The Time Coach Gable Called The CIA Looking For Barry 

I used to get high off of weight cutting 😆

@@davestuddaman8127 I had teammates that would put their finger down their throat after eating a big Mac just so they could have the enjoyment of eating a big Mac,,, they would vomit it up 🤢 just sickening

Coach Jesse James in high school should have taught you better,,, Barry 😂

I remember not being able to sleep a wink while cutting

@@pocketssmith5933 The last night before a weigh in, I always took some tylenol pm. Not only is my body railing at me for food, but I'm sore, I'm super dehyrated, and I'm also like a kid on christmas eve, too excited to sleep because I've got a tourney tomorrow.

What was his name?

@@Nogi1987 Frank Santana?

@@Nogi1987 But he didn't wrestle for Gable though so maybe someone else

Is this Barry Davis? Barry beat a friend of mine at state some years ago when Barry was a senior and my buddy was a sophomore.My friend was probably the best wrestler in the state at the time, however, he was in the same weight class as Davis. Davis was pound for pound the best in the country at that time.

I have a story of a guy who tried out for the Navy Seals that told me Wrestling practice was hands down harder, a medical condition was the reason he did not make it, but not because he could not get through the training! Wrestling at that level (NCAA) is one of the hardest physical challenges anyone can do in the world. I am sure most wrestlers at that level have a successful life and I am sure it has a lot to do with the physical and mental toughness they got from those practices. I wrestled a bit in HS, but it was not for me, I can say Football practice was a cake walk compared to wrestling practice. Football practice doing 2 a days in the middle of summer is nothing compared to wrestling practice...

@@johnjay6370 as a ex division 1 wrestler i can tell you with absolute certainty this is accurate. i don't know if all programs are the same but the more well known ones are. i would tell people in life about the workouts and they literally labeled me a complete bull-shitter. hardly anyone believed me. i was a heavyweight that weighed around 255 and that was at like 14% body fat. a average afternoon practice for me saw me lose 10-12 lbs. we had dummies on the wall we would practice shooting on. we used to have a garbage can right there next to us so that we could just vomit without having to really stop working out. we would be going very very hard just taking shots but you'd get yourself into this mental state where even though you were going incredibly hard you'd get this nice rhythm that your body would get used to. coach would just wait for it and start with the little digs so then we would find ourselves taking it up to this next level and wouldn't stop until our body's failed. i used to love 1 mile runs on the track with a 55lb dumbbell in each hand. if we dropped a weight, the 1 mile started over from zero. i hated that more than anything. it would always end up being a 6 mile run at least. lol. i tell you what though, my grip was so freakish at one point i could crush an apple in my hand. i used to also grab opponents by the wrist while we were hand fighting in neutral and just not let go. some wrestlers would get so focused on trying to free their wrists they'd open themselves up for a shot. injury cut everything short for me and i miss it every day. i am almost 40 and cant make it 5 minutes without the sport on my brain.

@@adudeuknow thanks for sharing!! I also bet you are doing well for yourself too!

@@johnjay6370 you bet! quite well. wrestling no matter what level makes you into a different breed of person. usually the successful variety as you said.

Hahahaahah

Iowan

being the best in the country is quite a bit of pressure. and it sounds like gable did everything he could to help his athletes. It would be weird if no one ever tried to buck that kind of pressure.

Not weird. Just filtering out the weaker ones.

Yes, the abuses were rampant. That's why they instituted weight certification in high schools as early as 1977. It wasn't until 1997, after three college wrestlers died from cutting too much weight, that the NCAA instituted minimum weight rules. Abuses were also common in youth age-weight rec football many years ago, and those often brutal weight-cutting practices became regulated and prohibited. I think it was unforgiveable for coaches and parents to put 11-13-year-old kids through that torture -- especially considering that those are some of the most rapid-growth years.

Haha you have 0 clue huh

Seems to be that all of your flowrestling comments are small minded to say the least, anywho, all of my teammates have sauna suits and an extra one for cutting. Nothing has changed besides a bs hydration piss test that we got by also. It’s a beautiful sport you don’t seem to understand, have a great day!

Our coaches in High School used to do so of these same tactics. Wrestling room was at a constant 110 degrees . The normal student would walk in and immediately run right back out. The insane ones stayed and voluntarily starved themselves while non stop performing insane cardio and live wrestling drills just to hopefully win your match on Wednesday and Saturday night