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- [Taylor] I wanted to join the Air Force Wrestling Team

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mainly because it was another opportunity to compete again.

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- I made the team, and I know Taylor just joined, too.

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The first opportunity I had to talk to him,

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^I tried helping him out to join the team too because then

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^it would be even better having a prior teammate

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^from high school, and a friend.

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- When me and Raul were in high school,

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we were both captains for the wrestling team.

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- [Raul] He was a lot smarter than I was,

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so whenever we had to show moves or anything that

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involved technique, he would go out there and

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show by example, and I would be talking and yelling at them,

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getting them motivated vocally.

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^- Sharing workload of leadership and keeping accountability

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^of all the wrestlers on our team really brought us together.

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It's nice to be in a room like so many other wrestlers

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with such high accolades, and just the competitiveness

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in the room I feel drives us to a level that we didn't know

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we'd be able to reach.

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- [Raul] These are really good wrestlers, and my problem is

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I'm not confident in myself a lot of times.

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So then he'll see that after practice we're walking

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cooling down in a room in my dorm, and he can tell that

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I'm down on myself or disappointed on how I did that day.

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And then he'll motivate me for the next day or

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the next practice, and that helps a lot.

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Not to know that I'm alone at this camp.

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He's helping me, too.

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- [Taylor] He definitely is always there to pick up

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the motivation and be that guy behind me that's like

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come on, push, one more, one more rep.

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I would tell him thank you for being someone that can

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stay dedicated and motivated to something for such a

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long period of time in something as competitive

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and difficult as wrestling.

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- [Raul] The love for the sport,

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I don't think it'll ever die.