Yesterday I was so proud when I picked up
my grandson Shadrach Thor Williams at
Cherokee Trail High school and he told me how at wrestling, he had challenged a
195 lb guy
who ranked 4th in the nation, and the guy could not pin him down because he was too slippery, fast and strong. Wanna know who that guy was? It was
Keith Johnson and if you want to know about him, see ;
http://www.berecruited.com/high-schools/colorado/aurora/cherokee-trail-high-school/boys-wrestling.
As
Shadrach is only
135 lbs and strength and size matter so much in wrestling, that was a great achievement in my book. What is even more amazing is the fact that he
has only been exposed to wrestling since November 2010 when he came to
Colorado to attend school.
According to
Shadrach, on his first day in a wrestling,
he got pinned by a guy six times, a guy who only weighed
106 lbs. That young man had however been wrestling from he was 5 years old and was ranked
fourth in the nation in his weight class. After that he got only one month's wrestling experience as his academic performance was not up to scratch and his aunt
Michele insisted that he drop wrestling to work on improving his grades.
However during that month his performance improved rapidly leading him to become the best on the
Junior Varsity team. He was due to be selected for the
Varsity team which represents the school nationwide and was scheduled to go to
Kansas for a tournament, but his poor academic performance made this impossible.
It was not until
the off season that we was allowed to start wrestling again, but in the meantime he had concentrated at home on body building and reduced his body weight to
135 lbs of solid muscles, bench pressing 210 lbs and squatting at 250 lbs. He will shortly be qualified to become a member of the
600 club.
This has enhanced his wrestling performance greatly to the point where he shocked
a Brazilian Jujitsu expert by nearly pinning him in a recent challenge. He even wrestled a
kung fu fighter who had been at the sport
for some11 years but whom
he knocked unconscious within the first 20 seconds of their match. The poor guy remained out for a good five seconds.
Shadrach boasts that although he has knocked two other persons unconscious during his short stint at the sport, h
e has never been knocked out by anyone and according to him
, he never will!
Do we see a great wrestler developing here? Maybe,
if his brain development keeps pace with his brawn development!
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