Posted by Coach B on 3/20/2003, 5:40 pm, in reply to "Weight Cutting / Weigh-ins - Youth Wrestling" As you may know my own son has very little fat and is in great physical shape...I would not push him to another weight EXCEPT that if he was within a pound or two (weighing around 70) of a weight class at a major event. He has wrestled successfully against opponents as high as 87 pounds. So we are at the OTHER end of the spectrum. Wrestling in four-person round robin blocks has given him chances to wrestle a variety of wrestlers, we have done that twice now this year. He has also been "bumped" up over and over in a weigh-in situation. I like the idea of weight ranges especially if you iniatiate a % factor. Obviously 9% for a 70 pounder and a 140 pounder is more equal than a base number of pounds like you see on some tournament rules (ex: weight within 15 pounds) and yes I have seen that number or higher used. I would rather see a wrestler work hard at 119 weighing 116 than a sick, pale starving kid making 112 week in and week out!
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How rampant? More than I am comfortable with. I believe that kids need normal rates of nutrition and other than kids with excess body FAT they should maintain a standard of weight that does not include fasting or sweating to lose weight. More emphasis should be on health issues and body "size".
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