Shirt with shorts or sweatpants or a singlet. NO ZIPPERS  on clothing! Wrestlers do not need wrestling shoes at practice, socks are just fine.

• Practice clothes

• Wrestling shoes (optional)

• Head gear (optional)

• Water bottle

• A good attitude

Yes, however; we need everyone to take their shoes off at the door and keep conversations quiet so the coaches and wrestlers can hear each other.

• The main goal of wrestling is to pin your opponent. Wrestlers can also earn points by executing specific moves. If a pin isn't achieved, the wrestler with the most points at the end of the third period wins.
• Wrestlers can be in one of three positions during a bout: offense, defense, or neutral. Offensive wrestlers tend to be in control and usually on top of defensive wrestlers. The defensive wrestler is fighting to become the offensive wrestler by gaining control. In neutral, neither wrestler has control yet (no one is clearly offensive or defensive). All bouts begin with both wrestlers in a neutral position. 
• TAKEDOWN - 2 points - scored when a wrestler gains control and becomes the offensive wrestler from the neutral stance. Control is defined as getting behind the opponent and taking them to the mat or taking them directly to their back without getting behind them and becoming the offensive wrestler.
• REVERSAL - 2 points - awarded to a wrestler when they switch from the defensive position to the offensive position and take control away from the opponent. If a wrestler is on the bottom and gets to the top without an escape, they are awarded a reversal.
• ESCAPE - 1 point - scored when a defensive wrestler escapes from the offensive wrestler and becomes neutral. This happens most often when a wrestler chooses to start on the bottom in the 2nd or 3rd period.
• NEAR FALL (3 seconds) - 2 points - when you have your opponent on their back, and their back is at an angle to the mat of 45 degrees or less, the referee will start waving their hand to signify a count. If the angle is sustained for 3 seconds, the offensive wrestler is awarded 2 points.
• NEAR FALL (5 seconds) - 3 points - same as a 3 second near fall, but the 45-degree angle must be sustained for a 5-second count. After a 3 point near fall is awarded, no more near falls will be awarded until the defensive wrestler gets off their back, and then is moved back into a new near fall.
• PENALTY - 1 point to the opponent - a referee can award an opponent a penalty point for several reasons. Locking hands is the most common penalty, and you will observe the referee clasp their hands together in the air before they award the penalty. Another penalty is termed, stalling (when a wrestler is not being active or passive, not trying to get a pin, not trying to gain control). "potentially dangerous" involves kicking, scratching, biting, hitting, body slamming, choking, or bending any body part beyond its normal range of motion.
  
  
• • At a wrestling meet: Your child will put on a green or red Velcro ankle band on the mat before the bout begins. The referee is also wearing two wristbands, green and red. When a wrestler scores points, you will see the referee raise their hand with the matching color of the wrestler’s ankle band. The referee will hold up the number of points scored with their fingers. The table has two scorekeepers, one who runs the scoreboard, and one who tracks the bout on the scorecard. Green and red scores will always appear on the digital scoreboard, and the person running the scoreboard will adjust the score based on what color wristband the ref is holding up and how many points he is indicating.
  • TYPES OF VICTORIES.
    • PIN/FALL - this can happen at any time during a bout. If both shoulders of the defensive wrestler are touching the mat, the wrestler is pinned, and the bout is over.
    • TECHNICAL FALL - when a wrestler takes a 15 point or greater lead, the bout is over, and the wrestler is declared the winner.
    • MAJOR DECISION - only awarded after the match is over, awarded when a wrestler wins by eight to fourteen points.
    • DECISION - only given at the end of the match when a wrestler wins by 1-7 points.
    • FORFEIT - a forfeit victory occurs when a wrestler does not have an opponent to wrestle against (usually because his opponent failed to show up or is injured).
    • DISQUALIFICATION - a wrestler wins by disqualification if the opponent is disqualified because of too many penalties or if the wrestler is injured by an opponent's illegal hold and cannot continue.