New Iowa St Wrestling facility

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Lots of windows and natural light!

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

This is insane, any article on it?

[gimpeltf]

Glad they showed the toilets!

[ionel]

9 minutes ago, gimpeltf said:

Glad they showed the toilets!

Would expect this comment from Porta not from gimp.  

[Threadkilla]

I like it better than the Hawk's.    Iowa's needs less of the depressing gray and black and more yellow, since it has no natural light. 

[de4856]

Looks like an amazing facility. Good for the Cyclones. 

[NM1965]

Looks great. 

[D3 for LU]

1 hour ago, NM1965 said:

Looks great. 

... less filling!

D3

[jackwebster]

I like the stage for the pole-dancers. I'm assuming there's an adjacent Champagne Room.

[lisa morales]

What's a Cuban's favorite place to meet friends?

[Tom formerly Tofurky]

I felt like I was watching my youngest play Mine Craft.

Is that an existing structure on campus that is to be renovated or a completely new build?

[Dogbone]

Looks nice.  Some of the glass seems to go to other rooms so the natural light might be below the new standard for wrestling rooms.  

It was also nice of Virginia Tech to let them use their wrestling mats. 

Edited May 8 by Dogbone

[Hammerlock3]

The whole "natural light" movement is spearheaded by people who spend a lot of money on informericials and the skymall catalogue.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

6 minutes ago, Hammerlock3 said:

The whole "natural light" movement is spearheaded by people who spend a lot of money on informericials and the skymall catalogue.

UNI wrestler had a recent tweet making fun of the lack of natural light in Iowa's room.  Meanwhile the UNI room that he was bragging about had several pillars in the middle of it.  I would rather get artificial light than have Keckheisen concuss me with a blast double into the pillar.

I had a room with natural light... it is too dark to notice during the winter and if the light hits the mats during the summer they can get too hot to touch.

Also, people seem not to realize that all the "greys" in the Iowa facility are because it isn't finished yet.

[ionel]

5 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Also, people seem not to realize 

Just for @MPhillips, there he goes again ...

 

Edited May 8 by ionel

[Hammerlock3]

3 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

UNI wrestler had a recent tweet making fun of the lack of natural light in Iowa's room.  Meanwhile the UNI room that he was bragging about had several pillars in the middle of it.  I would rather get artificial light than have Keckheisen concuss me with a blast double into the pillar.

I had a room with natural light... it is too dark to notice during the winter and if the light hits the mats during the summer they can get too hot to touch.

Also, people seem not to realize that all the "greys" in the Iowa facility are because it isn't finished yet.

Yeah the natural light thing is a direct outgrowth of "Iowa no fun dungeon" joke that has become the joke only stupid people laugh at.

The only way it makes things cleaner is by heating up portions of the mat like you alluded to, and this isn't a viable means of cleaning the mats due to inconsistent coverage and weather.

The natural light room I was in for years was facing west, and I was in there a lot at dawn and dusk, and those times sucked because you have sun directly in your eyes, a confound that doesn't have a training benefit. Its very aethetic if you're not wrestling, but if you are you want a washed out and evenly lit room, not a bunch of shadows and sun beams carving up the landscape visually.

[Doublehalf]

This place is gorgeous 

[CowboyYe2024]

12 hours ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

Lots of windows and natural light!

That's dope. Better than Iowa's

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

1 hour ago, ionel said:

Just for @MPhillips, there he goes again ...

 

I suppose that is how I address commonly held misconceptions.

[MPhillips]

2 hours ago, Hammerlock3 said:

The natural light room I was in for years was facing west, and I was in there a lot at dawn and dusk, and those times sucked because you have sun directly in your eyes,

You had light in your eyes at both dawn and dusk? That's a hell of a wrestling room...

[feet2back]

Did they break ground on project? Any type of time frame? 

[MNRodent]

21 minutes ago, MPhillips said:

You had light in your eyes at both dawn and dusk? That's a hell of a wrestling room...

His room may have been located in a binary star system world.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

18 minutes ago, MNRodent said:

His room may have been located in a binary star system world.

[Hammerlock3]

53 minutes ago, MPhillips said:

You had light in your eyes at both dawn and dusk? That's a hell of a wrestling room...

no just dusk (thought my hung over self would have been really pissed if the building was facing east), I just thought the time I'd spend rewriting the thing to reflect that seemed poor roi.

Edited May 8 by Hammerlock3

[ionel]

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/cyclone-insider/2024/05/09/iowa-state-wrestling-new-facility-on-hold-jamie-pollard-tailgate-tour-west-des-moines/73635561007/