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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.

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

Where do you all think this will go long term both within Bulgaria and in the mercenary market more broadly. First blush without changes, this shift in domestic sentiment in bulgarian wrestling immediately puts two caucasian transplants out in the cold permanently. This has potential to really catch fire imo. Given that russia and the US are the only major exporters of wrestlers in the citizenship for sport market, do you think this will have the ability to impact the michigan crew or the team mexico team puerto rico wrestlers? Amine is apparently on a coin, so I assume he’s safe.

Your comments are getting about as predictable and unenjoyable as the extra pop-up ads on this forum.

I think the idea is to just be in your wrestling gear right before the match and actually have it be about the same.

Yours is a great question, and you should not stop asking it.

I crap on CP and Flo all the time, but you are very very right about this. Even though they love to stir the pot about "what might be happening in the future" in certain scenarios, they are very careful in the areas you're talking about.

Equally significantly it would be a real loss to the room and the program. There is an undeniably positive impact from having a coach of certain weights who understands the techniques and leverages that work at certain weights. Gilman leaving would really impact spratley and the rest of the lower weights.

My only experience in Oklahoma was getting absolutely demolished in a cattle stockade a competition simply referred to as Enid(national duals). All I remember is the Sinclair gas station outside stillwater, the shower head in the hotel that was chest high, the chicken fried steak, and nobody understanding how a Sonic restaurant worked. That and the many many hours of rolling hills. For someone used to the northeast it was certainly a world away.

Grey has been the source of that pipeline from the beginning. Grey was the largest name to come out of NJ’s biggest club, which is also rather closely tied to Delbarton, Bergen Catholic, and Blair. Flo did a documentary on them (the edge), but it’s impossible to overstate what a big impact that club had on North Jersey Wrestling in the 1990’s and 2000’s.

Good to know, I was worried my devices might have been crapping the bed.