Leaderboard

I'm just glad Stanford still has a team

I thought we are posting best, not worst wrestling stories.

Flo predicts it’ll come up in the Weast

OSU will have a hole at 157. I think they may try Khayititov Mirzo. Was a small 165 pounder in juco and wrestled some 70 kg 3 years ago. I think Carroll starts at 285. Watched his match against Feldman, could have gone either way and seems Carroll has gotten better. 184 will be interesting. Do they go with Whitlake or Thompson or Haas. 125 is clearly Spratley and 133 is Fix. 141 I think is Alvarez, but was clearly had problems with weight so I think Jamison is insurance. Carter Young I think redshirts to heal knee injury he got at Big 12. 149 likely Williams, but if Alvarez cannot make 141 not a shock to see him at 149. 157 is a hole. Best hope is Mirzo IMHO. 165 is Olejnik. 174 is likely Plott, but could they redshirt Plott and put Whitlake at 174? 184 is Thompson, Whitlake or Haas. Not sure Haas can make 184, as more of a 197 pounder. I think given poor showing in 2023, they start true freshman, meaning both Carroll and Thompson. 197 is Surber, with Haas and freshman Robb in wings. 285 I think is Carroll. Ducet did great for a guy who was really a third tier prospect, but not sure can move up.

Twin brothers on our high school team were Italian kids from South Philly that had never wrestled before. For some reason they didn't like to wear our team warmups over the singlet and both brothers wore matching black leather jackets over their singlet on the way to and from matches

Similar we were putting together a kids club grade school dual team for a sort of state level tourney. Picked kids for all the weight such that no one having to cut any weight. Exception was heavy weight, only had one kid and he was over by think ~6lb. We had ~1.5 weeks, told him what to eat. Mid week of tourney checked his weight, was getting close, told him what to eat before we'd check at practice the next night. He comes back 2lbs heavier, ask him why what happened, said his mom gave him a Snickers bar. There's a reason some kids are in the HWT category.

I was in deep on a shot, opponent literally grabbed a handful of my singlet and yanked upwards. My singlet exploded, giving the crowd quite the show as I was wearing a jock strap. The sudden breeze and abrupt jostling of my singlet made me pause. Ended up getting taken down, losing the match 3-5. I stood up and heard the crowd oooh, aaahh, and start whistling. I realized what happened, then just sat down until a coach threw me a jacket. I wrapped it around myself, then scrambled to change into a teammates singlet in the back hallway. Video does exist, but it is probably NSFW....

There was a high five between BA and CM, FWIW.

They have a monthly subscription option now… $29.99/mo.

That match is a great example of why we have weight classes and why Oly only using 6 classes is asinine.

Somebody posted it on the old forum. I don't remember who or where but the story was Rich was at a training camp or something for the world team. Might've even been worlds. Anyway one of the coaches comes around and finds Rich in his hotel with 2 girls and yells at him saying "Hey get those girls out of here!" So about an hour later that coach goes to check on Rich again and found him with 2 different girls and he says "Hey you told me to get them out of here". Don't remember the resolution on that.

Jesus christ call the coroner and tell 'em we need body bags from the surrounding counties

You think their development work is organized? Around sprints? It's much more likely they don't have a Jira board or confluence or any sort of automation or support for engineering. If I were betting, it's a sea of aging post-it notes pasted to the side of one engineer's desktop box.

Well honey, I have had enough interactions with them to figure out they aren't very tech savvy. They are obviously no Bob Dole.

You and I both know they're using Google Sheets with some faulty macros they copy-pasted from a google search

all this yada yada yada over hot dog water

Pushing straight to Prod because you lack quality product managers, engineers, and QA. This is more undergrad startup-level ineptitude from Flo. Don’t surprised when the feeds go down and the venue gets blamed, folks.

The Angry fish is gonna bite you. Great club back in the day. Ray Brinzer and the Late great Ty Moore owned it I believe. They put out some studs. Coleman Scott was also in the club. Thanks for sharing.

Personal or otherwise. Could be anything. The one that sticks out to me is Iowa's Randy Lewis talking about the time he wrestled Dave Shultz in practive. I know many of you have read or heard this story. but it is awesome. Randy lewis used to post on thematforums under the moniker Lewboo This is an epic post from the USA Wrestling forum by Randy Lewis about the late great Olympic and World Champ Dave Schultz. Lewis himself was a 1984 Olympic Wrestling Champion and an all time great. Dave Schultz couldn't turn me Postby lewboo » Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:33 pm With the Dave Schultz tournament going on this weekend, and my good friend Royce Alger telling his story about his first workout with Dave Schultz on Facebook, I thought it would be appropriate to tell my story of my first and ONLY workout with the great Dave Schultz. Dave was a great friend of mine, and we were teammates many times and were at training camps together many times, but I only got on the mat with him one time, for a total of just one minute. I would often roll around with bigger wrestlers in practice, but I was always afraid to wrestle Dave Schultz. Dave was the nicest guy in the world off the mat, but I knew that on the mat he was a different animal. I had seen enough of Dave Schultz in matches and in practice to know that on the mat he was as Stephen A Smith would say “A BAD MAN!!!” I always felt like if I were to wrestle him, I would be unable to protect myself. It turns out I was correct!!! I remember one time at the 1984 Olympic training camp and Dave didn’t have a partner and he asked me if I wanted to roll around a little. I said “Dave, I am not ever going to wrestle with you until I am retired! I don’t want to get hurt!” One year later, I had temporarily retired, and I was at a world team practice and guys were switching partners, and Dave said to me “Lewboo, now that you are retired you want to roll with me?” I said “Not really but I will for a little bit.” Just as I got paired up with Dave, coach Jim Humphries, who was running the practice announced, “1 minute periods, par terre, world team member on top!” I thought, really, one minute underneath Dave Schultz, that doesn’t sound very fun! Well, it took about 15 seconds for Dave to get my right foot placed up over my left ear, bending my body in a very painful way! My knee, my hip, my back, my neck, and my shoulder were all being wrenched at the same time! Pain was shooting through my entire body, and I was trying to roll over onto my back as fast as I could! Unfortunately for me I couldn’t move! Somehow, my neck and head got twisted so that my mouth and nose were stuck in the mat, and I couldn’t breathe. Not only was my body in severe pain, but now I was also suffocating, and I couldn’t reach Dave with either of my hands to tap out. My body somehow got stuck in a position where I couldn’t roll over, and Dave kept cranking harder and harder to try and turn me. I was stuck in this position for about 45 seconds, in severe pain and suffocating, unable to turn over and just as I started to black out, coach Humphries saved my LIFE by blowing the whistle. Dave let me go, and I rolled over onto my back, sobbing uncontrollably, and hyperventilating trying to catch my breath. Dave looked at me and said, wow, I can’t believe you didn’t turn over, I was really cranking hard. I said I was trying as hard as I could to turn over, but I couldn’t. I cried like a baby for about 5 minutes straight after that, and I never wrestled with Dave Schultz again. I have told this story to many other wrestlers when they ask me about Dave, and I follow it up by saying yeah, Dave was pretty good on top, but he couldn’t turn me! Writing this brings tears to my eyes and I and the wrestling world miss Dave so much, he was such a great person and such a great wrestler

School brings it. Multiple guys in Final X. Now two guys on U23 world team. Is pretty much expected to be top 10 at NCAAs every year and often gets top 5. Multiple AAs every year. Shows they help guys transition to Olympic styles. Grey and his new coaching staff, and the leaders on the team, have done well in the transition away from Koll. I’m a biased fan. I admit. But trying to be objective I’m still damn impressed.

Ok ... that seems so specific that shirely it comes with a guarantee.

Tailwinds isn’t my cup of tea, but I mean that’s a whole other discussion … I’ve used it on a React ticketing application and can see the pros/cons Im just mentioning it and Angular as they are running a modern stack, not a Wordpress site on a shared server somewhere. That’s it’s a shame they have something relatively modern and letting it down with bad data

Okay last one for today and thanks for humoring me so far - We are facing a local rival and a teammate of mine (our 145 lber) forgot his wrestling shoes for the dual. Luckily we are the same size shoe, I was the 125 lber, and we were starting the dual at 145, which gave us enough time to switch up. Unfortunately, what I had not foreseen, was that this particular teammate, who had wrestled since he was a kid, was about to complete his last ever match. He was a hot tempered kid - down a point in the third period, and could not get off bottom. Got ridden like a pony and the coach let him have it and yelled at him "you gave up" - the kid says "f*ck you - I quit" and storms out of the gym". Problem was, he was still wearing my shoes. I ran out of the gym to half give him consolation, but mostly to get my shoes back (these were Adidas Mat Wizards in white black and gold). Got them back and then won via spladle

We are excited to announce the upcoming Bellarmine Wrestling Outdoor Competition Camp, The camp will take place at the Bellarmine University at Owsley B. Frazier Stadium and will have competitive matches immediately after. Matches will be organized by weight classes and age groups. This will provide a fantastic outdoor setting to showcase wrestling. All pre-registered by June 26th will receive a FREE T-shirt. This camp is a fantastic opportunity for us to come to sharpen your skills and have a great time in the process. Date: July 8th Weigh-ins: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Camp Start Time: 4:00 PM Location: Owsley B. Frazier Stadium, 2201 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY 40205 Cost: The camp fee is $40 per wrestler, all pre-register by June 26th will receive a FREE T-shirt, There will be a $5 cooler fee Concessions will be available for purchase. Register on www.trackwrestling.com at https://bit.ly/3WTqYv7 So mark your calendars for July 8th, and don't forget to arrive on time for the weigh-ins between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM. We'll kick off the camp promptly at 4:00 PM

praise odin... i didn't want to assume... i am doing to grunt work for AI to start recognizing scanned PDFs that are sometimes the quality of old mimeograph copies and handwriting... when i talk to my boss about what he is trying to do i feel like how cinnabon must feel everyday of his life... equal parts humbling and horrifying...

Oh I do the multiple tabs, add data from one excel to another. and can merge and freeze cells. It’s the formula stuff that gets me. Im forced to use google sheets a lot which is annoying as well. Because I usually need to share the data easily or update it so people can see right away. Can’t do as much apparently and none of the excel hotkeys I’ve tried looking up to save time work on sheets

We had a kid who couldn't make HWT because he was too big. The boy was just shy of three biscuits. One practice coach tells him instead of joining us in practice, he wanted the kid to go upstairs in the large gym and just run and don't stop until two hours are done and then we'll see how much weight he lost. We all resumed our practice. Big Tony comes down and tries to avoid weighing in. Coach insists on it and he is a couple lbs heavier than when he started. Instead of running he spent the two hours by the vending machine.

Actually during the call.

That explains a lot, probably used punch cards boomer.

Guessing Swiderski redshirts this year

Local police knew it was DuPont 5 seconds after the 911 call was made.

You're hurting me guys. DBeaver on top of MariaDB on Ubuntu 22.10

R*Y

There are a few Sanders stories in this link: https://henryehooper.blog/witness-post-rick-sanders/ Here are a couple. Morris Johnson’s favorite Rick Sanders story came from his college coach, Buck Deadrich. Apparently Sanders was wrestling in the finals of the AAU nationals, which were being held in Oklahoma. Deadrich said that back then, Oklahoma was “the last and tightest notch in the bible belt” and people who looked like Sanders with their long hair, shaggy beard, peace buttons on his jacket, etc, were not “fully appreciated” in the Sooner State. Rick Sander’s opponent in the finals match was Gene Davis, who was both an OK State alumnus, as well as a clean-cut member of Athletes-in-Action’s Campus Crusade for Christ wrestling club. From the raucous crowd reaction, Davis was clearly coming in to the finals as the fan favorite. When it was time for their match, Davis walked out into the spot-light, and the PA announcer said something to the effect of “Now competing in the 136 lb final, wrestling for the Lord … Mr. Gene Davis!” The crowd cheered long and loudly. As the noise died down a bit, but before the PA announcer could say anything else, Sanders ran out onto the mat, slid onto his knees in the spotlight and shouted “…AND WRESTLING FOR THE DEVIL … RICK SANDERS!” Buck Deadrich said there was a slight, stunned pause, before the crowd rained booo’s down on Sanders. Not wasting time, Sanders promptly took down Davis and pinned him in the 1st period! Another. Another Keith Lowrance story recalls Sander’s legendary weight cutting practices. “At the trials for the Pan American team in Minnesota a couple of us were running when we came across Sanders. He was hiding something in the bushes. I asked him what he was doing and he said, ‘Keith, you always need a plan for weight cutting.’ He went on to say that he was driving around his running route hiding cans of beer every 2 miles. He said that those beers could keep him going for 10 to 12 miles, and at that distance he could lose the 10 plus pounds he needed to make weight the next day. Sanders jumped in his car and went to his next hiding spot.”

I'd debug everything for the privilege of allowing me to pay by the month!

There are several great Sanders stories on the blog https://henryehooper.blog/witness-post-rick-sanders/ IOncluding a couple from Morris Johnson.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-city-council-rejects-giving-city-attorney-power-to-prosecute-drug-cases/ Is this too anecdotal for you Rasta? Perhaps Seattle is alone in this. Perhaps not. It certainly does not align with the way most of the other areas of WA feel, so it may be isolated yes. Here is some more anecdotals for you. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2022/02/drug-arrests-stayed-high-even-as-imprisonment-fell-from-2009-to-2019 Seems like drug abuse is everywhere as these last two are national stats. But this is just anecdotal keep telling yourself. Remember, City of Seattle just voted not to hold individuals criminally liable for possession or use. mspart

There are several podcasts That I have seen by Wrestling saved my life and Kyle Klingman etc. that have of his former teammates Gable, Don Behm etc. with some great Sanders stories. Gable recounted that he saw Sanders the morning of the day he was killed after being picked up hitchhiking, pretty interesting.

Consolations at WTT and at 79kg.

I was referring to Arena.. which is ducking terrible. Perhaps not even at a code level (outside of what was pointed out here), but from an intuitive usage sense.

The consistent gripe of Flo is that there is an abundance of common mistakes. An occasional mistake happens; a pattern of mistakes speaks to incompetence; a pattern of incompetence speaks to negligence. Publicizing their technical road map with sprint release dates would go a LONG way to regaining trust imo. People don't need to see the inner workings of their product ops org but a little transparency would go a very long way.

No question at all. The magazine was probably covering themselves from potential lawsuits.

Yeah, 1...not a great thing, but it suddenly feels like a nice little treat compared to a shit swirly. Also, I can't get the image of 4 Doctors standing around an X-ray reading, "huh...I can't believe that...Snails can sleep for up to 3 years? Well, lets go pull this thing outta this kid and...do NOT break the glass!" But seriously, that is genuinely horrible. Geezus...our hazing was like...carry the bags and mundane things. That is brutal.

Ooof...yeah, kicking, biting, aiming at the balls, you fight like a feral badger at that point if you need to...

Without covid, Iowa would have been robbed of their total collapse in Detroit in 2022.

Here is coach Waller talling about popping Nolf. Waller is an absolute nut. Always been super high energy.

This is by far my favorite post I have ever read on the wrestling boards for the last 20 years. I laugh every time I read it.

That’s shitty. There is no excuse for a wrestler getting choked completely out. It doesn’t happen that quickly if the ref has any wrestling knowledge. Not much of a procedure to protest in HS wrestling. I found with bad calls it was always best to wait until breaks in between rounds and have a discussion with the ref, including the head ref in the conversation if necessary. It’s amazing how many times they actually admit they blew a call either because they were out of position or weren’t 100% sure on a rule so let it play out. I’m fine with that, as long as it makes them better. We need more refs and berating them does little to recruit more or help the ones we have improve. Through the years I tried to talk my better wrestlers into getting their officiating license (offered for free by the state association) to make some side cash in college, but they all said they didn’t feel like spending their Saturdays getting yelled at by old fat guys for 12 hours straight.