It is amazing that people with no clue just continue to show their ignorance!!! Wrestling freestyle will make you a much better all around wrestler for any style.... Especially for Folkstyle!! It amazes me that four months ago everyone was wearing save Olympic wrestling shirts and posting "Save Olympic Wrestling" all over their Facebook. The fact is most of them are pretenders that don't truly support wrestling as a sport!! I'm sure Triple B is more of an expert about wrestling than Terry Brands!! A HUGE percentage of the best wrestlers in our country and in our state wrestle Freestyle!! The best programs in our state support Freestyle wrestling, and their athletes wrestle Freestyle!! Programs like; Perry Meridian, Evansville Mater Dei, Franklin, Cathedral, Penn, Yorktown, Warren Central, Merrillville, Portage, etc.....
Freestyle teaches you how to use your hips, how to finish takedowns in better position, how to keep your back away from the mat, how to control ties, how to attack scoring positions, how to keep your hips heavy........ the list goes on and on!!!
We are our own worst enemy!! We say we support our sport in the Olympics but we try to kill Freestyle by creating renegade wrestling associations that directly impede Freestyle and line peoples' pockets!!They schedule Folkstyle tournaments to directly conflict with Freestyle tournaments!!!
Indiana wrestlers that were/are avid Freestyle wrestlers:
Alex and Jason Tsirtsis
Blake Maurer
Reece Humpphrey
Angel Escobedo
Alex Dolly
Matt Coughlin
Shane Perkey
Cody LeCount
Stevan Micic
Leroy Vega
Andy Trevino
Brad Harper
Lance Ellis
This is a short list!!
I'm sure there are spelling or grammatical errors in this post...... Before the cute attempts at humor start.