@@brianevans4975 it’s common for people to do this as you won’t improve by just pinning someone the first 30 seconds you can use these opportunities to try new moves and what not
@@brianevans4975 if you drive 3 hours for one match, and have to skip practice to do the match, you would also want the match to be at least a minute long
Gave that high schooler a good learning experience. My coach would invite all alumni to come wrestle with us in high-school. Getting thrown around by grown ass men and watching their technique from years of experience was vital to our growth. It let us know this is what we could be if we take training seriously
@@combatwarriosbostaffman don’t really think that’s the slam most people are talking about. Go down with them, controlled to the mat won’t be a very hard slam. Unless you also wanna knock yourself out. Either way, not slamming a high school kid when you’re clearly dominating him wouldn’t be mercy, just a super asshole move.
@@ChairManOfTheBooored No you can slam people really hard i got slammed multiple Times due to the fact that im very Young but Wrestling with grown adults
2x state champ and a half dozen conference/regional championships and I know better than to think I would be anything other than finger food to even a mild caliber D1 wrestler. I fucking love and breathe this sport but there are levels to everything folks. Props to the college kid for not beating the snot out of his opponent. He learned more in that match than he had in his previous 3 years or better. Get your ass kicked often and learn from it, and you'll progress faster in this sport than any caliber of coach or summer camp can help you.
I feel like this depends on the levels of your opponents in high school because 2x state champs end up being great college wrestlers. There’s probably been a handful of phenom high school wrestlers that could beat a D1 wrestler
The cool thing is though that high school kid can benefit so much from getting to feel first hand what that other level feels like. Sometimes when you are young you think you are invincible or you think that other level is so far away you will never reach it. When someone does this to you it shows you that it's there and you can get it too. Bet that kid goes straight to work
ya gotta start somewhere, props to the hiogh schooler for trying,, this is like connor MacGregor fighting brock lessner not exactly a fair fight for connor
One of our high school alums was a d1 national champ. A few years after he graduated, he came to one of our practices, and I had a chance to roll with him. Even though he was slightly smaller than I was, he tossed me around like I was a kid. He had tried out for the Olympic team, and he said he didn't come close to making it, so imagine how good those guys are, especially the guys who win gold like Gable, Sanderson, and Burroughs. Insane.
Then you look at Cael Sanderson. How good was he to go undefeated…. “As a wrestler, he won an Olympic Gold medal and was undefeated in four years of college wrestling at Iowa State University (ISU) (159-0), becoming a four-time NCAA Division I champion (1999-2002). He is the only wrestler in NCAA Division I history to go undefeated in official matches with more than 100 wins.”
in wrestling you always go hard first 10 seconds or so until you feel what their capable of. And if its clear they are sub par, you start doing your thing without effort.
I never wrestled, only boxed. I was humbled twice by wrestlers. One was my buddy, I’m 6 foot even he had to have been like 5’3. He’s a very short dude but strong. He took me down every single go we had. If we boxed I’d be good but In a street fight or on the mats he would’ve owned me. Next was my cousin. He wrestled for Georgia tech and was a huge deal. I visited him during graduation and this man god drunk and put me in the craziest wrestling moves I’ve ever seen. I felt hopeless. Boxing ain’t sht. People can take a punch. People can’t take being submitted or getting a limb snapped though. That’s a fact. I’d rather get ten pieced in the jaw than getting submitted. Especially on the streets. No tapping. If someone gets the better of you, they’re probably gonna snap your sht.
@@fuzzysgaming7905 no you absolutely do not. Now shut up. D1 wrestlers are elite. No high schooler would stand a chance against a D1 wrestler. D1 wrestlers lose to other D1 wrestlers and Olympians.
@@dontsugarcoat2729nope. I was that big at 22. Lift for 4 years and do cross country training with a proper diet. You definitely don't look like that naturally into your 30s unless you just never stop. I maintained that level of fitness until I had kids. It requires hours every day and permanent dedication to your diet once you loose that kid metabolism
years ago there was a kid at the playground who did bjj, one day he got into a fight with some guy and with his bjj easily grappled him and put him in a submission move. he was threatening to break the dudes arm when his friend ran up and kicked his nose in like a football, if he werent in a submission position he mighta dodged it. grappeling is nice and all but it wont save you in a street fight
this kid was really a good sport with a good mindset. 👍🏽 really honorable of him in the heat of the moment to not let the eyes and crowd get to his head and hurt his inexperienced opponent.🥇🏆
As a former D1 athlete there’s no comparison. You learn on your first day of college practice everyone there was the best on their high school team, County and one in their states. More kids need to see this to understand their real potential in sports and that it’s much more difficult than they perceive.
Agreed, and it’s the same regardless of what sport you play. Once you reach a certain level, most of the people you’ll encounter have the same background as you do, they all have talent and staying humble is a great tool to motivate oneself. Great learning experience for this young man 💪🏽
More kids need to understand the science between nutrition, rest, and the kind of strength training you need to do to be a top tier wrestler. The kids that have the drive and access to that information end up becoming absolute machines like this D1 gigachad. Either way good job on both parties.
100%. I’ll never forget the first off season football workout I went to. I couldn’t believe how friggin big, strong, and fast EVERYONE was. I was humbled quickly! And that was at a lower tier D1 school, not even power 5.
Haha most accurate statement about life that I have seen in the comments section so far. How many of us have thought we were great at something because we dominated everyone we were around only to be placed among the greats and realize others are great and even better. Humility is sometimes a great feeling. One of those lessons in life that just stick with you.
@@azonnoza BJJ is the worst style that actually works that you could use in a street fight. Styles that teach you how to fight on your feet and stay on your feet are best for street fighting situations. Using BJJ in a street fight will get you stomped out, kicked, jumped the moment you go to the ground. If you’re in a street fight you want to be on your feet and agile so you can get the f out of there asap. You want to be able to avoid attacks and likely multiple attackers. A hybrid of boxing, Muay Thai, or kickboxing as your striking style with wrestling, judo or sambo as your grapple base so that you can sprawl aka keep a mf off you and brawl or sprawl and get the f outta there is best.
if you’ve ever wrestled a college wrestler as a high schooler you know how ridiculously helpless it feels lol. making the d1 level is a whole other ballgame. it’s every consistent state placer or champion that wanted to be even more dedicated than they already were
We had our best athletes in our team come back to practice after wrestling in college. They were different. They were like jaguars compared to alley cats. I did take one of our prized wrestlers down once during Christmas break practice. Hey didn’t expect it and hex wasn’t going to allow that to happen again. He slowly punished me and put me back in place with numerous lessons. I Loved It!
I like that he didn’t slam him and then quickly demonstrated that he didn’t need to. Much respect! 💪 What a great sport. 🏆 Great power, great responsibility, that’s lost on so many.
that gentle double leg reminded me of when I had to wrestle the dude who ranked like 9th in the nation my freshman year 😂😂. he could've actually murdered me. mad respect tho
My first high school match against a girl my coach told me "remember, you're not facing a girl, you're facing a competitor, she signed up for the same fight as everyone else." I thought my coach was telling me that to make me not go easy on her. Nope, he was softening the blow of me about to get my ass kicked by an a 3 time all American wrestler who happened to be a girl
@@brianlavalley3983 R.I.P 😂😂. It's alright man, what's between your legs doesn't decide a match. You went out there and wrestled so good on you brother, not everyone is made for the sport so you have my respect
Yup. Thats exactly how my wrestling partner in high school (the other co-captain with me) would manhandle people. He was undefeated every season until the state tournament in Indianapolis. It was cause of him battering me every day during wrestling practice that I went from 6-23 my freshman year, to 32-7 my senior year at 138. Man i miss this sport. 2nd hardest thing ive ever done next to beating heroin addiction.
All those slams were replaced by gentle put-downs ... This guy knows his stuff . Mad respect for him to display that level of skill but with care to not hurt his opponent . This guy has 'Control' on a completely different level .
Everyone saying he's taking it easy on him, or that he didn't toss him hasn't wrestled. He's not pinning him because he's trying to win by tech, which means he literally mercy-rules his opponent - you can tell because he keeps going for takedown points and then letting him back up. It's more embarassing than getting pinned. Also, he didn't slam him after picking him up because you're not supposed to - you can see he tried to scoop his leg to get the guy on his back after putting him down. He's toying with the kid.
I remember one of our guys coming back from wrestling D1 college and he came into practice with us and he literally just toyed with me like it was nothing.. RLTW 3/75
Nah literally it makes no sense everytime you go to the next level for a year and go back everyone just seems easy, I did this freshman year I went back to my middle school to practice with them and all of the sudden everyone was babyfood.
Me in the beginning: “which ones D1” Me 1.5 seconds into the match: “ahh.” This blew up unexpectedly, thank you all for the laughing emojis my brothers
@@briminator3075 your dumb lmao I did wrestle and the only reason people tech fall kids is to show them wrestling them is light work do you wrestle lmao ??? Everybody knows this haha
Excellent control. What I love the most is that he immediately shows his prowess to prepare this kid, then performs his technique in a way that allows the kid to showcase HIS skills without actually pulling his game.
The fact that he did not totally dominate a younger and obviously lighter opponent shows class and a D1 understanding of where he stood vs the lil fella. D1 Maturity
@@adammeyer347128 semantics aside he could have pinned him in mere seconds. He did score a lot of points, but he could have injured him if he didn’t hold back.
Look at the size and strength difference. It's like watching an 11 year old football prodigy growing up and realizing in 12th grade that he actually wasn't a prodigy once puberty came into play. Lmao
“Hahaha he’s toying with him” making fun of someone stepping up to a plate above his level is something only losers do. But for the one you’re making fun of it shows courage and drive. Those who play with the best, become the best. You will one day remember those words when you’re being “toyed” with.
I know it may not seem like it but he really took it easy on that kid, while there’s always someone better, having previously wrestled it’s nice to see that the obviously older and more experienced wrestler wasn’t trying to force moves or show boat in a ridiculous fashion. He exposed his back twice using two variations of the same technique, and took advantage of his being flustered to set up a clean double which he could’ve finished with a slam, and a much more vicious pin like a barbed wire or something obviously intended to cause pain; instead he chose a slow and controlled finish, which is a FAR more valuable lesson in and of itself to the younger grappler. Kudos to this guy
Good sportsmanship. The high-school kid probably learned as much in that 2 minutes as he would have with a season worth of matches. Parents...put your kids in wrestling. They will learn many life skills from this sport. And it's a one-on-one sport. No teammates to hide behind... just you, your opponent, and will!
Wish my parents had done that. My mom was too afraid of "me getting hurt" to put me in sports like football or hockey or wrestling, where my natural size could have done me some good instead of wasting it.
