Coach Hull Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Given the Olympics only comes once every four years, added to the success (or lack of) the United States had in comparison to the rest of the world, and with the upcoming H.S. season, I was interested in how this event has changed the perception of Freestyle/Greco/Folkstyle in the Indiana wrestling community...if any. Thanks and best wishes this season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbburn12 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 It was a lot of fun following the Olympic trials and watching the Olympics live online. Saying that I am so ready for FOLKSTYLE high school and collegiate wrestling to begin. There might be some neat techiques in Greco and Freestyle but to me the whole system of scoring and winning or losing is a very poor determinant of the best wrestler. Varner loses the ball pull to the Georgian an 80% chance he loses and there goes the chance for the gold. I still don't know what happened in that last period with Herbert when he lost 6-0 but thats above my paygrade. The whole business of scoring by period,ball pulls, scoring once then hiding the rest of the match just isn't appealing to me as a fan.I do like the push out and the throws. I suppose if you added some freestyle elements to folkstyle and maybe got rid of riding time you would have an ideal competive style that would show the best wrestler when the match was done. Greco well I didn't see much of it but what I saw seemed always to end up in par terre (spelling ?). Hey these guys are great ,tremendous athletes. Just my 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger.dad Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 It was a lot of fun following the Olympic trials and watching the Olympics live online. Saying that I am so ready for FOLKSTYLE high school and collegiate wrestling to begin. There might be some neat techiques in Greco and Freestyle but to me the whole system of scoring and winning or losing is a very poor determinant of the best wrestler. Varner loses the ball pull to the Georgian an 80% chance he loses and there goes the chance for the gold. I still don't know what happened in that last period with Herbert when he lost 6-0 but thats above my paygrade. The whole business of scoring by period,ball pulls, scoring once then hiding the rest of the match just isn't appealing to me as a fan.I do like the push out and the throws. I suppose if you added some freestyle elements to folkstyle and maybe got rid of riding time you would have an ideal competive style that would show the best wrestler when the match was done. Greco well I didn't see much of it but what I saw seemed always to end up in par terre (spelling ?). Hey these guys are great ,tremendous athletes. Just my 2 cents I have to agree with this. You should win/lose/score on the mat, not by "ball pull". It's just not as exciting as folkstyle in my opinion. The one thing I would take and add to folkstyle is for sure the push out rule. I think that would keep the kids in the middle more and add another opportunity for the more aggressive wrestler to score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildcatcountry97 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Charger Dad - you are dead on correct here. Ill start a different post about this since its a little off this thread topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regionrat1 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I THINK da clinch like we had years a go it batter dan da ball grab/ push out would be a great add Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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