Wrestling

Derrick decided to have Justin try wrestling this year. He started going to the practice in November and had his first tornament in Spanish Fork on Dec 12th. He wasn't to thrilled about the whole wrestling thing, but he was super excited because his best friend Titus was coming to watch him wrestle and then we were going to spend the day at there house while be were down that direction.

It didn't take him long to figure out that if he got pinned it was all over. LOL. He did fight alittle, but not with as much determination and we were kind of hoping for.

It's a good thing they gave all the young kids participation medals, because in his mind that made the whole thing worth it.
His next tournament was at Brighton High School. It started out being quite an ordeal because they didn't get the email the coach had sent days before letting them know who was coming. So they didn't know any of the people from Tooele would be there. We spent most of the morning waiting for them to arrange brackets for our kids to wrestle in. Justin spent his time sleeping so when it was finally time for him to wrestle (3 hours later) he was ownry, to make matters worse the first kid he had to wrestle was bigger then him and way more experienced. Plus he hurt his finger during the match. I felt so bad standing on the side lines watching him cry and not being able to do anything for him. I was so proud at how hard he kept trying through it all. He didn't just roll over and let himself get pinned, he kept trying.

On his 2nd match he started to cry before he even got on the mat because he was affraid he was going to get hurt again. After a little pep talk I finally talked him into giving it another try, which he did and he wrestled his heart out. He did so good, but still ended up getting pinned. But he TRIED and thats all we wanted.


His 3rd match for of the day was another kid from Tooele and once again was pinned. But once again he kept trying. The participation medal once again got him excited to try again.

He wrestled last Saturday up in Heber, which he was excited about because Grandma & Grandpa H. would be there to watch him and we would be spending the weekend at their house.

And once again even though he lost all 3 matches the medal made it worth it.

Unfortunatly, I forgot my camera at this one and I forgot to get the pictures from grandma before we left. So those will have to come later.

He is suppose to have 2 more tournaments and then the big brawl, but we decided we put him through enough for one season and would throw in the towel a little early. Expecially since we've kind of got alot going on anyways. We need our saturdays.

Logan is pretty excited that he gets to start in the fall so hopefully we can get Justin a little more motivated by then. Logan was his brothers #1 fan. He would yell from the stands "try to stand up Justin", "get off your back", "good job justin" or even "do some push-ups while you're waiting" (I think he saw another kid doing them). What a good little coach. He was also the first one there to give him a high five and tell him good job when he came back to sit down.

I hope Justin see's how much his little brother loves and admires him. I hope he always understands the importance of being a good influence on him.