Wrestling!!!

So, my mom finally decided to take some pictures of me wrestling. This past weekend was ILH championships, which was not the best day for me. I ended up facing a last year's state champion and a guy who beat that last year state champ. Sadly, I ended up dislocating my shoulder, which was pretty painful, but it feels really good when the trainers popped it back in. Anyways I managed to qualify for states, but I'm not sure I can even wrestle. 

        

The picture on the top shows me knocking my opponent off balance, thus he needed to post out his hand, which you cannot see, in order to keep from falling over. This means I pushed his center of mass over his support. I have my hand on his ankle to keep him from widening his base, or his support. If he widens his base, it will be harder for me to knock his center of mass over his support. Using my hips and my legs to drive and my hands to block my opponent from creating a larger support, my goal is to turn my opponent over to his back for a pin. However, this guy is a state champion in the 125 weight class, so pinning him is a difficult task.  This second picture shows how because we are both tied up, it is as if we have become one mass, with one center of mass, and share the same support. This is the third round, where both of us are very tired. Because he grabbed my arms, pulling my center of mass over my feet, I braced myself by posting my head up against his head, preventing me from falling over. He is also leaning over his feet, making it so both our masses have one center and that center is supported by both our legs.

 

This is another picture from Saturday showing how I successfully knocked my opponent's center of mass over his support, causing him to crumble to the mat. Using my right arm, I took away his right arm as support and I drove him over that side without support with a tight waist. With nothing to support his body, he fell over. Unlike the picture above, where I went for the ankle, this time I decided to take the arm instead and it proves to work better. However the results of this match landed me with a dislocated shoulder. Because balance has to do a lot with wrestling, I learned that your center of mass must always be supported to be a good wrestler.

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So this is the first journal I am doing of the semester and I could not find any good pictures on the stuffs we are learning now. Because I also do not own a camera, I had to look through some old pictures in my computer and I found this picture. Because I learned that physics is everywhere I knew I could find some way of finding physics in this picture. 

WOW!!! I'm really full right now. After three dinners last night, St. Louis Drive Inn, Rainbows, and Taco Bell, while watching the fight, and an extended 6 hour lunch of fried foods and sweet desserts, where I was eating constantly, during the Superbowl, I feel as if I am going to pop. Funny thing is, at the wrestling tournament, I weighed in at 124.4 pounds and as of about half an hour ago, I weigh 136 pounds. Thats a lot in 24 hours!!! I hope I can make weight on saturday. 

So on to the picture. This was taken last year when me and some of my friends went to alan davis and one of my friends brought a scooter along. My goal was to ride and jump off the pole, but many factors prevented me from jumping. At this point in time, I am falling at 9.8 m/s^2. That is gravity. To end up farther out, I would need to start off with a larger velocity, but the pole was very slippery, due to the water on it. This made it so there was very little friction between the pole and the wheels, so I almost fell off. I was able to create a small velocity but it was so slippery that I could not manage to jump, so I kind of just fell off. Because of such a small velocity, I landed very close to the pole and did not get much distance out. The potential energy that I started off with at the top of the pole also equals the kinetic energy right before I smashed into the water. Using more physics knowledge I now know why it was so hard to ride. My mass, plus the scooter is only being supported by two very skinny wheels. So the center of mass is not over the wheels, then I will tip towards one side. Also it is easier to balance the faster the scooter is moving. Anyways this was my best attempt, all the other times I could not even keep my feet on the scooter. 

Im real bummed that I could not get a picture of charges, like what we are learning in class. I think what would help is if I owned a camera. Oh well. I guess I will be grumpy at the end of the week, because I will be so hungry. Making weight is going to be a pain in the behind :(