Tuesday, January 12, 2010

WRESTLING TIPS


Competitive wrestlers traditionally wrestle at the lowest weight class possible in order to gain a competitive advantage. The pressure to be at a low weight before a match has led to the common practice of cutting a relatively large amount of weight in a short period of time, primarily through dehydration.Many people not involved in combative sports do not understand why someone would subject himself to water and food restriction to cut weight in the first place. I usually explain this with the example of weight classes. What this means is that most combative sport competitions have weight limits for certain classes. Since the object of being in a certain weight class would be to be the strongest and heaviest person in that class, many athletes cut their weight down to a lower class only to add weight after the weigh in. In the athlete’s mind, they are then heavier for the actual fight, and have the potential to be stronger than their opponent.Let's take a look at the typical year for a wrestler. During the off-season, the wrestler is in the gym lifting weights. The workouts are intense. The wrestler eats normally, sustaining muscle, and adding strength to their body. The wrestler might compete occasionally in a tournament or go to a wrestling camp. The wrestler is learning more moves, and skills, along with improved strength. All is good. Things look great for the upcoming season!

JAPAN WOMEN WRESTLERS

Launched in 2005 by Mariko Yoshida, one of Japan’s best female professional wrestlers, IBUKI has since gained a high standing among fans of joshi puroresu or professional female wrestling in Japan and elsewhere.In the 1970's, there were lots of famous puroresu stars in Japan, including Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki. At this time, the unity of the JWA was starting to break up. Both Baba and Inoki started their own wrestling organizations and went into vicious competition with one another. Giant Baba started All Japan Pro-Wrestling and Antonio Inoki started New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The next year, JWA went under. Women have always been active in wrestling in Japan. The All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association was started in 1955, but women's wrestling in Japan really began to pick up speed in 1967, with the establishment of the Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association. In the early days of the AJW, Japanese wrestlers would fight wrestlers from other countries, in order to try to promote the fights. In 1975, Mach Fumiake won the WWWA Championship, and since that time only 2 non-Japanese women wrestlers have won it. 513 athletes and officials--the largest delegation sent overseas for the Olympic Games. The number of women outshines men for the first time as there are many women teams taking parts, such as hockey, basketball, volleyball, and a new women's competition for wrestling. Specifically, there're 171 women and 141 men.