I appreciate your response mr. cokeley but I dont think that watching Reversal will change my perspective on anything. I wrestled in Pennsylvania for 13 years. I was fortunate enough to live that movie with constant weight cutting, and not for my own gain. In high school the weight loss or gain is not for the betterment of the athlete it is for the betterment of the team(In the school I went to anyway) Wherever I was needed that is where I went up or down. I never ran from anyone( got spanked 12-1 by Cary Kolat) and i wrestled with some of the best. In my opinion going up or down doesn't matter you are gonna run into some pretty bad boys in every weight class. Here is a suggestion for the kids group. Beginning of August when school starts we have a mandatory weigh in for all who are going to participate in kids club for the year. At that point weight is decided based on what they hit the scale at. So if you weigh 92 you can wrestle at 90 all year if you choose to but no lower and if you weigh 93 you can wrestle at 95 all year no lower. This seems like it would work.
But of course the argument will be that parents are gonna make their kids suck weght all summer. In that regard their are parents out there that are gonna make their kids suck weight nomatter what we try to do to stop it. The ones that believe sucking weight gives them the edge are gonna continue to find a way to do it and while it is horrible for their kids and for the sport their are rule breakers and benders in every sport. We should concentrate on making the sport better and more appealing to the kids rather than how to make weigh ins more difficult. We should be having fun in practice as well as learning and teaching discipline. If you want to keep this sport alive and growing (as i know you do ) then we must let these kids have fun at practice, at tournaments, etc. Kids club is a time for the love of the sport to develope, not a time to push the kids into hating the sport. I watched alot of good wrestlers quit before highschool in my day and would hate that to continue to be the rule and not the exception.
I mean no disrespect to anyone just letting my opinion out there
M. Pirl