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BreakfastClub you beat me to the punch. Pease was incredibly dominant on a national level and caught a couple of tough breaks as a Junior and a Senior. I think the deal was he was called for a slam at Semi-State as a Junior and the kid did not go on so he was DQ'd. Fairly certain that was the case. As a senior he broke his ankle in the practice room very early in the season and came back on a bum ankle and wrestled a handful of matches prior to the state tournament. He was still hobbled pretty good at state.

I think that as long as this topic comes up I will have the same response. Jeff Pease from Muncie Southside is without a doubt the best wrestler to not win state. 1989 - he was dq'd on a weak slam call at semi-state and then suffered a pretty severe ankle inury in 1990 and made it state , but wrestled only a portion of the season and was not 100%. In the summer between we was a double champ at Junior Nationals and absolutely hammered his competition at that level.

Jeff Pease -If my fading memory serves, he was dq'd at semi-state for a slam as a junior and suffered a pretty severe broken ankle the start of his senior season. I was on the team with him at Junior Nationals (Cedar Falls back then) and he hammered everyone, extremely dominant.

Jeff Pease from Muncie Southside in the late 80's was a monster. He got hosed on an illegal slam call at semi-state his junior year and had to come back from a broken ankle his senior year. ( I think those facts are correct) Watched him dismatle guys an Junior Nationals. I don't remember anyone coming close to him.

I think that if you have the arm trapped , making it legal, it is not really possible to cut off the blood or air flow, especailly if your objective is to actually pin your opponents shoulders to the mat. I can remeber having a kid in a headlock and having him scream at the ref " I can't breath", the ref's response was "if you can scream, you can breath". My point it that it might feel like you are choking, but it is the pressure on your chest that is causing that feeling, along with the headlock itself. The front headlock is a little bit of a different story, even with the arm trapped in it can be used as a choke. Dave Shultz was very effective at using the front headlock to punish opponents.

Big Bob, i agree with you whole heartedly....the issue is that if you can't stop a single leg is that any less skilled than not being able to stop a headlock....i was certainly a junk artist , way back when, but i was certainly good enough not to get caught with the same junk i was throwing, unfortunately that doesn't mean i did not get beat, just not with the same skill set i was beating other guys with,...What was most coaches have issue with is that if you have success as a middle school level wrestler, throwing headlocks or other "junk", then you will not develop the other skills that will take you to the next level of competition. I certainly did not work hard enough on my mat skills, so i was a great example of how solely relying on "catching" people will cost you at the higher levels of competition.

Junk is a relative term.....i don't think it is so negative, more so just using less than traditional technique.....If you catch a quality wrestler with "junk", then it ain't so bad...Kinser is the best example in recent years...