Youth Wrestling: A Foundation For all Sports - Naperville, Aurora, St. Charles Wrestling

Wrestling as a physical activity has a unique advantage to offer children. It is an activity that requires no unnatural implements. There is no ball too big, no bat too heavy, no basket too high. Every child can push, pull, stretch, and hold another body of like age, size and weight. A minimum of equipment is required and total participation can be easily arranged.

When a person is young, his body weight is light, his level of flexibility is at its maximum and his level of strength is not developed to the point where on e child typically has advantage over another. Therefore, competitive activities can be arranged on as close to an equal basis as possible. Age, weight, height and ability grouping are all that are needed before a child begins to learn how to wrestle. The obvious size advantage that occurs in other sports simply does not occur in wrestling.

The basis for all movement activity begins witht he ability to control one's body. The relationship among balance, movement and body position is crucial to body control. Teh act of wrestling is a series of body movements and adjustments that demand and dictate bio-mechanically correct positions in order to perform the activity. If your movement pattern puts up in a bad anatomical position, strength and the ability to move are lost. You cannot wrestle.

The body control and balance of movement, which a child learns naturally when wrestling, has extraordinary carry-over value to the exevutionof other spports activities. Just a few of these are:

•   The gymnastic nature of wrestling movemtns lends to the development of space awareness
• Wrestling on the mat is a series of isometric and isotonic movements and positions. Strength and flexibility are natural byproducts of the activity.
• The pushing, pulling, lifting, turning and holding that occur in wrestling demand an understanding of food balance and position without the threat of serious injury.
• The one-on-one nature of the sport offers opportunity for the development of personal confidence and self-relaince.
• The open and easily observed competition readily displays emotional, psychological and character flaws.
• The opportunity for displaying individual and team good sportsmanship is created but the manner win which the activity takes place. 

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