Hey Mike, it's great to be back. Should start seein me around on here a little more, now that I actually have time to do stuff now that I've finally settled in out here in VA. To answer your question, it was a little difficult to make that transition to the high school level. Luckily I had had a few years of experience of what a high school practice was like from practicing with Wichita South when I was in 6th-8th grade. As far as the cutting weight goes...it was hard to learn the dicipline and self sacrafice that it takes to drop the weight and to try and keep it off. That's about the only thing I DON'T miss about the sport, ha ha. But from dropping the weight and learning the dicipline that it takes to do so helped play a big role a little bit later on in life when I was in boot camp. Not that I had to drop weight or anything like that in boot camp, but that self dicipline helped me get through boot camp a lot easier. I seriously think that if I had not of wrestled and learned that dicipline, then I wouldn't have made it through boot camp.


Semper Fi, Daniel Smith, USMC