January is a heavy wrestling month. High school wrestling is in full swing and club wrestling starts for the little boys. For most of January all I did was watch wrestling and grade papers. Or at least it felt that way.
Philip's season started off pretty good. He's an average wrestler for his age. He kept getting matched up with a kid from Public who throws a lot of headlocks though. It's the kid's current go to move. Unfortunately Philip isn't good at avoiding the headlock and once you're in it, it's pretty hard to get out so he had some rough tournaments. But at the tournament in thes pictures he came in second to the headlock kid!
Nick's season started off good too. He's an average wrestler for his age too, although I think he knows more moves than some kids his age, just because he's watched so.much.wrestling in his life. At this meet he earned the distinction of getting the fastest Vrana pin ever (that we remember at least). He pinned a kid in five seconds. He's pretty proud to be the youngest brother and hold that unofficial record. He came in first at the meet in these photos I believe.
Samuel has been having a stellar Senior season. He brought home first from most of his meets. It was fun to watch him be so successful in something he enjoys so much.
Thomas has had a great season too. He started off about at his normal 50-50 record but they added a third coach in January who really helped Thomas hone in on some places to improve and he steady got better. Somewhere in January he brought home a fifth place, then a fourth, then a first! It's been really fun to watch him improve and start having more and more success after so many years of hard work.
The new coach, Coach Thompson, noticed something he wanted Thomas to work on before his next match so he had Thomas and Samuel work on it in the hall. He's braver than I am. I don't let Samuel and Thomas wrestle at home!
There's still lots of wrestling left...it's only January.
