| | Ack... I haven't updated in forever I know. But you're all just loaded with dreadful anticipation now right?
In the interm since my last post I've been quite busy actually. I
visited Kansas City one weekend for DeMolay Super Regionals... met some
awesome guys from around the country, but didn't do anything wild...
not that we've ever done anything wild at Super Regionals...
Then the last week of November I went to Florida for a week. It
was an amazing trip... we spent two days in Clear Water Beach, and four
more days in Orlando... not to mention 60 hours on a bus with my "band
family"... While down there we formed a little band called the
Back Seat Bandits and rebelled against the evil Front Seat Facists by
playing awesome indie music about sharks, and Santa Claus, and
dinosaurs and other fun things. We hit up all the Disney Parks as
well as Islands of Adventure at Orlando Studios. That's all the
detail I feel like going into at the moment... so if you want to know
more get a hold of me elsewhere and ask away.
After I got back from Florida the wrestling season started. I'm
wrestling at 189 lbs for the moment but hope to get down to 171 by the
latter part of the season... wish me luck, haha. So far we've had
two meets. The first was at John Marshal in Rochester.... it was
a very bad night. The thing you have to understand is that all
but 4 of our wrestlers have been wrestling for less than 2 seasons, and
for all but 2 of them this is their first year. All the new guys
are showing a lot of promise... but there's only so much you can do 2
weeks into your career. So anyway... back to John Marshal.
All of our new guys got pinned, and all of our experianced guys made a
stupid mistake somewhere in their match and got pinned... it was the
worst routing that I've ever seen in the sport.
On Tuesday we went to La Cresent for the La Cresent Quad.
It was a four way match between Winona, La Cresent, Lewiston/Altura -
Rushford/Peterson, and my dad's alma mater: Onalaska. My first
match was against a kid from La Cresent. I wrestled what was
about the best match of my life and absolutely dominated him.
Unfortunately the night before I only got 6 hours of sleep and I hadn't
had much to eat for a few days trying to make weight so I got really
tired by the end of the match. The next match was against the
LARP kid. He was only a decent wrestler at best but I was tired
as hell as I just mentioned and he beat me. The same thing
happend when we wrestled Onalaska. So while the night started out
awesome it didn't turn out quiet how I'd hoped. Fortunately
though our new guys did some awesome wrestling. None of them won,
but they showed more progress in the five days (2 practices) between
John Marshal and La Cresent than I've seen other people show in entire
seasons.
So that's what you've missed if you haven't talked to me much... it's
been a fun year so far. Even better yet, I leave for a week in
Texas next Saturday (Christmas Eve) to see my cousin Ashley!!!!
It's gonna be hella fun.
Hopefully it won't be so long before I write again... but who knows... surely not me.
Until then, Happy Holidays all:
~ Joe
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