Fab1b;600666 wrote:It has here in FL, it's a problem but I think the rules comittee has it's hands full on things like injury!! That is why they added the extra point for nf. What else can they do? The first time a kid says he's hurt and the ref doesn't stop it because the ref doesn't think the kid is really hurt well that ref may end up in court!!
What's odd, at youth opens, and the OAC grade school states, I have seen refs make youth kids keep going.
I understand young kids cry a lot during wrestling even if they aren't really hurt (my son is one of them), but I've personally seen where a kid is holding his arm/elbow crying trying to walk back to the starting position and the ref tells the 6 year old "if you can't get over here you'll have to forfeit".
There is so much more crying at that level so I understand its hard to determine real injuries vs "I'm losing and don't like it" crying, but my opinion is that at the youth level they do NOT stop it for "injury" time right away as Fab is saying they are supposed to.
Don't get me wrong, there have been many times my kid has put his opponent in the reverse half and only got 4 backpoints instead of a pin because the kid is screaming, so it has hurt my kid too. However, as Fab said, its near impossible at any level to tell if the injury is real or not.
