Thursday, February 19, 2009

Chargers Are Back in the House



As I was getting ready to leave for the meet today, I revived a ritual that I began last year. First, find the camcorder, next the bag, then the power cord and extension cord. Don't forget the piece of paper to write everything down on. I thought to myself, "Here we go again. Another season of wrestling has begun." It was like putting on your favorite old winter coat. Brings back a lot of good memories and just feels good. Then the nerves started to kick in. What if he doesn't make weight? What if he loses? What if he gets hurt or hurts the other guy? What if.... You know the scenario. Well, just like last year the Chargers came out ready to fight and fight they did. The first four matches ended in pins. Chargers 24, Longhorns 0. Then we lost our first. That was followed by another four wins with 3 pins. Now it's Chargers 45, Longhorns 6. We lost our second after that run, but it was followed by another three wins, two pins and a tech fall. The last two matches were split, one for CJH and one for NLJH. However, if you ask me, Connor D. should have been given the match. I think the ref harbors a little animosity toward CJH. That's OK, it was a good match. Jaedon F. finished it off with a strong pin in the 2nd period. Final score Chargers 68, Longhorns 15. Well that good feeling is back and it looks like it will continue for another six weeks. Let's enjoy all of it. Way to go guys! Way to go coaches!

Now for the important part. Here are the links to the matches. In order to keep the size of the files manageable, I had to shrink the image. I have the full resolution files on my disk if anyone would like them. Just let me know and we can work something out.

78 lbs
85 lbs
92 lbs
98 lbs
104 lbs
110 lbs
115 lbs
120 lbs
125 lbs
132 lbs
140 lbs
150 lbs
162 lbs
175 lbs
275 lbs

1 comment:

mflake said...

Charger Dad, thanks for all your work with the blog and getting the videos posted! You've made it very convenient... I appreciate your time on it all.

I thought I'd just pass along a little work-around for anyone else out there who might be having a little trouble getting the video to display in the play-back window. When I tried to play the clips, I was getting sound but no video in the Windows Media Player inset. Here's what I did to fix the problem... maybe it will work for you as well:
1) Right-click in the video pane
2) Select "Options"
3) On the "Performance" tab, down in the section labeled "Video acceleration", drag the slider to "None"
4) Click "Apply"
5) Click "Yes" on the prompt that pops up
6) Select "OK" to close the "Options" window
7) Replay the video clip

Hope this helps.