How To Be A Wrestler
   

 

 

 

 

How To Be A Wrestler

 

There are many different forms of wrestling, and many of them go back to ancient times.  All forms of wrestling has rules, and strict guidelines you must follow to become competitive in that form.  Depending on where you live in the world will determine what sort of wrestling you will practice in.  The form of wrestling that has been adopted by the United States is a combination of Greco-Roman Wrestling, and Freestyle wrestling.  The object of wrestling is to inevitably pin your opponent to the mat for certain time.  You get scored on various other moves while trying to pin your opponents.  Many people that wrestle started when they were young and have practiced it for a very long time.  

Wrestling of this type has a scoring system that it goes by to help determine who is wrestling.  There are many different ways that wrestlers can score points.  There are different ways that opponents can score points, you can score them by take downs, reversals, and exposures.  Take downs are when someone puts their opponent on the mat in a position where they can get pinned.  Reversals are if someone is in that position and they reverse it on their opponent, and finally a exposure is when a person puts his opponent on the ground with his back on the mat.  They are calculated on how someone takes down their opponent, the points are calculated as follows.

  • A wrestler is given 5 points if they take down their opponent and his feet go over his head.

  • You receive 3 points when you take down your opponent and his feet do not go over his head.

  • 1 point is awarded when you put your opponent on the mat with either his stomach or shoulder are touching the mat. 

The points above are considered take down points, there are other points that you can receive and we will go over them now.  

  • You can receive 1 point when you do a reversal on someone.  That is when you are either on the ground, or you are in a defensive posture and you maneuver yourself to get your opponent into the defensive spot.

  • Exposure is a manuver that awards you either 2 or 3 points.  An exposure is when any part of your opponents shoulders, elbows, or back are exposed to the mat for any period of time.  This exposure is worth 2 points, but if you hold you opponent there for five seconds you are awarded an additional point.

  • You can receive either 1 or 2 points for penalties, these are when there is a stoppage in wrestling because of an injury.  The opponent of the person that is injured receives a point unless the injured person is bleeding.  Other penalty points are awarded for illegal holds, malicious intent, or if someone is trying to injure another player.  The person that gets the points also gets to choose what hold they will start off in when wrestling is continued.

  • 1 point is also awarded when someone steps on the protection line.  Once that happens the match is stopped and wrestlers are reset.

Practicing is the key to become a great wrestler, and the more you practice the better you will become.


   
 




Add Your Comments about How To Be A Wrestler:
Name: john presley III Date: Tuesday, Mar 02 2010

I WANT TO BE A WRESTLER SO I CAN BE CHAMPION

Name: kyle Date: Wednesday, Feb 03 2010

this is all wrong... the wrestling style that most americans participate in is called folkstyle, the points are scored as follows:
2 points for a take down which is where you take someone to the mat in a position where the pressure is on their hands and the opponent is behind the elbows of the other wrestler.
2 points for a reversal which is basically just switching positions from bottom to top.
1 point for an escape which is where a wrestler that has been taken down gets back on their feet and is facing the other wrestler in the neutral position.
2 points are awarded for a 3 second near fall which is where a person is on their back past the 45 degree angle, but their shoulder blades are not on the mat.
3 points are awarded for a 5 second near fall(same principles apply).