Coach love your videos. Hey you are missing one big thing in your studies of Desanto, his head position. He is a left leg lead with head position on the left shoulder of the opponent. 99.9% of wrestlers will place their head on the right shoulder area of an opponent. Aaron Pico wrestled in a similar fashion. This concept does two important things for a left leg lead; 1. Improves his defense because he only needs to defend one attack, a single leg. It makes other attacks like duck-unders and high-crotch really difficult for an opponent. DeSanto had the best single leg defense in the country if you go back and review film. 2. It allows him to be in better position to finish a fireman's carry because it takes the opponents head position out of the defensive equation, and of course inside control, hand position defense is eliminated also. As Ridge Lovett told me, made him feel awkward, especially with his foot work, having his head pushed to that side because he was not used to it.
I guess it's swapping head side from the standard over/underhook tie with an opponent - generally the head is on the underhook side as you work that, but this is an interesting distinction. It makes sense since he's aggressively seeking to work the over tie to work this series. Thanks for highlighting it.
Wow. Very convincing lessons. Isn't it strange and amazing that nobody has taught the value of the Fireman's Carry in the last 30 years? But, in Judo they started using it a few years back and it was so ridiculously effective that it changed the sport. Eventually, they had to change the rules to ban leg grabs using the hands altogether, much like Greco Roman.
@@kanucks9 I never grabbed pants. I used the barrel roll style fireman's carry with my hand between the legs. The Japanese referee disallowed my throw on the top-seated person, because I didn't grasped the jacket tail in the back. When I complaint, this referee required me to get on my knees to apolozed. I lost the bout on a referee decision. In other tournaments the other American referees allowed my throws after I grabbed the jacket hanging down between the legs with my right hand. I am left-handed, so I grapped the opponent's right sleeve with my head tucked tightly into the opponent's right armpit. I struck quickly, to avoid chokes and being throw myself. One tall guy tossed me in my first tournament; and as he landed on me, knock the wind of of me. I learned from that loss to move quicker. Otherwise, these guys will toss your ass down on the match in a heartbeat.
I wrestled a loooong time ago. I only wish the internet was around back then! This is a great video. Really breaks down Desanto's techniques in a way that make them understandable and teachable. You younger wrestlers out there are lucky to have such cool tools at your disposal. Good luck to everyone!
Wanted to say keep this up man. I been doing this for my kids for years on my phone, or in little clips. Your videos over past year I've used to explain 2nd moves, and how big boys set up things I'm teaching them. It all started with the Dump/Sucker Drag/Barrel Roll series, or as we called in 20 year ago in high school. The Ohio State Special. Thank you.
Thanks man. Glad the videos are helpful. And it's so crazy that it was called the Ohio State special because I learned the series originally from Kollin Moore
In HS I saw the fireman's used a TON but wrestling JUCO I would rarely see it used being that at the JUCO level the defensive iq of the opponent is much higher. The fact that Desanto was able to hit it on the best guys @ the D1 level is a testament to the technician he was. That and he actually used it as a part of a series of moves, which made it so effective. A+ Analysis/Breakdown. Subscribed and hit the 🔔
That Snap faceplant was amazing. RBY was able to stop him by putting the hand back and being an athletic freak so others thought it would work too. Problem is they arent the athletic freak that RBY is so ADS would faceplant them when they tried. Hard to stop you face from hitting the mat when you hand isnt out in front of you.
Yeah I still don't understood how RBY managed to get away with that and not even give up a takedown in their later matches. Dude is underrated. Feel like he doesn't get enough credit
Something happened to him, junior or senior year, that made him unable to finish-even if he got to the legs. In his B10 match against RBY (2022), he got to his legs, and could’ve finished, but stopped. It might’ve been physical or mental problems. It sucks, knowing that if DeSanto had remained the beast he was or improved, he could’ve been the one to beat and end RBY’s tear in 2022.
@@micahjosephson688 Probably. But looking back at the 2022 B10 match, it seemed like DeSanto was getting the upper-hand. I would’ve loved to see DeSanto go against RBY in the NCAA final, rather than semifinal. Maybe DeSanto would’ve attained some epiphany then.
Good video, great breakdown, too technical. I went to school right over from him and we spent a descent amount of time together in the wrestling room during post season training (very different weight classes). The grip strength is accurate. The rest isn't cause of talent or God given ability. He just worked harder than anyone I've ever met in my 11 years wrestling and my almost 24 years of life. Man's is insane and he deserves all the great things that have come to him
Thank you. And yeah man the kid is unreal. Still remember when he broke the 4x California State Champ at the Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic. It's crazy that he was so close to never being a State Champ
My brother had to smoothest fireman's carry when he was in high school. I wasn't as good as him, but I loved that move, and I never understood why almost nobody else did it
I was at a camp with Desanto and he showed his fireman’s and he said when he hits it he slides his head to the chest and he doesn’t pick it up because it releases all his pressure if he picks his head up but great breakdown
DeStanto's behavior would not be allowed at Penn State. Coach Sanderson doesn't allow dirty wrestling or foul mouths on his team. DeStanto was a perfect fit at Iowa under those nasty coaches.
I feel really dumb b/c I never thought about inside vs outside. I've done both but never really thought about that as an explicitly different part of the move. Cool, thanks!
Yeah that's definitely planned. That's my favorite folkstyle wrestler. There's a pretty good breakdown on it on YT already and honestly that guy did an amazing job explaining everything
Always so crazy to me that he was able to continually hit it and that Lee is still able to hit his rebar tilts against the best in the country. Guys have had years to prepare for it and still can't/couldn't crack the code (most guys, not all)
@@earnyourgold The only loss I'll never forget was due to me not being able to stop my opponent from doing that move on me. Back then it was called The Firemans Crawl...at least in my circle it was.
That's why RBY was putting his arm behind his back to prevent the fireman's carry assaults from DeSanto, but you gotta be quick on your feet and athletic.
I wouldn’t necessarily say he could do it to both sides. Once RBY began keeping his left arm behind his back against Desanto, Austin never beat him again. So Penn State obviously saw a hitch in Desanto’s signature move somewhere.
True story: I wrestled desanto at a youth tournament once and after the match I told him he had a good fireman’s carry and he replied “it’s actually not a fireman’s carry, it’s a dump.”
Dieringer was an absolute beast. Hate that more of his college matches aren't online. So powerful. Doubles, pancakes, and barrel rolls. One of my favorite wrestlers
@@pocketssmith5933 covid year AA too. All top 8 ranked wrestlers during the covid year got AA honors so while yes he did lose in the round of 12 as a freshman he finished top 8 all three other years and was top 3 ranked during the covid year so 4xAA
