First Tournament

(So I thought I had posted this about 3 weeks ago - oops!)

On Saturday Tyler had his first wrestling tournament. Justin and I were both unsure if he would really be ready for it, but all his coaches encouraged us to go and he wanted to go so we decided to go for it. We couldn't be more proud of how well he did! He was actually placed in the 4 and under age group because he doesn't quite weigh enough for the 6 and under age groups smallest weight class. His first match he did very well, and took the kid down right away. We were worried he would be nervous and just stand there, but he didn't at all. He won his first two matches and then lost his last one. The kid that beat him on the last match was more experienced than any of the other kids in the division. He had a lot more moves than Tyler did. However Tyler hung in there til the very end and never gave up. This kid pinned all his other opponents (just a side note - its very hard for them to call a pin at this age, they don't do it unless one kid is obviously in total control of the match), but not Tyler. He told Justin at the end of his match he was pretending to be a police officer and the other wrestler was a bad guy so he had to keep going to wrestle him down. Tyler ended up with a silver medal, which he hasn't taken off since. He had a ton of fun and we couldn't be more proud of how well he did- way to go bud!