+Marshall Brown Wish you the best of luck this season, your dad would be so proud!

+Marshall Brown - Hey Marshall, hang in there. I think your dad would be very proud too!

+Dan McKinney When did you make this?

I finished Pinned in 2002. Can't believe it's almost 15 years old!

Dan McKinney As a former high school wrestler, this definitely resonates and takes me back. For all the work that wrestlers put in, they get virtually no glory. However, the old Dan Gable saying that "Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy," is true in my opinion. Beautiful documentary!!

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2nd year. First year was last year as a freshman. Contemplated on coming back. Then thought what if I'm in my 60s 70s or even 80s and on my death bed regretting and wishing I stayed with it. So here I am

Sabrina White I was in your EXACT position two years ago. I'm now a Junior and let me tell you, I sucked my first year in HS wrestling but I kept pushing, wanting to get better and now I'm an amazing wrestler, especially for my weight class. Keep that mentality, push forward and don't give up!👍🏼

Brian Roberts HA ok just varsity HS...... You wouldn't crack our line-up, guaranteed! So don't talk shit. Foolish one.

i’m in the exact position. i feel you fam

Sabrina White so two years of saying this......how are you doing?

Kristopher Andrews you sound like a real wrestler

Benaiah Uchiha-Senju thanks dude 😊

Ah thanks i've never won a single match yet and this was a real motivation

this is my second year...last year we had 22+ wrestlers now the only reason I'm varsity is cuz we have 6 wrestlers...and everything you said is true haha

I was a first year freshmen this year, and I caught on pretty easily. I went 20-17 and was regional runner-up.

im a freshman, now in jv, im doing well, but our varsity had got injured, so i was the substitute varsity, im 6-3 varsity record and 4-0 jv, the only reason i cant be varsity is bcus i could beat the 113, but going from 106 to 113 seems like a struggle, n the varsity 106 is amazing and utterly destroys me

Same

Then you are a self absorbed idiot lol

Good stuff man how did it go

So sorry for your loss

Jaden Worthington where’s your proof

Stay strong bro I know this comment was from a while ago and you’re probably done with HS wrestling but how did it go?

@@nelithsiriwardhana8822 yeah I’m in college now. I quit wrestling a few weeks after I made that comment and it was probably the best decision I could make. I gave it my all and it just wasn’t working anymore. Found better things (weightlifting) and other hobbies to keep me very active. Now I’m joining the army :P

@@thenothingking I congratulate you for doing things that can make you happy. Thank you for your service bro

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks Thiago!

keep working my first year I lost all my matches but then my second and final year I placed second at regionals and qualified for states

you’re a bit older than me but i can tell you that once you watch vids like these, wrestling is all you think about. watched this vid in 7th grade and wrestling became a year round addiction, placed 5th in state 8th grade and now undefeated as a freshman on varsity. one piece of advice: make wrestling your drug! good luck, man.

Im a freshman, first year wrestling, and I lost 13 out of fifteen matches my entire season. First one I won was a forfit as well; and let me tell you, when I got that first win... I was stunned. Last tournament of the season before districts and I had won my first match. Nobody said anything but my partner. I sat for almost twenty minutes before it really hit me and went off to cry. My season was crazy; at my schools tournament, first of the season I competed in, and I wrestled against a girl from the best girls team in our district. I went into three overtime matches. Having never done a single sport before in my life I was exhausted. Bothing my coach said was getting through to me, everything was muddled and all of the sudden i hear "One more point and you win." And I just drive. At the end of my match her coaches pulled me aside and told me how wonderful I'd done and how i had a bright season to come. My coach told me he was proud as other girls on the team watched me; i was srill out of breath, wheezing and hyperventilating but relatively calm. Trying my hardest not to cry, becuase the match mentally whipped my ass as much as it did physically. I leave the gym and hide out the locker room, make sure it's empty and just scream. I sit in the bleachers, and as soon as my mom touches me i the tears finally fall. I was so mad to be done. That match which should have given me hope to improve ripped me apart and left me incontinent for the rest of my season. I maybe took four shots out of all of my season after that. I make it to districts becuase I'm the only one in my weight class, and while i was still an unconfident wrestler, I became passionate for the sport. Like.... Ive tried so many things previously in my life and none of them really stuck to me, but wrestling makes me determined. I fought my best but lost both matches. A braquet of 5, all I had to do was win one match to move on. And i got last. I was okay and at peace with that; I'd tried what i thought was my hardest. I'd accepted what life was, and as the regional qualifiers practiced, i sat on the sidelines, doing homework, yearning to be with my team. It was okay though. Two days before regionals i get a messae from my coach. Someone in my weight class got injured. I could compete in regionals. Later that day i find out the girl who got injured was from the match that snapped me. A senior, at that. I went through practice in the boys uniform that are washed all together and in spare shoes three sizes too big until my mom brought mine half way through, against guys in my weight class; 138. I got back to it the next day with girls in the weight classes above me. 148, 158, and 165 (we did a group of 4 rotation) regionals came and my first match was against a girl who had won for my weight class last year; her record being 3 loses - 40 wins for the year. Another senior. I lasted all three rounds before being pinned, and ultimately it was one of my best matches. Wrestling is a hard fucking sport. Both mentally and physically its draining, but that one win I got erased all the pain from the begining. My off season won't be spent fumbling with the basics but growing and learning. Next pre season I'm going to grow. The sport has sucked me in; I'm sticking with it ans hope you do to. The day you can kick ass wil come.

X Born does your son wrestle at amador?

I noticed he was attempting a more negative feedback loop, it's kinda weird I feel like my coach would be disgusted in the way he acts. I definitely agree with you

Stsven Haller i feel like the coach was just saying that just too make them pissed and get them to be more determined to be a better wrestler

Which works for the kids who are confident and already dedicated. When you're a "winner", any adversity is fuel for you to overcome it. If however, you're doubting yourself or feel out of place, it's just more anxiety and pressure that you're already having trouble handling. Push the kids who are already there, help those that aren't.

If you can't handle it then you aren't ready for the sport my coaches are tough in the room and nice outside

I don’t wrestle and never have but I don’t think he is. I have managed baseball and can tell you that making people mad does help them. It builds determination and the desire to work hard and win. You become so focused on proving your coach wrong that you begin playing and competing harder and better.

Dawson Porter You tell them how it is, the truth may hurt butnis essential to growing.

Dawson Porter if you can't handle what people tell then quit.

are you good.?

idk am I

+Hunter Nagatani idk bruh that's why I was asking you

idk Bruh that's why I was asking you!

your right i was wrestling varsity in 8th

+Lamonica Proctor-Burch How did you do?

We do ok

Lamonica Proctor-Burch What was your records if I can ask?

Alexander Perez freshman and sophomore year I wrestled 120 junior year o wrestled 26 and this year I wrestled 132 and 126

bitch I think u go on every wrestling video braging about your sister and u wrestling... girls shouldn't wrestle

and weighing in, in socks.

Yeah it made me cringe a bit. My coach is from Iowa and makes you take your shoes off as soon as you walk in.

Samourai they were probably new to the sport and didn't know they needed special shoes.

jimi hendrixZ Wtf has being from Iowa got to do with it lol

BubbaJo they all do it!!!

It's on a halo 3 trailer lol

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Befra / Drone thats interesting to hear, i was in the same situation 4 years ago when i was 11, how old are you? for me it was the best desicion i ever made

15

Befra / Drone howd it go?

Befra / Drone howd it go

Well?

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I lost literally all my matches in my sophomore year at 170 then this year i dropped down to 145. Every jv tournament i went to i placed top 4 and such. And in the conference tournament i placed 2nd at a jv1 tournament. Hard work does pay off

Ezekiel Elliott I started my freshman year but I am very dedicated

I started my senior year and only have a 3-9 record so far. 6-9 if you count forfeits

It was an all boys school