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I just watched this match on youtube for the first time. First, the grounded on your knees—>no pushout point rule needs to be fixed. That sh1t is so stupid, zahid quit and wrestled from his knees for 3 minutes. With that said, he outclassed Dake, or he exposed dake’s very poor defensive decision making. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Dake seems to be regressing in his decision-making(aging backwards and losing his technique?) Dake has zero downblock//sprawl leg defense apparently, his only short offense is a chest wrap, and it is entirely dependent on him being the longer wrestler, because no shorter wrestler has ever won in a chest wrap situation, the leverage doesn’t work. I’m kind of astonished at his lack of adoption of far ankle etc considering how long he’s been in the penn state room. It’s turning out to be such a limitation for him. Far ankle is how david beat zahid last trials, and that is wide open on someone who does the “dive, sit on knees and do nothing” gassed out strategy that zahid employs. Also, frame matters. Did you see Zahid just bowl dake over his own head in that traparm? This is why weight class matters so much.

I’d hold off on judging. Gravity and the heliocentric solar system were pseudoscience, eggs used to cause heart attacks and a balanced diet had 10-14 servings of grain a day.

Grey is a much better coach. He has been in that roll since his injury redshirt season, he’s going to be there until he retires. With his background he basically has bergen catholic and delbarton on lockdown, you can pull down 4 AA’s all day long just recruiting those two rooms. Now BC just needs to get dave bell back in there somehow.

There is no weight class that has yielded more US olympic and international success than heavyweight. Not overrated. Bruce Baumgartner Steven Neal Kerry Mccoy Rulon Gartner Tervel Dlagnev Nick Gwiazdowski Kyle Snyder Gable Steveson Also, thin (lol)? Is there a spate of teams failing to recruit heavyweights? I think this does the big guys some disservice. The physics are very different at that weight, but that doesn’t make them less sophisticated wrestlers. Heavyweight has been home to the best technical rivalries internationally for the better part of the past decade (akgul, petriashvili, steveson, and whatever that iranian dude’s name was).

There is a level of excellence beyond which you basically have to be what most people see as a sociopath in order to achieve your goals. Kolat has this, Slay has this (personal experience), Dake definitely has this to be as successful as he was coming out of Cornell, he did EVERYTHING himself, he’s a lone mountain man as arguably any of the very top tier coming out of the US have ever been. His cornell teams were pretty good, but not on his level. He had to go to some deep places on his own, didn’t really have a team, and those experiences are so crucial for making really great coaches. If he was a coach he’d basically be Pai Mei from kill bill.

Nah, he's much more into the health, wellbeing, longevity aspects of human physiology. Does he even have his own wrestling club that he coaches?

At this point I doubt Lee has ever been healthy since his Junior year of high school. He’s obviously next level, but the olympics really made me think his injuries are starting to catch up with him. That was the first time I’ve seen him look legitimately tired of wrestling.

Bear claw graduated and then went somewhere else to use his last bit of eligibility to start. Not the same thing.

No, nonono you don’t want this. They had this rule already in the early 2000’s, I did all my freestyle/greco during this time, and you had to hold exposure for an extra point in between each turn, it slowed the pace of wrestling down a sh1tton. This limitation is precisely what made freestyle and greco boring to the point it almost got yanked from the olympics.

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.

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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