A baggy singlet the doesn't fit. I did this one time when I accidentally grab my older brothers singlet to go to a tournament. i woke up late and had bed head. people thought I was a clown. I won the tournament down in delaware
I remembered wrestling 🤼♀️ when I was getting pinned and I farted 🔥 so the guy released me and we were back up to the neutral position. I got 1 point escape
I feel like that is such valuable advice when doing anything, even outside and of wrestling and in other sports. Having a mindset of "everyone is a state champ" is the best mindset for wrestling
Daniel Moucha what you said is mostly true but let’s say you walk out there and the dude you’re wrestling looks like he should be two weight classes below you and has no muscle definition. What would be the first thing that goes through your head?
I always gave a weak handshake on purpose. I then got my takedown in the first 10 seconds because they would think I'm a wimp. It was my perfect mind game.
Wearing double knee pads is actually a smart strategy. Wearing only one telegraphs your dominant shooting leg. I've seen guys wear both, it's a preference I guess.
When a guy doesn't wear any knee sleeves, get a look at his knees. If there's no hair watch your legs, he shoots both sides and isn't scared of mat burn. If there's hair, stay out of upper body, he's a thrower and isn't worried about mat burn at all.
@@adrishqipe depends since sometimes you switch which leg you lead with when you circle or something so if you switch which leg you lead with they won’t know
Two time state champion here. I always wore two knee sleeves to combat mat burn. I think you guys are worrying about looks too much. Most of the multi title winners did not look like your typical wrestling prototype. Jason Nolf looks like a noodle and he’s one of the baddest dudes to ever walk on a mat (3 NCAA titles).
@@kenyalmb I said he looks like a noodle. I’m built just like him. Thin and lean. He’s not stacked up like Suriano and burroughs. That’s all I was saying.
I had the fish handshake, but was the most winning freshman on the team. I think we're all just trying not to come off rude, so we really really underdo the handshake. I think it's athlete thing, not peculiar to wrestling.
Padrino guilty of doing this throughout kids club wrestling all the way into high school. Along with asking kids how long they’ve wrestled in the bullpen in youth lmfao
Jonny AztcM lmao I tickled a dude in an exhibition match I was 150 but they didn’t have a 152 he was a 174 so I figured it’d throw him off and it did 😂
Jade Nguyen -- "Ringworm" = wrestling code for full erection. Why does nobody mention this most common side effect? Even know of some wrestlers who work it up before match to intimidate opponents.
Khabib and Matt Hughes aren't exactly impressive either. But technique wise they're the best of their era. From a mma perspective, the way a person looks means practically nothing.
None of this matters in the long run. Never underestimate your opponent. Some months ago I was in a high school wrestling tournament, and, even though I was holding up, the guy was slightly better than me. During the second period, after a short scramble, he put me on my back, but I managed to roll him over to his back, immediately after he did that too, but the momentum helped me roll him on his back, I ran my feet towards his head, and I secured the pin, almost out of the mat
@@djhypebeast3435 yeah you're right the whole singlet gets uncomfortable. Headgear also but my HS and college coach would get on to us for messing with your singlets, headgear, or kneepads "Stay Busy" was the motto
On my old team, we always treated the newbie wrestlers like Marine Corps recruits. Upon officially initiating them into the brotherhood, we educated them on wrestling etiquette and informal traditions.
I wish I knew this when I was wrestling in the 70's. I would do those things on purpose. Just to get into the other guy's head. They sounded like the valley girls from the 80's.
No lie I had a teammate who was tall lanky pasty white had a bowl haircut always wore ankle socks and matflexs had the leg parts of his singlet pulled down and always wore a plain zip up jacket during warmups but he was a damn stud and spladled half the people he wrestled
Yea man if u spend more than 70$ on shoes your stupid. Unless you dont rip through shoes as fast as I do, spending more than 70$ is dumb and the asics are comfy asf
We sit on the edge of the mat and cheer them on. You may be the one wrestlings but your teams the one that can give you that determining strenghth while you do it!!
In defense of double kneepads, some people (myself included) really do need them. I would shot leading with either leg and the issue wasn't the mat burn. The problem was the impact. I had chronic runner's knee for years before I even stepped on the mat, then after just the first month of practices I could shoot more than a handful of times without immense pain. While I could have just focused on one side during a match, that was a no-go during practice since we all had to drill with both legs.
I always do that😂 before my name even pops up on the tv I walk around sweats on, straps up, jacket on, and my headgear on sideways with earbuds in😂. I’ve never seen anyone else do it
NCAA National Champ Charles Jones of Purdue told me he always shook his oppenents hands "like a bitch". No one is going to blast double this guy into another dimension.
My HS wrestling coach told me to shake with a weak grip at the beginning of the match all the time. I caught a lot of my opponents off guard. Tight grip afterwards win or lose.
I wish I wore double in hindsight. Especially for sweep singles. But, I didn’t cause I always thought it looked nerdy and I was all about that one white youth junior ASICS volleyball knee pad on the right knee and my Kendall cross adistars black or white. Or the black and orange zip up adidas. The first year they came out with the zip ups
I use the Tornado headgear because that’s the one I got in 7th grade and I’ve been using it ever since. I’m in 10th grade now and I still use it. The headgear you wear doesn’t mean jack shit. A real way to spot a newbie is his stance before the match begins and how he warms up
@@jacobmiller3933 well if that works for you then great ig, but if you have a bad stance at the beginning, if the other person attacks immediately your chances are worse unless you're trying to bait them into one hell of a sprawl or something
@@gavingilburg2323 no one gives a shit how you look. it's wrestling, not a fucking fashion show. I only wore one knee pad when i wrestled, but only cuz i didnt want to pay for a second knee pad since i supported myself through wrestling. I woudlnt have minded having a second one. my left knee would've thanked me for that now.
First off, double kneepads. I wrestled for 7 years and always wore them. I was ranked top 10 in western New York my senior year so I will have to disagree with this one. Also just throwing Michael K in there supports my argument. Good content tho guys much respect.
I wrestled for four years and all four years i was 100% a newbie. I honestly enjoyed doing it and personally didn't car too much about winning. I didn't get a win until my second to last match and it was just becausr the guy i wrestled was even more of a newbie. I did like 3 of the things on this list. Ankle socks(not all the time but occasionally) singlet as low as i could although not ever lower than my knees and I didn't warm up too much i mean i would warm up before with my team and for a match or two before me but not much more than that. I can say i had a good handshake though
one you missed is; a wrestler that worries about how they look. A good wrestler doesn't care about socks or headgear or sizing up opponents on how they look. I had to ban kids from that sort of behavior when I coached. They would talk amongst themselves about who beat who and were always looking at the bracket to figure out who they might wrestle next. That s@*+ shouldn't matter.
I know this video is 2-3 years old at this point, but I LOVE this topic. The "Weak Handshake", at least for me, was always a tell tale sign that you're about to destroy this kid standing in front of you. I remember I shook one kids hand my 8th grade season and almost literally crushed it. BUT, I do have one disagreement with you're list. The "Double Knee Pads" I was a double knee pads guy, Jr High all the through my Senior season of high school. Now I wasn't a State Place Winner caliber wrestler, but I wasn't a push over by no means and I rocked the double knee pads basically because they kept my knees from getting mat burn and I felt I was able to slide into my double and single leg attempts more quickly and smoothly. I never thought wearing double knee pads made a guy look goofy, but maybe when my back was turned everyone was pointing and laughing 😂, who knows. Great video and topic guys!
My kid is newer, but there is a kid on my kids team, he is stud.. wins em all, beats kids 4 years older than him, ankle socks. If it was his way he'd wear none...weird I know
This is for a bit later in the match but if they have a week tie and let you get inside control easily you know that you can shoot a double leg and then Turk and you're out of the match in seconds
I got a kliff Keen singlet (L) at 5'11 175lbs that still comes all the way down to my knees. I have this dilema where I'm to tall for a medium but to light for a large. It's weird.
Just did my first drunk wrestling match with my friend. I had no idea what i was doing so my strategy was just use strength to over power. It worked for a little bit but he had technique from experience, and the just got me in the end since I didn’t know what I was doing or what I was trying to do.
My brother Ed, who wrestled for Canon Mac in the 60s, would give the fish handshake once or twice a season to an opponent he never saw before. He would act wimpy, then hit the guy with a blast double when the whistle blew. The surprised look on the opponent was always comical. So beware - the newbie action may be a psych job. good stuff guys
🤣 That's hilarious. Mind games are huge in wrestling. We had a guy on our team who shook hands with his left hand to throw guys off. And it worked. Btw, Brendan and I both wrestled for Canon-McMillan, so it's great to have you watching. Thanks for the support!
That was my M.O. as well. At weigh-ins, roll my shoulders forward to look like I had a sunken chest and a wimpy handshake before the whistle, then light em up. It works until everyone knows who you are.
@@michaelwernett504 Right, once they experienced it, you couldn't do it again to the same guy. My brother Ed also did the sunken chest - weak handshake and coughed. Funny - you two thought alike.
I will admit that I do wear double knee pads but I started around 7th grade because at the time I also was A hockey goalie so I was on my knees up and down all the time and it just became a huge problem for me with the pain. Yes I know there’s a whole saying of power through it but the knee pads would prevent may burn, And kinda once I started I felt no reason to go back, I can wrestle without any past today and do occasionally but it always hurts a bit more after practice.
Oh yes... I'm older and forgot about that but that's a good one and nobody mentioned it yet bravo. It used to irritate me listening to those greenhorns thinking in fantasy land. Everything's a home run or not even realistic.
I’m 2nd in the county and I’m the ankle sock kid, also like to talk to the kids I’m wrestling about shake shack even if it’s just me speaking out loud to them, makes winning so much more fun and hilarious, thinking about getting pink shoes and knee pad with shreck on it too, but wouldn’t do it at a big tournament
I actually think it's funny when great wrestlers do these things, we're just messing around anyways. But the Shake Shack thing is hilarious. Keep it up! 🤣
One knee pad(right knee just because of having it drained so much), Aisic(special ordered Gable edition) wrestling shoes, squeezing knuckles together so hard that they nearly break when hand shaking prior to the whistle, cliff keen headgear(or none @ all when wrestling in any/all Greco/Freestyle tourneys...plus Cliff Keen even makes Tornados...sadly a lot of the rookies on my HS team had them, constantly cutting peoples ears up when sparring. Eventually, ALL of our state qualifiers made it known that they weren’t going to wear that shit anymore during practice lol. Never had a college teammate wear Tornados, but wrestled against others who wore them often), regular socks(double stripped) up high, singlet high, triple smack to face from either older sibling/father, and one of about maybe 3-4 old hardcore metal/rap song playing in the CD Player, and warmed up just enough that nearly ever vein is showing & blood is pumping. My old traditions from memory from HS & Collegiate Wrestling(I’m sure I’m forgetting a few). And my personal opinion was the “hand shake”. 99% of the time, when that hand shake is weak, they’re weak. However, I had a teammate that would do this on purpose & reach his hand out over top hanging it their like a female to see his opponents response. And literally lightly shake his opponents fingers w/ the most psychotic smile. It was priceless! He was 4 time SC 4A State Champion & Player Collegiate Football for Clemson. Given, I don’t think he started doing this until his Senior year. Too funny 🤣
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Kyle dake also had the tornado headgear
I just don't wanna warm up before my match
Fanco Wrestling I wrestle with ankle socks
A baggy singlet the doesn't fit. I did this one time when I accidentally grab my older brothers singlet to go to a tournament. i woke up late and had bed head. people thought I was a clown. I won the tournament down in delaware
What if you can wrestle in two different stances wouldn’t that be a good thing to have double knee pads
Not warming up is sketchy. They're either trash or a stud. No in between
U are correct
Frfr
I just stretch idk why i dont warm up
That's true because you have some guys who warm up in the hallway or mat room, and you don't even see their intense warmup.
Vic Viquor this comment literally has Me rolling right now
The number one sign of a newbie wrestler is a wrestler that makes RUclips videos about other wrestlers outfits
Bruh I'm not kidding. These boys are such bogus
Y’all probably do all these things don’t y’all
They suck it’s about skill not strength and style
I remembered wrestling 🤼♀️ when I was getting pinned and I farted 🔥 so the guy released me and we were back up to the neutral position. I got 1 point escape
Tbh the tornado headgear one was the dumbest fucking point ever. They literally said it because of preference. Tbh most of their points were dumb af.
When they strip down to their singlet 10 matches before they're up
Lmfao yes
Lmao facts
I like doing this cuz I'm jacked. I pretty much wear my singlet whenever I can.
That’s my #1 sign
@@joekrapf8825 lol we believe you
This is the complete wrong mindset to have. Assuming things in a match is how you lose. Wrestle every match the same and respect every opponent.
Jakob Gess bet u did
I feel like that is such valuable advice when doing anything, even outside and of wrestling and in other sports. Having a mindset of "everyone is a state champ" is the best mindset for wrestling
100% correct
Daniel Moucha what you said is mostly true but let’s say you walk out there and the dude you’re wrestling looks like he should be two weight classes below you and has no muscle definition. What would be the first thing that goes through your head?
@@Pat_inda_gym he is my opponent and I'm not putting in any less effort than I would with the state champ.
Trying to shake hands in between periods
Gotta disagree with you guys on the headgear, preferred tornado headgear was able to hear better out of it.
@@WaxGroove sorry to tell you bud... You're a newbie
Headgear and double knee pads don’t matter jack shit on wrestling, the sport is about mental toughness not fashion
easymoneymorris lol I did that my first few matchs
Or after you go out of bounds
I always gave a weak handshake on purpose. I then got my takedown in the first 10 seconds because they would think I'm a wimp. It was my perfect mind game.
I did that at my jiu jitsu tournament. Took off all my stripes and made my opponent think I was weak, took em down in about 30 seconds lol
That’s genius I should start doing that
That’s actually smart ima use that
Same
I always do that
Wearing double knee pads is actually a smart strategy. Wearing only one telegraphs your dominant shooting leg. I've seen guys wear both, it's a preference I guess.
I do it and I've probably got around 400-500 successful shots cause no one knows which way I'm gonna go
When a guy doesn't wear any knee sleeves, get a look at his knees. If there's no hair watch your legs, he shoots both sides and isn't scared of mat burn. If there's hair, stay out of upper body, he's a thrower and isn't worried about mat burn at all.
Man, knees are just too important to not wear knee pads
Wouldnt they be able to tell which is the dominant since ur leading with it
@@adrishqipe depends since sometimes you switch which leg you lead with when you circle or something so if you switch which leg you lead with they won’t know
Two time state champion here. I always wore two knee sleeves to combat mat burn. I think you guys are worrying about looks too much. Most of the multi title winners did not look like your typical wrestling prototype. Jason Nolf looks like a noodle and he’s one of the baddest dudes to ever walk on a mat (3 NCAA titles).
Wow I just made a similar comment then read your comment to be elite you knock off that outter noise
And also it's not forget how many UFC fighters like will be Covington have the tattoo that they're talking about LOL
I wear two knee coverings(pad, sleeve). When you practice and drill both lead leg attacks it’s almost required.
So your telling me Jason Nolf is a noodle with that physique? Time to train weights harder.
@@kenyalmb I said he looks like a noodle. I’m built just like him. Thin and lean. He’s not stacked up like Suriano and burroughs. That’s all I was saying.
Sure sign of a newbie wrestler is worrying so much about how you look on the mat
I like the newbies that get horrible ass sweat.
lmfao!! I dunno ...both doing that and being aware of it happening sound just a teensie bit gay to me ...bro!
@@WiscoWrestler No comment.
“Only newbies have a USA Wrestling tattoo”
*Chris Weidman has entered the chat*
Colby and Tony too, chad mendez has one too.
My wrestling coach had one as well these kids are probably trash wrestlers
@@JordanCantFight facts but Chad Mendes is trash except Tony and Colby
@@JordanCantFight Tyron Woodley has it as well
@@diegoo5538 whaaat? Chad Mendes wrestling is clean asf
Fish handshakes are the best way to finesse your opponent tbh
I had the fish handshake, but was the most winning freshman on the team. I think we're all just trying not to come off rude, so we really really underdo the handshake. I think it's athlete thing, not peculiar to wrestling.
This one dude tickled my hand, made me mad
@@equinoxtremor1160 Lmao, I've been tickled on the handshake too! That shit caught me off guard for sure...
Padrino guilty of doing this throughout kids club wrestling all the way into high school. Along with asking kids how long they’ve wrestled in the bullpen in youth lmfao
Jonny AztcM lmao I tickled a dude in an exhibition match I was 150 but they didn’t have a 152 he was a 174 so I figured it’d throw him off and it did 😂
I always did the weak handshake. It's always nice to give someone a false sense of hope. It makes crushing their dreams that much better.
It really is that aspect of wrestling I loved the most.
No offense to you but if some kid did a week handshake on me I’m putting them in a cross face the first chance I get
Merciless
@@grant5684 why a cross face tho
The handshake is meant to be a sign of respect, not sizing them up by their grip strength.
The guy who awkwardly stares at you from across the gym.
Devin Mccorkle Fr thinkin in his mind “ ima slam him and easily pin him”
That’s used to intimidate u
Intimidation
Lol my whole wrestling team used to do this but we were all good so it probably worked
Nah he just gay.
For sale: One gently used kneepad, one pair Matflex shoes (like new in front!), one Tornado headgear, 5-pack of ankle socks.
sterngang 2 gently used knee pads**
No one is buyin that
naaa naaa i wear white and gold matflex 🗿
As a college wrestler you gotta know alot of this stuff matters NONE😂
Damn straight, some studs look like complete puds in college
Cause at the collegiate level especially Division 1 you’d be a fool to think ANYONE at that level is soft or newbie.
I wore double new pads and went 21-0
Nice
His stance says a lot about him. And what he's doing right before his match.
So damn true. I'm currently working on my own stance. Trying be more explosive in the first round.
*pulls singlet down to hide ringworm*
Jade Nguyen -- "Ringworm" = wrestling code for full erection. Why does nobody mention this most common side effect? Even know of some wrestlers who work it up before match to intimidate opponents.
@@winsboy Ringworm=Ringworm
@@winsboy what the hell that's fucking stupid
winsboy do you even wrestle caz that’s actually bullshit 100% wrong
@@winsboy ummm what? im not gay bro.
U would have thought ben askren was horrible by looking at him
True, but he's a total stud. Looks can be deceiving sometimes!
@@FancoWrestling exactly the premise of the video
Khabib and Matt Hughes aren't exactly impressive either. But technique wise they're the best of their era.
From a mma perspective, the way a person looks means practically nothing.
@@eddietasker9110 the fuck you bringing Habibi in here for
I genuinely don’t understand how he’s athletic at all. He’s got the body of my dad.
None of this matters in the long run. Never underestimate your opponent. Some months ago I was in a high school wrestling tournament, and, even though I was holding up, the guy was slightly better than me. During the second period, after a short scramble, he put me on my back, but I managed to roll him over to his back, immediately after he did that too, but the momentum helped me roll him on his back, I ran my feet towards his head, and I secured the pin, almost out of the mat
Bo Nickal spend more time pulling his singlet down than he does pinning top opponents
🤣🤣🤣
I always wondered why wrestlers do that
Young Tahuti it’s get uncomfortable tbh lol
@@djhypebeast3435 yeah you're right the whole singlet gets uncomfortable. Headgear also but my HS and college coach would get on to us for messing with your singlets, headgear, or kneepads "Stay Busy" was the motto
Bruh bo spends more time pinen the guy than he does eating a freaking starburst
#1 sign... he has on a loose/baggy singlet..
ATG721 great call
"I'm gonna bulk up in about a week so I got a larger size 😎"
I got leg ridden the hell out of kid once and lost 6 to 7 and all I needed was my fucking escape to go to overtime and he was in a baggy singlet
I hope some of the real great wresters out there watch this video and start wearing the newbie stuff and continue kicking the shit out everyone.
dude same
That’s the best part of these videos giving me ideas for Mental Comfusion if my opponent
On my old team, we always treated the newbie wrestlers like Marine Corps recruits. Upon officially initiating them into the brotherhood, we educated them on wrestling etiquette and informal traditions.
Your team probably didn’t win very much
@@xxshazam6045 We were so so. Not great, not terrible.
Expect every match to be challenging and required for you to not hold back in order to win
Pipking gaming 1 ya good point
You can't always tell if they have been wrestling for 1 year or 6 years, until you wrestle
I know that from experience
shouldn't really judge your opponents, doesn't matter what their doing lmao
I wish I knew this when I was wrestling in the 70's. I would do those things on purpose. Just to get into the other guy's head. They sounded like the valley girls from the 80's.
It’s a natural reaction to judge
No lie I had a teammate who was tall lanky pasty white had a bowl haircut always wore ankle socks and matflexs had the leg parts of his singlet pulled down and always wore a plain zip up jacket during warmups but he was a damn stud and spladled half the people he wrestled
Dang, he must have looked like a total newbie. All the power to him for being a stud!
Ben Askren Syndrome
Lanky guys and the spladle....
Pickle Nick tall people usually have an advantage because they can cradle and spladle easier
Lol... That same guy was on my team he was Kick-Ass at the spladle
Tornado headgear with the football soft cup chinstrap ✋
You forgot about the original black and white Asics shoes 😂😂
Some kids that wear those are beast lmaoo
Yea man if u spend more than 70$ on shoes your stupid. Unless you dont rip through shoes as fast as I do, spending more than 70$ is dumb and the asics are comfy asf
@@stevendalling6977 I've always worn hand-me-down wrestling shoes from wrestlers that graduated... And I'm a State champ now.
i don’t see how shoes make a wrestler good or bad tbh
Noobs don't cheer for their teammates
jimmy hayden nahhhh
...Only the asshole noobs who think they're good
We sit on the edge of the mat and cheer them on. You may be the one wrestlings but your teams the one that can give you that determining strenghth while you do it!!
You sound dumb. That’s the only thing they do
everyone should cheer their teammates, you’re not a dark mysterious anime character...
In defense of double kneepads, some people (myself included) really do need them. I would shot leading with either leg and the issue wasn't the mat burn. The problem was the impact. I had chronic runner's knee for years before I even stepped on the mat, then after just the first month of practices I could shoot more than a handful of times without immense pain. While I could have just focused on one side during a match, that was a no-go during practice since we all had to drill with both legs.
I didnt have knee pads in wresling and i got mat burn in a match, it completly torn off my skin iv had thr scar for 2 years now
Wearing just shorts/sweatpants over their STRAPPED UP singlet...I hate looking at that
This 😂👌🏼
Yeah bro get a jacket at least
I always do that😂 before my name even pops up on the tv I walk around sweats on, straps up, jacket on, and my headgear on sideways with earbuds in😂. I’ve never seen anyone else do it
it's so odd
Hey 25 years ago everyone wore ankle socks. Still do it today coaching.
" Im gonna blast double this kid into another dimension" Im dead hahahaha thats hilarious!
Seattle Vegan Cyclist Ⓥ I swear to god as soon as I saw this they said this
bro i lost regions to a weak handshake guy
NCAA National Champ Charles Jones of Purdue told me he always shook his oppenents hands "like a bitch". No one is going to blast double this guy into another dimension.
You forgot MATFLEX SHOES!!!
N.H Thomas Gilman?
Didn’t wear matflex
Yes he did 😂
Jake McGowan wrong . He had a classic style that look similar but they weren’t matflex
Senior year he had the gray mat flex
My HS wrestling coach told me to shake with a weak grip at the beginning of the match all the time. I caught a lot of my opponents off guard. Tight grip afterwards win or lose.
#1 Stevan Micic wears double knee pads
It's funny because I picked this up after we made the video. He's one of the anomalies, but a total animal!
Fanco Wrestling seabass does too
Jesus is Fake okay and?? Who wouldn’t honestly?
Brandon Sorensen, as well.
So did David Taylor
The Tornado is good for new wrestlers because of how well you can hear. I don't think you can beat it on it's audio reception capabilities.
Kyle Dake rocked the tornadoes lol
And he looked a lil funny tbh
He's the only guy who will win 4 National titles in a Tornado headgear! 😂
J'den Cox, Ben Askren, and Isaiah Martinez wore tornadoes
Me losing to a kid with double knee pads at nationals
When seabass wears double kneepads and beats Spencer lee
Beast mode.
Most of these are not true, you just have to wrestle every match the same no matter how the kid looks
Right when I was about to buy a second knee pad
Tom Rilley me too bruh
Go for it, throw people off and do what’s comfortable for you. Confidence and good mindset is key
I used to do a pad on the left knee and a sleeve on the right knee. Do whatever works for you.
I wish I wore double in hindsight. Especially for sweep singles. But, I didn’t cause I always thought it looked nerdy and I was all about that one white youth junior ASICS volleyball knee pad on the right knee and my Kendall cross adistars black or white. Or the black and orange zip up adidas. The first year they came out with the zip ups
That’s not true but okay 🤷♂️
I've always worn double kneepads since I was a little kid lol still do to this day
@nhunghien2000 that's not the reason I wear min
same dude, they are hella comfy
I have new found respect for my coach for going through all the stuff you shouldn’t do. I would have done everything you just said if he had not.
I use the Tornado headgear because that’s the one I got in 7th grade and I’ve been using it ever since. I’m in 10th grade now and I still use it. The headgear you wear doesn’t mean jack shit. A real way to spot a newbie is his stance before the match begins and how he warms up
Nah I use bad stance before the match starts to throw my opponenets off. Dont ever excpect an easy match
@@jacobmiller3933 well if that works for you then great ig, but if you have a bad stance at the beginning, if the other person attacks immediately your chances are worse unless you're trying to bait them into one hell of a sprawl or something
I use a weak handshake to throw people off
yes
ive done this multiple times😂😂
If you see an earlier match and he’s forgetting o shake the coaches hand
i don't understand the hate on double knee pads
Gambit EX looks hella dumb
@@gavingilburg2323 no one gives a shit how you look. it's wrestling, not a fucking fashion show. I only wore one knee pad when i wrestled, but only cuz i didnt want to pay for a second knee pad since i supported myself through wrestling. I woudlnt have minded having a second one. my left knee would've thanked me for that now.
I’m guessing you wear double knee pads
I know people who wear it like that during practice but not in tourneys only one
First off, double kneepads. I wrestled for 7 years and always wore them. I was ranked top 10 in western New York my senior year so I will have to disagree with this one. Also just throwing Michael K in there supports my argument. Good content tho guys much respect.
David Taylor wore double knee pads 🤦♂️
Yes he did! Another guy who has them is Micic. Both guys are total phenoms, though.
@@FancoWrestling and cant forget sebastian rivera lol
David Taylor is a scrub bro
I feel like some guys do it because that makes them one of the very few great wrestlers that look like noobs
David Taylor also doesn't do a super hard hand shake. I wrestled him at Top Gun my senior year. I got mobed so bad.
“Tornado headgear” it’s headgear lol get over it doesent effect ur wrestling to much
Wish I would've known this before i started this year
True
NOOB!
Joshua Beach who cares bro, look like a noob and than kick their ass... it’s that easy
@@jakebartinelli you right
If his hands are sweaty and nothing else is when you shake hands... You got this in the bag.
U forgot when the opponent moves away from u right away like it's his first match (which it might be)
I wrestled for four years and all four years i was 100% a newbie. I honestly enjoyed doing it and personally didn't car too much about winning. I didn't get a win until my second to last match and it was just becausr the guy i wrestled was even more of a newbie. I did like 3 of the things on this list. Ankle socks(not all the time but occasionally) singlet as low as i could although not ever lower than my knees and I didn't warm up too much i mean i would warm up before with my team and for a match or two before me but not much more than that. I can say i had a good handshake though
one you missed is; a wrestler that worries about how they look.
A good wrestler doesn't care about socks or headgear or sizing up opponents on how they look.
I had to ban kids from that sort of behavior when I coached. They would talk amongst themselves about who beat who and were always looking at the bracket to figure out who they might wrestle next. That s@*+ shouldn't matter.
you banned kids for being competitive.. nice
You sound like a prick on and off the matt
I know this video is 2-3 years old at this point, but I LOVE this topic. The "Weak Handshake", at least for me, was always a tell tale sign that you're about to destroy this kid standing in front of you. I remember I shook one kids hand my 8th grade season and almost literally crushed it. BUT, I do have one disagreement with you're list. The "Double Knee Pads" I was a double knee pads guy, Jr High all the through my Senior season of high school. Now I wasn't a State Place Winner caliber wrestler, but I wasn't a push over by no means and I rocked the double knee pads basically because they kept my knees from getting mat burn and I felt I was able to slide into my double and single leg attempts more quickly and smoothly. I never thought wearing double knee pads made a guy look goofy, but maybe when my back was turned everyone was pointing and laughing 😂, who knows. Great video and topic guys!
Damn I'm a victim of the ankle socks 😂💀
My kid is newer, but there is a kid on my kids team, he is stud.. wins em all, beats kids 4 years older than him, ankle socks. If it was his way he'd wear none...weird I know
@Jesus is Fake how can you even feel it being uncomfortable? They're socks, not plastic wrappings. Lol.
@@jesseg94 rubs against your ankles
This is for a bit later in the match but if they have a week tie and let you get inside control easily you know that you can shoot a double leg and then Turk and you're out of the match in seconds
I got a kliff Keen singlet (L) at 5'11 175lbs that still comes all the way down to my knees. I have this dilema where I'm to tall for a medium but to light for a large. It's weird.
I wear double knee pads
And I just won states
King2448 _yt really proff time
One of a kind
King2448 Dude you liked a Ryan’s toys reviews video
@@brodymckune lmao
U mean u won state?
Getting Takendown + pinned by a headlock
Just did my first drunk wrestling match with my friend. I had no idea what i was doing so my strategy was just use strength to over power. It worked for a little bit but he had technique from experience, and the just got me in the end since I didn’t know what I was doing or what I was trying to do.
Trying to start neutral when you’re down
Member of the Tornado posse here 💪
More comfortable and you’re able to hear the coaches a lot better. Vito also rocks rocks them
I know a two timer who wears a tornado headgear
Because success doesn't give a fuck for what's "hip" in Wrestling attire/gear. Lol
My partner had tornado headgear and my parents kept wondering why I was coming home with cuts on my forehead
Kyle Dake wore tornado headgear too I think he was also a double knee pad at times
Dake and IMAR kept the Tornado headgear sales above water! 💰
I used that velcro headgear just cause I loved digging it into their skin, they back up….double leg takedowns all day👌🏾
When the ref has to show them wear to position on top
the low singlet and double knee pad ones are so on point LOL
I wear double kneepads and i feel like going 35-5 as a freshman is pretty good
Chill
JV
I would like to say thats false because i am placing at states at 215
Jesus is fake its michigan and i took 4th
Zachary Painter what’s ur name and what school so I can specify bud
Double kneepads doesn’t have a sign of beginner net because the two best players on our team does double knee pads
Lol my first year I would always “flex” my flabby noodle arms after a win thinking i was cool😂
I disagree with most of them I have one that my coach pointed out it’s going for a handshake after first period
If they don't make eye contact when you shake hands.
Always give the stare down 👀
I look at the hand and give a weak handshake. I also have the tornadoes. I'm not a scrub though :D
Eye of the tiger baby. Eye of the tiger!
Title of this video should be what to wear for wrestling 😂
I started warming up one time and the guy I was wrestling started copying my warmups it was hilarious and if you wanted to know it was a 15 sec. pin😂
I don’t understand. What’s the punchline
@@zerotwo6707 the kid didn’t have his own warmup and wasn’t ready
Thank you for this information, im a Freshman and Wrestling season is near. Dont want to look like a joke
My brother Ed, who wrestled for Canon Mac in the 60s, would give the fish handshake once or twice a season to an opponent he never saw before. He would act wimpy, then hit the guy with a blast double when the whistle blew. The surprised look on the opponent was always comical. So beware - the newbie action may be a psych job. good stuff guys
🤣 That's hilarious. Mind games are huge in wrestling. We had a guy on our team who shook hands with his left hand to throw guys off. And it worked. Btw, Brendan and I both wrestled for Canon-McMillan, so it's great to have you watching. Thanks for the support!
Ima try both of these now
That was my M.O. as well. At weigh-ins, roll my shoulders forward to look like I had a sunken chest and a wimpy handshake before the whistle, then light em up. It works until everyone knows who you are.
@@michaelwernett504 Right, once they experienced it, you couldn't do it again to the same guy. My brother Ed also did the sunken chest - weak handshake and coughed. Funny - you two thought alike.
Ive not wrestled but jad judo jujitsu comps and it was the guys messn w there belts and gi all the time lol good stuff guys good work!
Just found this channel and I absolutely love it, keep up the good content
I'm glad that you found it. Thanks for watching! 👍
I still use the tornado headgear. Had it since I was 6 years old and just never got a new one now a sophomore in high school 😂
Dude I’m a beginner and I don’t do any of these lol
Clan PLAN B how is it? I’m thinking of joining
Shaine Cortes lit
no way you have to do atleast one
I did weak handshakes to make them super confident and careless. Makes it easier for me.
- matflexes
- crossing the head gear straps in the back
- uni brow head gear in the front
- their stance or movement
- not wearing a chin cup
Chin cup has nothing to do with it
Yeah I wear a chin cup but it's not that serious. & I cross my back straps😂
Chin cup doesn't matter, actually wrestlers that have been wrestling for a long time in high school tend to like no chin cup better.
Dean Heil?
Nah my dude Darius got uni brow straps in the front he's godly on the mat
I will admit that I do wear double knee pads but I started around 7th grade because at the time I also was A hockey goalie so I was on my knees up and down all the time and it just became a huge problem for me with the pain. Yes I know there’s a whole saying of power through it but the knee pads would prevent may burn, And kinda once I started I felt no reason to go back, I can wrestle without any past today and do occasionally but it always hurts a bit more after practice.
So what you’re saying is do ALL of these things and mess with your opponent 😂
I have a soft handshake and I'm a 3x Mayland state champ and a ALL American at MAWA
Screw off, I'm a state player with double knee pads
player lmfao
placer* how did it make player...lmao
This is such a good video. You saved me because I'm a girl who is 5 6 and I am about to start wrestling.
Yelling for their teammate to do a top move while their still in neutral 😂
Nasir Nichols I know a coach who does that but he a goat
Oh yes... I'm older and forgot about that but that's a good one and nobody mentioned it yet bravo. It used to irritate me listening to those greenhorns thinking in fantasy land. Everything's a home run or not even realistic.
5 seconds into the match: "CRADLE"
I’m 2nd in the county and I’m the ankle sock kid, also like to talk to the kids I’m wrestling about shake shack even if it’s just me speaking out loud to them, makes winning so much more fun and hilarious, thinking about getting pink shoes and knee pad with shreck on it too, but wouldn’t do it at a big tournament
Just to clarify shake shack talk happens before the match not during
I actually think it's funny when great wrestlers do these things, we're just messing around anyways. But the Shake Shack thing is hilarious. Keep it up! 🤣
One knee pad(right knee just because of having it drained so much), Aisic(special ordered Gable edition) wrestling shoes, squeezing knuckles together so hard that they nearly break when hand shaking prior to the whistle, cliff keen headgear(or none @ all when wrestling in any/all Greco/Freestyle tourneys...plus Cliff Keen even makes Tornados...sadly a lot of the rookies on my HS team had them, constantly cutting peoples ears up when sparring. Eventually, ALL of our state qualifiers made it known that they weren’t going to wear that shit anymore during practice lol. Never had a college teammate wear Tornados, but wrestled against others who wore them often), regular socks(double stripped) up high, singlet high, triple smack to face from either older sibling/father, and one of about maybe 3-4 old hardcore metal/rap song playing in the CD Player, and warmed up just enough that nearly ever vein is showing & blood is pumping. My old traditions from memory from HS & Collegiate Wrestling(I’m sure I’m forgetting a few). And my personal opinion was the “hand shake”. 99% of the time, when that hand shake is weak, they’re weak. However, I had a teammate that would do this on purpose & reach his hand out over top hanging it their like a female to see his opponents response. And literally lightly shake his opponents fingers w/ the most psychotic smile. It was priceless! He was 4 time SC 4A State Champion & Player Collegiate Football for Clemson. Given, I don’t think he started doing this until his Senior year. Too funny 🤣
Now that's specific, but great. I think you hit everything there. Thanks for sharing! 👍
Don’t listen to these people if you do one of things on the list they don’t know what they are talking about
“How many years have you’ve been wrestling?”
your right thats me and many others, i can answer why we do it tho, it because we wanna see if were going against a wrestler thats better than us.
I know people who purposely gave out a weak handshake. To play mind games with their opponents.