My First Wrestling Narrative Essay

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Alejandro Sancho Erkki mackey Personal narrative revision It was the beginning of my freshman year of high school, trying out for the varsity spot of the wrestling team. What made me decide on trying out for the sport is because I competed all my life in physical sports, like judo. So knowing that I had a judo background I could easily fit in wrestling, so I tried out. Walking into that cold gym was like walking into death, I felt like I was through unknown territory. The floor was shaking, the walls sounded like they were being pounded, and there was screeching of wrestling shoes rubbing on the mat, I’m not going to lie, it gave me some butterflies. As I walked around the last corner of the gym I peeked my head and saw people flying…show more content…
There were two mats and both had a giant ring that would keep wrestlers aware if they’re about to step out of bounds. There I met Coach Mickey he was a goofy looking guy, but was a good wrestler very technical. Coach Mickey was the first person to teach me how to shoot a double leg. After weeks and weeks of training I perfected it and started learning other wrestling techniques, leg single legs Russian ties and head and arms. My first wrestling match was a duel meet with one of our rival schools, Coral Gables; they weren’t the best but it served me well on applying the techniques I learned on those couple of weeks that passed. I weighed in that day 103 pounds, I was a light weight. And the lightest weight class is always the last one to wrestle.so I got to watch some matches before I wrestled which made me even more anxious. Finally it was my turn to show everybody what I got. The team score was dead even, so all the pressure was on my match, which even got me more pumped up. As I walked toward the center of the ring , my coach grabbed me and told me to leave everything out on the mat, give it your all. I went out and defeated my opponent, by doing a blast double straight to his back pinning him and won the match by pin. No matter what happens I know I gave it my all and had no regrets. Since that day that quote has been my mottyo in

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