10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Wrestling 

Happy birthday

Even tho wrestling isn’t my main sport I focus on, this video helped me get more motivated and help me get back on the right mentally

I truly do appreciate all of this, it’s my first year wrestling and I’m a sophomore starting off pretty heavy and your videos have kept me interested and motivated to continue going to practices and excited for the season to start, much love 💪💪

“Without a basket, you can’t score” .......love it! 💪🏻

I’ve been following you for a couple years. You’re always very inspiring. I didn’t wrestle in high school, but have totally turned into a “wrestling dad”. My boy started wrestling as first grader also. He has always been decent, usually wrestling for 3 and 4 at tournaments, but not bringing home any hardware until his 7th grade year when he placed at every tournament we went to. He wrestled jr high and then was invited to practice with the high school team. His growth has been incredible. Wrestling may be an individual sport, but it takes a village. Especially for youth wrestlers, win or lose that support needs to be there. Seeing his confidence (a bit cocky at times) grow after last season has been so great. Keep doing what you’re doing!

I love when you make videos like these of you just speaking your mind, it really helps to prepare me for this season. Can't wait for this years wrestling videos :)

these are awesome! my 6yo just started his first year of wrestling camp and has been loving it and this gives me that drive to encourage him to really focus and perfect the basics

Happy early birthday man thanks for the video, keep doing what you do. This is my first year in wrestling right now!

Thank you so much. This month marks my first full year of wrestling and this video really helped me. I watch you all the time and just wanted to also say Happy Birthday!! 🎉

I remember starting wrestling as a freshman in high school and watching your channel, now I’m getting ready to start my senior season, time flies! Was originally nervous/sad that is my last ride, but like you said, everything’s gonna work out. Awesome video as always cayden

Yk I’ve been a fan for a lil over 2 years you’ve inspired me to get back in wrestling thank you so much and happy birthday love you

I can't wait for my wrestling to start congratulations for your 15th year of wrestling keep up the good work👍

Thank you Cayden I really needed to hear this I got a Meet on Monday wish me luck!🙏🏽🙏🏽💪🏼

Love the vid man! Big goals and loving life 🎉

Thank you! Wrestling started back up today! I’m so excited. And happen birthday btw!

Thank you bro I started wrestling for the first time yesterday and this is so helpful, happy birthday :)

Thanks for another awesome video with great advice, and happy birthday

Wow, this is excellent advice Cayden! Very interesting!

Thank you for this vid, I will take notes in order to get better… I will make it to states and place states, and also happy birthday

You should make a video on the gear you recommend for beginning wrestlers or the gear you use currently.

Point 2 is such a great thing for young wrestlers to understand. If you have one leg shot that you can do correctly every single time, almost no one will stop your takedowns. If you can bridge properly, almost no one can pin you. If you have one turn combination that you've drilled over and over, it's going to work on almost everyone. You don't have to get fancy. I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. -Bruce Lee

Thanks for sharing this. I liked it. I've started wrestling at 34 age. It would be new challenge and journey in my life

Great video keep it up

Just forwarded this to my son. This is gold! It'll be his first year wrestling, and he's very excited. Thank you.

Some of this advice can be used more than just wrestling. Got two birds with one stone. Keep up the work🙏🏼

Hi Cayden. Very interesting video, thanks a lot. I’ve been interested in wrestling since a was a child, maybe when I was 13. I loved watching wrestling matches on tv. I’m now 41, and I am still a wrestling fan. When I was a young boy I wasn’t so sporty, except I played football with my friends. And there weren’t any wrestling schools. Wrestling was only considered as a dangerous American sport, only available on tv. I know here in Italy now there are some wrestling schools, but is it possible at my age? I’d like to start a very beginners’ course. You’re right: the most important things are having fun and doing physical activity, it’s not important to win or become a champion. What I liked the most watching the matches on tv was: thinking that this type of sport is a very difficult and hard one; during tag team matches I appreciated a lot the fact that two wrestlers are together, maybe friends, and are fighting, collaborating for reaching a goal (winning the match and defeating their opponents). In my opinion, wrestling is the most complete sport, for real men!

Happy birthday bro💯

Happy Birthday !!!!!

Happy birthday bro, I've learned a lot from you through RU-vid, wishing you the best, greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

You have a very great mindset Cayden, I think about life very similarly to you. 👍

Great advice!

gonna start wrestling this month, just to get strong and learn a new type of fighting

This is why I love that my coaches record all of our matches and post them on RU-vid.

My goal since I first started wrestling my freshmen year, was to get on my school podium, I wanted to go to states, I wasn’t sure if I could do it since I lack so much experience compared to others but my Junior year I qualified however didn’t place and guess what didn’t realize my goal. I wanted to be known for something or at least recognized. I’ve lost a lot of motivation throughout the years, I’ve lost to freshmen in high school as a junior and that’s been a huge blow to my mentality. I’m now a senior in high school, and now I’m looking back on my mistakes. I’m watching my old videos and I’m realizing while even watching my current matches. I always feel compared myself to people I knew where good, TJ Daughtery, RBY, Spencer Lee. I always wanted to be like then and I always compared myself to them. These are the mistakes I recognized. 1.) Comparing yourself to someone, it’s always good to set someone above you THAT YOU WANT TO surpass, someone you want to surpass. However you’re your own wrestler, so wrestle how you want to wrestle. Don’t try and copy someone just cause they found success in it. 2.) Take care of your body, just cause you won one match you think it changed anything? No you still have to work hard, you body is important, don’t pig out. Have discipline. 3.) For the love of god, it is okay to be nervous, even if it’s a national champion, it’s okay to be nervous, to me it puts me on the edge, someone who beat me in the past my Junior year I am going against at counties, I’m nervous, of course, however I’m mentally prepared, I’m watching my old videos on hudl noticing what I can do different and his habits and I’m confident I can win if not I can sure as hell give him a run for his money. However these are just things I’ve found, I wouldn’t recommend listening to me to much since again I’m not the most experience but always keep these 3 things in mind, nice video man. Edit: Notice how all 3 of these things have one thing in common, mentality.

Happy birthday 🎉, God bless you bro!

These 10 things you said might help me out tomorrow if I got wrestling🙂

ive been doing BJJ for the past year and im joining the wrestling team this year. im definitely nervous, especially knowing ill be one of the few girls on the team. but this video helped elevate my nerves a bit, love the content!

I start wrestling for my highschool next month, Im excited

Thankyou so much you make me starting next year feel less intimidating

Happy early birthday!! 🎉🎉

Happy birthday🎂

Been watching since I've started wrestling 🙏🏽

This young man has his head on straight, happy birthday big guy

My son is six and just started wrestling. Our goal at this point is to make sure he's having fun and enjoying the sport. I'd like to help him develop good foundations while keeping things fun and light. Do you have any advice on this front? Thanks!

Happy birthday cayden, hope you have a long and heathy life,i am 27 buy the way

Gonna be starting wrestling as a senior so this video means a lot 😂

Thank you, Cayden

Thank you this is my first year wrestling I’m in 6th grade I’m 75 pounds really fast and small I’m 4ft 7 so this really helped I play basketball football and now wrestling

21?! Wow. Good for you young man. Enjoy and move forward!!

happy early bday cayden!

Caden is there anyway u can make a video on how to increase ur chances of going to college for wrestling. It’s been my dream for a while

Happy birthday brother

Happy brithday 💯💯💯

Thanks I'm boutta tryout for my first year of wrestling any tips I'll let you know if I make it next month in tryouts

happy birthday 🪅man keep posting these fya vids yu help me in wrestling big time your vids help me to get dubs 💯👍

Im not that good but I will be on varsity this year I have wrestled 2 years and the second year i did win 1st place at a tourney thats it so im gonna have the courage to lose this year and still keep going and be a better wrestler and person at the end of the season

The thing I’m bad with is nerves do u have any tips so im not so nervous going into a match

What time do you wrestle on Nov. 5th at UWSP?

wrestling is indeed the hardest sport 😭. i think it’s mainly because i hated cardio 💀, but i knew the only way i could get better is by having a good gas tank

Happy birthday bro, i just wanted to thank you for posting your progress, and i wanted to ask you how possible would it be for me to make Alabama State Championship starting last year in 10th grade, and going on this season better and more confident and humble, I'm going 145 again.

Happy Birthday

My high goal is states I just started last year and I'm confident that I can make it to states and place the next year is state champ goal

Number 9 is amazing! In other words not have our identity just be in wrestling.

Happy brith day 🎉🎉

Just started wrestling 7th grade year, what can I do to fill the skill gap? Happy 🎂 🥳

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Wish I would've started earlier wrestled only senior year. I'm 22 now and have so many regrets with not doing it earlier! And here I am watching wrestling videos because I miss it more than anything I've ever done. If you're seeing this right now and are thinking about wrestling do it! You won't regret it I promise you that.

Salutations de France... I Like wrestling ... Bonne continuation à vous.

I have a question did he win state in middle school or little kid or just high school

I’m scared to start, I’m planning to start next year (freshman year) but I do not know what to do or what to expect if I do sign up for it. Can anyone give any tips to prepare?

i wish i born in the us. I just came to the US a year ago and i want to qualify for the state even i just started wrestling, iim a junior now and im scared i could not make it

My son has set big goals for himself, he’s been grappling since 3 and now he’s 9. He wants to win state this year

Cayden, did you break your nose wrestling? I got mine broke doing tae kwan do after wrestling for 15 years first. lol

Can I still be good if I’m starting in sophomore year?

Bro gon get hammered the day before the first practice on his 21st😂

I would love to do wrestling but my high school doesn’t have a team

I started wrestling three hours ago that was my first ever practice I’ve ever been to and it was so much fun and these videos are helping me understand so much cause I feel like I missed out because I’m in seventh grade and the last 4 to 5 years I’ve been in a school that didn’t do wrestling for the last 4 to 5 years. Kids at my school have been getting good while I am just starting.

Thank please handfight video

Should’ve done water polo it might’ve helped with wrestling

This is My first year wrestling, i been training for like 2 months and imma compete this season, wish me luck

It's your birthday happy birthday

yo caden I need advice bro i’m like 121, 122 right but i wanna cut to 120 and idk if i should or i should go 126 and have more room to gain muscle weight

Noti gang

Wow. I wish I was that smart about life when I was 20!

I wanna do wrestling but I play basketball and I’m one of the best in my league but I don’t want to give it up

Guess what it’s my birthday too ayyyy

3:41 Pause. You sure we talking bout wrestling

bro i just broke my wrist during wresstling happy b-day btw

I was thinking about what I would say to myself if I was talking to myself when I was an 8 year old wrestler.... 1. Dang! Why are you so short? 2. Did you get that haircut from a drug addict? 3. Uh.. you realize that they make singlets that actually fit, right? 4. Now might be a good time to tell mom to calm down so she doesn't really embarrass us later on in life during matches 5. Save your allowance now and buy into a thing in a few years that will be called " bitcoin" 6. Before he gets famous, look into seeing if Spencer Lee will adopt you 7. AND, THIS ONE IS SERIOUS.... look up a young kid a few years older than you named Cayden Henschel and thank him for all the great advice he will be giving you in the future. You will probably not meet him personally, but you will still consider him a friend. Thanks man!

I’m on the 15

I would love to wrestle against you man All love but I will beat you one day Nice video

I would tell myself to subscribe to cayden Henschel

I will be the best, I will not stop until I am the best

Happy b day

I was suprised by the first one, since my first goal was to be an olympic medal winner 😭

I’m a BJJ athlete and a boxer/mma fighter, but will be wrestling for the first time this winter for my highschool (I’m a junior) I’ve won every competition I’ve been in for Brazilian Juijitsu (for those who don’t know jt’s a grappeling martial art. I honestly don’t even know if I have a chance against someone wrestling since first grade, I’m gonna work like my life depends on it, but am going into not even knowing if I have a chance

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This video is great! Because what you say is very true, because being a Wrestler myself I have seen many of these things.

HOMELANDER???!

Hbd