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Show 6 Vamal ExpreSS Friday, June 21, 1 985 .xprsss mm Minilmii r i s . i WRESTLING CLINIC instructor, Vaughn Hitchcock, right, points chcock, left. Sixty tusslers took part in a three-day wrestling out a tussling skill and demonstrating the mat move is Steve Hit- clinic, Monday through Wednesday. ' Big Advantage The wrestlers of today have a big advantage over the matmen of yesterday as far as learning tussling skills are concerned. Young tusslers from Junior high and high school of the 1380s have wrestling clinics that they can attend during the summertime to fine tune their mat skills. Many wrestlers of yesterday received many first hand skills of the sport by wrestling their brother at home or by watching professional wrestling on television. Young brothers usually weren't too cooperative in the sport of wrestling at home and older brothers always got a bit carried away in ihnr number one quest to make sure little brother didn't gel the uppcrhand, The wrcstlifii ar mat wai usually a large rug m the living rewm Breakable item were movtd out of the way and then ihe wr wa m Th brothers would almost destroy the room and then mother would show up and shout, "You guys better clean up this mess or you two won't be able to sit for a week." Little brother would usually shout, "Hey, mom, my opponent, my older brother was roughing me up and knocking things around. " However, older brother would respond res-pond with the following: "He was cheating and pinching when I had him in a pin." Once the mess was cleared up it was time to turn on the television and watch those bone crushing professional profes-sional wrestlers take on all that tremendous punishment. They would jump off the top rope and land on a completely out-of it t ussier and wrestling surface with a lot of spring to it. Wrestlers back in the 1930s and iws didn't have many summer wrestling clinics to attend and thus the only time they saw a match was en television or at the local high school. One day my father noticed an article arti-cle in the newspaper about a wrestling wrestl-ing program being started up at Roosevelt Junior High and he decided decid-ed 1 hiit eighth grader Aidon Rachelc should Utke up ihe sport of wrestling. My first thought was; "We are going go-ing to have pr 6cidftal wrei-tliRg at ItafewtU Junior I fogh. Cce, whit are e gmr.g la be able la perform pile drivers, body slams, airplane ipins, ju:t:j :i the lop ttsptt llyif g kicks, the drtaded figure four end many other moves. However, I found out junior high wrestling was some what different that pro wrestling. Professional . wrestling has some of the same basic skills and moves, but junior high and high school wrestling is the pure and unspoiled sport. It's a true sport and it's just two men out on the mat. There isn't any outside interference by managers, coaches and fans. No one receives an unfair advantage with such Uiings as a loaded glove or pipe to the head. There are always calls on the mat that people get upset with, but there is no doubt as to the winner of the match. Our wrestling program was just starting out at Roosevelt Junior High and since the basketball program had almost existed since the beginning beginn-ing of time we weren't allowed to use the gymnasium and had to share the lunch room with the apples, oranges and bananas. We would clear up the area of the tables and chairs and place down a bunch of small mats. Wc didn't have one large mat and many times the small mats would move apart due to contact by two wrestlers and it is amazing that none of us were hurt during our port. Many times the loser of the 120 or 127 pound match would become the M pounder just to fill out the team. We had a rmmh lime the first year as West and Vernal made wrestling mincemeat out of us as they pounded us lo the mat My favorite hold was the chicken A MATMAN gets a free ride from Bobby Jenkins during a wrestling wrestl-ing workout. Wir t V I V 1 V t- 1 1 f " I A I if ) r ( i wing and that was my major power on the mat. I would drop the wrestler to the mat and put on my chicken wing. However, I enjoyed the move the most during physical education classes. Most of the time we would play basketball , but sometimes we would wrestle. When the wrestling turn came up it was time for me to get even and make my day. I would wrestle the basketball players, who would make me the second to last selection for hoop teams, and put the chicken wing on them to teach them a lesson and pay them back for sticking stick-ing us in the lunch room. It was a sad day for me when I was told my chicken wing was an illegal hold and I couldn't use it anymore. I bet the basketball players were happy. Wrestlers of today have excellent wrestling facilities and don't have to battle out in the lunch room. They have outstanding junior high and high school programs and even wrestling clinics in the summertime to take advantage of. There are also many high school wrestling matches available throughout the Uintah Basin and thus the young matman can view the pure sport of mat action, ac-tion, Draft Picks Karl Malone from Louisiana Tech was selected by the Utah Jazz as their number one draft pick, Tuesday. Tues-day. The rest of the Jazz picks are: Carey Scurry, forward, Long Island University; Delaney Rudd, guard, Wake forest; Ray Hall, guard. Canisius; Jim Miller, forward, Virginia and Mike Wackcr, forward, Texas, Malone is a 8 8 power forward, who was on the top of the Jazz priority list. He averaged 13 S points and rebounds re-bounds last year. Scurry, the number two eick. is a 6 7 forward. The Ja?z thought Scurry might M picked in the first round, avrracrd 21 1 puma and bound., Ruilil is a 6 2 cua played in the tout?h Atlantic Coast t'ohft-rrncc. I bit is a 63 euard and Cattmius' all time cotrr. lie scored 2.226 f.ir,!s in his carter. Miiirr is a S i forward and Wacker s am 6 8. earn Approximately 60 Uintah Basin matmen competed in a . three-day wrestling clinic at Vernal Junior High,, which concluded Wednesday afternoon. "The clinic started Monday and we, have gone three days. We had wrestlers involved from Altamont, Duchesne, Roosevelt and Vernal," said Ed Johnson, Uintah High School wrestling coach. "We worked on basic skills and had some real good success in putting icing on the cake in wrestling." Johnson added, "We went two on one Russian style in the clinic. It's an arm drag into an offensive series for a takedown. We worked on a lot of lateral throws. The wrestler throws his man up and down to the mat for back points or a takedown. We also have gone over quick tilts for back points. Also we worked on the spiral ride. It's a top position move. You can get a real good pinning offense from it. The wrestler is in the top position and he jams the shoulder with his hip and turns his opponent for back points." Vaughn Hitchcock, head wrestling coach at Cal Poly University and a former U.S. Olympic coach in 1976, conducted the clinic. Steve Hitchcock, Hit-chcock, son of Vaughn, is a former world class wrestler, who coaches at a junior college and he also helped n nnn SMS out with the clinic. Other coaches, who worked with wrestlers in the clinic were: Johnson, Uintah High School head wrestling coach; Kevin McMillian, new Uintah assistant wrestling coach, who wrestled at Uintah in the early 1970s and graduated from the University Utah; Dave Moat, Duchesne wrestling wrestl-ing coach and Kevin Dickson, Vernal Junior High. "We had a pretty good turnout. We had most of the high school and junior high wrestlers, at the clinic. The clinic makes the kids excited about wrestling with world class instructors in-structors and gives them extra incentive incen-tive to do better in wrestling. It also gives them added skills and techniques," techni-ques," stated Johnson. Vaughn Hitchcock remarked, "The clinic has been going real good. We worked on takedowns and pinning combinations with emphasis on a lot of advanced moves. We have been very pleased with the group here. We worked on various takedowns and pins such as spiral rides, arm bar and tilts." The clinic consisted of Hitchcock and his assistants demonstrating various wrestling moves and then the tusslers worked on the recent publicized mat technique. Coaches moved around the mats giving wrestlers helpful hints and suggestions. I III '. I' v y - V ass ( .... , i 7 r r J ound.lte tT : 11 1 re- 1 V ard who r " r' UHS WRESTLING coach Ed Johnson works with Ute tusiier Shawn Johnson, right, out on the mat. i Vernal's New Sony Sound Senter is now open for business If i carry a full tine vf Sony Sound rrjuipmvnt Wortd'a imaiSeit 2" TV-up to 1 36" screen World's imaiiest cassette recorder Corpse t disc digital audio World thinnest f M stereo Watchman TVi Walkman stereo, recorder, radio '4 I Cr. I f ' 1 : - ' t s - d S e s ' s i t :fr sf wo d 975 West Hwy. 40 - 789 0101 2 . If t 4 |