Having wrestled in high school and having watched teammates
wrestle against girls, I was very thankful there were very few girls in my state who wrestled in my weight class (189).
So
he wrestled against the girls and won his 110 - pound weight class undefeated to take the gold at the state championship.
Not exact matches
I Am a
girl, 15 from Illinois, and i plan on
wrestling next year, and i wish that guys wouldn't forfeit
against girls, because if they are on a
wrestling team they are obviously there because they WANT to
wrestle and compete, however if the guy is not comfortable
wrestling with me (a
girl) i wont judge him in anyway, its your own choice and i agree
Then again it was the
girls choice to become a wrestler which means she think she's brave enough to take on a guy, she knew coming into this business that she would one day have to go
against a dude but she still chose to
wrestle so that has to do with her if she gets hurt but I take my hat off to the kid cause he made the right decision even if he did get bad compliments because he was being a gentlemen and taking in consideration of her feeling physically and emotionally.
It's unfortunate that societal norms encourage the boys» peers to tease them if they are beaten fairly by a
girl, but that's certainly not a reason to forbid
girls to
wrestle against boys.
I
wrestled against my brothers all the time as the only
girl.
bottom line is
girls need to
wrestle girls think of it like this would you let a
girl get in a ring and box
against a boy» even if they were wearing amatuer style pads... hell no!
If it was my son, I wouldn't let him
wrestle unless the
girl signed a complete, ironclad release of any possible claims
against the boy.
ive been
wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to
wrestle a
girl... growing up learning to
wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to
wrestle a
girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy /
girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always
wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a
girl i
wrestled the same
against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a
girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to
wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that
girls are
wrestling but they shouldnt
wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.
Jones competed primarily
against boys for the majority of her
wrestling career, and then took her athletic talents to the next level when she began competing in regional and national
wrestling tournaments in the
girls divisions.