REGISTRATION/ INFORMATION 2025-26 Winter Season

Mansfield Youth Wrestling welcomes you to the 2025-2026 season!

Wrestlers (Grades 2-8) - This training is for aspiring wrestlers in grades 2-8, regardless if your child is brand new to the sport or one of our returning champions.  Within this training session, wrestlers will be grouped according to their weight, age and ability level.  Practices will be focusing on core conditioning, reviewing basics, advanced positions, understanding of the sport and skills & strategies that apply to live wrestling.

Tuesdays & Thursdays- 6:00 - 7:30 pm (1hr 30 minute) 

Price - $200.00

Start date - 12/2/2024      End date - 2/10/2025  

Location - We will start at the Qualters Middle School  250 East Street   Mansfield, MA 02048

Equipment - Wrestling Shoes manditory, Mouth Guard manditory (if you have braces), Headgear is manditory for some competition events. 

Fight Shorts & Shirts included in registration
 

Overview of  “Folkstyle” Wrestling Rules and Scoring

The object of the sport of wrestling is to put your opponent on his back -- to pin your opponent. The offensive wrestler (top position) tries to stay on top of his/her opponent and secure the pin. The defensive wrestler (bottom position) tries to reverse positions and gain the offensive position in order to secure a pin. 

A pin (or fall) is when you put your opponent on his/her back with any part of both shoulders or both shoulder blades of your opponent in contact with the mat for two seconds. When you pin your opponent, the match is over and you are the winner. If nobody gets pinned, the winner is the wrestler who has scored the most points during the match. 

Individual Match Scoring: 

The referee wears red and green wrist bands and awards points to the wrestler wearing the correspondingly colored ankle band. 

There are five ways to score points in a wrestling match:

1. Takedown - (2 points) You score two points for taking your opponent down to the mat and controlling him/her. 

2. Escape - (1 point) You score one point for getting away or getting to a neutral position when your opponent has you down on the mat. 

3. Reversal - (2 points) You score two points when your opponent has you down on the mat and you come from underneath and gain control of your opponent. 

4. Near Fall (Back Points) - (2 or 3 points) You get near fall points when you almost but not quite get your opponent pinned. A near fall (near pin) is when... both shoulders are held for two seconds within four inches of the mat, or... one shoulder touches the mat and the other shoulder is at a 45 degree angle coming down to the mat, or... the wrestler is held in a high bridge or back on both elbows.   If a near fall lasts for two seconds, you get 2 points. If a near fall lasts for 5 seconds, you get 3 points. 

5. Penalty Points - (1 or 2 points) Your opponent is awarded points if you commit a “potentially dangerous” hold, locking hands, stalling or fleeing the mat.

Dual Meet Team Scoring

Fall (pin), Forfeit, Default, Disqualification = 6 team points 

Technical Fall (getting ahead of your opponent by 15 points ends the match) - 5 team points

Major Decision (winning the match by 8 - 14 points) - 4 team points 

Decision (winning the match by fewer than 8 points) - 3 team points

1. Benefits that wrestling provides to an athlete

            There are obviously numerous benefits that wrestling provides to an athlete. A wrestler is forced to have a strong core, good hips, a sturdy stance, and knows how to use his body in the most functional manner possible. There is no better sport that teaches kinetics and body movement quite like wrestling, which makes it a great parallel for football.

The offensive side of wrestling quite literally translates into the defensive side of the ball in football- taking down an opponent; and the defensive side of wrestling quite literally translates into the offensive side of the ball in football- preventing your body from being taken down.
A wrestler has flexibility, balance, coordination, strength, power, agility, stamina, and most importantly, quickness. A good wrestler knows how to use his body more efficiently in taking an opponent down and preventing someone from taking him down or throwing him. If you're currently a football player and you've never taken up wrestling, try it. It will help your game tremendously.
 

2. NFL players who also wrestled.

The list is huge! However, here are some NFL players who also wrestled.
Ray Lewis                   Steve Wisnienski         Lorenso Neil
Tiki Barber                  Rhonde Barber            Chris Cooley
Ronnie Lot                  John Hanna                 Bow Jackson
Jim Plunkett                Warren Sapp               Tony Siragusa
Fred Smerlas               Adam Vinatieri           Louis Castillo
Ronnie Brown             Larry Czowka              Teddy Bruschi
 

3. Advice from one of the greatest!
 
"I would have all of my Offensive Lineman wrestle if I could."
- John Madden, Hall of Fame Football Coach