Dear Fellow Readers,
UF seems impressive. But its goal is to brutalize one’s opponent. What is sportsmans-like about it? I am a former award-winning high school wrestler, and I view UF as a stupid “sport†like boxing, a sport the goal of which is to render one’s opponent stupid. Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling are pure sports. I was a Freestyle wrestler. In either case, no moves were intended to harm an opponent, only to immobilize him for three seconds, now two seconds. Oh, I ain’t afraid of an UF because the UF will never get close enough to me to hurt me before I pin him for two seconds. And if there ain’t no referee, how does he get up?
All the Best,
Paul.
Extreme Foolishness
Dear Friends,
One of my weaknesses was my strength, so I weight-trained and wrestled until I endured a ruptured lumbar disc at 14-15 (lovely). But that was no excuse. I refused to weight train more because I thought I was cheating. I was talented and that “should have been enough,” but it wasn’t to win the State Championship over the senior captains of my exclusive opposition teams.
Rejoice with me, I am now weight-training without limitation (except the snatch and other back-intensive training). I am now putting on some major muscle at an advanced age.
All the Best,
Paul