With that said I see nothing wrong with competitors doing extra things outside of their practice room/field/court etc. to better themselves.
I see nothing wrong with that either. When I was growing up my passions were for baseball and that other winter sport and you would have found me along with friends playing those at all hours of the day and all times of the year. The difference in my mind is, the times we played (practiced) was totally up to us and based on our love of the game. It was not decided by a parent or coach who decided we needed more practice in order to improve our game.
For a lot of competitors the fun still exist.
I hope that is true, but for whatever reason we are seeing less competitors and IMO it has to do with the sport not being as much fun as it once was.
Even winning brings smiles to the wrestler’s face, correct?
In many cases it does but we also see many very successful wrestlers give up the sport before they get to high school. So I have to conclude that in many instances, winning isn't everything.
I know of no studs that would be upset with someone entering the tournament they are attending so they can wrestle!
Well if it was the "studs" doing the actual entering of the tournament in question, I would say that might be true. I think in many cases kids like what they know pleases the old man or the mother and that's fine too but again the "stud" is not the one making the decisions.
As far as the corrections being made that morning. Any avoidable work the tournament director has to do that morning has the possibility of delaying the start. Look around, it is far too common as it is.?
Corrections are always going to cause delays and sadly the use of Trackwrestling in it's current form only increases that. Look at where we are at, some people are now asking for an honor system on weight but we recently had to implement a manditory birth certificate rule due to us not being able to trust coaches and parents? We will get the Trackwrestling problems worked out but it won't be soon and till then we should not be holding up tournaments. The delays as you say are far too common and we will lose far too many parents and wrestlers due to them if we don't stop.
Do you believe in National Tournaments and the level of competition provided?
Do you attend practice to get better?
Do you think kids can do what it takes to improve while having fun?
1. Yes, for those wrestlers of national caliber.
2. No, but then I'm not a wrestler. I want my wrestler to attend practice as I said first and foremost because it's fun.
3. I hope so, but then again, that is for the kids to decide and not me.
