We are suddenly a multi-sport family.

[Crissy]

My older son decided to branch out from his usual sport (baseball). His first wrestling match was last night and golly was I a nervous mom!
Do any of your children wrestle? Are these nerves unique to the sport? I've never felt this way over a baseball game (not even the city championship!)
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/eafalbum/jwtsmcopy.gif
(Jeffrey is in blue and red.)

[Jennifer in MI]

My older son decided to branch out from his usual sport (baseball). His first wrestling match was last night and golly was I a nervous mom!
Do any of your children wrestle? Are these nerves unique to the sport? I've never felt this way over a baseball game (not even the city championship!)
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/eafalbum/jwtsmcopy.gif
(Jeffrey is in blue and red.)

He looks good!! I don't know about nerves and wrestling, but I sure am a bundle of nerves when my boys pitch!!! My now-10 year old pitched last year in the championship game. I almost wish I hadn't been there!!! I suppose it will only get worse, as he was just asked to join the travelling tournament team (they already started practicing!!). Tell me it gets easier on the moms in the stands?!

[DIY-DY]

My older son decided to branch out from his usual sport (baseball). His first wrestling match was last night and golly was I a nervous mom!
Do any of your children wrestle? Are these nerves unique to the sport? I've never felt this way over a baseball game (not even the city championship!)
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/eafalbum/jwtsmcopy.gif
(Jeffrey is in blue and red.)

Crissy, when did he go from being that wee sprout of a fresh-faced little fellow to being that young man on the mat? WOW. I don't think I've quite realized just how much he's grown over the last, um, five years...

We haven't done wrestling. As a matter of fact, this will be the first year we have three in a sport (thankfully, it's all baseball - one season, yay!) But I do remember being a mat maid, and even though those were our peers and not our children out there, I do remember it being very heart-stopping and exciting. I think, as the season progresses, you'll become more familiar with it (and it won't seem as violent after a while as it does at first! LOL! It's a relatively safe sport, particularly if he has a good coach.)

How did he like the match? And what made him decide to try wrestling?!

[Crissy]

My now-10 year old pitched last year in the championship game. I almost wish I hadn't been there!!!

Oh, yes! Now I remember! I did feel the same way when he was pitching.

Tell me it gets easier on the moms in the stands?!

I don't know if it does.:o I can tell you that I've talked to a number of wives of professional athletes and coaches who cannot watch their husbands play. I guess it's a woman thing.

[Sharon in SC]

If my nerves while my 10yo dnephews are on the mat are any indication, I think there is a unique element to the sport of wrestling! I literally feel that I can't stand it (the suspense) at times and they're not even my own offspring. I don't know if it is because it is so, I don't know, one on one maybe (versus the team thing)? In any case, I know exactly what you're talking about when it comes to watching a wrestling match with someone you care about!

[Crissy]

Crissy, when did he go from being that wee sprout of a fresh-faced little fellow to being that young man on the mat? WOW. I don't think I've quite realized just how much he's grown over the last, um, five years...


I don't know when it happened, Dy. I do know that one morning he got up and instead of hugging me around the waist his arms went right around my shoulders. Wahhh! My baby is just two inches shorter than me. And I'm not petite!


How did he like the match? And what made him decide to try wrestling?!

He loved it. He was pinned late in the second round, but after his initial disappointment he realized how much he has already improved.
His science teacher is the jr. high wrestling coach, and Jeffrey has a great respect for him. I think this influenced his decision more than anything else.

[Crissy]

one on one maybe (versus the team thing)?

I think that must be it. Jennifer reminded me that I felt the very same way when he was pitching.

[Diana in OR]

My 14yos wrestled for the first time this year. He weighed in at 224 most of the season, which meant he had to wrestle in the 216-285 weight class! He had to wrestle against varsity guys, b/c often there weren't any freshman his size.

I got nervous, too, esp. when he was wrestling those *big* guys. He got pinned almost every time, but he is in excellent shape now.

[Tracey in TX]

Really, it NEVER gets better. I still get queazy watching my kiddos in their respective sports. I've watched DS get cleated in the head and get a concussion, and DD break arm doing back handspring off balance beam. Win or lose; new sport or old...it's nerve wracking!!

Good luck to DS and his new sport.

[Crissy]

My 14yos wrestled for the first time this year. He weighed in at 224 most of the season,

Gosh, Diana. Those are BIG boys! Jeffrey wrestles at 120. He's 5'8" and skinny as can be.

[Crissy]

I've watched DS get cleated in the head and get a concussion, and DD break arm doing back handspring off balance beam. Win or lose; new sport or old...it's nerve wracking!!



That's awful, Tracey!
I suppose the chosen sport isn't the issue. They'll all do a mother in, huh? :(

[WTMindy]

He looks so much older even since the Christmas pictures!! Those are fine looking muscles for a future son-in-law!;)