Is it a good idea to join girls' wresting? ?

At my school there's tons of different sports but my favorite is girls' wresting, but my mom thinks im gonna get seriously hurt because im small. but im strong and can beat up a 7th grader!!|||Wrestling is a great sport, but don't approach it from the side of martial arts or being able to legally fight with another person. Wrestling is the fastest growing sport today and is very underrepresented by females. I am going to guess that you aren't yet in 7th grade from your last statement. If your mom has a concern about you getting hurt, ask her to talk to the wrestling coach. This is going to help much more than you trying to convince your mom that you won't. One of the first things that are taught are how to protect yourself as it doesn't help the coaches if they have put alot of training time into you and you can't wrestle because you are injured.





Don't try to learn martial arts and use that knowledge in wrestling as it will not transfer very well. The only are of martial arts that will begin to transfer is Judo, and for this to happen, you already have to b proficient. An excellent site that will give you a preview of male and female wrestling is:





www.flowrestling.com





Understand that wrestling is not just about strength, it is a combination of:





-- strength


-- speed


-- balance


-- finesse


-- technique


-- "quick thinking"





In this sport you are in complete control of how far you can go as you will only get as good as you want to. The more work you put in, the better you will get.





My daughter has been a wrestler for four years now and has wrestled at the Women's Junior Nationals in Fargo, ND. For female's it is much easier to get recognized and if you eventually decide that you would like to do this at the collegiate level, there is scholarship money available.





Good luck!!|||if you dedicate yourself to wrestling it can become one of best choices you have made in middle or high school. if you do dedicate, it can become the easiest sport to be in school, it is also the easiest sport to advance in to the next level, like getting scholarship to college for wrestling and so forth, this is all if you dedicate yourself into it.


Its good for many reasons, for one its a combat sport!, where you can leagally fight ( not punch or kick) but fight a person, now how many times have you ever wanted to be in a real fight? No matter what anyone tells you, you can survive the wrestling practices as it only makes you better, and the practices are more entertaining then other sports' practices, more better and fun.





Anyways, what you can tell you mom about yourself getting hurt, you dont need to worry much! , because you'll be wrestling people the same weight as you or weightclass which means less chance of getting hurt if you know what your doing. Even if somehow you do get hurt in some way, at least you will have pride for your injury.





For now , what you can do is talk to the wrestling coaches, get yourself signed up, and watch school wrestling videos on youtube and such to get you started on the rules and things. The best advice i can give to you is watch martial art videos on youtube on how to counter certain grapples. Because martials art teaches you how to reverse everyday normal moves and grapples, and wrestling is considered normal and basic in terms of fighting. Reversing in wrestling is probably more important then 'attacking' the opponent in most cases for a few reasons, one basically is because after a nice reverse, you can do a nice attack to your opponent at same time.





Well i hope you do join wrestling as it is a very good choice to make in school. Im joining my school wrestling team this year, and i wish you luck! See you in regionals!