Here are a few funnies - they may be older than 13 years.

My nephew was wrestling and came walking dramatically to the edge of the mat (like Fred Sanford - Sanford and Son's) crying when he was about 7 yrs old at a Novice tournament. He said Uncle Sean he is choking my tummy (tight waist) - I calmly said get back out there and get on top of him and you choke his tummy and put in the half nelson. Not sure who won

Another time one of my young wrestlers was pinning a guy - he was on top with a reverse half but he was on his knees. I said "get on your toes". He did get on his toes - he got completely off the guy and stood up and walked around on his toes. I couldn't get upset with him he did exactly what I had asked him to do. I can't remember who won the match.

This one applies to me more than 13 years ago. I was over in Topeka at the Kids State Tournament. I drove over the night before to be there in time for the parade. I parked next to one of the families that had a tow behind camper with their 5 kids in the Expo Center parking lot. The plan was a great cookout and some shut eye. When it was time to go to bed I jumped in the back of the pickup for a good nights sleep. About 1:00 or 2:00am a hail storm came and started pounding my aluminum camper top and then the heavy rains set in for a while. It is a little funnier now than it was then. The cookout went as planned, the nights rest - not so much.

My first competition(about 40 years ago) in 6th grade 8 man bracket with 1 bye in the bracket. I have 3 older brothers and I did not know what day my birthday was until I was in 9th grade. My brothers and their friends beat me 365 days of the year - OH I had fun tagging around with them and their buddies. Anyway, my first tournament I did not get the bye guy and had a match and won, the second match went well, the third match was against a State Champ and the HS Coaches son. My opponent was warming up professionally (I did not know how to warm up yet), he had a jump rope, medals and pins on his matching warm up, cool singlet(they were itchy). By the way head phones, video games, and cell phones were not invented yet. Anyway he was jumping around with swagger, stretching, etc., I looked at him like what are you doing and then he came over and talked to me and told me all these tournaments he wrestled in and won and that he was a state champ. I stood there with my hand me down cut off gray sweats for shorts, white tank top t-shirt, high top converse shoes with the metal eyelets, and a used head gear. Oh boy I was ready for him when he said "I think we wrestle each other next". I told one of my older brothers that my next guy was pretty good. I thought to my self this is going to be fun wrestling this guy - he is my size and I knew all the thrashings I had taken and future beat down lessons from bigger brothers and their friends. The match went well and my opponent became my friend.

One more - I was at another kids tournament coaching and running around and it was near the end of the day and my feet, back, brain all needed a rest. So I was standing by a table worker(towel boy & HS wrestler) and I asked him if I could sit in his chair. He said NO! Well - I said I use to wrestle 98 pounds in high school and I was pretty good - before I could even finish my story about when I was 98 pounds he said it looked like I swallowed 3 - 98 pounders. That was a quick whitted comeback by the young high school wrestler - but I did end up getting his chair. I found a new friend and demonstration partner that day.