ASK KOLAT: Who Was Your Toughest Competitor?
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- Опубліковано 20 лис 2018
- Tune in every Wednesday to listen to ASK KOLAT. Hear 2000 Sydney Games US Team Member, World Medalist, and 2x NCAA Champion Cary Kolat answer questions from wrestlers, coaches, and parents. Kolat relies on a lifetime of wrestling and career of coaching from youth to college to international. Ask your own questions in the comments or on social media using #AskKolat.
Who Was Your Toughest Competitor?
This is a very common question for anyone who has competed at a high level in the sport of wrestling, but that doesn’t mean that it is an easy question to answer. When you’ve competed for as long as Cary Kolat has, against so many different competitors it can be hard to distinguish one single person. Though one does stand out, due to the fact that he forced Cary to fundamentally change and adapt his training and wrestling style. He forced Cary to adapt the way he mentally approached a tough situation.
The toughest opponent Cary Kolat ever competed against was Elbrus Tedeev of Ukraine. The two wrestlers met 3 times throughout Kolat's career. The last time being in the Bronze medal round at the 1998 World Championships in Tehran, Iran. The reason Kolat says Tedeev was his toughest opponent is because he truly forced him to change his wrestling. Tedeev brought out a tactic that is commonly used today, which Kolat calls chunking.
"Chunking" As a Practice Tactic
The best example would be 100 pushups. If someone asked you right now to do 100 pushups, would you get down and immediately count them out 0-100? Probably not, you would break it down. Two groups of 50, or four groups of 25, maybe even ten groups of 10. It doesn’t really matter how you decide to do it, the point of doing it is to give yourself small finish lines. Often during a practice, you will see a peak of early intensity, then a dip as it continues and then an increase in intensity as the practice is coming to a close. This is because the athletes can see the finish line towards the end of a practice. As a coach, if you take the time to break down a practice into segments (warm up section, a drilling section, a live section and a conditioning section) then you were to give each segment a time limit, you will see an entirely different practice from your athletes. Finish lines are clear and athletes will push themselves further to reach a more attainable goal.
Navy Seal Training
A friend of Cary’s who is a navy seal once told him everyone is always held up on hell week of BUD/S. In reality, hell week isn’t the hard part, it’s designed to quickly weed out the mentally weak early in the process. This is so they aren’t wasting their time training someone for 5 months, only to have them quit. To get through hell week he used the same method as Cary. He would tell himself, “I’m not going to quit until lunch”. Then, he would get to lunch and tell himself “now I’m not going to quit until dinner”. He did so every day, breaking it down in smaller bits if necessary.
1998 World Championships
During the 1998 World Championships, before Kolat had to wrestle Tedeev, he won a match that was contested and overturned. After the match was overturned, Kolat entered the consolation bracket. Kolat wrestled his way back to the bronze medal match where he finally met Tedeev. During the match, despite being conditioned and prepared, Kolat found himself exhausted very early in the match. Tedeev was a very tough wrestler, constantly snapping and attacking from every level and angle. All Kolat could do to get through the match was compete with himself, constantly setting small goals to get him through. Don’t fall over for just 20 seconds, then 20 more, then 10 more until the match was over.
Tedeev forced Kolat to reach another level of mental toughness. He forced him to stay focused and block out the inner demons that you face while competing. This also translated to the way he trained and the way he handled difficult situations in everyday life. He began chunking everything he did to continue to stay focused and push himself farther than before.
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What a mind for this sport. This man has lived every aspect of it inside and out. Love his no-nonsense approach. Looking forward to seeing a conversation with him and Ben Askren. Ben’s sense of humor and Cary’s seriousness (Cary has a good sense of humor too, I know) would make for a really entertaining back and forth. Thanks for these gems of wisdom!
I started watching wrestling videos for my son he is 10 but honestly I love the philosophy. I get so much out of it for myself. Life's a long wrestling match.
This guy is the best wrestler i ever seen including Sanderson
Seals call "chunking" iterations. Sticking to the military, in Ranger school in the very beginning they take you on a 5 mile run and it's reasonably fast pace.
When you get back to the barracks, the commander will ask the cadre what time we ran. The cadre said "oh shoot I forgot to start my stopwatch. boys we are going to have to run it again!"
We take off and probably 10 guys quit right then and there. We run around the block and right back to the barracks and they tells us we're done running.
It was just like Kolat talks about finish lines and being mentally tough. The idea that we had crossed the finish line after 5 miles and the finish line got moved back 5 more miles, broke guys mentally.
Love all of these things that Rudis is doing. Love hearing perspectives of all these grest athletes of there career etc.
Great listen, and I say thankyou to the greatest wrestler who never won an Olympic gold. Or shall I say he us an Olympic gold medalst in ability but simply didn't collect the chunk of metal. And Nate Carr too, both the highest level incredible
Talented wrestler...One of the good guys.
Wrestling prodigy...
Cary is a world class competitor and a great coach.
Got the chance to train with elbrus in 96. Our town hosted the Ukrainian teams and i was out there every day for a month. Best wrestling experience of my life.
Anyone that knows about Kolat's history, knows his toughest opponent was... international judges (and idiotic Olympic "pool wrestling").
This guy would Beat people in tournaments and then the judges would give his opponent the win after he went back to the hotel, or another chance! Kolat was a BEAST!
Super nice guy. Met him at Campbell where he coaches - very gracious.
Could listen all day.
Excellent kolat. I wrestled internationally for a few years, no where near your level. But i had to do the same thing. Just get through the next 30 seconds without giving up. Great advise.👍👍👍👍💪💪💪
Great guy
should there be drug testing in high school wrestling?
No, high schoolers don't really do roids unless you're in cadets (u17) where people might start experimenting. I'm 14 and have to do it at European championships even though nobody in their right minds would use roids at 14/15
@@beater4742 i know kids here in the usa that use anavar who are 13!!! and i know kids who use speed the night of the match!!!!!!!
@@leeturner1838 I mean taking stuff right before the match can't really be penalized as drug testing goes on 1 or 2 days before to get results. I've taken shots of a lot of stuff before big matches but they can't really do anything about it.
@@beater4742 what country u live in?
Should of won at least 2 World Championships
Absolutely cheated
have you ever used performance drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why not speak about IRANIAN Wrestler which they kicked your ass
So many times
you mean the ibes he beat but the officials overturned the final results multiple times? Now go sew your mouth shut and watch David Taylor handle Yazdani repeatedly.
Has he ever heard of Aleksandr Karelin. That is who any wrestler needs to take advice from. Especially if it's about russian wrestling.