American scolastic folkstyle wrestling = a dying sport

[Hitdafloor34 2.0]

I used to get so angry about them having state titles and I didn’t. Then I realized that’s why I was better than them.

I’m still laughing because I wish he had posted the good matches. Oh well.

And to be fair, the kids that can train nationally it doesn’t matter as much where they are from. Regular High school kids. Different story

For sure, I come from a huge family wrestling pedigree... I had two uncles and 3 cousins all wrestle for OSU, with one of them being a pan am games silver medalist... def aware that kids on a national level can train anywhere... what I was saying is that pound for pound, there isnt too Many easy matches in Ohsaa, unless your wrestling a school that’s got a great basketball team... then it’s a free for all lol

 

[Hitdafloor34 2.0]

For sure, I come from a huge family wrestling pedigree... I had two uncles and 3 cousins all wrestle for OSU, with one of them being a pan and games silver medalist... def aware that kids on a national level can train anywhere... what I was saying is that pound for pound, there isnt too Many easy matches in Ohsaa, unless your wrestling a school that’s got a great basketball team... then it’s a free for all lil

I love how you left out the matches I threw a kid and the match where I head pinched and gutted a kid multiple times. My defense was awful that tournament. I actually am still frustrated with the coach that had forced me to stop Sitting the corner a month before. So I had been trying to master a completely new style of defense for a month. T

There was other factors at play but I don’t give excuses. I was told what I need to fix by qualified coaches.

You only coached 2 years there? You implied much longer. And again, 70 schools. Over Half of which are subpar coached.

It’s a pity 3 of the 5 matches on there are from one of my worst tournaments. But that’s life. I never embellished or lied. Or omitted. I’m actually am surprised

And I did train some mma. My issue wasn’t being “tough” enough. I wasn’t athletic enough to avoid damage enough. I had accumulated a lot of concussions between fights, wrestling, and football. When the concussion got so bad I couldn’t go outside for 2.5 weeks.. I wasn’t really left with options.

Add in the fact my senior year I wrestled a National level schedule Only losing to Ohio multiple time placers and champs. Beat multiple place winners.. oh and a Kentucky state champ.( I beat several KY placers the year before).. on a “sprained ankle that turned it to be broken. Didn’t find out toll after season

Walked onto a DI team and earned a scholarship.

Suffered a lis franc fracture in middle of a match. Still finished.. and won the match

Wrestled 6 weeks on a torn ACL. Went 8-2. Including winning my first college open.. In Kentucky actually. I’m not worried about your opinion on my toughness. Considering by any realistic measure I shouldn’t have accomplished half of what I did. I’m not you. I don’t pick and choose when I want success to be relative. So I also don’t lie about what I did.

As far as technical knowledge and coaching. I wouldn’t have been given some of the chances I have been. I’m a far better coach than wrestler.

For all my faults and flaws, I haven’t misconstrued and ignored information or arguments. Haven’t been two faced. And I’m actually doing something to try and make kids tougher better men. I also don’t make excuses for what I haven’t accomplished yet as a coach. I also don’t exaggerate what I’ve done.

Btw if I had taken the Hardin County job. I would have been disappointed with anything less than 7 state qualifiers by year 2. It’s Kentucky. To get them to state. I would only have to get them in top the 20 percent vs the top 5% in a place like Ohio. Any other stare but Kentucky or Arkansas you might have a point. But considering facts. Nah

Telling you man Ohio wrestling is a great grinder

 

[Hitdafloor34 2.0]

Telling you man Ohio wrestling is a great grinder

Keep training away man, never let anyone tell you differently... half these guys in this forum would gas and throw up after one period anyway... fuck em

 

[-guerilla-]

I love how you left out the matches I threw a kid and the match where I head pinched and gutted a kid multiple times. My defense was awful that tournament. I actually am still frustrated with the coach that had forced me to stop Sitting the corner a month before. So I had been trying to master a completely new style of defense for a month. T

There was other factors at play but I don’t give excuses. I was told what I need to fix by qualified coaches.

You only coached 2 years there? You implied much longer. And again, 70 schools. Over Half of which are subpar coached.

It’s a pity 3 of the 5 matches on there are from one of my worst tournaments. But that’s life. I never embellished or lied. Or omitted. I’m actually am surprised

And I did train some mma. My issue wasn’t being “tough” enough. I wasn’t athletic enough to avoid damage enough. I had accumulated a lot of concussions between fights, wrestling, and football. When the concussion got so bad I couldn’t go outside for 2.5 weeks.. I wasn’t really left with options.

Add in the fact my senior year I wrestled a National level schedule Only losing to Ohio multiple time placers and champs. Beat multiple place winners.. oh and a Kentucky state champ.( I beat several KY placers the year before).. on a “sprained ankle that turned it to be broken. Didn’t find out toll after season

Walked onto a DI team and earned a scholarship.

Suffered a lis franc fracture in middle of a match. Still finished.. and won the match

Wrestled 6 weeks on a torn ACL. Went 8-2. Including winning my first college open.. In Kentucky actually. I’m not worried about your opinion on my toughness. Considering by any realistic measure I shouldn’t have accomplished half of what I did. I’m not you. I don’t pick and choose when I want success to be relative. So I also don’t lie about what I did.

As far as technical knowledge and coaching. I wouldn’t have been given some of the chances I have been. I’m a far better coach than wrestler.

For all my faults and flaws, I haven’t misconstrued and ignored information or arguments. Haven’t been two faced. And I’m actually doing something to try and make kids tougher better men. I also don’t make excuses for what I haven’t accomplished yet as a coach. I also don’t exaggerate what I’ve done.

Btw if I had taken the Hardin County job. I would have been disappointed with anything less than 7 state qualifiers by year 2. It’s Kentucky. To get them to state. I would only have to get them in top the 20 percent vs the top 5% in a place like Ohio. Any other stare but Kentucky or Arkansas you might have a point. But considering facts. Nah

well I have to give you credit for stepping on the mat and doing your best I think you were handicapped by 8 years of folks style but that's just my opinion

you clearly have good instincts and timing but I would get rid of that squared up gorilla stance and take a longer one foot Forward Russian/ Iranian stance

always do things in twos amd threes ...sprawl WAY harder with an underhook/headlock/bodylock

I will admit when you got that lift I was really impressed thinking you were going to make a fool of me!!!

I've been saying that was the big challenge for the folk style athlete to be able to pull that kind of turn from that kind of position

Anyway I drank some beers and watch watched your matches again last night and I have to give you credit for stepping up and making an effort 2 wrestling a different style than you were trained in primarily

It's just a shame that you didn't learn freestyle from birth you would be much more effective when you went up against International competition

Anyway man.. leave race, national origin and age out of your insults and the vitriol will be a lot lower

Hey, you never know maybe we can come up with an idea that'll help save wrestling?

I will admit I have respect for you as a wrestler as a coach and as a competitor

you stepped up and did your best and that's all anybody can ask of an athlete.

 

[jack36767]

well I have to give you credit for stepping on the mat and doing your best I think you were handicapped by 8 years of folks style but that's just my opinion

you clearly have good instincts and timing but I would get rid of that squared up gorilla stance and take a longer one foot Forward Russian/ Iranian stance

always do things in twos amd threes ...sprawl WAY harder with an underhook/headlock/bodylock

I will admit when you got that lift I was really impressed thinking you were going to make a fool of me!!!

I've been saying that was the big challenge for the folk style athlete to be able to pull that kind of turn from that kind of position

Anyway I drank some beers and watch watched your matches again last night and I have to give you credit for stepping up and making an effort 2 wrestling a different style than you were trained in primarily

It's just a shame that you didn't learn freestyle from birth you would be much more effective when you went up against International competition

Anyway man.. leave race, national origin and age out of your insults and the vitriol will be a lot lower

Hey, you never know maybe we can come up with an idea that'll help save wrestling?

I will admit I have respect for you as a wrestler as a coach and as a competitor

you stepped up and did your best and that's all anybody can ask of an athlete.

Your opinion would actually count if you didn’t leave out two matches that I head pinch, throw and gut my opponent multiple times.

Your opinion would actually count if you actually included those other two matches and understood the main thing I wanted was a front headlock to hit a head pinch with


Your opinion would actually count if you hadn’t said I was from somewhere I’m not multiple times

Your opinion would actually count if you hadn’t questioned if I “was really the head coach somewhere” multiple times despite what you were shown and told

Your opinion would count if you actually produced more than 5 state qualifiers in 20 years. in a stare you don’t need to know much wrestling to win in regardless of style

Your opinion would actually count if you had ANY freestyle results. In coaching or competing. Or any Fargo Qualifiers much less placers

Your opinion would actually count if you didn’t pick and choose when you want success to be relative. I don’t. which is why I haven’t said anything about the surrounding circumstances to that tournament. Or embellish my career at all.

Maybe your opinion would count if you were actually up to date on what’s going on in wrestling and not just trying to be a provocateur.

Maybe your opinion would actually count if you knew more about freestyle than a couple of moves

Maybe your opinion would actually count if you didn’t pick and choose when you listen to or answer arguments based off who said them.

Maybe your opinion would actually count if you didn’t do something like call match fixing and corruption “Tin foil hat” then later say “oh it’s probably contributed to Americans winning less medals”

Maybe your opinion would actually count if you hadn’t said “I can’t stand it when people say their stuff is better than MY hybrid system”

Maybe your opinion would actually count if you didn’t do adolescent things like say. Purposefully saying my name wrong because you got your feelings hurt awhile ago

Maybe your opinion would actually count if you had any experience coaching folkstyle outside of Kentucky or North Carolina


Most importantly..., maybe your opinion would actually count if you were actually looking for a way to help wrestling and not just provoke. Or actually understood how complicated the question is. I multiple times tried to talk about different ways to help or what the underlying little issues are that are contributing to the big. You kept blowing them off, insulting them, or called me a”folky”.

Despite the fact I multiple times have stated I don’t care if it switches, I don’t think it will magically fix it like you think”. Then tried to talk about those issues.

So yeah pat on the head for pretending to respect me publicly but I’m actually doing things to help wrestling not just trying to provoke people

 

[Uchi Mata]

This forum has really gone to hell.

 

[-guerilla-]

This forum has really gone to hell.

Its an interesting ride

...any opinions on the thread title??

 

[jack36767]

You what’s hilarious. I met a coach from Kentucky this weekend. He’s going into 4th year. Has produced 12 state qualifiers and like 4 placers. He keeps it pretty basic for the kiddos. Double half switch etc. Is actually disappointed he hasn’t done better

 

[-guerilla-]

You what’s hilarious. I met a coach from Kentucky this weekend. He’s going into 4th year. Has produced 12 state qualifiers and like 4 placers. He keeps it pretty basic for the kiddos. Double half switch etc. Is actually disappointed he hasn’t done better

yeah what school??

you see Gerald...wrestling is a dying sport and at Atherton the AD was actively trying to get rid of the sport

we had to compete with other programs that had MASSIVE money or a tougher demographic of athletes like st X, Trinity and KCD who had multimillion dollar facilities or Southern, Ballard and PRP who were in a considerably tougher end of town

as a small intellectual school in a higher end neighborhood we did not have many talented athletes and combat sports were discouraged as parents were expecting their children to have a future devoid of "violent sports" like wrestling and Football

I lived 5 min from Athereton and had wrestled there myself so when I was asked to take over the program i was happy to help but was well aware that my tiny underfunded team competing in an obsolete sport was not gonna take the state championship...especially with the DOMINANT POWERHOUSES of UNION, LARUE and god help you WOODFORD countys!!

as someone with a background in freestyle, Judo and Sumo [from my international childhood] I was very different as a coach and had just learned "folktsyle" from some of the guys coming to my MMA gym...remember Gerald...I only wrestled ONE YEAR OF FOLKSTYLE because i recognized it as a dying sport while kickboxing was a rocket ship at the time

I was complimented by some of the best coaches in my district as i had taken a "laughing stock" program who usually finished dead last in the region and got something done

when my assistants had told me i had broken every record in school history [except one] i was very happy about that

you see, no matter how much you HATE IT a guy with 1 year of folkstyle experience took a team that usually finished DEAD LAST or near dead last and accomplished something with the program

Success is relative

take this example as proof

If i fought you in MMA and knocked you out with a flying knee in 30 seconds nobody would be that impressed as i would have just beat a discount Elvis impersonator who couldn't fight his way our of a wet parer bag

HOWEVER

had i survived a 3round fight vs Fedor Emelianenko and lost a split decision people would be going NUTZ over my accomplishment

...beating your ass wouldent be a big deal but just SURVIVING FEDOR would be massive!!!

that's called RELATIVE SUCCESS...

I know you HATE IT,

I was a GREAT wrestling coach and I am very proud of my accomplishments!!

 

[jack36767]

yeah what school??

you see Gerald...wrestling is a dying sport and at Atherton the AD was actively trying to get rid of the sport

we had to compete with other programs that had MASSIVE money or a tougher demographic of athletes like st X, Trinity and KCD who had multimillion dollar facilities or Southern, Ballard and PRP who were in a considerably tougher end of town

as a small intellectual school in a higher end neighborhood we did not have many talented athletes and combat sports were discouraged as parents were expecting their children to have a future devoid of "violent sports" like wrestling and Football

I lived 5 min from Athereton and had wrestled there myself so when I was asked to take over the program i was happy to help but was well aware that my tiny underfunded team competing in an obsolete sport was not gonna take the state championship...especially with the DOMINANT POWERHOUSES of UNION, LARUE and god help you WOODFORD countys!!

as someone with a background in freestyle, Judo and Sumo [from my international childhood] I was very different as a coach and had just learned "folktsyle" from some of the guys coming to my MMA gym...remember Gerald...I only wrestled ONE YEAR OF FOLKSTYLE because i recognized it as a dying sport while kickboxing was a rocket ship at the time

I was complimented by some of the best coaches in my district as i had taken a "laughing stock" program who usually finished dead last in the region and got something done

when my assistants had told me i had broken every record in school history [except one] i was very happy about that

you see, no matter how much you HATE IT a guy with 1 year of folkstyle experience took a team that usually finished DEAD LAST or near dead last and accomplished something with the program

Success is relative

take this example as proof

If i fought you in MMA and knocked you out with a flying knee in 30 seconds nobody would be that impressed as i would have just beat a discount Elvis impersonator who couldn't fight his way our of a wet parer bag

HOWEVER

had i survived a 3round fight vs Fedor Emelianenko and lost a split decision people would be going NUTZ over my accomplishment

...beating your ass wouldent be a big deal but just SURVIVING FEDOR would be massive!!!

that's called RELATIVE SUCCESS...

I know you HATE IT,

I was a GREAT wrestling coach and I am very proud of my accomplishments!!

Nope, you don't get to make success relative when YOU want. It is either relative for everything or not at all. You hinged your arguments (and criticisms of me) on picking and choosing when you wanted success to be relative. You only want success to be relative when YOU are being criticized. Which is a bitch move.

Again, either be as critical of yourself and what you did as you are of everything else.. or stop acting like you actually are qualified to. I haven't once tried to make myself look better, even though I very much could, by making success relative when I wanted. My results are my results. I don't make excuses like you.

I didn't say anything about "winning state". I talked about how poor your results were. Of course you weren't going to catch Woodford or St. X. You aren't a good enough coach or at marketing to parents. The southern states are all extremely top heavy. Which actually damns your results even more. Outside of the top 3-5 schools it is not hard to beat or catch people. Add in the fact you had less than 70 schools to compete against... eight team points and 1 placer in over 10 years is pathetic. I have seen coaches in way tougher situations, way smaller schools, and in way tougher areas produce better results than that. I know plenty of coaches very good at turning schools with that same attitude and demographic into good teams. Especially if given over ten years.

You also don't seem to realize that those "top Kentucky schools" go over the river and are lucky to get 5th in average tournaments and barely even try to go to the elite ones.

As far as my freestyle technique. Like I said, you keep leaving out matches where I hit throws, gut wrenches, and head pinches... you keep leaving stuff out when criticizing. Again, bitch move.

What freestyle have you actually coached.. you keep dodging the question then acting like a freestyle expert.

You are not a "great" coach. And that's ok buddy. You can be proud. You were a perfectly average folkstyle coach.

 

[-guerilla-]

Nope, you don't get to make success relative when YOU want. It is either relative for everything or not at all. You hinged your arguments (and criticisms of me) on picking and choosing when you wanted success to be relative. You only want success to be relative when YOU are being criticized. Which is a bitch move.

Again, either be as critical of yourself and what you did as you are of everything else.. or stop acting like you actually are qualified to. I haven't once tried to make myself look better, even though I very much could, by making success relative when I wanted. My results are my results. I don't make excuses like you.

I didn't say anything about "winning state". I talked about how poor your results were. Of course you weren't going to catch Woodford or St. X. You aren't a good enough coach or at marketing to parents. The southern states are all extremely top heavy. Which actually damns your results even more. Outside of the top 3-5 schools it is not hard to beat or catch people. Add in the fact you had less than 70 schools to compete against... eight team points and 1 placer in over 10 years is pathetic. I have seen coaches in way tougher situations, way smaller schools, and in way tougher areas produce better results than that. I know plenty of coaches very good at turning schools with that same attitude and demographic into good teams. Especially if given over ten years.

You also don't seem to realize that those "top Kentucky schools" go over the river and are lucky to get 5th in average tournaments and barely even try to go to the elite ones.

As far as my freestyle technique. Like I said, you keep leaving out matches where I hit throws, gut wrenches, and head pinches... you keep leaving stuff out when criticizing. Again, bitch move.

What freestyle have you actually coached.. you keep dodging the question then acting like a freestyle expert.

You are not a "great" coach. And that's ok buddy. You can be proud. You were a perfectly average folkstyle coach.

Your right...im NOT a great coach

Im a REALLY great coach.

The st x/ trinity coaches were some of the ones that gave me the most praise for my accomplishments with a school that was considered dead last in the district

I coached freestyle over the summer every year for 2 decades but nobody cared about wrestling

My athletes recognized the futility of continuing with an obselete sport and switched to MMA and guess what...

They made money
Made friends
Attained notriaty
Got women
And still to this day are running their own gyms if they aren't competing in MMA anymore

 

[jack36767]

Your right...im NOT a great coach

Im a REALLY great coach.

The st x/ trinity coaches were some of the ones that gave me the most praise for my accomplishments with a school that was considered dead last in the district

I coached freestyle over the summer every year for 2 decades but nobody cared about wrestling

My athletes recognized the futility of continuing with an obselete sport and switched to MMA and guess what...

They made money
Made friends
Attained notriaty
Got women
And still to this day are running their own gyms if they aren't competing in MMA anymore

MMA is the future

Wrestling is a dying sport

Your just riding on MMA balzak

Why dont YOU post some videos of your awesome wrestling skills...already saw u get OWNED scoring 1 point on 3 matches

OUCH!!!

THAT HURT me just watching

The discount elvis got sent home to Memphis with his buttsore

These are the basic facts:
1. -When I, and others, tried to talk about success being relative and how much the US had improved.. you were very clear.
- “Only results matter, I don’t want excuses circumstances don’t matter if they don’t help my point”

2. -then all of a sudden, when I brought up the actual numbers and your actual quality of competition..
- “no no no, success is now relative because we are talking about me. Here are all of my excuses”

3. The simple fact is. You only want success to be relative when it affects YOU. Which is sad. The simple fact is. If your “coaching” in Kentucky is judged the way you try to judge me and the US.. you are mediocre at best. Either hold yourself to the same standards or stop pretending

4. The matches are on Youtube right there with the other ones you posted. The fact you left them out says more about you.

5. You had no results in the style you claim to be an expert in.

6. The fact you look at Trinity and St X as “elite” programs makes my point. I have a strong feeling their compliments were condescending pats on the head.

7. You actually hate wrestling overall because you were mediocre and just want validation for your “hybrid system” despite having over 20 years to prove its “superiority” and coming up zilch. Despite being in the absolute easiest state to win.

Those are the facts.





As far as your juvenile insults. I’m not related to Elvis, not from Tennessee, and went to college on the other side of the state. You keep having to make up stuff to insult me.

I’ll just state facts about you. You are an Afrikaner, lived mainly in Sunset town neighborhoods or in places like Wilmington, North Carolina. Which you have imitated in your ignoring of inconvenient history/evidence. That plus some of your other little comments. Tells me everything I need to know about you without having to make up a single fact.




Don’t worry I'm done arguing with you. You aren’t enough of a man to hold yourself to same standards as you hold others.

 

[yetanother]

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4. The matches are on Youtube right there with the other ones you posted. The fact you left them out says more about you.

Do you expect anyone trying to insult you to actually post matches where you win (unless they are poking fun how crap your opponent was and you won by like 1 wrongly awared advantage etc.)
Does the Afrikaner have any of his wrestling/jiu jitsu matches online or did he only grapple with Yogi Bear at his park ranger job?

 

[jack36767]

Do you expect anyone trying to insult you to actually post matches where you win (unless they are poking fun how crap your opponent was and you won by like 1 wrongly awared advantage etc.)
Does the Afrikaner have any of his wrestling/jiu jitsu matches online or did he only grapple with Yogi Bear at his park ranger job?

I don’t, but calmly pointing it out makes him look pathetic.
He has videos of his coaching on Louisville Fight club series. I could also find jack shit else. I’ve also talked to Kentucky coaches who were surprised at his arrogance and how he made his accomplishments sound.

 

[-guerilla-]

These are the basic facts:
1. -When I, and others, tried to talk about success being relative and how much the US had improved.. you were very clear.
- “Only results matter, I don’t want excuses circumstances don’t matter if they don’t help my point”

2. -then all of a sudden, when I brought up the actual numbers and your actual quality of competition..
- “no no no, success is now relative because we are talking about me. Here are all of my excuses”

3. The simple fact is. You only want success to be relative when it affects YOU. Which is sad. The simple fact is. If your “coaching” in Kentucky is judged the way you try to judge me and the US.. you are mediocre at best. Either hold yourself to the same standards or stop pretending

4. The matches are on Youtube right there with the other ones you posted. The fact you left them out says more about you.

5. You had no results in the style you claim to be an expert in.

6. The fact you look at Trinity and St X as “elite” programs makes my point. I have a strong feeling their compliments were condescending pats on the head.

7. You actually hate wrestling overall because you were mediocre and just want validation for your “hybrid system” despite having over 20 years to prove its “superiority” and coming up zilch. Despite being in the absolute easiest state to win.

Those are the facts.





As far as your juvenile insults. I’m not related to Elvis, not from Tennessee, and went to college on the other side of the state. You keep having to make up stuff to insult me.

I’ll just state facts about you. You are an Afrikaner, lived mainly in Sunset town neighborhoods or in places like Wilmington, North Carolina. Which you have imitated in your ignoring of inconvenient history/evidence. That plus some of your other little comments. Tells me everything I need to know about you without having to make up a single fact.




Don’t worry I'm done arguing with you. You aren’t enough of a man to hold yourself to same standards as you hold others.

Lol

I never bragged about my acomplishments

You interrogated me and i simply explained my background

Thats not bragging

Who said i was overstating my acomplishments??

Its all sitting in freaking record books and on YouTube

Lol i dont HAVE to misrepresent anything

discount elvis

 

[jack36767]

Lol

I never bragged about my acomplishments

You interrogated me and i simply explained my background

Thats not bragging

Who said i was overstating my acomplishments??

Its all sitting in freaking record books and on YouTube

Lol i dont HAVE to misrepresent anything

discount elvis

“I coached Folkstyle 20 years, I know what I’m talking about”, “my system was better”

 

[sakfjgadsyukgf]

This forum has really gone to hell.

As I said previously, part of the issue is moderation, or lack thereof. If I were a moderator here, I would've given this guerilla guy a 2 week cooling off period for posting videos of people actually competing and mocking them- if not an outright ban. I'm not really clear if these forums are actually moderated though, or who does it.

At least Dan The Wolfman was entertaining

 

[Fluffernutter]

Do high school kids today even play sports to get some exercise, have fun, be social, join a team, and have the joy of winning an honest competition?

Or, are high school athletics focused to get kids scholarships into colleges?

Since so many parents see sports as an "investment" to get their son/daughter a "full ride" to college (which is too darn expensive), they are not going to sign up their child for wrestling.

Why?

9.9 scholarships only.

 

[-guerilla-]

As I said previously, part of the issue is moderation, or lack thereof. If I were a moderator here, I would've given this guerilla guy a 2 week cooling off period for posting videos of people actually competing and mocking them- if not an outright ban. I'm not really clear if these forums are actually moderated though, or who does it.

At least Dan The Wolfman was entertaining

and how would you respond to smack talk in relation to:
age
ethnicity
national origin
and geography

you haven't read the entire thread

if you had you would realize that this guy has been relentlessly attacking me personally, professionally and started his first reply to my thread explaining how i was a poor coach

This guy even called a friend to create a profile and claim I said "something" about Muslims on the USA wrestling forum and was subsequently BANNED for it

YEAH I SAID "SOMETHING" about Muslims....I SAID THEY WERE SOME OF THE GREATEST WRESTLERS ON EARTH!!!!

dumbasses like you who respond without reading the threads are some of the funniest targets on sherdog....throwing insults and suggesting i should be banned!!!

I dont mind

I kinda enjoy it

just dont expect people to be polite forever on a MMA forum....

"banned for mocking someones performance"

LOL

 

[-guerilla-]

Do high school kids today even play sports to get some exercise, have fun, be social, join a team, and have the joy of winning an honest competition?

Or, are high school athletics focused to get kids scholarships into colleges?

Since so many parents see sports as an "investment" to get their son/daughter a "full ride" to college (which is too darn expensive), they are not going to sign up their child for wrestling.

Why?

9.9 scholarships only.

BOTH

the fact is kids just want to have fun, exercise and belong to something

plus the idea of winning in athletics and impressing their friends is a major factor

some even hope to be professionals one day

folkstyle wrestling is problematic as the sport does not exist outside of the american school system thus athletes have to convert to another set of rules and this RADICALLY hurts Americas performance internationally

just imagine if we played soccer with different rules in the scholastic system...all thru highschool and college your soccer rules would be wildly DIFFERENT than all the other soccer in the world and when you get out of school you have to convert to international soccer...it would handicap our athletes

thats what we do in wrestling so...

Americans dont perform as well as they would have if they used international styles from the start....so

advertising corporations wont support the sport so...

its dying