competing to win - Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

We have completed our first weekend of wrestling and we saw a lot of positives to build on. Our guys are fighting for the most part. The hustle is improving and conditioning is solid. This team will improve throughout the season. We have some young kids that will only make progress with experience. We want our guys moving forward and attacking. We want our guys competing to win.

Competing to win is the opposite of wrestling to not lose. When you compete to win, you attack. You take measured risks. You are relentless in wrestling where you want to be. Wrestling to win is making your opponents adjust to you. You don’t settle for anything, you create the positions and circumstances that you want. You aren’t worried about making mistakes. You understand that if you do attack and compete to win, you will most likely make mistakes in the process. You also know that hustling will make up for a lot of mistakes. You wrestle and compete with a smile on your face.

Winston Churchill said “I like a man who smiles, when he fights!”

Wrestling to win means that you use every second to create the outcome that you want. The majority of those seconds will most likely be used to set your opponent up for takedowns later. You do that with effort. You don’t wait around for things to happen. You make them happen. You make them happen with many relentless small steps, not by waiting and hoping to score with a few big steps. You put your opponent where you want them. You don’t hope and wait that they will put themselves there. Every second is used to make you opponent not want to wrestle you again.

Then win or lose, never be satisfied with your performance. That’s competing to win. Ha-ha, that was fun. Competing to win is putting a positive spin on every situation. When everyone else is burdened with the common fear of failing, you ask yourself,

“Do I have the courage to go out there and fight to win!?”

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