Seriously do you know any thing about wrestling. Sometimes if you know you can't get the pin you go for the TF. Nothing bad about that. You want to win more with something other than a DEC. It is not bad sportsmanship. You shove them a little hard to get them off balance and your you in a better position for another takedown. It also pisses them off that they might do sometimes stupid and open you up for a pin. Each wrestler wrestles different and you have to know going in what their weakness is a capitalize on it.
Thank you for your lucid comments. Yes I have seen tech falls, I understand why tech falls and bonus points are important, and yes I have seen take down drills. In the tournament in question the winning wrestler team was trailing by 100 plus points so bonus points were irrelevant.
One more time for you slow readers, I said I do not object to the take down drills in themselves. Yes, I do contend that what I saw in this match was taunting, poor sportsmanship as evidenced by the unnecessary hard pushes, the sneers, swagger, the sh-t eating grins and giggles. If one wrestler is so much better than his opponent, and bonus points are irrelevant, why not just go out with a stone face and put the opponent away. I saw the match, doubt if more than 2 others here saw it. What I like about HS wrestling is that it teaches humility-or it should-somewhere, sometime someone is going to kick your butt. Perhaps the elite wrestler in this match has not met that someone.
