The Autistic Yogi Reflects on the 2nd Wrestling Practice

This practice I felt a little more uncertain in my delivery. I was far more excited in attending on this day but I felt off once I started to get into the delivery. It will certainly take time for me to get to that level of certainty in delivering a good yoga'esque practice for these athletes.

I had heard that some of the students would not come on the day I am teaching because they figure that yoga is gay... It's to bad that their limited perspectives act as a barrier for them to gain more insights. I find this sort of thought process to be common, where because of a single experience an individual judges the whole of a group, most likely its to look/seam cool?

I tend to work best when I have a lot of knowledge of a given subject and than can free flow through the thought and execution towards that given subject. With giving a program to wrestlers I can say that I have a bit of difficulty because my limited knowledge of the most constant movements and issues that are cropping up in this sport. Staying and watching the practices after my teachings I think will bare a lot of fruit so that I can really figure out programs to give to the group and hopefully see how I can get to the specifics of each individual wrestler and help them address their concerns with their personal range of motion.

From what I can tell in my limited exposure to wrestling the most likely injuries to come about rather than surface injuries ( scrapes, bruises, bloody noses, injured ears, cuts, etc) are going to be wrist, shoulder, and knee issues, ankle issues I am sure are something that crop up a lot too. Wrestling is definitely the most extreme form of partner stretching.

I will continue to seek out as much information as I can about what are the best methodologies of the greats and what other successes have other similiar sports had for specific range of motion practices.

Stretching is not about having the longest air deepest range of motion but rather how well the joint is able to move through its range of motion and return to its relaxed state.