So Saturday we headed off to Adams Friendship wrestling. The boys do not like to go their for many reasons but they need the experience because regionals and state will be here before they know it. One of the main reasons is because the name of their team mascot is the Green Devils. Now how can people not be offended to be affiliated with a team with that name. Another of the reasons is that they run a bull pin. Usually they weigh the kids and bracket them on charts with kids the same age and weight. They assign them to a mat and a round number and you sit and wait for your turn by watching the mat your child is to wrestle on. With a bull pin they assign each chart a number and then they call the number. The kids have to go out of the gym down a hallway and wait until it is their turn. They hardly ever are on the same mat. So instead of a leisure day of waiting your turn you have to listen all day for your chart to be called to the bull pin with 20 other charts. Watch all of the kids in those charts leave the gym for the bullpin (which parents are not suppose to enter) then watch for them to come out. Then they wait in a big area for a mat to open up, with 12 mats wrestling. You do not take your eyes off of your child once you see them enter into the gym because you will never find them again or you will miss the match. Thankfully Garrett has colorfull head gear and is a little taller than a lot of the kids so he was easy to find.
So weigh-ins run from 7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. and we made it there about 8:15 a.m. They did not put which school or the address to put in the GPS on their flyer so we spent some time driving around town. Garrett knows how bad I am with directions. Thankfully we saw someone else we knew who was headed to the same event so I told Garrett to keep an eye on them and not to loose them and we made it there on time. Garrett weighed in at 144 (like usual) and they called him to the head table. They asked if he would mind if they bumped him up to wrestle the 156 group since he had 8 years experience and they only had 2 in their group. He agreed so Garrett bumped up like he has been for the last few weeks.
So weigh-ins run from 7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. and we made it there about 8:15 a.m. They did not put which school or the address to put in the GPS on their flyer so we spent some time driving around town. Garrett knows how bad I am with directions. Thankfully we saw someone else we knew who was headed to the same event so I told Garrett to keep an eye on them and not to loose them and we made it there on time. Garrett weighed in at 144 (like usual) and they called him to the head table. They asked if he would mind if they bumped him up to wrestle the 156 group since he had 8 years experience and they only had 2 in their group. He agreed so Garrett bumped up like he has been for the last few weeks.
Another reason why the boys do not like to wrestle here is the medals have a green demon on them and say Feel the heat, as if you want to feel the heat from hell? First place also gets a T-shirt with their team mascott on it. I guess we have a new rag for changing oil. :) He has another match on Monday and I have Graduation play rehearsal and yearbook class so I will not be able to make it. His elbows are felling a little better. I think it was best that he did not have any one match up with him at Thursday nights meet with gave him sometime to heal a bit.
