OK, enough of these European guys. It's time to cross the Atlantic and come back home. Here's a great bodyslam pic from an amateur wrestling match that I found on the net. I've never been able to do this to a guy in real competition, but it's great to see something like this because it shows that it's possible. Sometimes when I see a good wrestling action shot, I like to think about what transpired to get to this moment. Judging from the guy who's about to get slammed, this looks like high school wrestling. I suspect this is the kid's first real match. The coach at school asked him to join the team because they needed to fill a weight class. The kid's a jock, probably plays football, so he thinks he can just walk out onto the mat and make a statement. But he meets reality when he faces a guy who's been wrestling for years. The kid gets dominated by the wrestling stud, who parades him around in humiliating fashion before ending the match with a pin. In high school a few times I wrestled against jocks from other sports who thought they could just walk out onto a mat and compete (you'd be surprised at how many soccer players think they can suddenly wrestle). It was fun to toy with them a little bit, let them know who the real athlete was, before flipping them onto their back for the inevitable pin.
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