FireStorm

The real reason more kids don't wrestle is because unlike most sports, if YOU want to win YOU have to do the work. When you lose YOU have no one to blame but YOURSELF. Little Johnny who is pampered by mommy and daddy can't handle that, much less the kid. Unfortunately this is most parents and kids.

Singlets+Two piece singlets. NO FIGHT SHORTS.

FYI Two piece singlet are bad ass

Why not do what most high level practices are doing anymore? Vale tudo shorts and a tighter t-shirt? Look at how many guys will wrestle in a singlet and t-shirt, which is the same thing.

LOL at this below response. What are the fastest growing sports in the country now? Lacrosse and Soccer. LaCrosse is a bit physical and soccer is about as non-physical as it gets. Before too long, unless some serious changes are made to how football is played due to more and more research dealing with concussions, those sports will surpass football in numbers.

Anyways, it is not hard to get kids out for wrestling because of singlets. I coach at a very small school, yet manage to more kids out for our club, jr high and HS programs than most large schools with thousands more kids. It has nothing to do with a singlet. The new kids I recruit at all age groups every year, know exactly what we wear going in because I tell them. Sure its a bit embarrassing, but so is losing in front a bunch of people with no one else to blame but yourself. That does far more damage to a kid not wanting to do a sport, than a singlet.
Other things that keep kids out of our sport, our tournament formats. We have to be some of the dumbest people when it comes to running tournaments. We sit in a gym for 8hrs plus to compete maybe 4-5 times over a course of about 30mins total. The rest of the time is spent sitting and waiting. How stupid is that? I can go to damn near any other sport and compete for 1-2hrs and I'm done, plus I'm competing for 40mins or more of that time. We lose more kids to poor tournament management, than we do to singlets, guaranteed.
Track had 300,000 more boys participating and they practically compete in skimpy underwear. Heck, our singlets go further down the leg than track shorts do. Look at the sprinters, what are they competing in? Singlets.
There are way more issues out there causing our numbers to be stagnant, singlets are way down on the list. Sometimes I think we would rather think of excuses why numbers don't go up rather than actually address the real problems at the top.

Again, singlets are not what is keeping kids from coming out. Parents not liking contact sports, kids being lazy, video games, internet, etc are way more detrimental to keeping kids out of wrestling, than singlets.

Track athletes wear less than we do and it doesn't keep them from coming out for track.

Foght shorts + rash guard

With the survey, get kids that do not yet wrestle...I am 99% certain the poll will support Martins theory

Poor poor title to this video. Singlets did NOT win. We are will be conducting a survey of 2nd graders and Freshman in High School. As silly as that sounds they are the future and if they wont wrestle or are 50% less inclined to wrestle because of singlets I say throw em out....as much as I love em...who cares...its the wrestling that counts.

*Cael

Martino...and Cale...and Rob Koll are right

Haha... hard to do skinless.....

two piece singlets are pretty cool. id wear those before fight shorts

Singlets are what set wrestlers apart. True wrestlers have the courage to wear a singlet on the mat. I understand that we need to change wrestling to make it more marketable and mainstream, but we cant change something that is so vital to the sport. Kids who dont join the sport, because they don't want to wear the singlet are not the type of people that will succeed in this sport.

flowrestling should hold a vote at a national tournament.and see the responses!