HOWE BIGSHOTS

Lately the Howe bigshots have been wrestlers. Most of them under 12 years old. Thanks to a tip from a woman in my ward, we discovered USA Wrestling. It is huge here. At first I had mixed feelings about it....the wrestlers being so young and all. But Saturday I spent 5 hours sitting at a table in the Lovell High School gym lobby selling photos from the previous week's match, and I watched, and listened and talked to many wrestlers, and many parents. They were all pretty happy with wrestling, win or lose.

Sure, the really young wrestlers have no idea what they are doing, most of the time. Hopefully they are having fun scrambling around like this one....you might recognize him, it's Freedom, Glen's grandson. He is a pretty sweet little guy. You can tell he's really not the aggressive type.

When Aunt Grace asked Freedom if he had ever pinned anyone, he said with energy and a big smile, "Never!" So, apparently he doesn't feel distressed about that, and neither do we.

The parents and coaches are like parents and coaches of any other sport for children: pushing, encouraging, teaching, and all. Some are a little more strenuous than others--it is after all, wrestling! This coach, I thought, was the dad. But when I showed him the picture he said he didn't have any kids. Looks like a pretty nice coach,don't you agree?


I'd say these parents were prettty involved, wouldn't you?








I went out and put flyers on the cars in the parking lot, and there were an awfully lot of BIG TRUCKS!! Fancy, dancy big trucks. The first effort at sales was encouraging. Everyone wants a picture of themselves, or their children wrestling! I just hope they want more than one. Here's the best photograph Dad has taken so far.

I'm working close to 40 hours a week on this new endeavor. It has about a 4 week season, so it is temporary. And I am learning a lot. A lot about editing, a lot about printing photos, a lot about marketing and sales, and a lot about wrestling.

Howe's that grab ya?