Egg:
I have a question or two. First, do the new rules apply only to the pilot participants? I am assuming that schools that do not choose to take part in this procedure would be able to operate as they did last year. Is this true? I saw a lot of huge 103 and 112 pounders last year, I am thinking that those kids would have been out of compliance under the new rules. Perhaps that is as it should be, but it still seems to me that weight training and the discipline that applies to it should be an issue of personal decision. I am kinda a dinosaur in that regard, I have always felt that rules and laws specifically designed to protect people from themselves are a waste of time, but I suppose if you can get averyone to do it, maybe it will work-- just like prohibition and the 44% Kansas adult compliant seat belt laws. Several years back the Federal Highway Administration ADVISED that states should convert to the metric system. Kansas Highway geniuses, ever being on the cutting edge, adopted the concept immediatly, all contracts and measurements for construction became metric, at the cost of several million dollars to convert all the systems. Well, the next year the Feds decided that it relly was probably a bad decision, and about 5 states were metric, and the rest , the ones that had wisely opted to see if the new rules would be practical or workable, kept doing their work in standard english measurements. After a decade in denial, KDOT finally changed their system back to English,(one can only think at the same cost as before) and now they are able to compare projects with other states on a unit to unit basis. Maybe, instead of being the brave new pioneers of wrestling, KSHAA should see how the system works for other states. By the way, you can get a Tanita digital scale on Ebay from the Eastwest head shop for only 125 bucks, but it looks like you'd have to be realy little bitty tiny for it to weigh yourself on.