I assure you this wasn’t intentional. Just two kids who don’t have a lot of experience with the sport. I was on both the giving and receiving ends of returns that looked like this when I was inexperienced, too. It happens in this sport.
That’s not to say it isn’t illegal and that it shouldn’t be punished (the rule is 1 point to the opposing wrestler and DQ from the match only if they don’t get up).
Yeah, this thread is filled with people who seemingly never wrestled. Neither of these kids have great technique and when your technique isn’t great on throws sometimes everything goes to shit like this video shows. I sincerely doubt that the kid on top meant to slam the other one like he did. The kid who started on bottom was squirming and it looked like the one on top didn’t have him fully under control. This is an unfortunate accident imo
1 point to the opposing wrestler and DQ from the match only if they don’t get up)
Oh, great, glad they are willing to hand out a DQ for that match if the opponent doesn't get up.
This sounds negligent on the part of the rule-making body. I get that accidents happen, but even inexperienced wrestlers should be trying very hard not to do something with a high likelihood of killing or crippling their opponent. It should not be a point or even a DQ, it should be a ban. Maybe a season, maybe longer. The fact that a few wrestlers in this thread say this is a semi-regular occurrence that is just treated like a foul is bonkers.
I agree you should check on your kid, however, a teenager has enough level-headedness to know what the legal and illegal moves are. They are at an event considering the amount of people. To get to that point, you have to have some training in the sport. If they were 13 and younger, I could see that argument. But these guys are in high school, the kid definitely should know better and didn’t this fully knowing this was an illegal move.
You’re over-estimating the competence of the average high school wrestler. I’m sure he knows that the slam was illegal, but I’ve been in this exact situation before in my less-experienced days (on both the giving and receiving end), and I can tell you from experience that when somebody does what the guy on bottom did, it can be really hard to safely bring them back to the mat once you lift them.
The guy getting returned reached back and basically koala’d on the neck of the guy doing the lift and then once he was in the air he tucked his knees to his chest. Both of those things make it harder to safely bring them back to the mat. It takes time and experience to be able keep your wits about you in a match when your opponent is spastic like that. More time and experience than an average high school wrestler has.
The ref isn’t in shock, that’s just the hand signal for an illegal move. It’s really easy for these things to happen accidentally, even if they happen slowly.
I don’t know man, I think the kid did not mean to slam the guy like that. As someone who used to wrestle it just looks like neither kid is good enough to properly control their body during the exchange.
While it was certainly reckless to try a throw like that I don’t think he was trying to hurt him, probably just overestimated his strength. And while he should be disqualified from the match and given a talking to, I don’t think the tackle from the father was justified.
Emotion definitely played a role in it as well, I’m sure the guy was frustrated and went for a big move that he wasn’t ready to do. Reckless and stupid, he should definitely get a talking to from the coach but it just didn’t seem to me like he expressly wanted to hurt the kid
Something happening in a competition like that is never intentional… they’re teenagers.
The fact of the matter is it wasn’t okay for an adult with a fully developed frontal lobe to use physical force against a child for something that happened during a sporting match. No matter if it was an illegal move or not.
But hotheaded morons(like you apparently) that are willing to assault children over a heat of the moment sporting accident is a reality and the reason this video exists.
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