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Writing Time: New passions are fueling Gwiazdowski’s mind, pursuit of gold

Given the choice, Nick Gwiazdowski would rather not be fielding run-of-the-mill wrestling questions.  He’d prefer to talk about the Outlaw country music regularly pumping through his speakers, his newfound interest in art or the latest book he’s reading. He finds these interview topics more compelling than monotonous talk about takedowns and turns. 
“I’ve been trying to find ways to become more diverse than just wrestling,” Gwiazdowski said last week after a World Team training camp practice in Colorado Springs. “The things I’m becoming more diverse in I feel can help my wrestling skills with creativity or getting your brain to function faster and just react faster to things when it recognizes something or sees something it knows the response. “(They’re) not things I sit down and focus on super hard and try to train, but rather things you do consistently every day, every day, and I think it builds those connections to be a little bit stronger and a little bit faster.”  The 26-year-old New York native is trying to discover every little edge he can find in his quest to become the heavyweight king of the World. He claimed bronze medals the past two years at the World Championships and he’ll try in a little more than three weeks to seize the throne that’s belonged to Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili and Turkey’s Taha Akgul for the past five years.  The two-time NCAA champ from North Carolina State has beaten most of the top contenders at 125 kilograms and he sees a path to beating the ones who have bested him in the past. Rest of the story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/PortalPost.jsp?postId=1679886132

August 31, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized