The King SPEAKS

Why I Joined The Wrestling Team

Posted on April 9th, 2007 by The King.
Categories: Everything and Anything!!!, Life, School.

People always ask me why I joined the wrestling team. Just today I went to someone’s house and they asked the same question. Why wrestling? Why not any other sport? She went on to saying that out of all the families she knew, I was the only one who had joined wrestling. I want to ask a question first, why is wrestling considered a peculiar sport? Would I have got the same reaction if by chance I had joined the Soccer team? People judge, why do they have to?

Getting back to the topic, here are the reasons I joined the wrestling team.

1) I needed a sport for colleges. Soccer and basketball were just too cliche. I wanted something different, something out of the blue. I wanted people to respect me for something else than just academics. I wanted a sense of self pride for being in a sport. I wanted to utilize my body and mind to something other than academics, something which I get credit for and also makes me feel happier.

2) As much as I hate to say it, sport players are much more “popular” than guys who are smart (luckily I’m both). I thought it’d be different to just chill out with my sport buddies, get to know the chicas if you know what I mean. But honestly, they’re useless. I mean I just can’t see myself justifying the fact that they cut classes all day and sit in the sports office while at the same time whining about how their classes are “too tough”. People ask me how I score so well, I say pay attention in class, but I guess they can’t do that since they’re not in class.

3) I also had an epiphany about girls. I just realized, I don’t want to go out with some slut. As much as I can “tap that” much easier, it’s just not in me to go out with some girl who I barely know. I don’t see how people do it (in high school, maybe later on in life). I just don’t seem to understand the fact that people just laze around in their high school years. Ya, having fun is important, but I see people wasting their time, getting low grades, hooking up with sluts who might just give you STD’s. How do you do it?

4) Team feeling “ Even though I mentioned that some of the people in my team are useless, I would recommend everyone out there to feel what its like to be in a team. It’s just magical, it’s just phenomenal how much fun you can have just being in one. I have no words to describe the feeling. The feeling of being a part of something important is just overwhelming.

Just to stop people from thinking about wrestling as WWE, I will post a video from youtube relating to Olympic bronze medal match. The screen might be small, but I think you’ll be able to see. One thing I find astonishing is that the person in the video is 127 pounds or 57 kilograms. Can you believe it, that guy is just 127 pounds. He looks so well built my estimate would be at least 80 kgs, but just 57. It’s miraculous how they maintain their weight. It takes discipline, which I have learnt form the practices.

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