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Dake’s primary struggle is with really long names. That’s why magomedkhabib takatani and daichi kazimeghomedov had such success against him. They hid behind the length of their names, and found technical weaknesses in areas dake assumed he was invincible in. Considering that cowboy wrestlers just did the same thing x2 at ncaa’s, I would expect similar technical growth from valencia. He’s already looked world’s better now that he’s away from those arizona summer snowstorms.

Join the team and just keep an eye out for your people on the team. If you like the sport, it won’t matter. You may encounter some dbags, but you may also meet some of the best friends kf your life. Wrestling 100% changed my life in the best way possible. Wrestling gave me college options I wouldn’t have, and thanks to wrestling I have been able to spend a decade living around the world, I speak new languages(mandarin and cantonese, nerdy enough?), and I have made hundreds of friends and met thousands of awesome people. You never know where it will take you, but it is invariably to a good place. You will meet great friends, just enjoy the friends and ignore the dbags. Also, wrestlers don’t like to admit it, but there are more people like me and knownothing than not. Wrestling is too all consuming and immersive to just shut that switch off.

Not the hero we wanted, but the hero we needed

"Hi I'm Wrestlingknownothing...and I'm an excel-aholic" [From a big crowd] "Hi wrestlingknownothing..."

Nah I was referring to the old hat dig at the brands that they buy winners instead of building wrestlers. Obviously it’s a bit overblown, but also not entirely untrue.

Mad respect for building this. Were there any new seeding criteria that were added (or existing that were taken away) that may have over or underweighted certain conferences over others? Ie, where there any structurally over or underweighted talent pools via this years seeding process?

Haha I think you could just leave it at "one makes his wrestlers better..."

I don’t think it’s great, but it’s also part and parcel of competing, and mixed messages puts all athletes at greater risk. It prevents educated discussion around proper use of gear, and it also means some athletes don’t use and then go out and get absolutely mauled, which isn’t exactly great for their orthopedic health either. Also, when I refer to testing I mean real testing which is a blood test, not a urine test.

It’s been in football, basketball, and track and field since the beginning of time, and just about everybody knows some dude who was chemically enhanced from high school. We also know that every other country uses everything possible to support their training. It was there way before money got introduced. Now that money is formally in college wrestling for the first time ever, it is unavoidable that the sport experiences an uptick in exogenous supplementation, but really, who cares? We’ve been watching people on steroids forever, most people just randomly clutch pearls around this one topic. For the health of future athletes, we shouldn’t.

If it was REALLY cheating, they’d have a robust system to prevent it. The NCAA and olympics only care to the exact amount they have to to maintain sponsorship income. The US is one of the few countries that doesn’t have state sponsored pharmacology as part of national team training programs(that we know of).

This change comes largely after the evolution of the far ankle scramble. That was a position in particular that showed the power and importance of leverage and length. Wrestling is also 10x more technical these days and scrambles waaay longer than back when palmer was wrestling. The sport changed, and bodies have evolved with the evolution. The #1 wrestler injury used to be shoulders, by far. Now it is knees by a country mile.

You and agave, f*cking christ.

There are a lot of other more performance-focused drugs that athletes have been using for a long time, mainly stimulants and certain other gear that dries you out rather than bloats you. Wrestlers are good enough at understanding water and macros that something which across the board kills caloric uptake probably doesn’t get much traction. I’m sure some guys have tried it, but there are a lot of other exogenous additives that are much sharper tools.

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/14090061-bulgarian-wrestling-federation-banning-2-olympic-gold-medalists