It's interesting this season I have been given a new title of Assistant coach. The local school has signed me on as a heavyweight coach for wrestling. The coaches of the program found out who I was and read up on me on some wrestling websites. So I've been called "coach" a few times from here and there but now it's cool to be steping onto the mat.
In college I was forced to leave the team due to injury so it's nice to be able to get on and roll around. I've helped with free-style and Greco-Roman wrestling styles over the summer but what is done in high school is what most Americans would consider as wrestling.
I'll only wrestling in pratice a couple times a week and help with some coaching during matches. The main reason I was recuirted is because I was a former champion and know how to wrestle as a big man compared to most of the coaches not being over 150 pounds and most of them wreslted like 125.
I'll be a little heavier to start out with but I do know that I still have the skils, just need to brush up on the rules and re-brake my shoes which have been sitting on the self for a couple of years.
As my former wrestling coach you to say, "Most people pay hunderds upon thousands a month for this type of work out and I'm giving it to you for free." Of course we worked out for 3 hours plus second pratice and weight sessions, praticed 7 days a week (until the school district ended the Sunday night runs) and if it wasn't for coach's wife we would have worked out on christmas too.
I have a different family, much like my TKD family, some ways different and others similar both good and bad on both sides. As was said in another blog on this site, the ones who sweat with you will be the ones to support you when you fall, and it is so true, my teammates were there at the darkest hour of my life so far, when everything gave way, they were there beside me holding me up when I wanted to crumble. In someways this is a homecoming in a way. Hopefully I don't roundhouse kick anyone in match :p
Speaking of Homecoming, I'll be at my almater speaking to students about my journalism career(I think I'll say, "Run away and don't do it" just kidding) tomorrow (Friday, Oct. 3) it's kind of cool to be invited as speaker. Who knows how it will go.
