International/Olympic wrestling discussion.

[Xuh]

One of the few guys speaking out against the stupidity in the American youth system

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[jack36767]

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Over training, over focus on winning 6 year old tournaments with muscle moves, rather than skill development. Peaking kids way too young, etc etc.

It’s why switching to freestyle domestically wouldn’t magically make the US better results wise because some of the biggest problems are systemic not stylistic.

 

[Kratos94]

Given their commitment to market situation I'm amused to see FanaticWrestling now has a Beach Wrestling instructional out.

As far as I'm aware this is the first Beach Wrestling specific training material out there so that's actually quite noteworthy - it even purports to explain the rules (which I have to admit I'm interested in finding out).

Unfortunately the beach instructor is not a fit babe from @Grappler111 's successful team of Boot Country beach battlers, but the material covered does look quite good (who wouldn't want to learn how to do the 'Kendall Cross' or the 'Schultz', not to mention four different kinds the 'Beloglazov'). I don't see anything about kicking sand into your opponent's eye though, which would be a glaring omission...
https://fanaticwrestling.com/collections/frontpage/products/beach-wrestling-by-andy-hrovat

Time to work on my bod in time for Bash at the Beach 2022! (if I can find a beach around here...)

That is pretty cool; although, considering how we both live in the UK, I think we'd need to travel pretty far to see any sign of beach wrestling: Greece, Turkey, Spain? Portugal? Who knows. I'd love to try it, and probably fail at it.