I’m no expert on high school wrestling, but somehow I doubt that sticking your finger in the other guy’s anus is a legal move, as this coach argues:
Encino’s Crespi Carmelite High School wrestling coach Mike Odman says the butt drag is a legal move, but he would never teach his students to penetrate an opponent with their fingers.
“There’s nothing in wrestling tactics that would say when in doubt, insert,” Odman said. “That never comes into play.”
I always liked ABC’s Wide Word of Sports, so, in that spirit, I’ll add a link to an article on the storied history of pants-pooping in sports to this post.
cleek
oh great, yet another legal tactic which Obama has failed to use!
if i were President, the GOP would be walking around in chain mail Underoos, terrified of my uncompromising Bully Finger!
err…uh…
Trueblood
I wrestled for a prominent program in high school, and there is definitely a move called the butt drag, and kids definitely used it. As a denizen of the higher weight classes I didn’t see it, I was trying not to get smushed by a 275lb hick.
lacp
Was Jesus’ General involved in this?
Davis X. Machina
Yeah, but has it been confirmed?
So far, all we have is innuendo,,,,
dr. bloor
“Do you like movies about high school wrestling, Tommy?”
lushboi
One of the guys on our team, Ed, took laxatives to make his weight prior to a match. After a, shall we say, explosive match he was forever known as Ed-lax.
mr. whipple
@dr. bloor: LOL.
serge
That ESPN article just made me crap my pants laughing so hard. My day is made…
Alex S.
Fascinating…
Bobby Thomson
Don’t watch much high school wrestling, huh?
That stuff makes what happens in football pileons look tame.
Poopyman
I can’t believe you people are making bumbum jokes! How infantile!
S. cerevisiae
OK, Thank you for this. I have been seriously depressed today and you may have saved my life. Thanks.
I am not bullshitting.
SpotWeld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho
jeffreyw
@Poopyman: Irony gone Meta! LOL
jeffreyw
Taking breakfast orders now. All you can eat!
Bill E Pilgrim
Don’t let them kid you, that’s how they insert the microchips.
Gettin er done early, the better to track you with.
Ross Hershberger
Oh, thanks. Tomorrow the high school where I’ll be working hosts a wrestling tournament for 16 schools. Why couldn’t it have been cheerleaders?
jharp
I’m no athlete. I’m a salesman.
And I’ve had an accident or two whilst traveling.
The Grand Panjandrum
OT: The GOP base speaks:
And let us not forget those fabulous Tea Party animals:
Blue Neponset
So shall the good man teach his son.
debit
@jharp: When I was a kid, during the summers I’d ride along with my dad who was an over the road trucker. Just FYI, if you don’t have iron bowels and and iron bladder, do not become a trucker. And if your kids don’t have the same, for the love of god, don’t bring them along. I’m just saying.
Culture of Truth
Iron Bowels would be a good metal band name
Poopyman
That’s what Julian Assange said.
(/RIMSHOT!)
Morbo
No sport is safe.
Hawes
I coach wrestling.
Yeah, the butt drag, which I used to call “checking his oil” until I decided that wasn’t going to get homopanicky adolescents to use the move, is a practical move.
I tried to impress upon them that it was more about grabbing the tail-bone, because they’re much more likely to grab another guy’s coccyx.
Wait…
Hugh
It may not be legal but I think there’s a whole subculture of porn about this.
Bill E Pilgrim
I suppose this could be called the first digital wrestling.
@Hawes:
Oh that. I remember that move from high school wrestling.
Hell, we use that just to say hello, in Paris.
The description here made it sound like something involving disrobing and lubricants.
That’s of course only for saying goodbye, here.
Ross Hershberger
I wrestled in school and I never heard of that maneuver. If someone had tried it the match would have ended in seconds with a black eye and a disqualification.
Paul in KY
If the move is legal, it should be made illegal. I wonder if it is legal in Olympic freestyle wrestling?
terraformer
back in junior high school (early 80s), I recall one of the “early blooming” (read: muscular) boys, a rather large african-american fellow, who ran like the wind. He once raced a fellow from another school, and during the sprint he shat a load for the ages such that his derrier appeared as a sack of potatoes.
On returning to the locker room, he entered, looked at each of us with a thousand-mile stare, and said “If ANY of you motherfuckers tells ANYONE about this, I am going to kick your motherfucking ass.”
Even though that was so long ago, I hope he isn’t reading this and also doesn’t have a skill for IP sniffing.
Davis X. Machina
The odd thing is, it would be an illegal move in Greco-Roman wrestling.
So much for stereotypes.
GregB
Next week on Wrestling Move Review we will discuss the Greek Salad Toss.
Porco Rosso
Wrestling by surprise?
Bridgier
So, we had a kid who lost in the state finals my junior year. He came back up into the stands and said “That guy’s a queer. I was checking his oil up to my second knuckle, and he still wouldn’t turn over”
But yeah, it’s supposed to be applied to the bundle of nerves right under the tailbone.
shecky
Wrestling always made me uneasy, like two guys fighting to see which one will get to mount the other. So I never participated. I had wondered if not showering two or three days prior to a match would endow any special advantages on a wrestler.
Interestingly, at my son’s jr high, wrestling is coed sport. Could you imagine legal/media frenzy that might ensue if it was a girl that had been penetrated?
Bridgier
@shecky:
“Okay, it looks like she’s leaving the high crotch open, so I want you to to put one in nice and deep. Maybe look for a t-bar if you can get behind her. If she flattens out, check her oil and give her a saturday night ride. If that doesn’t… why are you laughing? This is serious here.”
MikeTheZ
Konoha’s Ultimate Secret Technique! 1000 Years of Pain!
/nerd
Coach Woodcock
Dammit kid, I said be assertive, not insertive.
Amir_Khalid
ABC doesn’t say what code of wrestling they have at that school. If it was Greco-Roman, which does indeed forbid holds below the waist, then fingers up the jacksy are clearly illegal.
One thing bothers me about how the story was reported. I figure ABC, like news organizations the world over, has a policy of not reporting the names of victims of (alleged or confirmed) sexual assault, to protect them from the humiliation — and worse — that such victims are often subjected to. Presumably this is why the injured boy is not named.
However, ABC did identify him: it tells us that he is the 15-year-old son of a man it does name, one Ross Rice of Fresno, California, and that Rice Jr. goes to Buchanan High School.
The newspaper where I worked used to do this when reporting on (for instance) fathers accused of raping their daughters, until a reporter raised this point.
Jack
Let the coach know it is just fine to put finger up another man’s rectum since ‘it’s not in the rule book’. [email protected]
Jack
Let the coach know it is just fine to put finger up another man’s rectum since ‘it’s not in the rule book’. [email protected]
specialed5000
I smell (hehe…hehehe) a new tag here.
“When in doubt, insert.”
liberty60
I attended a Carmelite-run parish not 5 miles from Crespi, and was good friends with a Carmelite novitiate there.
According to him- and my experience, a majority of Carmelites are gay.
Given that, and the 600 million dollar payout by the Archdiocese of LA to victims of decades of pedophile priests on young men, I wonder why any Catholic coach or official would go around promoting fingers in young boys’ rectums.
I mean, c’mon.
Batocchio
I wrestled in high school, and sure don’t remember that one – but other folks upthread apparently have heard of it. Accidental contact is one thing, but the allegation is that it was intentional and prolonged in this case, and a nasty type of bullying.
SoINeedAName
Rectum?!?
Hell, it damn near killed him!