1. That's an exaggeration. I'm sure more than 1/20 sherdoggers know what folkstyle is.
2. 10% in 10 years is not catastrophic.
3. MMA is not that popular compared to mainstream team sports. Being a good base for MMA will not have any significant impact on a martial art. Most people don't want to do MMA.
4. Which style of wrestling is also not relevant to this topic. If kids wanted to wrestle for MMA rather than because they enjoy one type of wrestling or the other, they would do whatever style is available to them.
5. Most kids who want to do MMA are shitheads who would rather go sign up at a local gym and get to punch someone and quit after they see that it's hard. They don't have the will required to do any style of wrestling.
6. None of this has anything to do with my post.
TLDR: being a good base for MMA has almost no impact on wrestling's popularity or lack thereof.
it's no exaggeration to say that 90% of shedodgers don't know the difference between freestyle Greco Roman and folks style Schoolboy american wrestling
until I started this thread series i would have never beliived that but now I'm convinced that it could be even as high as 95%
if wrestling was such an effective an important base for MMA more of these morons would know something about it but it appears that they are actually just a troll farm and not serious combat athletes
I have developed a tiny handful of american schoolboy folkstyle disciples who follow me from thread to thread nibbling away at my ankles and trying desperately to change the subject of my threads... noticed how "Jack" (gerald prestly) doesn't want to talk about Jordan Burroughs 2x loss to freestyle step outs anymore but wants to focus on my personal coaching career lol
# Exhibit A
(That not a "social media" hashtag, homey dont play that...too busy with my MMA club, surfing, managing my rental properties and working on my farm to play with twooter)
# soiboi
the style of wrestling we do is extremely relevant to this topic because when you do 8 years of folks style and then try to convert to freestyle doing it 3 days a week with coaches that learned freestyle the same way you're freestyle is going to suck and when you take it to the world stage you're going to get your ass pounded by the Russo Islamic countries and this will Perpetually leave america in a second or worse place position and that will subsequently keep the big advertisers away from the sport thus the sport will die in the modern commercialized Olympics
Aemricans starting with folkstyle will DESTROY THE SPORT OF WRESTLING BY DILUTING OUR EFFECTIVENESS in the international levels
if we would simply score push outs allow athletes to clasp their hands and score turns our athletes would be dominant in the sport with the occasional Russian coming up to give us a hell of a fight
listen to the scenario you guys are defending by refuting my threads
folkstyle participation rates have actually gone down even though you all Folkstyle wrestling is the best base for the fastest growing sport in the United States (especially the advertising revanue)
how is that even possible????
when Brazilian jiu-jitsu was considered the best base for MMA it went from unknown to a household name overnight and to this day
(25 years later!!!!)
every strip mall in america has got a Brazilian jiu-jitsu gym making a living for its proprietor yet less people are signing up for FREE Folkstyle wrestling every year!!!
are you starting to see the big picture yet?
FOLKSTYLE IS A COMPLETE FLOP
You guys had your chance to establish a Combat Sports Dynasty and now that you're folkstyle specialist Heroes like Brock Lesnar, Chris Weidman and Ben askren are getting beat down in MMA that ship is sailing
Hey you still have stipe...he just a beat a far more accomplished wrestler
(But i thought Folkstyle wrestling was the best base for MMA?)
