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Old 01-12-2007, 07:15 AM   #23 (permalink)
smallnorth
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Originally Posted by Sandlapper
Keith,

A lot of kids have to lose weight to wrestle because someone else already wrestles for their school in their desired weight class. If they want a shot at wrestling instead of sitting on the bench, you have to drop weight. I used to watch guys run for hours around our gym in trash bags trying to drop weight before the weigh in that night. It was pretty sad.
The point he made was that you should want to get better in your weight class and be the best. Not loose weight to drop to the lower class.

I think that's a fair point.
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