With 5 starters out of the line-up this weekend for the Bedford Pool Tournament, we knew that this tournament was going to be about individual accomplishments and not so much about where we end up as a team. As individuals we wrestled pretty well. 6 of our 9 wrestlers placed, and we had 3 finalist with 2 champions. The bright spot for me was us winning the close matches. As inexperienced wrestlers many times the match is pin or be pinned. This weekend we won several 1 point matches, a couple come from behind matches, and 2 over time matches. Those are the matches you want to win, and the ones that are fun to watch. The more tough matches you win, the greater confidence you have. This sport is a very mental sport. A wrestler with confidence is a hard wrestler to beat. On the other hand a wrestler that doubts himself is easy to beat. As soon as 1 thing doesn't go their way, they have mentally been beat. Then it is only a matter of time until they are beat on the mat as well. A few wrestlers took losses or did not finish where they wanted to finish. The key to improving from this experience is remembering that feeling and bringing it into the room to motivate you improve on your weaknesses. Sometimes wrestlers have too short of a memory. You don't want to focus on that loss and have it bring you down, but you need to remember that feeling and truly not want to feel that way again. That is motivation to bring yourself to a new level. When you hate losing more that you like winning, then huge changes can be made.
We know have 10 days until our next competition. We are going to take these 10 days and focus on improving our technique and improving on our mental toughness. We have made huge improvement from day 1 this season. We are now looking to polish everything up and mentally prepare for the last part of our season.
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