Wrestling is one of the most physically and mentally demanding sports in the world. Though I have not wrestled that long, I have quickly learned how much sacrifice must be made to have success.
             Practice is held everyday except for Sunday for three and half-hours. During these three hours we begin with running, then warm up, and then drill moves over and over again. Like the old saying goes, "Repetition is the Mother of learning." If you don't give 110% during every practice you will falter in a match. What you put in to it is what you get out.
             Now what I love about this sport, is the fact that if you win it's all on account of you and how you alone performed. The same goes if you lose. You cannot know the heartache that is felt, when after you have trained for weeks, you step onto the mat and get pinned in the first period. For me there was no pain greater. Since last year was my first year ever wrestling, I was greatly inexperienced. Over the course of the season I lost count of the times I was pinned. No matter how many times I lose, my heart is too strong to give up. Besides, every time I lost, was only going to make it even better once I am victorious.
             To be a wrestler, you have to eat, sleep, breath, bleed, and sweat wrestling. The can be no in between. Never have I ever been so proud and so honored to be welcomed in to such an elite group of men.
             Sure, I have wanted to give up plenty of times. But the feeling of having your hand raised in the air, knowing that you have defeated someone who has trained just as hard as you, is among the greatest honors in the world.
             I have a certain method that I follow the night before a match. I go over three moves that will make me the aggressor and write them down. For each move, I write down three possible counter moves, should the be able to counter my move. Afterwards, I go over it again and again u
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