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The 3-Point Takedown: Friend or Foe?

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Wrestleknownothing
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Thanks to the data provided by @cowcards we can now look at the three point takedown through a new lens. Lights, Camera, ACTION At the time the three pointer was approved the rationale was t

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All the three point takedown has done is give room for an extra stall call in the third period.   A late first period takedown and ride out, an escape with no riding time and most wrestlers

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Wrestleknownothing

I am starting to come around to the counter-intuitive. If you want to increase risk taking, lower the score for a takedown to 1.5. If you only get 1.5 and a reversal is worth 1, you can no longer

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12 hours ago, BruceyB said:

I know that you're a newer poster, so just an easy tip, if you type @ and then the users name you're responding to, or simply quote them with the "quote" button under their post, it tags them in your response and they get notified. Welcome to the board though!

And I won't bother with the scenario of 30 seconds with no stall warning, because you can basically do whatever you want in the amount of time and even with how I would like a match to be officiated, there is nearly anyway to justify hitting a guy twice with 30 seconds left.

But with 1:00 left, I would tell my athlete not to stop wrestling. Be conservative and don't take any unnecessary risks, but a minute is too long to avoid wrestling. But be defensive in the ties to slow your opponent down and make it difficult for your opponent get find an opening, if he takes a bad shot and you can reattack for find a front headlock, you stay there and "look" like you're trying to score and eat time off the clock. If you have an opening to get to a leg (which often happens when a guy is in desperation mode late, drop in on the leg and eat time that way.

With a minute left, I look at the goal as to be just active enough not get give up your first stall warning, and then once you get down to the final thirty, you can pretty much just disengage. Like I said above, 30 seconds left with zero stall warnings, you aren't getting hit twice for stalling.

And I know this reply is already too long, but one last point: my argument was mostly in regard to the topic of this thread. With the three point takedown, you often have a wrestler enter the third with a 4-1 lead, in a 1 takedown match (obviously), and with 3 stall calls to give. In this case, they have 3 stalls to give before it effects the outcome of the match. My suggestion with quicker stall calls is to prevent matches where the leading wrestler can dance around the mat without engaging for an entire period with impunity. 

Just curious if you know who Pmilk is? He is by far the best wrestler on this forum. He is a very accomplished coach. He is one of the best wrestlers to come out of Ohio. His father is arguably one of if not the best coaches to come out of Ohio. Don't let the number of posts fool you.

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