Saturday

Yet another tournament I went to this weekend.  I was able to participate in this one as well.  The tournament took place at El Camino high school, and its called the Colt Invitational.  This tournament is usually a short one, and the finals, are not under a spot light, its just put the medals on your clipboard, go to the mat, and wrestler for the better medal.  I got roughly 2 hours of coaching done, helping my teammates on the mat, and off,  giving them advice that I thought they should have done in the match, and what they should do to improve. One of the wrestlers was Rubeen Salem, he was wrestling against, a really good wrestler, that I myself have wrestled before, so I knew he was in for a tough match.  Unfortunately when I got to the mat to try an help him out, he was already wrestling, and I didn't have time to warn him of his opponents skill level.  Nonetheless I was shouting out what he should do during the match.  I don't know if he was able to hear me, but I was yelling out to him regardless to try and keep him from getting pinned, and lasting all 3 rounds against his opponent.  To my surprise actually he DID last all three rounds, and finished a full match without getting pinned by the other wrestler, which actually took me by complete surprise.  After his match I had to wrestle, so after my match I went up to him, and told him how seriously proud I was of him to stand a good chance against the person he wrestled.  I gave him some advice (like seriously get lower with your stance!) that I hope he will work on, to be able to beat his next tough opponent.  This tournament we only had one coach so I had opportunities to coach my teammates all day.