Wrestling :O

Recently became the team manager (co-manager) for my school's wrestling team and I obviously knew that wrestling involved a lot of grabbing, and pinning, and uhm throwing?? But..

 Oh My Days.

We have a pretty wide range of weight classes on the team, like 250-140lbs/113-63kg, and watching the bulkier members fight one another seems a lot more controlled for some reason (even though one dude was almost exposed to the entire gym mid practice). Like, it's slower and there's less throwing and sprawling and there's more of a strategy to it?? But the leaner members they like go at it. It's just silence from the mat except for grunting and like the slap of their bodies against the mat and maybe some sounds if they're like smacking one another while trying to grab onto each other with like 10+ members spectating on the side. 

I don't know why I decided to become the manager.. that's a lie. I know exactly why. But, like actually watching someone who is maybe your exact age or even a year older or younger absolutely body someone on the mat and then get up and have both of them behave so amicably is like jarring. The most contact I see between people like that is when they're actually genuinely fighting in the hallway and then they need to be separated for like the remainder of the school year because there's actual beef between them. But some of the kids have been folded into pretzels, pinned, thrown, almost tackled, and they still get up, dust themselves off, and some of them even hug afterwards. Like.. waow!! It's equally as heartwarming and shocking like every time.  

Uhm, all this to say, lol, that sportsmanship is a beautiful thing and I will never wrestle.<3

edit: also i know like next to nothing about wrestling but honestly it seems so cool right now (until i have to clean their gear </33)