Coaches need to worry about the health of their wrestlers instead of trying to win! When a kid can’t win at the weight he should be competing in and you drop him a weight class so he can be in the top 10 is absolutely negligent behavior on the coach and parent! Real champions don’t avoid weight classes and look for the easy way to place! Starving a child to cut weight so they can make weight is teaching your child nothing but their to scared! Real champions look for the toughest path so they can say they beat the best, they don’t avoid certain wrestlers! 

37 minutes ago, Mercury said:

Coaches need to worry about the health of their wrestlers instead of trying to win! When a kid can’t win at the weight he should be competing in and you drop him a weight class so he can be in the top 10 is absolutely negligent behavior on the coach and parent! Real champions don’t avoid weight classes and look for the easy way to place! Starving a child to cut weight so they can make weight is teaching your child nothing but their to scared! Real champions look for the toughest path so they can say they beat the best, they don’t avoid certain wrestlers! 

Why?????? Moving pieces around helps the team. No one can force someone to drop buddy. It's a decision of the family/kids and coaches. Chill out karen

People have always cut weight. Pretty normal thing in wrestling. 

6 hours ago, Mercury said:

Coaches need to worry about the health of their wrestlers instead of trying to win! When a kid can’t win at the weight he should be competing in and you drop him a weight class so he can be in the top 10 is absolutely negligent behavior on the coach and parent! Real champions don’t avoid weight classes and look for the easy way to place! Starving a child to cut weight so they can make weight is teaching your child nothing but their to scared! Real champions look for the toughest path so they can say they beat the best, they don’t avoid certain wrestlers! 

Sounds like your kid can’t beat the kids who’s cutting

I have always believed that cutting weight gives the kid some skin in the game.  If a kid is cutting weight then when he goes out there he will no just give up because he worked so hard to make the weight. 

Also in todays wrestling we have a skin fold test that tells a kid his lowest allowable/safe weight class to compete.  As stated it is ultimately the decision of the wrestler and parent. 

Weird post for a wrestling page. A kid is cutting weight to get away from a kid who cut weight and will now have to wrestle other kids that cut weight. lol
 

To be competitive most kids have to cut some weight. Every year you see kids that should have cut some weight and kid that cut too much weight. Fine line. 

Because you're...

This guy is still mad... If weight assessments say they can drop, they still wrestle good after dropping, so be it. 

So how about moving up to avoid a certain kid? Are you scared and not a true champion? There's still tons of variables and you still have to wrestle the matches. moving weights is a calculated decision that is different for every kid, there's no one right way to do it and no guarantees 

Well there goes the plot line of Vision Quest! So sad, I really liked that movie.

2 minutes ago, HJ7 said:

Well there goes the plot line of Vision Quest! So sad, I really liked that movie.

SHUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEE

Louden Swain cut weight to wrestle the best not to duck Shute.

On 2/5/2022 at 12:48 PM, Mercury said:

Coaches need to worry about the health of their wrestlers instead of trying to win! When a kid can’t win at the weight he should be competing in and you drop him a weight class so he can be in the top 10 is absolutely negligent behavior on the coach and parent! Real champions don’t avoid weight classes and look for the easy way to place! Starving a child to cut weight so they can make weight is teaching your child nothing but their to scared! Real champions look for the toughest path so they can say they beat the best, they don’t avoid certain wrestlers! 

That is why they do the fat test at the beginning of the year to tell kids how much they are aloud to lose 

19 minutes ago, Keepyourheadup said:

That is why they do the fat test at the beginning of the year to tell kids how much they are aloud to lose 

Say it for the people in the back to hear.