I don't think anyone looks forward to wrestling practice. After school, and after that warm-up, I knew hell was going to be unleashed. That smell of chlorine as the freshmen are cleaning the mats, just makes you realize another hellish practice was only minutes away. I haven't played other sports, but do football, soccer, track etc players look forward to practice because they get to chill with their friends?
@@777Skeptic my boys play baseball as well. Baseball is like being on vacation.....zero stress, practices where they don't even break a sweat, literally a game to them.
This practice looks like a hell scape. The metal clanging, the grunts of anguish, while Dan Gable cruises around with mop like Charon, the boatman who takes dead souls to Hades. Yeah, I hate wrestling.
For the lay person that isn't obsessed with college wrestling, I'll share some context. This is one of the many National Iowa championship teams from the early 2000s. This is the HWC practice where these collegiate animals are honing their skills for international (Olympic) freestyle competition. These are some of the cream of the crop in college wrestling beating the hell out of each other. Lincoln Mac, Joe Williams, Jeff McGinness, Mark Ironside and others were all multiple time NCAA champs.
35:18 Dan Gable pushing a mop to keep the mats dry.... while in BJJ clubs the instructor makes white belts clean the mats. We need to get over ourselves in BJJ
Yes and no, white belts aren't top level athletes that Gable wants to keep from slipping and getting hurt because he wanted to win. There's a difference there, I don't mind cleaning the mats after rolling, I'm a blue belt.
King Kong do you go to a restaurant and clean your own table? Do you go to a hotel and wash the linens and towels? When you are paying for a service you should not be cleaning mats. I'm a black belt. And I run a BJJ gym as my only source of income.
@@BadWolfMMANashville None of those other things you mentioned are martial arts though, which a big part are rooted in discipline and respect. I've never seen anyone complain over this personally, I see it more as team and we all contribute in some way.
Dan Gable would do that even if it was beginners. In college while wrestling for championships at the highest level he would help anyone. People just wanting to lose some weight he would make time for
You have a point. In college dan Gable would help anyone with training. Even if it was just someone trying to lose weight As a teenager he worked construction and always looked for the toughest work that nobody wanted to do
I’ve known Mike mena for a long time, he would come out to the club I wrestled at and train us from time to time. Truly one of the oddest, but most focused humans I’ve ever met.
@@sodadad102 He came to a clinic where I brought some of my guys, and he just came up to me and said your guys are really green, coach, lol. He had great technique, especially when it came to getting in deep on leg shots enough to turn the shot into a lift.
Our HS wrestling coach had us watch a video of his practices. When you see the Brands bros crying, you don't complain about your own practices any more!
@@cfbaddict7284 No it wouldn’t. Everybody pretty much over trained back then. The science behind training has become so much more details and rigorous.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 I feel like overtraining is different in this situation vs a clinical weight-room. Because while it may be sup optimal for some things there’s a certain amount of grit and skill you still get. Still probably true I just don’t know how you draw the line.
The greatest of all time, cruising around with a dust mop wearing prison slides, knowing damn well he could stretch any fucker in there at will. And they know it too....
I met Jeff McGiness at Chertow camp. He led warm ups before Saturday night live session! It was freaking brutal. I remember leaving that session and if I would have had to defend myself I would have been screwed! Couldn’t pick my arms up! 25 minutes of warm fucked everyone in that room up!
Seeing Ironside wincing doing push-ups, seeing the mat, hearing Gable talk gives me PTSD. Anyone who has wrestled for years and years knows what I'm talking about. Pain and the ability to deal with it.
At first it looked like Mena vs Ubasa Ironside vs McGinnes Anderson vs Mcilravy Zadick vs Tom Brands Schwab vs Terry Brands Fulsaas vs Fullhart Williams vs Zalesky (2nd half, not sure who he was wrestling before that) Oostendorp vs ? Looked like at the end Zadick vs Terry Brands Fullhart vs Jessman Smith Ironside vs Schwab Williams vs Anderson
10:19 Ok now 🤣🤣🤣 it's just a big no. 10:22 so that's what Cheal Sonnen was trying to do with Fedor and then ended up under him and losing the fight. Not all wrasteling moves work in mma.
Actually you would have a much better chance of hitting that move in mma vs a high caliber college wrestler who has better base skills in that position. I can hit this move with a decent percentage of success in BJJ unless the guy considerably outweighs me.
