First Wrestling Tournament

So my sweet little Bubba had his very first wrestling tournament today. I fully admit that I was a nervous wreck. I went in with zero expectations. Well, that's not true. I didn't go in with any positive expectations, let's put it that way. I fully expected him to either refuse to participate, or cry the whole time.

I'm extatically proud to say that he did NEITHER of those things!

The meet itself was run poorly and for some reason the little guys didn't get to wrestle for HOURS. So before he had a chance to show his stuff, Grandma had to take his brother and sister home for lunch and a nap. Daddy, sick with the flu, managed to make it through Jake's first bout before he had to head home to bed.

So, about that first bout...I'm going to chalk it up to the fact that Jake had absolutely no clue what the heck was going on. The ref set him up to wrestle another little guy and blew a whistle. Jake just looked at him like, "why did you just blow that whistle in my ear?" While the other little boy took Jake to the ground and pinned him in three seconds flat. At the last second Jake realized he needed to get off his back and made an attempt to roll over, but it was already too late. Game over.

Big smiles and no tears. "I was tryin' to move!" He told me as I was hugging him afterwards. Not upset about it, he was just explaining the facts to me.

We sat around for HOURS AND HOURS waiting for his second match. At one point he even told me that he wanted to go wrestle again (that is a huge victory in my book because he really wanted to quit a couple weeks ago).

So his second match was against a tiny little girl. Jake was more prepared this time and really gave it a valiant effort. He managed a couple of take downs and was actually winning by earning points for moves. He even pinned her at one point but the ref missed it I guess. I'm not bitter. Stupid ref. ANYWAY, as the bout wore on, Jake ended up on his back, pinned by a girl.

But he came off the mat smiling and that's all that matters to his proud mama.

I don't have many pictures because I kept getting distracted. But a friend took some and hopefully I can post those soon. But here's a couple...

This is Jakey just waiting and waiting and waiting for his turn to wrestle.


This is the pep talk from Daddy right before his very first bout.


And this is the shaking of the hands right before the first bout. I was distracted at this point and took no more pictures!