Wrasslin'

Posing with the trophies.

 

His first meet, he weighed 56.1.  Now he's at 60.6.  These holidays are really taking a toll on him!

1st place at the Burlington Holiday Classic

He won a t shirt too, but we let him upgrade to this sweatshirt and paid the difference.  He picked what went on it.  Yes, that is a wrestling belt across the pocket....hahah...  Way to go champ!

No one is more proud than this super fan!

 

Look at that form!  No one's getting up from that pin.

 

Keeping busy between bouts.

Ready to take on a 72 pounder in an exhibition match.  The kid never got to wrestle at the meets because there was never any 5 year olds as big as him.  Ryker volunteered.  We never expected the match that kid gave him though.  He was awesome!  He introduced Ryker to some "big man" take down moves...haha.  Ryker had to get mad and get aggressive.   It was his best match of the season at that time.  He lost, but he wrestled the best we'd ever seen him.  It also gave us a good opportunity to talk to him about winning AND losing and just working hard to be better each time because before this match, he had pinned pretty much all his opponents.

I'm surprised that all these have Ryker on top because this kid had him down a lot too.  I had to put down my camera because it was such a good match so I think I only got the beginning and Ryker did have the first take down.

Chopping the arm