The best thing about amateur wrestling was that it made the already-patient even more patient: hang on the edge of the mat and wait for your opponent to make a single mistake, make adjustments on the margins to pile up riding time, and sit out immediately when on bottom
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People like my cousin had flashier styles, but the boring defensive foundations of WPIAL wrestling were always in placehttps://youtu.be/ly4T7cpzp-A
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Just bore the shit out of them, make an occasional impressive move, then get back to turtling until there's another opening
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Yeah, he's right, though he was also almost always close to being the best wrestler, even when injured, so he had it all. Rulon Gardner going over Alexander Karelin in 2000 and ex Bellator heavyweight Cole Konrad are true testaments to the power of plodding mediocrity
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