I am 33 years old and I live in Washington, DC (admittedly not a wrestling capital, haha). I have never ever wrestled and to be honest really don’t know much/anything about it, how do it, etc. But since college I have *wanted* to wrestle... or at least *try* it... maybe I won’t like it, I don’t know. My college had a NCAA III team but since I didn’t go to a “powerhouse” wrestling school.. shoot my high school didn’t even have a wrestling team, I figured I couldn’t join my college team. I’d go to the matches in college and all. Anyway I guess I am asking what I should do now.. is 33 years old to even *start* wrestling? Where can I go to learn? Or maybe I should suck it up, and just live with the regret. But it –the desire to wrestle—doesn’t go away. And this might sound strange but its something I feel deep inside, in my bones.
As if that were not enough a problem, I am also probably not in the best shape of my life. I don’t workout. I am not muscular, and I am probably about 20 lbs overweight L Anyway, if you have any thoughts or advice I would greatly appreciate hearing back from you. Thanks.


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[ February 28, 2003, 07:04 PM: Message edited by: m1 ]

The DC page of Outsports' local group directory lists the Washington DC Wrestling Club, where "all experience and skill levels are welcome." They sound cool, email them.

right i know.... believe me i think i have visited every web page dealing with wrestling.. as for the dc club.. i dont have *any* skill level so what do i do just sit there and do nothing? also they dont do "real" wrestling.

and by the way their web page needs serious updating... one oftheir email address dont work, and yes i told em that before and they still didnt fix it.

You should do whatever you have to do to learn how to wrestle. You will be happy with yourself for trying something new and teaching yourself something new. Your body will love you for it, you'll lose the 20 extra pounds. Find a club, or one other person, take what is in front of you and work with it. Whereas you need a partner to do the moves, you can get started by doing some of the strenght training exercises required by the sport. Do pushups at the gym, and jump rope, etc, and pretty soon you have someone talking to you wanting to know why you do these "old fashioned" exercises, and you'll start the wrestling conversation. Letting people know what you want, increases your chance of getting it.

And stop complaining.

[ March 01, 2003, 06:24 AM: Message edited by: shore ]