he gives lectures all the time about the importance of hard work and the constant training it takes to become a great champion. he is a great athlete to look up to as a role model.

Cael is one person to show the importance of wrestling all different styles instead of specializing in one.

One Sentence Story

Standing at the top of the podium looking out at the cheering crowd, i knew all the hard work was worth it.

Rulon Gardner Man Myth or Legend??

Rulon Gardner was an olympic wrestler for the united states of america. he was one of the greatest heavyweights in the sport. he is credited for beating the soviet legend Alexander Karelin, who was previously unbeaten in his life. Not only was Gardner a great wrestler but he was also a great outdoorsman with superb survival skills because he has been in 3 life threatening disasters and has walked out unharmed. this man is a legend and is a great hero to look up to.

Karelin pronounced "crellan" was the soviets best wrestler ever. this man was undefeated his entire life. he had won 4 olympic golds in freestyle and greco and has won the world tournament like 7 times. he was deemed unbeatable. Rulon was a farm boy who grew up working on his parents farm, he wrestled as a hobby but became quite good and went through college and so on as a wrestler. he eventually made it to the olympic team for the USA. no one thought that Rulon had a chance beating the soviet at all and figured he would take the silver if they made it to the finals. Rulon was smart and studied the soviet's best 5 moves and drilled the counters to them for months until the olympics, and when they finally faced in the finals he beat the soviet by 1. this was one of the greatest upsets in wrestling history. after that match he retired and became a coach.

if you think thats great you wont believe what happened next.

Rulon has been in three near death experiences and has survived them all. some people refer to him as superman.

In 2000 he was flying a plane with his friends and crashed it in a lake at the arizona and utah border, he helped his wounded friend and swam for over and hour in 44 degree water until found by a fisherman.
In 2002, he went snowmobiling in Wyoming and got stranded overnight after falling from a 50-foot cliff onto a frozen water hole and breaking through. He hopped back on his ride but couldn’t make it out, so he spent the night in the field as his body temperature dropped to 88 degrees.
In 2004, his motorcycle slammed into a car and he went across the hood. He got up and rode away.

This man is truly a legend and deserves his nickname "Superman"

Wrestling Arenas

I always wonder what normal people think when you say that your going to a wrestling match. I know they don't find it exciting but i think they are misinformed. Sure most High School teams wrestle in there cafeteria and have no fans, however when you get to a higher skill level or even just a better school team it is something quite amazing to see.

First off, it is one of the most exciting things that your can attend. When you feel the emotion running through the teams and the crowd you get energized and, especially if your new to the sport, and i feel it brings a new attraction and you get sucked into the sport. A lot of this has to do with the arena.

In my school we wrestled in the gym and had a full crowd cheering at the top of there lungs for you. it is a great experience to feel when you know that all your fans are behind you. Most colleges that are serious about the sport of wrestling have special stadiums for just wrestling matches. My favorite is "The Pit" at Oklahoma State. It is a pitch black stadium sort of like madison square garden but like a square and much more steep. the sections are not separated either. The only light is at the bottom on the mat all the way down. that is why this arena has became known as the pit.

This is a great arena and i would one day like to go there. i suggest going if you can even if you are not a fan.

You Know your a Wrestler if....

I found this on the internet and i think it will help set the mood of how different it is to be a wrestler than any other sport.

YOU KNOW YOUR WRESTLER IF....

1. you look on the wrapper to see how much every piece of food weighs before you eat it
2. you refer to the wrestling room just as "the room"
3. you spend more time in "the room" than you do at your house
4. you roll your eyes when people say "you have to lose all that weigh by TOMORROW?"
5. you get pissed off when people say that the wrestling team is anorexic
6. you don't "play" wrestling
7. bloody noses, fat lips, and black eyes are daily encounters
8. From November to March, your natural response to anyone talking to you is "Shut the hell up. Don't talk to me."
9. I HATE TWO DAY WEIGH-INS!!!
10. you know your weight to the tenth of a pound at all times
11. when it comes to practice shorts, the shorter the better
12. you LOVE hot managers
13. there is no offseason
13. you laugh at football/basketball "two-a-days"
14. You know what somebody means when they ask "What you goin' this year?"
15. you miss school on most fridays during the season for a tournament
16. It's a freakin SINGLET!!!...not a onezie or a leotard
17. cauliflower ear
18. for any injury...tape it up and ur good
19. the first thing you say when someone walks in THE ROOM is "no shoes on the mat"
20. all the shirts in your dresser are from wrestling tournaments
21. Whenever someone says "wrestling is gay" you want to punch that person square in the face.
22. November to March your diet consists of food in bar form, ice, and gum.
23. During season, when someone asks "what are you doing this weekend?", you just laugh
24. you split an orange with 7 other people after practice and its the highlight of your week
25. you usually go to the library during lunch to avoid the sight of food
26. and then when you are in the library, you look up rankings and read the state wrestling forum online
27. the first thing people say to you when they find out you wrestle is "i was going to wrestle but..."
28. you feel completely normal wearing spandex
29. you have gained 15 pounds in the course of an hour (obviously after weigh-ins)
30. You are one and/or you know at least one person who was "held back" in eighth grade and won middle school states...again
31. you get up in the morning and ur really excited because u "floated" half a pound more than u expected over night
32. you plan a list of restaurants you want to go and food you want to eat for after the season


this is a joke parody on cutting weight and the "language of wrestling" enjoy

Wrestling season coming to a close

This is the last 2-3 weeks of the wrestling season. It is all an individual sport from now until next season. Now all the city champions go on to state and the state champs go on to federations, regions, and nationals. This is also the last month for college seasons.

After 2 weeks the whole high school and college season will be over and 3 new seasons will start. They are Middle School, Freestyle, and Greco-Roman. Middle school has the same rules as the high school and college wrestling with a few exceptions about some potentially dangerous moves. they go on for about 2 months and have a small state tournament but no national tournament.

Freestyle and Greco are completely different. new rules and even a new type of singlet uniform. there are 10 weight classes starting at 112 and moving to 220 and the heavyweight ends at 285.

Freestyle is almost the same as Collegiate but the scoring is different. you don't wrestle a whole match, you wrestle rounds and the best of three wins the match. if you pin a man the match is over. when you take a man down, you get 1 point. for exposing the back you get 2 points, and if you hold him for 5 secs, you get 3. 6 points is all you need to win the period, and you can lock around the body on the floor. the no slam rule doesn't have effect in this style so technically anything goes except punching kicking and biting.

Greco is along the same rules as freestyle however you cannot touch the legs of you opponent. this style is mostly throwing because you cannot even trip a man. there is a penalty for touching the legs, and in a tie the match goes to a clinch position and the first man with a take down wins.