Does Wrestling take more heart than any other sport?

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:18 pm

you need to use periods man.........

i still say cross is harder

chiefswrestler09 · Post by **chiefswrestler09** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:00 pm

okay how is this for you cross country is not a hard sport for the simple fact that its optional if you walk or run basicly slack off i seen alot of kids do that in wrestling you slack off or relax for a second you mine as well say goodbye cause your screwed wrestling is 110% go the whole time no exceptions and for the kids that cant do that then end up going out for basketball or cross country

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:01 am

OMG, dude you have no clue what your talkin about! It is not optional to walk or run........im talkin about serious, State contender, college bound runners here, and your sayin it is optional to run or walk! thats crazy......in a race....if a guy was in 1st then walked for even 5 seconds....hed be in 10 th place!!!!..........serious runners go balls to the wall the whole race, using every ounce of their energy......while keeping the correct pace, not to die at the end..........this is absurd.......IDK any runner who would walk!!!........o my.......
there is alote more stradegy to it then you think.....

tric118 · Post by **tric118** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:04 am

I have done both I ran the Parkersburg Half-Marathon in 1:43 that is 13.1 miles I have ran as much as 50 miles a week and I have wrestled in 1-2 pretty good meets. Wrestling is much tougher the physical beating you take does not compare plus cutting weight and not eating for 1-2 days does not help. As you posted on your last post while showing your age DUDE get off it go to the cross country forum.

afan · Post by **afan** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:41 am

Hey, 4sporter. Run down to your nearest highschool gym some evening and participate in one full wrestling practice, I bet you'll run faster back to your cross country course than you've ever run in a meet.

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:16 am

Tric118 wrote:I have done both I ran the Parkersburg Half-Marathon in 1:43 that is 13.1 miles I have ran as much as 50 miles a week and I have wrestled in 1-2 pretty good meets. Wrestling is much tougher the physical beating you take does not compare plus cutting weight and not eating for 1-2 days does not help. As you posted on your last post while showing your age DUDE get off it go to the cross country forum.

yeah, and serious runners run anything over 100 miles a week........

ask a runner who just gets done running a marathon.........they can hardly walk for a few days......thats 26 miles........NO WALKING........

i'd rather beat up some loser from another school, then run in sleet and 25 degree weather........

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:17 am

and how can anyone say the conditions in wrestling are tougher then the conditions in Cross country

chiefswrestler09 · Post by **chiefswrestler09** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:27 am

cause it is proven fact god your freakin annoying do you not have a life are you that stupid to think a noncontact sport even comes close to a contact sport i mean come on if i really wanted to i could argue the fact that chess takes more heart then ufc but i dont cause i have a life and its pointless so why dont you be a true serious runner like you say you are and go to the cross country section

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:47 am

the only reason, wrestling has more votes then cross country, is because it is in the wrestling index, and the only reason it has more people argueing against me is because no one that runs cross country looks at this.......

ive only heard of about ONE inury in wrestling, because it was an illegal move....a lote more injuries in cross........Nature vs. Humans.....not Human vs. Human.........nature is more grueling...........i think that ive proved my poiny several times....thats why you say i have no life....

afan · Post by **afan** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:07 am

4sport- How many times when you run your cross country course, do you have some big strong mean opponet trying to pull your head off, trying to choke you off, and dislocate your joints all at the same time? Give us a break. I guarantee that every starter on every high school team in this area could run cross country. How many cross country runners could wrestle a full season? Not very many.

nybucksmom · Post by **nybucksmom** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:08 pm

Good points afan!

One injury in wrestling, huh??? Ask the kid who got his ankle broken at the Logan Dogwatch tournament on Saturday. Ask my son why he had to sit-out a big tournament a couple of years back, because his shoulder was hurt and the doctor, knowing how tough wrestling is, wouldn't let him wrestle that week so it would heal and not tear.

We had one poor kid on our team a couple of years ago who came out for wrestling his senior year...and never wrestled before. Guess what his sport was? Track...yep, track...he was the best distance runner they had. His knee went out of joint during practice before he could wrestle in a match. He got that healed-up and was able to wrestle a couple of times. Then guess what happened...the other knee went out!!! Both times due to wrestling.

I have a ton of injury stories I could share, but I don't think this website has enough space for 'em!

Don't give Tric118 a hard time about only running 50 miles a week. He's an old man and that's great for being an old man! lol! ;-)

I do have to say that I've seen him run, and man is he fast.

tric118 · Post by **tric118** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:21 pm

4sports is a joke I am done responding to him, and I hope the rest of you are also. He needs to stick to his Cross Country and Golf Forum. He says these things because Eastern High has no wrestling team.

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:18 pm

yeah, i wish Eastern has wrestling....NOT..........

c91847k · Post by **c91847k** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:05 am

On average, almost anyone can go running. I know a young man who ran a thousand miles from March to November and still came up short in wrestling. He was the TVC cross country champ two years ago and also a state placer in wrestling the same year. If you just want to use dedicated runners as having to endure more than the "average wrestler" you are may be right but equally it's not even close.

http://teenink.com/Past/9899/March/Spor ... tling.html

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

I don't want to say wrestling is far superior than cross country or distance running, but you can teach anyone to run. You can not teach wrestling as easy you think. How long do you think the Michael Owens of cross country could last with the Corbin Boneys in wrestling, physically. Other than literally outrunning a wrestler, runners have no significant advantages- and that says a lot even though I know some wrestlers that can run forever.

Jeff Wettengel, a former wrestler from Belpre, is now a Navy Seal. Two years ago, he ran 7-10 miles a day, in army boots, and a weighted backpack, in 90 degree weather. He was about 5'8, 190 lbs of muscle, and a hard worker. But Jeff was able to jump into running with ease and push himself because he wrestled and was in great physical shape and to this day Jeff would consider himself a wrestler before a runner, even though I personally think he should become a swimmer.

There is no way Jeff could of 'ran' his away into the Navy Seals.

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:18 am

let me see you teach a clumsy 6'10" 330 pound lineman run long distnace.......

chiefswrestler09 · Post by **chiefswrestler09** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:26 am

hold a hogie sandwhich in front of him i think he'd do just fine and that just comes to show you how there is no competition in cross county y because simly no one cares

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:45 am

yeah, and people care about wrestling??? how many people attend the state wrestling match??? how many colleges give scholarships for wrestling?? how many wrestling matches are showed on tv during the olympics??

yeah....i bet hed rather not eat, then run 3.1 miles...or 5 miles in colege......for that matter.........

if wrestling is "so big:, then why do more colleges have cross country then wrestling........

superdog · Post by **superdog** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:07 pm

[quote="4sporterEHS"]yeah, and people care about wrestling??? how many people attend the state wrestling match???

It is the #1 attened high school event! Go to OHSAA and look at the numbers. It draws more then football or b-ball! Ok you run and you are standing up for your sport, thats fine. Do not go and bash my sport. Didn't your mommy ever tell you NOT TO MESS WITH A WRESTLER!

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:41 pm

show me the link to that figure on OHSAA.......i cant find it......

how am i bashin your sport???

Mighty Mighty Devils · Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:58 am

wrestling is and will always be the most grueling demading sport in high school it takes determination heart brains and balance an when your on the mat its you an your opponet in basically a controled fight its winner take all its not I can run faster than you or farther its I don t have to run from you ;-)

JUST A JOKE FOLKS EVERYONE HAS THEIR SPORT and mine is wrestling on a wrestling forum it will be hard to convince anyone different

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Does Wrestling take more heart than any other sport?

Does wrestling take more heart than any other sport?