Wrestling with Physics

Here we go: True dat, Javin. I concur. This was a pretty busy weekend. Today I went with Joey, Justin, and Erika to Fingers. Joey and I were there for over four hours! Yikes. So anyway, lets talk about the pictures. I am starting to get really amped up for wrestling season, and I wanted to do a wrestling themed entry. On Thursday after practice, a bunch of us stayed late to mess around. This, by the way, is also the same day that Maxxx got is fanny handed to him by our coach. So we were all extremely tired (just look at all of the sweat on oli fat-on-gia's shirt), but we decided to do some WWE moves. Nik Snitsky and I were going at it pretty hard. Suddenly, I said, "Whoa. This is physics". Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get any of the pictures and videos that we took from Keiko in time. Shucks. I'll save that for next week then. I promise. So anyway, the pictures that I am using now are from last wrestling season. This is a dual meet at Kamehameha, and I am wrestling the fro boy, Isaiah Fonoti. Wow, seeing these photos is really making me all agro right now. I can't wait to step back on that mat. The first photo is a perfect example of inertia. Think of Newton's first law. An object at rest will stay at rest, or an object in motion will stay in motion. Of course, if a net force comes and acts on this object, then everything is pooped up and the status of the object changes. Both Isaiah and I are pushing straight into one another. The force of me pushing into Fonoti is equal to the force that he is exerting onto me. As a result, we are both at rest. If you want to get technical, the force of the mat pushing up on us is also the same as the force of gravity. This keeps our feet stuck on the mat. In the second picture, I shot either a single leg or a high crotch (probably the high c) and I now control his leg. To do this, I had to exert a force greater than what was exerting on me to get him off balance. This net force breaks the equilibrium that we were in and gave me the opening to set up my shot. In the picture, we have established a new equilibrium. I have his leg, but it takes an incredible amount of effort to keep it. Not only is gravity pulling his leg down to the mat, he is also kicking his leg down with all his might and wizzering the sheeshee out of my shoulder. Because he is now exerting more force in order to free his leg, I must work that much harder simply to equal it. If I want to take him down, I have to give him even more force. Exerting all of that force tires you out super quickly. This guy weighs around 145, and all of his weigh is on my arms. Ouch! Sometimes physics is not phun.