I agree that if he was actually choking him, it should not happen, period.

Or did he have both hands around him to make sure he is looking at him? I had to do that while the doctor put stitches in my daughters head one time.

How would you feel if you told the police that the dad was choking the kid, and he was actually holding the kid's head straight so that the kid was looking him in the eye, but the police believed you, and the kid was taken away from his father? I agree that there are some people that shouldn't be allowed to have kids, but most of the time, there is no incident that happens between a father and a son that they cannot put behind them and carry on their relationship.

I'll repeat, this WAS probably an out of control father. You embarassing him by calling him out probably took care of the problem. And this kid isn't going to be wrestling much longer anyway, so the situations that make his dad do these things will no longer occur.

Be VERY SURE that what you say and what you saw are the same thing though.

Just food for thought. Now you can go back to roasting me.

Let's remember that this is wrestling, and there is no kid that got to be great by being told that he is perfect all the time. Most of those kids quit working hard, because they aren't told that they have to work hard. Then, after winning 6u and 8u state championships, they wonder why they get it handed to them at 10u, 12u, 14u, and HS. And they blame the refs, or the other kid cut a bunch of weight and is bigger, or whatever excuse they can come up with to deny the fact that their competition has passed them by by out working them. Bringing them down and building them up go hand in hand.

Choking them out does not fit into the bringing them down part of that equation but some hollering is necessary sometimes.