124 125 under pressure under pressure the game After having defined a circle on the ground, two boys in its center get into a waltz-position. Through their first bodily contact they familiarize themselves with the external pressure and with the search for their own balance. At the start you know that the other guy will try to displace you, so you need to foresee his move and counteract it. You need to be fast in prevention and create the conditions for action. Minus one point if you touch an opponent's knee. Minus one point if you touch the circle. Minus one point if you fall. «This engenders both excitement and regret. It creates those prerequisites necessary, through the game, to shape a dialogue in which there are those who manage the others and those who win». Thus, the calling addressed to young people to help them discover the discipline has changed, as it has strongly been sought a versatile approach in coaches. «Once it was more like a superimposition of a personal story and a personal journey on other people’s lives, with the same techniques and repeated motivations. Now a more specific approach is required, and a good coach behaves according to the human material at his disposal. A simple concept, however difficult to achieve». «Wrestling is a game with clear rules, and it should be fun. If you are looking for a champion at all costs, this is a violence. The champion must emerge by himself, in a path where, from fun, passion arises. Otherwise we ‘d run the risk to create monsters slave of the score». Faenza Lotta has played his change in mind first, in the field of the approach to the discipline. «Once the Greco-Roman was a second choice, after other more well-known sports. Now we introduce our propedeutic sporting ability, the harmonious and psychological physical development that this activity makes possible». These are the words of Giovanni Morsiani, president of Faenza Lotta and vice-president vicar of the F IJLKAM, Italian Federation bringing together the disciplines of Judo, Wrestling, Karate and Martial Arts. «We work a lot with schools to make them understand that this sport, with its rules, helps in personal growth. And this I have no doubt». «The adversary has two arms and two legs, exactly like you». Giovanni Morsiani introduces one of the first great athletes and coaches of the Gym, Antonio Randi, through what was his motto. «That was his kind of coaching, to make it clear that after all everyone is equal, that the fears distressing us are the same as for the others. This is wrestling, it gives you the chance to face an opponent through clear rules, it helps to understand that you can always put yourself out there». «Wrestling - reiterates on several occasions Morsiani - means personal growth in a social context, because you are alone on the springboard, but you must learn to trust your coach, to live in relation to the team and in compliance with the rules». «Wrestling is a sport about change of status, of situation: there is a before and an after, and that ‘after’ can be created. Sport helps you, in a specific psychophysical situation, to change the state of things. I work out on technique, on tactics and on physicality to learn how to change the status. This is what it takes, and that’s life: working on one's own behaviour to adapt it to the changes». Before and after. Summarizing the presentation of the discipline made by the president of Faenza Lotta, the ‘before’ and the ‘after’ by which one can paint wrestling are numerous. - First the most equipped athletes win, then - with training and technique development - the result can be subverted. - Training and confrontation accompany from an initial sense of insecurity to clear elements of self-esteem. - You start with fun, you keep on with passion. «It always has to be so», Morsiani points out. The change of Faenza Lotta, and of the sporting movement to which it belongs, took place in their mind through a change of approach, bringing a circle into the schools. «We try to speak the language of schools and of children to get in touch with them first, organizing a series of activities that lead them to understand that ours is a complete sport, that makes the boy grow both physically and psychologically, with few but clear rules. Wrestling helps the body to develop harmoniously, it involves the whole musculature and it does not preclude the commitment in other sports. Wrestling has a much lower injury risk than football».
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