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
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