Well, our scholastic wrestling is pretty different from Greco-Roman, to be fair.
That's not an excuse at all! Greco-Roman is totally different from scholastic wrestling. And I'm happy for Italy's success, for crying out loud. But it is certainly a totally different style. It was totally foreign to me when I tried it.
He’s trying to get me back for pointing out how he’s trying to get his country cheap easy medals.
Greco helps with scholastic wrestling too. And certainly, scholastic wrestling surely helps with Greco to some degree, just like it would help with judo, BJJ, sambo, catch-wrestling, etc., but they are still very different styles.
Yeah, they're basically only the same if you're looking at the fact that they involve singlets and the same mats. I mean, literally you have one that doesn't allow slams and another that doesn't allow attacks on or use of the legs. One that doesn't allow locked hands, touch falls versus two second pins, etc. etc. etc. etc. Like I said, I personally was lost when I tried Greco. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose had that experience.
You feeling lost might be as much on your coach as you
For what its worth, I think feeling lost was part of the point; my only exposure to it was during practices where they'd have us go Greco to change things up and force us to adjust to not being able to do things we might've relied on. It happened during a camp and my partner was a guy named Omar Ortiz. He'd had some prior Greco experience and it did not workout in my favor.
Again. Don’t have an issue with grappling. I have an issue with your pathetic desperation to give your country easy medals rather than doing the hard work to have a respectable domestic freestyle team.
