Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Wrestling Superstitions

Wrestling can make many a man do strange things. Some wrestlers feel they have to do the same routine, or have a certain object handy, in order to win. For example, Josh Carroll always had a Marvin the Martian doll with him while he was warming up, not to mention a matching t-shirt on occassion. What else has anyone ever heard of wrestlers doing so that they think they'll have a better chance at winning?

My senior yr i took a poop in a ziplock bag and stuffed it in my singlet to assure myself of at least placing in a tourney. JKING!!

Actually i would do the following for good luck or because i am a creature of habit:
1. Always wear these nasty *** gold shorts to every tourney that i never washed.
2. I taped up my headgear for good luck.
3. Go to the rest room at least 20 times in one tourney(no lie).
4. Grow out my hair every wrestling season. Senior yr grew hair out pretty long and bleached it all blond(mind everyone, I am asian and looked just flat out ridicious w/ blond hair. Im sure LancerM and State-no-show remember those good times).

Yeah, I always had to "go" a bajillion times in a tournament. That's probably because you go through a day and a half with no water and then you get all the water you want... and you overdo it!

I always jumped rope in sets of 100. It helped me get warmed up.

i am now a senior, i have these bright blue underware that i have wore every highschool match.i have had these sincelike 7th grade. so they are really small, the bottoms are ripped out.

i taped up my headgear once, but i started loosing, so i took it off.

i have to be by the mat atleast 6-7 matches before.

thasts just the way i do it.

Six to seven matches before? Fool, seriously. Pamon and I wouldn't be ready to wrestle unless we were up an hour before. When I wrestled 215 I would start warming up at 140. Here's the routine:

1) Wake up.
2) Go to the bathroom.
3) Slap the legs out a little bit. Maybe skip.
4) Go to the bathroom.
5) Check the brackets.
6) Look at the opponent to see if maybe I could pick him out. Never worked.
7) Go to the bathroom.
8) Back to the brackets.
9) More leg slapping, more skipping, maybe some stretching.
10)Make funny jokes with Jhris.
11)Go to the bathroom.
12)Maybe throw up in a trash can....maybe not.
13)Go to the bathroom.
14)Go through more slapping- legs, arms, chest. More skipping. By this time, explaining to strangers why I'm slapping myself/skipping.
15)Check the brackets.
16)Final bathroom visit.
17)Final bracket visit.
18)Water.
19)Hear name called, take off shorts and long sleeve shirt.
20)Get punched in the head by my coach. (Ow. Seriously.)
21)Run like a gay man to the table (arms flapping like a raptor), run like a gay man to the center of the circle.
22)Commence stalling.
23)Win millions of matches.
24)Win millions of tournaments.
25)Go to bathroom.

Now thats some funny stuff!!!!!

Then thing about going to the bathroom (a.k.a. taking a pre-game) is that some bathrooms had no doors on the stalls and others yet had the idividual sheets of sandpaper that came out like kleenex but was far from as soft.

As for my good luck charm, I've always worn a tie that had Irish Bears and shamrocks on it and there was 1 4 leaf clover and I'd rub it for luck...still do it when I give a presentation or anything else, in witch I need luck or think someone else needs luck I rub it.

i've had the same shoes since my freshman year (im a junior now). they are the old asic tigers white and red and held together by athletic tape.

I have worn the same black rage against the machine beanie at every wrestling tournament that I have wrestled at since Beau Vest started coaching at TOpeka High.

I boo booed at every torney. And right b4 I shook my opponents hand I would say "Lord give me strenght." Sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't. It depended on who I was wrestling.lol

I keep a platic refs coin in my bag my uncle gave me before he died that he used when he refed. Something that has meaning an means a great deal to me.

I karate chop a puppy every night before a tournament.

This pertains to a two day tournament. If I wrestled on friday and won then I wouldn't shower until Saturday. If I lost on Saturday I would run into the locker room and take a quick shower. I know, I know pretty strange but I'm just being honest.

YOU IDIOT! THAT IS ABOUT 6-7 MATCHES