...the sport of wrestling began when I was five years old. At this age wrestling wasn’t taken too seriously and was just an excuse for us young kids to horse around with each other. For a bunch of little kids, a sport where you can roll around on the ground with each other and push each other around was a perfect way to burn some energy. There wasn’t too much skill or concern about winning at this age. As I became older and was in Third or fourth grade I started to develop a strong dislike for losing in the sport. In this sport it felt different losing than it did in other sports. In other sports like football or baseball it wasn’t enjoyable to lose, but it wasn’t too bad at this age. When it came to wrestling though, I really didn’t like losing. In most sports when you lose it was the team as a whole that lost the game and you only hold a fraction of the responsibility for losing....
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... My organization is the Citadel Wrestling Association (CWA). This is a not-for-profit organization that is meant to boost the wrestling program and help raise funds for The Citadel Wrestling team. As head of the CWA I am working very closely with the Athletic Department and the Athletic Director to make sure I am following protocol in my quest to make the wrestling team a top 15 program in Division I wrestling. The number one goal of the CWA is to improve the wrestling team financially in the best way possible. In order to do this, it is important to know what the top financial goals of the Athletic Department are. Some of the major goals of the Athletic Department is to endow scholarships and subsides costs. Scholarships endowments are now essential to saving non-profit athletic programs at the college level. Endowments are interest-bearing accounts that have limits to how often you can withdraw from it. The original money that is invested is basically untouchable but the interest is what can be used. Most endowments yield a 5% interest rate. For such athletic programs like the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who has around $212,000,000 in endowment funds dedicated to athletics, the yearly interest can be rather large. The endowment interest is then used on specific things like coach’s salaries, team expenses and helping fully fund a team with their scholarship ceiling allotted by the NCAA. As this pertains to wrestling, 9.9 scholarships is the maximum...
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...Returning Wrestling to the University Imagine this, you are in the gym waiting for the first practice of the season to start. Your excitement is overwhelming. You have spent your entire life working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling programs...
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...city league with my friends | Football | Sport | 9-16 | Score as many touchdowns as I can | Wrestling | Sport | 7-present | Place in the state tournament | Motocross | Sport | 5-present | State Champion | Activities in High School | Level of Intensity | Age Range | Goals of Participation | Football | Sport | 9-16 | Be a team player | Motocross | Recreation | 5-present | Have fun but don’t get hurt | Wrestling | Sport | 7-present | All State, State Champion, All-American, National Champion | Activities in College | Level of Intensity | Age Range | Goals of Participation | Wrestling | Sport | 7-present | Win the starting spot, Conference Champion, All-American | Motocross | Recreation | 5-present | Have fun but don’t get hurt | I have been involved in activities, more specifically sports, from a young age. My parents never forced me to do anything I didn’t want to do. It was always my decision to participate in the activities that I chose to become involved with. My parents supported everything I have ever been involved with on two conditions: I don’t quit, and I always give one hundred percent. I chose to play the sports I did either because my friends were playing them or simply because I was drawn to them. Also there was influence from my parents more specifically my father. I truly believe that my involvement in sports from such a young age has shaped me into the person that I am today. The first organized activity that I joined was Tae Kwon Do....
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...that one gets to hear about arm wrestling, sumo wrestling, and stances on immigration reforms in one neat presentation. Spare Parts Author, Joshua Davis, came to St. Luke’s today to share some of this philosophies and life experiences with the students. Although arm and sumo wrestling may not seem like beneficial experiences for students to hear about, Davis highlights the importance of stepping out of one's comfort zone to reach a higher understanding of the world around us. “By suddenly putting myself out there, I become a nationally ranked arm wrestler.” Joshua said, which shows how beneficial it is for one to give new things a try. Joshua Davis is a contributing writing to Wired Magazine, and also is co-founder of Epic Magazine. Epic...
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...James Ronca Final Paper Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the world. No one is sure who invented the sport but it was first implemented as a real sport in the first Olympics in the year 776 B.C. The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France; Babylonian and Egyptian relief's show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. More modern day wrestling has weight classes implemented so participants will wrestle people that weigh the same as them, thus starting a trend known in the wrestling world as cutting weight. Weight classes in wrestling were implemented in order to insure the optimal amount of fairness for each wrestler before they step out onto the mat. I believe that weight classes are positive to the sport but also negative. Positive in the fact that you don’t have a kid who weighs 103 wrestling someone who is 185, that just wouldn’t make sense. It makes it so everyone that goes out there are roughly the same weight so size doesn’t play a roll. But, this causes many issues as well. I know from experience the side effects of cutting weight. You feel weak, tired, and hungry; you get cotton mouth, and extremely aggravated over little things, everything pisses you off, it’s just an awful mood to be in. Cutting weight often is misconstrued and everyone believes that you just starve yourself to make weight. In some occasions this is true, but that is the wrong way to do it. There is a right way to cut...
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...Ambassador Kelsey Campbell Wrestling Kelsey Campbell Wrestling Marketing Plan 2.1 Market Plan Summary Kelsey Campbell Wrestling is a brand and model that represents the fully dedicated elite-athlete for USA Wrestling. Goal-oriented and continued focus on national dominance and international success with the overall objective of winning Olympic gold in 2016. The market for Kelsey Campbell Wrestling (athletes, parents, coaches, and sports fans) is a large market that continues to grow as the sport of wrestling continues to grow. Especially recently, with the International Olympic Committee’s initial vote-proposal, recommending that wrestling be removed from the Games following 2016, the support of this international sport has grown in dominant fashion. Not only does Kelsey Campbell wrestling have a market of loyal and personal fans, but of wrestling fans from all around the world. What is relevant is that wrestling fans, especially Americans, love gold. The more successful an athlete, the stronger the following. 2.2 SWOT Analysis Internal Strengths: Already an established “Name.” Kelsey Campbell Wrestling is closely associated with the USA’s National Governing body, with the most established Wrestling Club and with the Olympics. KCW has a fan base as well as already solidified business and exposure opportunities. KCW already has a website, Verified Twitter, and a Fan Page on Facebook. KCW also has a Signature Series Clothing line with Cradle Gear Wrestling. Internal Weaknesses:...
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...My anxiety started when I was in the fourth grade. I would sit in class with my heart beating and my hands sweating for no reason, and I didn’t understand why. I began obsessing over whether my homework was done, my mother was driving safely or what my friends thought about me. In the beginning, it almost made me a better person because procrastination could not happen with all the worries running through my mind. I always did my homework, put my things away and I was never late. However, my worries and anxiousness followed me throughout elementary school and into middle school. My parents brought me to doctors and counselors, but by high school my anxiety was controlling my life. There was no longer a positive side, it always made me doubt...
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...Bigger, Stronger, Faster was such an eye opener for me. I have known a few people that have taken steroids in the past, but never really knew much about them. As I was watching this movie I had so many thoughts running through my head. Why do people feel that they need to be this “jacked?” It is so un healthy and not worth it in the long run. The thing that makes me laugh is that most women do not even think that it is attractive when guys are that big, instead they think it is disgusting. Many people chose to abuse steroids because they are worried about their self-image and performance. In some cases the goal is to increase physical size, strength, speed or stamina, in the mind of an abuse, it is worthwhile no matter what the risks may be. Chris Bell is one of three brothers. They have all used steroids, and two still do. Mike (Mad Dog) Bell has some success in pro wrestling, but was never the star. Although wrestling dropped him, he is still in training and taking steroids. The third Bell brother, Mike (Smelly) promised his wife towards the end of the movie that he will stop taking steroids after he achieves his dream of benching 700 pounds. He attains it, but later tells his brother Chris that he will use steroids again. This video relates to the objective, “What are health and impairment effects that occur when individuals use and/or abuse drugs?” Mad Dog continued to use steroids even when he was out of pro wrestling. Because of this him and his wife were unable to try...
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...Adolescent Nick Mathis BSHS361 January 5, 2012 Marty Mendenhall, Ph.D Adolescent “In youth we learn; in age we understand.” This quote from Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach is obviously derived from the stance of a wise adult past the impetuous years of youth. One might argue that our mental development seems quite backward when relating it to teenage perceptions, if viewed in hindsight as an adult armed with knowledge gleaned from the ever-patient teachings of experience. It seemed like the less I knew as a callow youth, the smarter I thought I was. In contrast, as the years have passed and the more I actually have learned, the more convinced I am of how little I know. Along these same lines of thought, it would seem to many, when dealing with teenagers as an adult, they listen the least when it would benefit them the most; and in turn, talk the most when it benefits them the least. Each generation of teenagers seems to feel its generation is unique, and even superior, in its experiences and perceptions. Especially in this age of incredible technology, on many levels this may be true. However, on a developmental level, wisdom can only be acquired through the rigors of experience and time. This paper will detail an interview I had with one such teenager, a sixteen-year-old male named Dylan. This interview’s focus was to garner some thoughts, perceptions, and feelings about some of his experiences, both past and present, as well as some insight into his future. I will...
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... • Priorities 4 References 5 Figures • Who You Are……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 1 • Brock’s Monumental Return to WWE 2 • UFC 146 Fight Card 3 • Company Logo 4 Seeking the Best Results Mr. Lesnar, you are in quite the interesting stage in your life! Your current 1-year contract with World Wrestling Entertainment is coming to an end in April, & your former employer, the Ultimate Fighting Championships, is in need of a new leader. However, as it stands you aren’t in good standing with your former employer. The easy road would be to re-sign the current contract you are in with World Wresting Entertainment; but you’ve never been one to take the easy road. In addition, according to your own words prior to your UFC title defense, “Brock Lesnar is not a professional wrestler, Brock Lesnar is not a football player, Brock Lesnar is not an entertainer, Brock Lesnar is the UFC World Heavyweight Champion.” You spoke of it with such certainty and conviction! This is the industry you need to re-enter. While although you have mentioned the injuries your body has taken, I suggest you take a different route this time as a UFC Wrestling School Owner. Lining Them Up I’m going to take you on a brief journey Brock, through your career up until know and show you how I’ve come to the above conclusion....
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...since I was a kid, sports has always played an important role in my life. Growing up, wrestling and football was my life; everything I did, everyone I met, and why I am who I am was helped shaped by the sports practiced throughout the years. My knowledge of concussions was very slim growing up until I was in 6th grade. Years before I had never heard of what a concussion is and what kind of tolls it has on a person. In 6th grade, a concussion became aware to me. It was a mild day at practice and we were participating a hitting drill on our other teammates. I remember my dad, who was the coach at .the time, saying “you got to be tough, so lower your head when you hit and don’t be afraid!”. So, me being me, I lowered my head and sure enough I got a concussion. At this point in time, I was so young that I didn’t know what that really was so I didn’t worry about it so much. One year later, I got the horrific news that a kid I used to wrestle with in practice killed himself because he had a concussion. It caused him to be confused about his life that he decided it wasn’t worth living. Again, I was a little young and I didn’t know him that well to realize how serious the concussions really were so I never really thought about them and basically forgot about it after a couple of weeks. But… (long pause), one year later, that’s when it all changed. I remember this day like it was yesterday. One weekend in December, we had a wrestling tournament in Fargo, North Dakota and we were...
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...Vladimir Putin’s talents tend toward the uber-masculine: hang-gliding, horseback riding, judo wrestling and the like. But among Russians, he’s also well-known for a softer skill: his public speaking. The Moscow Times reports that Putin is consistently ranked by Russians as one of the best orators in the country, so much so that businessmen and other politicians, such as Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, attempt to emulate it . People apparently admire his clear sentences, quick wit and ability to deliver speeches without a script. "There is clear sentence structure [and] word emphasis and a skillful use of pauses. It's almost clean speech with a minimal amount of trashy words,” Russian rhetoric coach Dmitry Ustinov told the Moscow Times. A new book, "Speak like Putin? Speak Better than Putin!" aims to explain and impart the Russian leader’s speaking style to government officials and business people. For example, Putin’s speeches tend to refer to commonly-held beliefs, like this one: “At a security conference in Munich, apparently referring to NATO's actions in the Middle East, Putin asked, ‘Why should we start bombing and shooting now at every available opportunity?’ Here, he uses the shared belief that conflicts can and should be solved through peaceful means, through negotiations and within the law,” author Valery Apanasik writes. Putin’s gesticulation is also very interesting and important to be mentioned. For example, on some meetings he used to seat with crossed hands and...
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...economics is a good tool in understanding and eventually helping us decide important aspects of our day to day living. The innovative ideas presented in the various segments tries to alter a lot of perspectives on how we think. At the end of it all, it leaves one with the thought that "conventional wisdom" is not what we thought it was. For example, it was interesting to note how the principle "Rational people think at the margin" was discussed in the movie as a real estate example. Explained in layman's terms, agents tend to advice homeowners to sell their house even at a lower price if the marginal benefit for the agent is low. The documentary demonstrated the pervasiveness of incentives in society. I agree to Levitt and Dubner’s premise that it is commonly accepted that for most people, given the right price or the right incentive, 1. cheating will always be considered by the most affected people as an option 2. there will always be a desire to maximize the incentive 3. certain behaviors could be changed. The first premise was elaborated further on the portions of the documentary that analyzed Chicago public school test data for evidence of teachers cheating on standardized tests and allegations of cheating at sumo wrestling matches in Japan. For teachers in Chicago public schools, the incentive is high: get high scores or face losing funding or even your job. So is the situation in sumo wrestling: I scratch your back and you scratch my back...
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...experiences, I feel like I am able to validate the claims of Kindlon and Thompson. The main argument expressed in the passage is that “boys need an emotional vocabulary. They need to experience empathy at home and school…they need modeling of a rich emotional life.” (7) Without this, they argue that boys are destined to struggle throughout their childhood and adolescence. “They are forced to manage conflict, adversity, and change in his life with a limited emotional repertoire.” (4) I never realized it at the time, but looking back, I can tell that my parents always fostered the growth of my emotional vocabulary. If I had a problem at school, my parents encouraged me to talk to them about it. If I was in an argument with my brother, we were separated and asked to talk over how we felt. Never did my parents try to shy me away from showing and understanding my emotions. As a result, I never had any of the big issues growing up that the authors claim most emotionally illiterate boys might experience. I was never called into the principal’s office for bullying other kids, never gotten into a fist fight, never did I harass girls, and never did I feel overwhelmingly depressed or angry. In retrospect, I can tell that a lot of my fellow friends and classmates did not have the emotional literacy that I...
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