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Originally Posted by KcAllDayCHIEFS
First couple of freestyle and greco practices. It's been fun. My older son has been takin care of business. I've been really working with my lil boy. He's been catching on quick. He loves the gator roles. He suplexed a kid today for the first time. He stopped half way though and tossed the kid to the side. He told me he got scared he was going to land on his neck. He wrestles at 50#. My oldest is going up to 132#.
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I was stand-offish about hitting suplexes for the same reason...I was always worried that I was going to hurt my neck. I would hit them with ease on those big gymnastics cushions, but was hesitant to do it on the mat.
Embarrassingly enough, I was suplexed in the finals at this tournament in Iowa called the Mick Pickford Tri State tourney (Iowa, Illinois and Missouri)...that tourney used to be a qualifier for Fargo. My Senior season, I was on a roll in that tourney. There were probably 50 people in my bracket. Picked up at least 6-7 wins to make the finals...2 of them were against guys that I was a huge underdog against... 1 of them tied the career wins record that year, won state and went on to win 1-2 D3 titles...up 7-1 when I pinned him. The other one was a future Hawkeye who won 3 state titles...he beat me in the semis at state very handily. So I wrestle this guy who was a Greco stud, but was only a 1 time state qualifier who never placed...the guy was wrestling out of his mind that weekend like I was. Freaking dude got behind me and suplexed me for a touch fall in like 30 seconds...it really harshed the "high" I was on...so embarrassing. I couldn't believe how smooth it was, though...didn't hurt my neck at all.