Takedown Report

Steiner believes it is time to give up folkstyle for freestyle

TDR Editor’s Notes ; This is an interesting proposition and worth consideration. It has been discussed many times before and often the rational becomes that it will help the U.S. score better in Olympic and World competition. The number of wrestlers who enter international matches is a fraction of 1 % of all the students who wrestle scholastically or collegiately. It is our view that the current american folkstyle is more beneficial to the development of wrestlers as athletes and students. This is why we have scholastic sports; for the development and betterment of the students and not so the top 0.5 per cent can do better in an event that happens once every four years. If wrestling were to switch to freestyle the number of participants would drastically drop and the recent growth in collegiate opportunities would not only end, but would decline.
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Terry Steiner had never seen a college wrestling meet until he was a senior in high school. He and his identical twin brother, Troy, grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, and drove to Minneapolis in 1988 to watch Iowa defeat Minnesota. Both eventually signed with Iowa and won individual NCAA titles under Dan Gable.  Their second meet? North Idaho wrestled Bismarck State Junior College when they came to the Steiners’ hometown. 
Today, the Steiners are wrestling influencers. Terry is the head women’s national team coach at USA Wrestling and Troy is the head wrestling coach at Fresno State. Both have accumulated a wealth of experience since that point, traveling the country and the globe on behalf of wrestling.  To be clear, the Iowa-Minnesota meet was the very first time either had watched a college wrestling meet of any kind. Terry and Troy Steiner were wrestling neophytes when they attended Iowa.
That was over 30 years ago and wrestling has changed exponentially since that point. Imagine a scenario where a good high school wrestler has not seen hours of wrestling footage either online or in person. 
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December 2, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized