Jason Bryant

I browse the forum almost exclusively with the paid tapatalk app on my iphone …

How many forum users are paid InterMat Platinum members? Perhaps one check-the-box solution would be subscribe to the site, so they get their $ and then you can install your ad-blocker.

The brother thing is what it is. There's family members I'd rather not speak to, not because of their political opinions, but I just don't want to be around their drama. I can't really avoid reading the boards, since I use Tapatalk mostly - so these busy topics show up at the top - and sometimes the differing of opinions and the wild posts that follow are fun reading. I'll lurk, but more in a people-watching sort of way. I'm not leaving the site. I find the almost blind faith some people have in their side of the argument, no matter which side it is, to be comical. It doesn't impact my view of them personally, especially those whom I've met in person. I'm just going back to my self-imposed ban on talking about politics, it's easier to interact in a non-contentious manner when you strip out the no-win divisive topics like this.

I also saw he has a brother he hasn’t spoken to in years has different political opinions, too. You know what that means? Also nothing. I hadn’t spoken to my brother who lived in another state for probably 15 years. We didn’t care for each other either. Means what exactly? I’m sure if you asked either of us why, you’d get widely different answers. Bottom line on this to me is I just found the instance of random relatives who share a grandfather with someone they’ve never met - and it popping up here - worth pointing out it isn’t some type of “gotcha” moment people want it to be. I find both presidential options poor and am staunchly apolitical. I hope no one takes this personally, I didn’t. I’ll be back on the wrestling topics. Have a good one.

So are we REALLY putting validity into a picture by distant relatives who admit they’ve never met Tim Walz? I’m sure we all have relatives we don’t agree with politically. You know what that means? Absolutely Nothing. This ends my quadrennial trip into political discourse. As always, it’s a complete waste of time.

This is a nothing burger …

Perhaps the term “relative” is more appropriate here. From a Fox News story on it: Family members told Fox News they consider themselves "distant" from Walz and have never met or spoken with him. One person in the photo who wished to remain anonymous said they are supporting Trump because "he supports our values." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tim-walz-family-members-pose-tshirts-declaring-presidential-preference-walzs-trump

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Base 10 system. Makes sense across weights and measures - but it’s not a hill I’m going to die on.

All valid points from a viewing perspective, but I think the overall flaw is when watching, we tend to watch freestyle wanting it to be folkstyle. Expecting takedowns to be the same, such as a quad pod. Freestyle is about exposing your back, not about control, which is a crucial element to American folkstyle. it’s the same sport, but to use Olympic parlance, a different discipline. From a viewer perspective, I find riding time to be the biggest detriment to the uneducated sports fan in trying to get them to watch college wrestling. No style is perfect, I just wish more people could appreciate the styles for what they are vs. what they’re not. We don’t do the metric system here but it doesn’t mean it’s worse … imperial is just what we are used to.

Hell, I’d settle the being able to do the same amount of pull-ups I could do in high school.

We are talking across the point. I didn’t see (nor do I really care) those recent comments about her physical prowess. It’s impressive for sure. I’m just pointing out I recalled her claims during the pandemic about her fitness making her not need the jab. Those comments are clearly not related to the new comments. I’m not trying to make it anymore than what it is …

This video is 3 years old, which kinda tracks for the timeline.

My issue is with how it’s just panned by the anti-freestyle crowd as someone just simply rolling over. It’s a lot more detailed than that. It’s a deadly technique but it’s not like you just roll someone over. Pinning someone in a cradle in 15 seconds isn’t just rolling someone on to their back just like teching someone in a perfectly executed freestyle wrestling move isn’t just rolling someone over. I get that quick techs can come off lame - Passing it off as if it’s something so easy is where I’ll push back on it.

Wasn’t the issue her claiming she didn’t need the vaccine because she worked out so much?

1. No data available. 2. No data available. 3. Every session sold out for every style. Doesn’t mean there weren’t empty seats but ticket availability was scarce across the board.

DUCK SEASON!

Have you ever executed this technique in your life?

I fail to see an issue with the steak.

Or it says Greco teams are harder to make since there's fewer unique athletes making teams.

This one's far from scientific and is based solely on events I've announced since 2015. I have a pronunciation spreadsheet that has 3,019 unique names in it. There could be a small degree of duplication due to some names being with a middle name or a common misspelling like when translated (like Ukraine, Belarus), so I was curious how long my list was by style. On the men's side, I have 1,188 names registered to MFS. I have 1,015 registered to GR. So I've got more unique MFS names than I do GR names. Could mean there's less volatility in the entries on the Greco side, but if anything, it's just another number that I've got in my records.

We don't have that information, which is why we can't look at it.

Let’s find something more concrete then … I cite it because it’s the only thing I can find and I’ve been at the Worlds every year since ‘07. I first noticed it in 2009 when the Greco brackets were just so much bigger causing those days to just go on forever. Like another poster said above though, I’m not going to spend the time on it to prove a forum argument true or false - I do that too much as it is. Problem is our general ignorance on how other countries actually operate their wrestling associations really prevent us from being able to speak on it informatively or with numbers that can validate a position. I’d love for us to have stats on everything …

it’s the only verifiable thing we have at the moment. If someone wants to put in the work to find something more viable, I’m all ears. Worlds is essentially open with the only qualifier is you must compete at your continental championship.

It’s the best we have that isn’t solely U.S. centric data. By comparison, Every single “Fargo” has had more MFS entries than GR, so here, it’s clear among the two styles, FS is more popular. I don’t have any explanation as to why GR has more entries at worlds than MFS traditionally…