The Turkish wrestlers
Today, I had the honor of watching a small wrestling class at the university. I met with the wrestling coach yesterday and he invited me to come train with them today. I was really bummed that I couldn’t do it because of my bad knee, but promised to come by and say hi.
Apparently, the same guys are also doing Turkish oil wrestling. It would have been SO cool to try that, what a perfect experience for my trip. It would have to wait unfortunately.
Their wrestling was very impressive. They are proud of what they do, and with good reason, I really hope I get the chance to train with some wrestlers another time on my trip (if you are wrestling anywhere in the world and reading this, please email me :)
The coach gave me a turkish national wrestling team singlet as a present. I was really honored, he must have worked hard to achieve that. It will definitely be put on the wall in my gym at home.
