I had a wrestling coach who really invested in me. The section tournament was coming up and I knew I would face a kid who had pinned me twice in the finals. We already knew that's where it was heading. The kid was a cradle kid, and had locked me up in a cradle twice already for the fall, once that year and once the year before. He was tall and really long, so he was very good at cradling guys, especially guys like me who have never been tall.
My coach worked with me for three straight weeks at practice on cradle defense. When the section finals came I put an a*s whipping on this dude. I won 14-2 and at one point when he tried to cradle me I countered him with my own cradle and put him on his back. It was a drubbing.
I ran into that coach at a wrestling tournament a couple of decades later. He didn't even remember me despite coaching me for years and years.