Penn State dual preview

[theshadow]

A few years ago I felt like the overuse of stall tactics was killing the sport. Its gotten somewhat better, but still room for improvement. It also used to be that some styles (Iowa, mostly) were mostly about locking up and pushing opponents off the mat, which can be little better than stalling.

It's 100% technically stalling (in the rulebook even), but you'll never see it called in some arenas.

 

[Bucklara]

I got you:

The Varsity Network

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Can’t wait to hear “TWO, THATS TWO!” Nate is awesome and the guys who just competed jumping on for a minute is great.

 

[SolarGarlic]

When periods went to 3 -2-2 minutes instead of 3-3-3, that took conditioning out the door as an Iowa advantage.

That and I was watching some Bruce Baumgartner matches a few months ago, and how the refs called stalling was no joke back then. In 1982 Real Woods would have been dq'd wrestling on top of Swiderski like that.

Didn't realize they used to be 3-3-3. Brutal.

 

[theshadow]

Didn't realize they used to be 3-3-3. Brutal.

Loooooooong time ago.

It was 2-3-3 starting in '67, then changed to 3-2-2 in '82.