Scott Samuelson: Counting Lights
The author of “The Deepest Human Life" on the Dao of wrestling and why “Reversal is the movement of the Way.”
By Scott Samuelson
“Counting lights” is an expression that wrestlers use for fighting off being pinned—when you’re on your back, arching as hard as you can, and all you can see is the gymnasium lights.
I’ll never forget this one time that I was counting lights. It was during a tournament hosted by my high school in rural Iowa, literally in the middle of…
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