MM video

[Scouts Honor]

someone posted a video of an extended MM interview. I can't find it now.  I thought it was it's own thread.

 

anyway, i think his words are perfect.

it surprises me to think that most aren't aware of these thoughts or ideas.  

I used these same types of things in coaching in the 90's. (MM's dad was a hs coach so maybe he gets it from him)

I told my wrestlers I didn't care if they won or lost. I only wanted them to try to improve their position constantly and work as hard as they could to score points in any situation. I wanted them to think/react to/about what was next... not about the last situation but what happens now.

If Cael is the only one preaching this, then it's easy to see why PSU is better than anyone else.

But I think it's more : you can't make chicken salad out of chicken _ _ _ _.

or it's not about the x's and o's its about the jimmies and joes.

[Wrestleknownothing]

10 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

someone posted a video of an extended MM interview. I can't find it now.  I thought it was it's own thread.

 

anyway, i think his words are perfect.

it surprises me to think that most aren't aware of these thoughts or ideas.  

I used these same types of things in coaching in the 90's. (MM's dad was a hs coach so maybe he gets it from him)

I told my wrestlers I didn't care if they won or lost. I only wanted them to try to improve their position constantly and work as hard as they could to score points in any situation. I wanted them to think/react to/about what was next... not about the last situation but what happens now.

If Cael is the only one preaching this, then it's easy to see why PSU is better than anyone else.

But I think it's more : you can't make chicken salad out of chicken _ _ _ _.

or it's not about the x's and o's its about the jimmies and joes.

My favorite part of that interview was when he admonished the reporter by saying something along the lines of, "you keep focusing on outcomes"

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

2 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

My favorite part of that interview was when he admonished the reporter by saying something along the lines of, "you keep focusing on outcomes"

I think MM had some difficulty focusing on outcomes of positions and matches in the past; this is probably a change that he needed to make over the past year or so. (based on what a Wisconsin-based poster wrote on this board multiple times before the transfer)

[Pinnacle]

21 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

someone posted a video of an extended MM interview. I can't find it now.  I thought it was it's own thread.

 

anyway, i think his words are perfect.

it surprises me to think that most aren't aware of these thoughts or ideas.  

I used these same types of things in coaching in the 90's. (MM's dad was a hs coach so maybe he gets it from him)

I told my wrestlers I didn't care if they won or lost. I only wanted them to try to improve their position constantly and work as hard as they could to score points in any situation. I wanted them to think/react to/about what was next... not about the last situation but what happens now.

If Cael is the only one preaching this, then it's easy to see why PSU is better than anyone else.

But I think it's more : you can't make chicken salad out of chicken _ _ _ _.

or it's not about the x's and o's its about the jimmies and joes.

 

 

 

Edited March 13 by Pinnacle

[Doublehalf]

Great interview, love the mindset and honestly a little jealous I didn't have that mindset growing up and even into my professional life sometimes. It seems so simple but I believe thinking that way has to be something you remind yourself to do constantly to get to that point.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

I think Kendall Cross once said something about getting a lot better when he started "approaching practice as if it were the most important thing on earth and approaching matches as if they didn't matter."

(Also, I know Kendall got a lot better when he started using baseline offense first, and resorting to gumby scrambles when all else failed- something I'd love to see Yianni do)

[jackwebster]

32 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

(Also, I know Kendall got a lot better when he started using baseline offense first, and resorting to gumby scrambles when all else failed- something I'd love to see Yianni do)

I thought he got better once he stopped shooting. 

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

14 minutes ago, jackwebster said:

I thought he got better once he stopped shooting. 

Just going by what Bruce Burnett said!

[Truzzcat]

3 hours ago, Scouts Honor said:

someone posted a video of an extended MM interview. I can't find it now.  I thought it was it's own thread.

 

anyway, i think his words are perfect.

it surprises me to think that most aren't aware of these thoughts or ideas.  

I used these same types of things in coaching in the 90's. (MM's dad was a hs coach so maybe he gets it from him)

I told my wrestlers I didn't care if they won or lost. I only wanted them to try to improve their position constantly and work as hard as they could to score points in any situation. I wanted them to think/react to/about what was next... not about the last situation but what happens now.

If Cael is the only one preaching this, then it's easy to see why PSU is better than anyone else.

But I think it's more : you can't make chicken salad out of chicken _ _ _ _.

or it's not about the x's and o's its about the jimmies and joes.

I know Ben has discussed this before when asked why his club kids seem to develop later. Para phrasing but it was something along the lines of hes not coaching kids to be the best 8th grader in the country he wants them to constantly be developing new skills and a lot of times to do that you're going to have worse results before you ultimately master those skills and the better results will follow.

[jackwebster]

31 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Just going by what Bruce Burnett said!

Fair enough

[JuanMogen]

3 hours ago, Scouts Honor said:

someone posted a video of an extended MM interview. I can't find it now.  I thought it was it's own thread.

 

anyway, i think his words are perfect.

it surprises me to think that most aren't aware of these thoughts or ideas.  

I used these same types of things in coaching in the 90's. (MM's dad was a hs coach so maybe he gets it from him)

I told my wrestlers I didn't care if they won or lost. I only wanted them to try to improve their position constantly and work as hard as they could to score points in any situation. I wanted them to think/react to/about what was next... not about the last situation but what happens now.

If Cael is the only one preaching this, then it's easy to see why PSU is better than anyone else.

But I think it's more : you can't make chicken salad out of chicken _ _ _ _.

or it's not about the x's and o's its about the jimmies and joes.

I heard CS, CS, and CC taught the PSUW’s more about G and T than most schools. Take IU for example. TB and TB had a run through the LTY’s with AS, SL, MM, and PL who all had KT tape on there A and L’s. It’s wild to think about it all.

[CHROMEBIRD]

Thing that cracks me up about MM is how he's so vicious when he wrestles, just demolishing everyone, then you hear him talk and he's this really nice kid, pretty much the opposite of intense, who's just happy to be there and literally out there having fun. Like if you saw him on the street not knowing who he was, you'd never guess that the dude with the goofy hair and old man glasses is a stone cold killer. 

Same when he wrestles. His head movement and the way he circles looks weird and clunky, not really graceful at all, yet he's totally slick and a destroyer of worlds. If he wasn't winning all the time, Rock Harrison would probably ridicule his style for being so "herky jerky". Hard not to love this kid.

[Antitroll2828]

4 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

My favorite part of that interview was when he admonished the reporter by saying something along the lines of, "you keep focusing on outcomes"

Not the first and not the last penn state guy to put Christian Pyles in his place 

[bnwtwg]

2 hours ago, Doublehalf said:

Great interview, love the mindset and honestly a little jealous I didn't have that mindset growing up and even into my professional life sometimes. It seems so simple but I believe thinking that way has to be something you remind yourself to do constantly to get to that point.

People may not like the TikTok generation for various personal reasons but they have this mindset down pat. They have a heightened focus on mental health and life hasn't been beaten then down enough yet to become cynical towards their ventures.

Who would have guessed some bald kid from Utah would go on to be an art major in middle of nowhere Iowa that would transform a generation of college kids' minds

[Scouts Honor]

21 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

My favorite part of that interview was when he admonished the reporter by saying something along the lines of, "you keep focusing on outcomes"

AGREED!

[Scouts Honor]

21 hours ago, Pinnacle said:

 

 

 

thanks

[Rassling]

22 hours ago, Doublehalf said:

Great interview, love the mindset and honestly a little jealous I didn't have that mindset growing up and even into my professional life sometimes. It seems so simple but I believe thinking that way has to be something you remind yourself to do constantly to get to that point.

Way mature beyond his years!