2002 Release

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Pre-registering lets the judges know how many of each weight division will attend and the feasibility of splitting weight divisions. It lets the wrestlers no how stiff of competition they are up against so they can decide if they want to train. It lets prospective engravers decide if it is worth their time to come engrave our medals with your name, date, and weight division.
Pre-registration is not required, but encourages judges & wrestlers to come, since the names & data on each pre-registered wrestler will appear on the aforementioned web page. A wrestler is officially pre-registered when his data (including ancestry) appears on that web page. If not enough people pre-register, the engraver may not come to engrave the medals, so encourage us by pre-registering. Wrestlers will be re-weighed and measured on June 3 so that all measurements are current & done with the same stick & scales. Your pre-registration measurements, help us decide the number of weight divisions & thus the number of medals to have on June 3. Kilts will be provided & you will be required to wear them (or your own kilt) to wrestle. (Naturally we will remove the knives from our socks and the dirks & swords from our belts before wrestling, though they seem a part of the kilt.) You will be shown how to don the kilt and expected to don it yourself, if not wearing your own kilt. You should wear a belt & come dressed in shorts that ideally come no lower than the middle of the thigh. The judges will decide if wrestling is to be done with no shoes &/or no shirt. There is a small admission fee to attend the festival but it will be refunded if you wrestle. There will be 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place medals for each division. There is no age restriction. No strength, skill, or previous experience is required for this event, but you should be able to withstand someone throwing you down with their weight coming down on top of you. Bones get brittle, so those "over the hill" might not want to try this event. The rules can be covered just before the event starts or you may read the rules at here. Though some are athletic & have done highland wrestling before, most of the wrestlers have never done this kind of wrestling & are not on a wrestling team and many wrestlers in this event are not athletic. For this reason 5" thick foam rubber is provided to cushion the falls. Check this web page for changes in our plans. We are expecting a big turnout. Invite your kith & kin (friends & kin). You will be required to fill out the above pedigree to decide the clan you are representing. Once you fill out the pedigree, the person registering you will look up your ancestor's surnames to find your best claim to a Scottish clan. You may override the registrar and tell him your clan, but will be expected to show your connection to the clan in your pedigree or step parent's pedigree. Most clans have no one to represent them in each division, so a clan's wrestlers are the clan's champions regardless of how they do, since the clan's wrestlers are usually the only ones for miles around brave & bold enough & caring enough to come wrestle for their family & clan's honor. Those that wrestle have demonstrated courage & interest. By the "no-show" of the other local able bodied descendants of their clan, the wrestlers that come to wrestle are declared the victor over those that did not come out for their clan. All the wrestlers have championed their clan & thus are by default, the best of their clan! A clan may enter as many wrestlers in a division as they like in hopes of winning 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in each division. A clan (having no way to know for certain who its 3 best wrestlers are) should enter all its wrestlers. A good wrestler may have bad luck or a bad day & a poor or weak wrestler may have good luck or through speed & aggressiveness (heart) he may win against bigger, stronger, heavier wrestlers. A parent or guardian will be required to sign release for each of their minors. The event will be video taped & photographed for the report for the web, as shown on this site for 1998 and 1999. Bring your cameras & camcorders & help us record this for the web.