Seeing that pegboard thing reminds me of my neighbor and best friend growing up Steve. We were a couple of losers in junior high in 1984 and we were in the “wrestling room” for gym class. There was a lot of showing off going on with the “alpha’s” before class started trying to do the pegboard routine. After a dozen kids tried and failed Steve took a turn. Steve had a runners build and was not muscular or imposing in any way. I knew Steve could climb a tree like nobody’s business and when we were little we nicknamed him “Monkey Man”, so I said to everybody as Steve got going, “watch this!” Steve proceeded to conquer that pegboard in mere seconds to the astonishment of our class. Steve passed away a few years ago and seeing this rekindled my memory of that moment and how proud I was to have him for a friend and how happy I was for him.
I remember this scene in this 1985 movie where Louden Swain makes it to the top of the Pegboard. I felt such a sense of calling to the gym. And I started going to the gym, transforming my body. But when I asked the girls if I should join the gym they scoffed at me. Like no one believed in me. But years later I was at Tantramare Jr. High School and they had a Pegboard. So I climbed it and it was a relaxing experience since it required no effort. Years later I went back to the gym at the age of 47 and benched 305 lbs, despite no one believing in me. I am getting ready for my third wave now, and I will inevitably be benching 405 lbs., four plates on each side in case your are wondering. The only thing I need is the Sacred Heard of Christ believing in me as I spread the victories of Christ for the whole world to believe in the prosperity of Christ. Holy Faith is reciprocal to all who believe in Sympathetic Resonance of Christ. When you fail to reciprocate the Sacred Heard of Christ, you are very much in danger of dying cold and alone, with your head severed, much like Thanos. But we can all get through this next apocalypse together. By the way, if this warning sounds dark that's because it was meant to sound dark. Peace.
One of the most inspirational movies ever made. No bullies. Team mates were cheering him on!! They knew how hard he worked. I wish I could re live my high school years.
I argue this all the time. The antagonist is not a villain. He actually wants him to succeed so that he can face the best competition and all the adult males in the movie only want what's best for Louden. There is one scene where he gets aggressive with Linda Fiorentino. Without that scene, this is the perfect movie.
@@brianmcmahon6199 I agree the attempted sexual assault on Carla was heavy...But they used it as a way to show guys that your hormones and desires DO NOT supercede another individuals autonomy, desires, and wish for safety, let alone come across as some sort of attractiveness for a female. Fortunately, Carla was able to teach this lesson to Lowden before he made even WORSE decisions and actions...But they might have included a brief scene to ensure Carla's psyche wasn't damaged from the assault...something like, "Yeah, you're not the first overly-aggressive mail who's tried to force themselves on me...I've just had to learn to deal with the general stupidity of the gender..."
Man how I miss the 80's... This movie reminds me of a girl I dated in high school because we saw this at the theater and after seeing this, our song became "Crazy for You" and she would sing it to me... Those were the best days of my life...
I started climbing one of these in middle school during gym class and my friends had the bright idea to boost me up to the top and I couldn't handle it and fell and effed up my back. The gym teacher was like, "Wow you made it all they way to the top." as I lay there in pain haha.
This movie from when I was 17.. I cannot express what it meant to me then and now.. I'm happy to have grown up when I did.. I actually faced my own shute last weekend...not in wrestling.. He's my friend and two time champion.. He's just the best... I had a chance to defeat him after he crushed me two years ago.. I actually watched this movie the morning of last Sunday.. . I was fortunate and came out on top.. A moment in my life I won't soon forget.. My own Vision Quest..
the movie got me into wrestling in highschool...well that and the coach keep asking me non stop for months. Lost some matches and won some too. It was fun. Good memories.
We had a pegboard in school...It's still there over 20 years later. However, they don't let the kids use it anymore........don't want anyone to get "hurt". It's a shame really. Like an old dinosaur that harkens back to a time when boys were tested as men.
We had one, too. In the room where our boxing club trained! Yes, high school boxing! With lunch time bouts! And fight night! Total carnage. My parents saw me get wiped out in the first round during fight night, but I had some good lunchtime fights! My sis was a ring girl! I lost a few brain cells, but boxing built my self esteem and kept me away from alcohol and drugs. I didn't know about wrestling until college, I had a roommate who was All-American. I had no idea how fast and strong you wrestlers were! The dude had me run up the mountain with him. Sunday morning. After a night of drinking beer with a funnel! "Wake up, Penis! We're running the mountain!" Seriously, props to you wrestlers!
I thought it was a really cool part of the movie - but I could do my pegboard in our HS wrestling gym and I wasn’t much of an athlete. But I was only 105 and had good upper body strength. Now is a different story 😂
My pops told me that the pegboard was pretty much the measuring stick at his school. It was in the weight room and the wrestlers and football players would take turns trying to do it.
Back in the 80's we had one in our weight room. I got halfway up, my stomach was sore for two weeks. Never tried it again. Just looked at it for the rest of my high school days. Another thing to look back on and wonder why I never went after it again.
My old man tells me during his time on the varsity high school wrestling team he and others used to peg up and down the thing all the time like it was no big deal. He found it comical how the movie made such a big deal about it.
Look up presidential fitness la sierra hs Carmichael ca. That was my school. It was an experiment in fitness. Good days! A lot of us including the heavier wrestlers could do it. I dont know of a fitter student body in any school.
I was living in Spokane, WA when Vision Quest was filmed there. Pretty big deal back then. I’ve made many runs over the Monroe St. bridge featured here. Great movie and soundtrack!
@Pup Pup Man He is trying to sweat as much as possible as a way to cut weight to get down to Shute's weight class. We did the same thing in high school with a giant trash bag under our warm-up suits as I imagine a lot of kids did or maybe still do.
No one makes cutting weight that big of a deal nowadays. I cut from 158 to 138 in about about 3 weeks and no one even cared. Still the best movie ever made.
This is based on a book, the book's different and it's a lot more about his relationship with Carla than Shute in the book he never even wrestles Shute.
Wrestled 138 in the 70s and had to cut weight anyway I could, we use to wrap ourselves in mats in the shell pool area , and take ex lax to drop down, no questions asked
Ok im a pretty avid 80s era movie guy...how the hell did something this iconic get past me all these years without one mention of it EVER! Well im watching it right now 5 min in already i can tell its gonna be good :)
I did that at my high school and made it look easy..but since I was a looser in their eyes they discounted it..”whatever show off” ...when I came down..after practice coach patted my shoulder and looked me in they eye and said good job. That made all the difference.
If only a pegboard would solve all our problems and magically change a person's mind. After I finish climbing it my boss would be "Ok I'm convinced, you win,you got the raise."
Funny thing about this scene- Just before this, Otto is yelling at Louden in yet ANOTHER heated exchange. In fact, these guys don't like each other at any point during the film. When I showed this film to my wife, she called "BULL SH*T" when Louden looks like he's going to make it and Otto starts cheering him. She rightly says that people don't just change like that from one minute to the next. But in sport, that actually does happen. It's not a matter of "like", it's a matter of respect. In one quick moment, Otto was able to see that Louden could a) do something Otto couldn't do, b) saw that his grit and determination was actually a good thing and c) that just because Loudon had an intrinsic motivation, that he could still benefit the team. Great scene from a great film!
@@jasonreed2116 Lol gonna be hard to do at this point I’m pushing sixty with two bum shoulders not sure I could even make it up one peg. Time and age beats the hell out of you.
I remember back in school I was the only guy that could conquer the peg board! I also remember being the only guy on my wrestling team that never one a single match! Got my ass kicked on the mat every time!
You have no idea how hard the pegboard is. I love they finally made a movie showing how fucking tough wrestling is - the grind, cutting weight, the running - all while trying to wrestle with enough strength so you don’t nosedive and passout.
I did the pegboard in 9th grade. Wrestled very little but it eventually turned me towards my Okinawan karate, and now, ju jitsu. Every house had a foundation.
My daughter attended the high school where this movie was made in Spokane. There's one scene in the movie where she is walking through the hallway. Everyone was pretty excited there was a movie being made in little old Spokane Washington. lol
I started watching this clip in my room sitting on my bed and then the song started playing and he started his climb up the peg board, when it was over I ended up 200 miles away in Georgia.
We had a peg board in our gym in 9th grade back in '82. I could go all the way up and down 3 times no problem. More than any other guys at our school. I remember the girls watching me. I was a football player just trying to put on muscle. Having girls watching, that was icing on the cake, lol. Great memories. Cheers.
You know I wonder if we took todays youth and had them watch every 80s movie like this if it would change their attitude on things. These movies are reminders of what it was like to grow up in the best decade ever and is what shaped GenX
When i was playing HS football a teammate of mine tried this one day. He got his face too close to the pegs and hit himself right above the eye. Not pretty. Pretty bloody. But he had a big smile in his face anyway. Was a tough guy.
This is from an era when movies would inspire you to do great things in life. This era is long gone. Now movies just depress and make you wish you could fly.
Respect for running the board while dropping two classes. Nowadays people know to take salt, potassium and magnesium when cutting. Back then you would just feel like shit, have no energy and cramp the fuck up.
I learned many things climbing in and out of aircraft bellies and all over equipment. Your body knows how to do these things. All you need to do is to not think about it
Flick came out at peak HS Mens Varsity Wrestling in Long Island N.Y. so, so on point. Perfect ending. Graduated in 89' 30 yr HS Réunion every former teammate of mine were still repeating both Wrestlers lines. The Rocky of Wrestling flicks. Prepared me for USMC Boot Camp n life. Love n miss those days. 6 minutes of hell was all that mattered. Still speak to my H.C to this day lives around block from me. 2nd Father to me. I'm nothing without him. Facts. No other sport competes. Ur spot is never secured somone can ask for a "Wrestle Off" anytime, anyday n its over. Boys play sports, men Wrestle. Or even better...the sign on the roof of our main gym used for big matches read, "If u can read this, you are NOT Winning " ...listen i Boxed n Kickboxed lalala bottom line. Nothin was harder than thos 6 minutes. No where to run or hide no breaks no stallin. No breaks. Pure hell. I miss it so much!!!
The most underrated and overlooked sports movie. Soundtrack is gold.
one of my all time favorites
Totally agree
Absolutely beautiful i love John Waite singing Change
Only the young could say…❤
This x1000
Seeing that pegboard thing reminds me of my neighbor and best friend growing up Steve. We were a couple of losers in junior high in 1984 and we were in the “wrestling room” for gym class. There was a lot of showing off going on with the “alpha’s” before class started trying to do the pegboard routine. After a dozen kids tried and failed Steve took a turn. Steve had a runners build and was not muscular or imposing in any way. I knew Steve could climb a tree like nobody’s business and when we were little we nicknamed him “Monkey Man”, so I said to everybody as Steve got going, “watch this!” Steve proceeded to conquer that pegboard in mere seconds to the astonishment of our class. Steve passed away a few years ago and seeing this rekindled my memory of that moment and how proud I was to have him for a friend and how happy I was for him.
That’s so awesome and I am sorry for your loss
RIP Steve
I remember this scene in this 1985 movie where Louden Swain makes it to the top of the Pegboard. I felt such a sense of calling to the gym. And I started going to the gym, transforming my body. But when I asked the girls if I should join the gym they scoffed at me. Like no one believed in me. But years later I was at Tantramare Jr. High School and they had a Pegboard. So I climbed it and it was a relaxing experience since it required no effort. Years later I went back to the gym at the age of 47 and benched 305 lbs, despite no one believing in me. I am getting ready for my third wave now, and I will inevitably be benching 405 lbs., four plates on each side in case your are wondering.
The only thing I need is the Sacred Heard of Christ believing in me as I spread the victories of Christ for the whole world to believe in the prosperity of Christ. Holy Faith is reciprocal to all who believe in Sympathetic Resonance of Christ. When you fail to reciprocate the Sacred Heard of Christ, you are very much in danger of dying cold and alone, with your head severed, much like Thanos. But we can all get through this next apocalypse together. By the way, if this warning sounds dark that's because it was meant to sound dark. Peace.
One of the most inspirational movies ever made. No bullies. Team mates were cheering him on!! They knew how hard he worked. I wish I could re live my high school years.
I argue this all the time. The antagonist is not a villain. He actually wants him to succeed so that he can face the best competition and all the adult males in the movie only want what's best for Louden. There is one scene where he gets aggressive with Linda Fiorentino. Without that scene, this is the perfect movie.
@@brianmcmahon6199 Exactly. Two great guys, just going after the same goal.
@@brianmcmahon6199 I agree the attempted sexual assault on Carla was heavy...But they used it as a way to show guys that your hormones and desires DO NOT supercede another individuals autonomy, desires, and wish for safety, let alone come across as some sort of attractiveness for a female. Fortunately, Carla was able to teach this lesson to Lowden before he made even WORSE decisions and actions...But they might have included a brief scene to ensure Carla's psyche wasn't damaged from the assault...something like, "Yeah, you're not the first overly-aggressive mail who's tried to force themselves on me...I've just had to learn to deal with the general stupidity of the gender..."
Nothing tougher than wrestling practices in the 80's.
and your teammates cheering you on
Totally true would drop weight every practice, let me go back 💪🏻
I puked so many times .....
Unbelievable, but all TRUE!
Try SEALs boot camp. Trust me, I failed twice.
Man how I miss the 80's... This movie reminds me of a girl I dated in high school because we saw this at the theater and after seeing this, our song became "Crazy for You" and she would sing it to me... Those were the best days of my life...
Fun Fact: "Crazy or You" was the original title of the film.
Bro...powerful stuff there.
Those days were? Not the summer of '69? Sorry, bad joke hee-ha-ha.
@@jakes3799 the funny thing about that song was the dude was like 6 in 1969....he just liked the sound of it lol.
@@tonyd3057 LOL
To this day when I hear that song I look for a peg board.
LMAO...👍👍👍🇺🇲
Everytime I hear that song I say what is that song? Lol
I started climbing one of these in middle school during gym class and my friends had the bright idea to boost me up to the top and I couldn't handle it and fell and effed up my back. The gym teacher was like, "Wow you made it all they way to the top." as I lay there in pain haha.
@@KingKenzo215 Change - John Waite
If you hear this song during normal life you have a time machine 😆
This movie from when I was 17.. I cannot express what it meant to me then and now.. I'm happy to have grown up when I did.. I actually faced my own shute last weekend...not in wrestling.. He's my friend and two time champion.. He's just the best... I had a chance to defeat him after he crushed me two years ago.. I actually watched this movie the morning of last Sunday.. . I was fortunate and came out on top.. A moment in my life I won't soon forget.. My own Vision Quest..
This is the America I fell in love with as a teenager kid !! This movie inspired me!!!
Luis Lizard I knew I wasn’t the only one. This movie made you want to get up and do something after you watched it. Great movie.
@It's my way or the Highway 1968 wrestling is a tough fucking sport. I wish I could do it all over again.
Matthew Modine played the part pretty well didn't he?
the movie got me into wrestling in highschool...well that and the coach keep asking me non stop for months. Lost some matches and won some too. It was fun. Good memories.
Christopjer Foote he Nailed it my brother met him and said he’s super nice and down to earth him and Mat Dillon were my favourite actors !!!!!
Whoever made this movie did their homework. Great movie. Great performances and a great ending to boot. Not just because he won.
The scene was amazing. By the song- “Change” by John Waite fit so perfectly. God I miss the 80s- the movies, the music and the great times growing up
Those were the days when I could run forever at high speeds. Just awesome!
Nothing beats a good 80s training montage.
I actually did that once when I was 17. This scene was going through my head at the time.
I wish I could've tried. When I was in high school wrestling my coach didn't have the pegs!
We had something like it in elementary school but the first leg was excruciatingly far off the ground.
Go for it babe!
Bullshit! Even Otto can't do that!
BoomBoomMcG1 love that part lmaoo
Born in 1993, but it doesn’t stop me listening to this awesome 80s song.
right on brotha
What the music
@@p2w659 think it's john waite
We had a pegboard in school...It's still there over 20 years later. However, they don't let the kids use it anymore........don't want anyone to get "hurt". It's a shame really. Like an old dinosaur that harkens back to a time when boys were tested as men.
@William Jefferson Lmaooo, killing me man. I was almost about to say the same thing.
We had one, too. In the room where our boxing club trained! Yes, high school boxing! With lunch time bouts! And fight night! Total carnage. My parents saw me get wiped out in the first round during fight night, but I had some good lunchtime fights! My sis was a ring girl! I lost a few brain cells, but boxing built my self esteem and kept me away from alcohol and drugs. I didn't know about wrestling until college, I had a roommate who was All-American. I had no idea how fast and strong you wrestlers were! The dude had me run up the mountain with him. Sunday morning. After a night of drinking beer with a funnel! "Wake up, Penis! We're running the mountain!" Seriously, props to you wrestlers!
I thought it was a really cool part of the movie - but I could do my pegboard in our HS wrestling gym and I wasn’t much of an athlete. But I was only 105 and had good upper body strength.
Now is a different story 😂
BUT this IS my favorite sports movie (maybe tied with Rocky)
I know exactly what you’re saying. Damn crying shame.
Most underrated movie EVER!
What movie is it
Vision Quest
My pops told me that the pegboard was pretty much the measuring stick at his school. It was in the weight room and the wrestlers and football players would take turns trying to do it.
Back in the 80's we had one in our weight room. I got halfway up, my stomach was sore for two weeks. Never tried it again. Just looked at it for the rest of my high school days. Another thing to look back on and wonder why I never went after it again.
My old man tells me during his time on the varsity high school wrestling team he and others used to peg up and down the thing all the time like it was no big deal. He found it comical how the movie made such a big deal about it.
@William Jefferson 165 is pretty lean for a tall dude though
Look up presidential fitness la sierra hs Carmichael ca. That was my school. It was an experiment in fitness. Good days! A lot of us including the heavier wrestlers could do it. I dont know of a fitter student body in any school.
@William Jefferson not true. see my comment below.
10th grade watching this movie, it seemed like I had all the time in the world! Where did it all go? I miss the 80s!!
The world was still full of possibilities and all sorts of doors we hadn't yet talked through
We all got old.
I was living in Spokane, WA when Vision Quest was filmed there. Pretty big deal back then. I’ve made many runs over the Monroe St. bridge featured here. Great movie and soundtrack!
Running from the cops.
The tracking shot of of Louden running home with just the music in the background is just great.
The Lunatic Fringe scene is one of my alltimes!!
This move inspired me a lot to do better in life and go for what you feel in your heart!!!!!!
Does this scene make anyone else _emotional_?
It makes my dick tingle if that's what you're asking....
TayInTheWay deeply.
cavemen1986 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Not really but goo motivational training
@Pup Pup Man He is trying to sweat as much as possible as a way to cut weight to get down to Shute's weight class. We did the same thing in high school with a giant trash bag under our warm-up suits as I imagine a lot of kids did or maybe still do.
Times were better back then. I'm glad I lived through them.
Through the mid-80s? The only remarkable thing I remember from it was that MTV still played music videos.
Times were better back when this video was posted...
Idk, racism was pretty hard-core back then
@@tommymoua3274 ❄️
@@derperderp9036 you're as cold as ice
You're willing to sacrifice
Our love!
This movie can motivate the hell out of you! What a great flick. "I love you Carla!!!" Classic
Had an awesome coach in the 90s made us do all these crazy ass things like this. Loved it
God i miss the past... i used to watch this after wrestling practice all the time... great memories
No one makes cutting weight that big of a deal nowadays. I cut from 158 to 138 in about about 3 weeks and no one even cared. Still the best movie ever made.
This is based on a book, the book's different and it's a lot more about his relationship with Carla than Shute in the book he never even wrestles Shute.
@@dennisbegley5225 fuck the book nerd!!!
Wrestled 138 in the 70s and had to cut weight anyway I could, we use to wrap ourselves in mats in the shell pool area , and take ex lax to drop down, no questions asked
@@cavemen1986 dude you littaraly watch Minecraft gaming vids
Yes sir, I remember well, eat thanksgiving like its your last meal, December and January you sweat like a pig and don't eat much!
Ok im a pretty avid 80s era movie guy...how the hell did something this iconic get past me all these years without one mention of it EVER! Well im watching it right now 5 min in already i can tell its gonna be good :)
Well how was it
Update
@hwystar _. Well?
Hot damm is this movie good! And the soundtrack! John Waite's Change. It doesn't get any better than this.
Tim Pierce, who played guitar on that track, is now a prominent UA-camr for guitar players.
They really do not make inspirational movie like this anymore
I still train to this soundtrack!!! One of the best movies and soundtrack of all time!!!
ONE OF THE BEST 80'S MOVIES 🎥
It's an example of resilience!!
I did that at my high school and made it look easy..but since I was a looser in their eyes they discounted it..”whatever show off” ...when I came down..after practice coach patted my shoulder and looked me in they eye and said good job. That made all the difference.
Great song. Classic 80s
I agree. This is a song to remember from then
okrajoe li
Classic 80's movie!!
Watched this movie thousands of times with this particular scene on rewind each time great memories brutha
If only a pegboard would solve all our problems and magically change a person's mind. After I finish climbing it my boss would be "Ok I'm convinced, you win,you got the raise."
Classic Movie! I miss the 80's, great times.
ridiculous sound track to this movie!!
GOLD!!!
Funny thing about this scene- Just before this, Otto is yelling at Louden in yet ANOTHER heated exchange. In fact, these guys don't like each other at any point during the film. When I showed this film to my wife, she called "BULL SH*T" when Louden looks like he's going to make it and Otto starts cheering him. She rightly says that people don't just change like that from one minute to the next. But in sport, that actually does happen. It's not a matter of "like", it's a matter of respect. In one quick moment, Otto was able to see that Louden could a) do something Otto couldn't do, b) saw that his grit and determination was actually a good thing and c) that just because Loudon had an intrinsic motivation, that he could still benefit the team. Great scene from a great film!
Very Sick! I get goosebumps every time!
I LOVE YOU CARLA!!!!🤘🏼
Was able to go up and down the peg board three times as an 8th grader. Aaah the 80s loved them.
Loved this movie ... now I’m on a new vision quest.
@@jasonreed2116 Lol gonna be hard to do at this point I’m pushing sixty with two bum shoulders not sure I could even make it up one peg. Time and age beats the hell out of you.
Matthew Modine can freaking run!
Dude has a pretty good stride tbh
Vision Quest had a number a great scenes in it , and this is definitely one of them . Glad I grew up in the 80’s and Happy to Own this Movie on DvD
This is an awesome video playlist of Vision Quest you have.
Is this comment directed towards Mr. UA-cam? Cause I agree!
The youtube algorithm really sending us all on a nostalgia trip huh
YES THEY ARE INTENTIONALLY TOO .. TO KEEP US ALL IN LA LA LAND .. WHERE THEY WANT US .. ON THIS FLAT EARTH ..
Goddamn ... Makes me think about getting up and working out ... Nevermind . Fuck it
This movie never gets any play time.. we would listen to the soundtrack over and over and over again
I remember back in school I was the only guy that could conquer the peg board! I also remember being the only guy on my wrestling team that never one a single match! Got my ass kicked on the mat every time!
Honesty! It's still around. Good story 😊
Not one? Well, strength and technique are not one and the same.
Best Wrestling movie ever made
You have no idea how hard the pegboard is. I love they finally made a movie showing how fucking tough wrestling is - the grind, cutting weight, the running - all while trying to wrestle with enough strength so you don’t nosedive and passout.
I did the pegboard in 9th grade. Wrestled very little but it eventually turned me towards my Okinawan karate, and now, ju jitsu. Every house had a foundation.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Haha at the coach wearing a wrestling singlet!
Coach is now dead.
@@bfee20021 yeh, he's buried in Ireland.
Is he buried in his Wrestling suit
@@bfee20021 Yeah, I saw how he died in "The Thing"
He died in Dante's peak..
One of the greatest movies of all time. No doubt.
Awesome when Otto starting cheering him on. Matthew Modine said he was always amazec how many people would approach him and say they loved this movie.
This was when I knew I loved Matthew Modine.
Dr. Brenner was a beast back in his day
Best WRESTLING movie hands down!
My daughter attended the high school where this movie was made in Spokane. There's one scene in the movie where she is walking through the hallway. Everyone was pretty excited there was a movie being made in little old Spokane Washington. lol
LOVE THIS SONG BY J0HN WAIT. IT REALLY SETS THE GYM SCENE OF LOUDIN PUSHING HIMSELF TO REACH THE TOP.
I've never had a wrestler starve on me Louden. Don't be the first!!!!!
Thank you I could never understand what he said
One of the best movies ever!
I started watching this clip in my room sitting on my bed and then the song started playing and he started his climb up the peg board, when it was over I ended up 200 miles away in Georgia.
80s soundtracks was incredible
"Otto Cant even do that!!!!!"
What an awesome movie. Thanks for posting this!
I have this song on my workout CD. This is my favorite part of the movie, thank you for sharing this clip with us :)
What song is this
Change by John Waite
Great movie! Great soundtrack!7
We had a peg board in our gym in 9th grade back in '82. I could go all the way up and down 3 times no problem. More than any other guys at our school. I remember the girls watching me. I was a football player just trying to put on muscle. Having girls watching, that was icing on the cake, lol. Great memories. Cheers.
R.I.P. Charles Hallahan you will always be remembered for your role as Vance Norris in John Carpenter's The Thing.
Great movie, a big part of the reason I decided to wrestle in high school in the early 90's
Another Awesome Movie 🎥 And Song 🎵 Very Inspirational 80`s Movie 🎥 Yes Ma'am
I love that song change by John Waite. I always put this when I'm walking and running.
Love this movie..
Last one I saw with my Pop. 85 , great summer!!.
“I can’t do that Yeaaahh” gets me every time.
Just plain awesome!! When movies had meaning and purpose!! Soundtrack is a masterpiece!!
You know I wonder if we took todays youth and had them watch every 80s movie like this if it would change their attitude on things. These movies are reminders of what it was like to grow up in the best decade ever and is what shaped GenX
I love this scene
When i was playing HS football a teammate of mine tried this one day. He got his face too close to the pegs and hit himself right above the eye. Not pretty. Pretty bloody. But he had a big smile in his face anyway. Was a tough guy.
I remember those pegboards in high school in 1967. I made it halfway at the end of the year.
Nothing will ever beat the 80’s!
Love this movie. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve watched it. I think it’s time to find it somewhere and give it a spin.
This song is just awesome and I love this movie
This is from an era when movies would inspire you to do great things in life. This era is long gone. Now movies just depress and make you wish you could fly.
you are right on that. Today heroes are... well there aren't.
Ohh, that's what those wood boards with holes were for! I did not know that, lol.
Music and Movies always the best in the 80s!
Every wrestler had a coach, like Coach. I miss the good ole days.
I should watch this movie again
1:22 great little smash cut
Respect for running the board while dropping two classes. Nowadays people know to take salt, potassium and magnesium when cutting. Back then you would just feel like shit, have no energy and cramp the fuck up.
This was a great movie then and now. SHame movies are not this good anymore.
The 80's put out some excellent movies.
One of the best movies EVER!
Good ol 80s . Never had to lock nothing.
I miss the movies from the 80’s
Louden Swain and Lloyd Cobbler are two of my role models!!
One of my favorite movies
I learned many things climbing in and out of aircraft bellies and all over equipment. Your body knows how to do these things. All you need to do is to not think about it
Such an inspiring movie.
Flick came out at peak HS Mens Varsity Wrestling in Long Island N.Y. so, so on point. Perfect ending. Graduated in 89' 30 yr HS Réunion every former teammate of mine were still repeating both Wrestlers lines. The Rocky of Wrestling flicks. Prepared me for USMC Boot Camp n life. Love n miss those days. 6 minutes of hell was all that mattered. Still speak to my H.C to this day lives around block from me. 2nd Father to me. I'm nothing without him. Facts. No other sport competes. Ur spot is never secured somone can ask for a "Wrestle Off" anytime, anyday n its over. Boys play sports, men Wrestle. Or even better...the sign on the roof of our main gym used for big matches read, "If u can read this, you are NOT Winning " ...listen i Boxed n Kickboxed lalala bottom line. Nothin was harder than thos 6 minutes. No where to run or hide no breaks no stallin. No breaks. Pure hell. I miss it so much!!!