Wrastlin'

It seems that our evenings are now consumed with a new pastime and that is...wrestling. No, not the fake WWE (or whatever it's called) style, but the real, honest to goodness wrestling. Kenny has become the first in our family to try this sport and boy does he love it. United has a youth club team that competes in the Canfield tournaments every Sunday. Not only are our Sundays now filled but so are the practice evenings on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays (not to mention the extra tournaments that they can choose to enter on Saturdays). It is very intense to say the least! I was hesitant about it at first after seeing the insane schedule, but Kenny has tons of energy, and he really enjoys it. Not only is Kenny a newbie, but Otis and I were absolutely clueless about wrestling at the beginning of the season, we've been learning right along with him. At first, he struggled in the matches and didn't understand that aggressiveness was the main component in wrestling. He lost 8 of his first 9 matches. Since then though, Ken looks like a completely different kid, something clicked and he has now won his last 6 matches in a row!! Three of them ending in pins! We are very proud of our little guy, the first year of wrestling has a HUGE learning curve and he tends to wrestle kids that already have experience because of his size. Lately he has gained tons of confidence and says his goal is to wrestle at Ohio State-not a bad goal haha! Friday night the team gets to go watch a Mount Union wrestling meet, and he cracked me up when he told me that he's not sure but he thinks they get to wrestle the Mount Union college guys. Haha, I had to tell him that I think they are just watching. Too funny! Above is a picture taken 2 weeks ago of him after he won both matches and got his first two pins, as you can see they are awarded actual pins by their coaches which they can display on their hats. I'm also including links to the videos of his last four matches if anyone would like to check them out. (Below)

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