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 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 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?
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.
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.
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
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!!
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.
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
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.
@@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 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
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.
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
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 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
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.
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.
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 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’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! 🤣
They arnt bad shoes the grip is good and have good ankle support I had them my first few years they are good it’s just that’s all stores sell in person abs everyone had them
Underestimating your opponent is the worst possible mistake anyone could possibly make. I've done in and got my ass kicked. Naturally, sometimes your gut is right, but if you go in thinking you got it in the bag, you're making a mistake
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.
Someone wearing their singlet up and headgear snapped on more than 3 minutes before your match is a sign of new wrestler. Having to be told to toe the line. Forgetting to check in.
Anytime an opponent walked onto the mat wearing tennis shoes, he was new to wrestling and it was going to be a quick match. This was typically during summer tournaments. Another giveaway that he was a newbie was if he was wearing socks without shoes and if they were black socks he was generally not very athletic as well. Lastly, on occasion you had the kid that was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. That was almost always going to result in a victory for the seasoned wrestler.
Watch out for the sand bagger. I use to wear real baggy shirt, gave weak handshakes, look down when someone was staring me down. I remember one guy laugh at me and I just look down. When we meet in the finals, I gave him an ass whooping.
This is how you can tell when a wrestler think they're better then they really are is when they care too much about their appearance. If they have double nike socks, singlet pulled up too high, tape all over there shoes & headgear, sweats tucked into socks, and bag with all the accesories. If you're wrestling someone who fits the description above he is probably a decent fish.
From personal experience, and I was a state champion, these guys have it all wrong. Every newbie I ever wrestled shook my hand like they were trying to intimidate me, and they would pace back and forth and stare at me. The worse they acted out before the match the worse I would try to humiliate them. I was at high school nationals at Virginia Beach in 2009. I was supposed to wrestle a guy that met every single criteria they have for a newbie. He had ankle socks, a USA wrestling tattoo, he pulled his singlet down to his knees, and he was goofy as could be. I thought “why would this goofy sucker even come to this”? I was happy because my first match was a scrub and I thought it would be a cake walk. Weeelllll, when we locked up at the whistle, I thought “how is he so strong”? He beat me 1-2. He was a 2x PA state champion and ended up wrestling at West Point. I also, wrestled a guy that looked the part, and could bench press 400 lbs at 145 lbs. I tech’ed the dude in two periods. I couldn’t physically pin him because he would stand up off his back. It was my senior night and I usually wrestled 135 lbs, but my coach wanted us to beat the team so bad they didn’t score a point, and he was the only good guy on their team. Haha, someone else on our team got pinned. It don’t matter what guys look like!
I've noticed how a lot of these "signs" are actually just opinions on how someone looks rather than their skill. I have zero clue on how any of these signs have a direct correlation to the skill of a wrestler.
A lot of times I se people that don’t “look” very good but I treat them the same as any other matches so if they’re better than they look I’m not mentally messed up.
Don't forget to share this video with your wrestling bros so they don't walk onto the mat looking like a scrub! 🤓
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
*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.
I wore double new pads and went 21-0
Nice
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
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
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...
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.
" 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
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
Me losing to a kid with double knee pads at nationals
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
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
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.
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
My partner had tornado headgear and my parents kept wondering why I was coming home with cuts on my forehead
Hitting you with kicks & hand strikes got to be a newbie move.
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
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
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 do a weak handshake to make my opponent think im weak then i pin them
I use a weak handshake to throw people off
yes
ive done this multiple times😂😂
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.
When seabass wears double kneepads and beats Spencer lee
Beast mode.
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
- 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
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
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
If you see an earlier match and he’s forgetting o shake the coaches hand
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 wear double kneepads and I took 4th at Illinois state this year
You sure about that? Gimme some sort of proof bc i believe you but alot of kids like to come on here and lie. Im from Illinois but ya know
NICE !!! Keep getting better Kid !
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
@@jakebartinelli8086 you right
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 wore ankle socks because I don’t have money
Well then how’d you buy those ankle socks?
When the ref says and motions for top man on and the bottom kid gives him a high five
Trying to start neutral when you’re down
The first wrestling move I teach as a coach is the good, firm handshake. No wet fish handshakes with my kids.
Getting Takendown + pinned by a headlock
Smart wrestlers always give a weak handshake, never show your strength until it's needed, it's part of the psychology of wrestling!
When you get asked if you are their opponent.
I had some kid do that to me, he beat me tho 😔
So what you’re saying is do ALL of these things and mess with your opponent 😂
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
Why don’t y’all just let guys wrestled the way they want too, you guys are newbie
My school doesn’t even have a wrestling program, just everything else but wrestling and I still watch these
Dude that's awesome! Glad that you're a part of the community! 👍
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’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! 🤣
The good ol mat flexes every noob has them
That's not a terrible idea, but it will only work until you meet a guy who will wrestle with you the same way no matter who you are
My friend Trenton wore them and he’s placed at state for the last 3 years
They arnt bad shoes the grip is good and have good ankle support I had them my first few years they are good it’s just that’s all stores sell in person abs everyone had them
If he keeps putting the chin strap on his chin but doesn’t have a actual chin cup
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! 💰
Underestimating your opponent is the worst possible mistake anyone could possibly make. I've done in and got my ass kicked. Naturally, sometimes your gut is right, but if you go in thinking you got it in the bag, you're making a mistake
U forgot when the opponent moves away from u right away like it's his first match (which it might be)
Member of the Tornado posse here 💪
More comfortable and you’re able to hear the coaches a lot better. Vito also rocks rocks them
Keeps pulling singlet below the knee caps because he’s self conscious 😂😂
I went 8-1 and in school with double knee pads
The fact that you've only had 9 matches tells me you're a middle schooler, and middle school is light work
Here in Texas if you have a USA tattoo you were a stud😂
The number one way to tell if a wrestler is a newbie is if hes wearing a loose fitting singlet or headgear that doesnt fit properly.
The over sized singlet😂
If it's to small then they grab their junk for the whole match lol
I wear double kneepads because its easier to shoot on both sides.
My brother wore double knee pads and won state championship
I wrestled with tornado headgear and went to masters so🤷🏾♂️
I need double knee pads cause I have bad knees. And I only lost twice this pay season to the same kid who is a state champ
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.
Soon as they started talking bout knee pads I knew they're trash and probably get pinned from head n arm tosses
I did weak handshakes to make them super confident and careless. Makes it easier for me.
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
The biggest sign to me was the hopping around awkwardly after the hand shake and the crossing of the feet.
Wearing ankle socks or no show socks are the best thing to do. Longer socks = more grip when doing ankle picks.
If his shoes aren’t flashy you’re good
but if they are old school or worn out gg.
If I do catch myself doing anything of that I’m doing 20 pushups
The later you are to your match the more newbie you are
Someone wearing their singlet up and headgear snapped on more than 3 minutes before your match is a sign of new wrestler. Having to be told to toe the line. Forgetting to check in.
Lol this kid had the weakest handshake and he was trembling when he came up to me and I straight cradled him in the air😂
I would love to see that cradle! 🤣
Anytime an opponent walked onto the mat wearing tennis shoes, he was new to wrestling and it was going to be a quick match. This was typically during summer tournaments. Another giveaway that he was a newbie was if he was wearing socks without shoes and if they were black socks he was generally not very athletic as well. Lastly, on occasion you had the kid that was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. That was almost always going to result in a victory for the seasoned wrestler.
I love the ones that wear ridiculous printed boxers under their singlets. I don't want to see your boxers with shamrocks on them.
I’m a 3 year state champ and I double knee pad so, I don’t know why you guys say that’s like a noob move
Watch out for the sand bagger. I use to wear real baggy shirt, gave weak handshakes, look down when someone was staring me down. I remember one guy laugh at me and I just look down. When we meet in the finals, I gave him an ass whooping.
Someone with ASICS matflex shoes or black and white adidas hvc’s (even though I always wrestle HVC)
Wear your knee pad on the opposite knee that you shoot with to confuse your opponents
This is how you can tell when a wrestler think they're better then they really are is when they care too much about their appearance. If they have double nike socks, singlet pulled up too high, tape all over there shoes & headgear, sweats tucked into socks, and bag with all the accesories. If you're wrestling someone who fits the description above he is probably a decent fish.
From personal experience, and I was a state champion, these guys have it all wrong. Every newbie I ever wrestled shook my hand like they were trying to intimidate me, and they would pace back and forth and stare at me. The worse they acted out before the match the worse I would try to humiliate them. I was at high school nationals at Virginia Beach in 2009. I was supposed to wrestle a guy that met every single criteria they have for a newbie. He had ankle socks, a USA wrestling tattoo, he pulled his singlet down to his knees, and he was goofy as could be. I thought “why would this goofy sucker even come to this”? I was happy because my first match was a scrub and I thought it would be a cake walk. Weeelllll, when we locked up at the whistle, I thought “how is he so strong”? He beat me 1-2. He was a 2x PA state champion and ended up wrestling at West Point. I also, wrestled a guy that looked the part, and could bench press 400 lbs at 145 lbs. I tech’ed the dude in two periods. I couldn’t physically pin him because he would stand up off his back. It was my senior night and I usually wrestled 135 lbs, but my coach wanted us to beat the team so bad they didn’t score a point, and he was the only good guy on their team. Haha, someone else on our team got pinned. It don’t matter what guys look like!
His shoes
Sweet shoes are KEY! 🔑
If they give a weak handshake, either they're unsure or it's mind games.
If they slap and bump, you're fucked. That guy cross trains BJJ.
I've noticed how a lot of these "signs" are actually just opinions on how someone looks rather than their skill. I have zero clue on how any of these signs have a direct correlation to the skill of a wrestler.
A lot of times I se people that don’t “look” very good but I treat them the same as any other matches so if they’re better than they look I’m not mentally messed up.
Title of this video should be what to wear for wrestling 😂
If they slap their entire body before stepping on the line
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 😂