New Zealander, Tayla Ford was awarded best female wrestler at Oceania Championships yesterday. The seventeen year old dominated the female competition winning gold in both the junior and senior freestyle wrestling competition.
Tayla, who fights for the Dilworth Club in Christchurch, says it’s cool to wrestle, but there is not female competition, so she practices wrestling against her brother.
Ford maintains that females are better wrestlers than the boys as they have to try harder because they are not as strong as the boys.
When competing, Tayla says, ‘It’s awesome. You can grab and hold on and keep moving into a dominant position.’ This strategy has won Ford the NZ Freestlyle championship in both the senior and junior categories, and she is also the junior Grappling champion.
Tayla’s goal is to secure funding from Wrestling New Zealand, which will enable her to compete in the Junior and Senior Worlds, and the 2012 Olympics.
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