open practice today

today we had an open practice for all the parents of the wrestlers of this year. we went through a regualar practice for the parents and then we introduced ourselve to them by name and then where were from. we then had our captions say some things about how we plan to have the season go. and after the introducing we all went ot joes and got free pizza, wings, and pop for a fundraiser to suport our wrestling team. while there all the parents talked to each other trading stroys from where there from and where they've seen each other from. while all the parents were sittin around i thought back to when i was in high school how we used to have something like this it was called meet the wrestlers and we always had to go up and answer \questions from people in the audience some were like"how do you thing the season will go, or how has your coach prepared you so far mentally and physically?" while thinking back i answered those questions for this year and coach miller has worked us harder then before say the upper classman because he wants us to never get tired and allways be on the attack and thinking we will win and we will dominate every minute. this is why i love th sport and the coaches here and my family does as well

recap on the tourny

After the tourny i was pre pissed about how my finals match came out because i hate losing and thats the reason i picked wartburg cause they dont lose they know how to win and they do it. so i had a lot to think about on the way home "like do i have what it takes to go to the next level? could i have done better? what can i do better?" with all these questions to think about i spent the night thinkning about them on the ride home and in my dorm room. even though i got second and my other friends sam upah and jake morris got second, along with jase schassow landon williams and brett  yonkavic getting first and noah minkus and cole welter getting fourth. we all came back and talked about they day and threw around questions and just talking about what we coulda done better at. all in all second is good but its not what i came here to do so going back to the drawing board before our next open and preparing to win it my way.

wrestling first tourny

This saturday we wrestled our first tourny in our colloege career. We showed up around 7 and weighed in by weight at 7:30 and then we laid around till about 8:30. at that time the coaches had us start warming up and we drilled and wrestled hard and got ready for the day. before wrestling begain it brought back memories of high school by watching other teams warm up, seeing that one kid doing something really weird to warm up, and then the great saying came on over the microphone of 'Wrestlers clear the mats!" my body got goose bumbs after that saying and i went back to my corner and waited. As the tourny went on i waited till it was my turn and then it was coming up during my warms ups i mentally went through a match thinking "if i do this hes gunna do this, if he does this what am i gunna do?" and then my time came to strap up my wartburg singlet and represent my new school for the first time i went out there with a game plan and it worked i ended up pinning the kid in the 3rd period. after that i went and ate and prepared for my semis match and did the same thing and pinned this kid at the end of the second period. i was in the finals i thought "hey this is nothin new ive been here before i just gotta do what i gotta do." i was wrestling a kid from harper in the finals he was a lot bigger then me but i thought i could wear him out. the match didnt start my way he got an early take down and about 30 seconds of riding time before i got out and we ended the period that way. the next period he rode me for another 45 seconds before i got an escape so now he was up by 1 with riding time and we traded of shots and scrambles until the third period he chose down and got out right away on me so i picked up the pase and was shooting and he was fighting off my shots but i couldnt score it was coming to the ernd of the match so i took a desperat shot and he ended up scoring off my shot and he won the match i wasso mad after my match i didnt want to talk to anyone.

first tourny

this friday night we left for the loras open for our first tourny of the year. we brought all the freshman and some back up kids to wrestle. it brought back memories from high school when i would spend my friday night either watching our schools basketball team play or go home and just watch tv and go to bed. While on the way there we asked all the upper classman questions like how do they do check ins?, how do they wigh in like by tream or by weight? and we got all our questions answere before we got to our hotel. while at the hotel sam upah, jase schassow, jake morris and I all got in a room together and we watched tv and talked wrestling until we all fell asleep before the next day. the night i kept thinking am i ready for tomorrow? and answered yes im ready ive been practicing for 2 months for this and im with the best team in the nation so no ones as good as us. after i had answered that all i did was mentally prepare for my match all night.

state of fear

this week we started the book state of fear by michael crichton. Before we started it i thought it was gunna be another boring book like animal dream. i thought why do we have to read this book? whats the point in reading this book? but as i started reading the book i started to change my misconception on the book. i started to get into the book and reilized it was a good book. I also relized that the book has a point it is about saving the environment and global warming and about some eco terrorist group trying to control the world. Even though iv only read the first section of the book adn we are still reading the book i have learned a little bit about the environment and how to be more environmentally friendly. and even though ive only read the first section i would recommend this book to everyone.