The Ultimate Body Slam- An article by JMU wrestler Steven Cotnoir

“Handfight! Handfight! Handfight! Double leg! Sprawl! High Crotch! Sprawl! Sweep!” To anyone who has ever stepped foot into a wrestling practice, these are familiar phrases. To the average person, it just seems to be meaningless jargon. As my high school wrestling coach, Ben Summerlin, used to say, “You have to be at least half crazy to lock yourself in a padded room for hours on end and enjoy it.” The padded room he referred to is the wrestling room, a sweaty, smelly, and swelteringly hot place. Most people would avoid an environment such as this at all costs, but for wrestlers, its home. It’s where we lay the building blocks of success, where we build a foundation for greatness–a place where champions are made…