Freestyle VS Folkstyle WRESTLING... Differences EXPLAINED!! 

Cool idea but that’s a lot of time on the mat

Lol overtime is BJJ

​@mylesparrish2591 could be more 1.5 mins each or 2 mins each

I totally agree! I’m a blue belt and I love wrestling. With the exception of a few other guys at our gym, most think I’m full of shit.

@@Stevie_tha_tooth just use wrestling 101: Don’t let up until you hear cartilage snap, or they crap in their pants. They’ll learn.

And if you know BOTH amateur wrestling(especially freestyle) and bjj you would be more prepared for catch wrestling(where you could win either by pin or submissions). I do know that Snake Pit Wigan have competitors from bjj at their contests(Some of whom MAY NOT have amateur wrestling training). While Snake Pit USA DOESN'T like bjj competitors WITH NO amateur wrestling experience at their contests. That why they banned Quentin Rosenzweig. Although Quentin did train in catch with Johnny Buck(a student of Billy Wicks). But yeah Snake Pit USA was PETTY. And the founder of Snake Pit USA have A NASTY TEMPER AND ABUSED A AIRPLANE EMPLOYEE.

But they did invite Jasmine Rocha to Snake Pit USA competition. Not a lot of people knows this but she also was a high school wrestler. But her father and POSSIBLY her brother have a BAD REPUTATION on insulting other bjj competitors.

@@carpenter155 or Just do catch wrestling

I prefer judo but wrestling is great

@@josuerodriguez12b Judo is also something I like, it was my first martial art and I started it at age 4, it's relatively easy to find in my country as well, but I think wrestling is more fast-paced and explosive which is something I lack in my grappling and wish to work on that, judo and BJJ have submission techniques while wrestling is much more focused on positional control and superiority the exception being catch wrestling and Folk styles, I have focused much more in striking throughout my life so my grappling, in general, is a bit lacking in comparison.

Pro brasileiro o jeito é treinar muito Judô

Isn't there luta livre which is basically Brazilian catch wrestling

@@eduardoramirez4768 I am not really familiar with that, I think that’s a more general term for a vale tudo match which is kinda like mma, or if there’s catch wrestling in that context here it’s probably going to be in northern and northeastern regions of my country where I don’t live in so I wouldn’t have seen it or heard of it if it’s there

Luta Livre is also a viable solution as it still has a heavy wrestling foundation

Greco for slam KOs

Judo for a great deal of what you said in Greco-Roman wrestling and Sambo.

Catch wrestling also have trips and takedown. In fact sambo was partly influenced by catch wrestling.

@@tichtran664 CW looks so cool, can't wait to be able to train

Daniel cormier has a wrestling gym in Gilroy. A little drive but I think it would be worth it. Garth Taylor in Santa Cruz is ex high school wrestling coach.

@@jerahbarnett Thank you I appreciate the help :)

​@@aegreenwBro, you live in SJ... Go train at AKA with Islam Machachev

@@MastersmokeABUSE is that accesible for normal people like us, what? ( im from europe so i have no idea )

I wrestled in high school, and as I've come to understand the other styles, folkstyle seems like a different version of freestyle that's more friendly and "fair" for minors. Like with cacc, it's another version of freestyle that just allows for submissions. Just my take on it.

@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 so like I mentioned I’m not wrong

@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 I did Wrestling in highschool for both Folkstyle and freestyle

It's called Freestyle wrestling.

That’s pretty cool! It’s wrestling!

He can also explain the difference between judo and bjj. Yes he have done some training in bjj. Check his Instagram.

They didn't. Both Freestyle and Folkstyle come directly from the same parent style: Catch wrestling. When Olympic movement banned submissions from (Catch) wrestling in 1920s, both sides of Atlantic started independently establishing formal rulesets for what was known at the time as "Amateur Catch wrestling". The goal was to make it more safe and youth friendly, in accordance to the Olympic ideal. Both sides created different governing bodies for their wrestling organizations, but ultimately it was the European hegemony which took over internationally. Notice: this was during 1920s where Europe was still the world leading power, and U.S was still engaging more or less in isolationism. By the time U.S became an active superpower in 1950s, Freestyle had already firmly established itself at the Olympics. In fact, the early iterations of Freestyle and Folkstyle were very similar to each other, as both tried to mimic the essense of their parent: Catch . However, that was 100 years ago. Since then, both wrestling styles have undergone multiple rounds of changes in rulesets for various reasons. These days they appear to be more far apart, so it's more difficult to see the common origin.

@@kallepikku4991 Yeah as the US was MORE ISOLATED their "amateur catch wrestling" was more OLD FASHIONED. Old fashioned as in the sense of NO SUPLEX. After all suplex came originally from greco roman wrestling. But thank to the influence of Georg Hakensmidt(sp?) and Karl Gotch it later went into freestyle and pro wrestling. Unfornately while the suplex did go into pro wrestling it didn't went into what is now known as folkstyle wrestling. At least here in the US.

Both have advantages. I.e. both are good for different reasons. I suggest do both.

The scoring in folkstyle is much easier and cut & dry compared to freestyle