I will never forget that Bobby Douglas told me that wrestling is an art in the summer of 1981 at a high school wrestling summer camp at Brockport State College hosted by coach Murray. I was blessed for having the opportunity to learn from his wisdom and sharing.
One legend speaking so highly of another legend. I love the respect shown in our cherished sport after years go by, tempers give way to admiration, and mutual respect is forged through the blood, sweat, and tears of fierce competition.
With the passing of Henry Aaron, Bobby Douglas actually reminds me of him. Like Aaron, Bobby was very respectful of everyone and full of class. A great competitor and great coach. A great contributor to wrestling.
Iowa is the place for wrestling. If you grow up in the state of Iowa, you need to wrestle. As Cael Sanderson said "Self-defense. Although wrestling is not commonly considered a “martial art,” it is the #1 base discipline in the world of MMA. Wrestlers know how to defend themselves and neutralize threats quickly. Wrestling is controlling an opponent. If you want your kids to know how to defend themselves, put them in wrestling
6:00 Gable Dan says Bobby Douglas was the 1st guy to get technically involved with the sport, he put out books - - - -YES in the mid 70's at a public library > I was 15 and saw a book by Bobby Douglas about takedowns > It was TREMENDOUS, Just pictures, just a sequence of about 6 or 10 pictures showing the steps / positions in every takedown. Probably a couple hundred takedowns. I went back to the library to study it but it was gone, I think someone stole it. I think if I couldve had that book to learn and study I would've been a state champ, national champ and made the Olympics. Haha, but maybe I'm serious > it was the best book ever published on the techniques of takedowns.
Bobby Douglas released some good books, but he was definitely not the first to release books on the technical aspects of wrestling, in fact he wouldn't even be in the first fifty. I get where you're coming from and I'm going to ignore the hundreds of books released internationally before the advent of American collegiate wrestling. Even by that metric, Bobby Douglas is actually pretty late, as the first guy would have been Farmer Burns all the way back in the 1910s. It was his mail-order catalogs which he blitzed mailboxes with all across the US which helped popularize wrestling and turn it into a collegiate/interscholastic sport. Then his protege Frank Gotch released a couple books on technique. Spalding had several wrestling technique books available by mail during the 1910s-1920s. Ed Gallagher, the guy who started Oklahoma State's program, was really the first in the way that you're saying Bobby was first. Gallagher had a couple books on wrestling tech ique as far back as the 1930s, and revised them both several times over the next decade or so. Rex Peery, one of his wrestlers and the eventual coach at Pitt and also a three-time national champion, produced several books widely available from the 1950s to the 1980s. Those are just a few of the sets of books strictly written by American collegiate and freestyle wrestlers who came up in the same system as Bobby Douglas, to say nothing of the hundreds, if not thousands of books widely available by the 1970s on the technical aspects of wrestling, dating back, well, at least 80-90 years by the 1970s.
I will never forget that Bobby Douglas told me that wrestling is an art in the summer of 1981 at a high school wrestling summer camp at Brockport State College hosted by coach Murray. I was blessed for having the opportunity to learn from his wisdom and sharing.
One legend speaking so highly of another legend.
I love the respect shown in our cherished sport after years go by, tempers give way to admiration, and mutual respect is forged through the blood, sweat, and tears of fierce competition.
john smith...from another great legend who coined the duck-under.
PA
Catching up on wrasslin' is a good thing!
With the passing of Henry Aaron, Bobby Douglas actually reminds me of him. Like Aaron, Bobby was very respectful of everyone and full of class. A great competitor and great coach. A great contributor to wrestling.
Dang, I love listening to Coach Gable.
Iowa is the place for wrestling. If you grow up in the state of Iowa, you need to wrestle. As Cael Sanderson said "Self-defense. Although wrestling is not commonly considered a “martial art,” it is the #1 base
discipline in the world of MMA. Wrestlers know how to defend themselves and neutralize threats
quickly. Wrestling is controlling an opponent. If you want your kids to know how to defend themselves,
put them in wrestling
6:00 Gable Dan says Bobby Douglas was the 1st guy to get technically involved with the sport, he put out books - - - -YES in the mid 70's at a public library > I was 15 and saw a book by Bobby Douglas about takedowns > It was TREMENDOUS, Just pictures, just a sequence of about 6 or 10 pictures showing the steps / positions in every takedown. Probably a couple hundred takedowns. I went back to the library to study it but it was gone, I think someone stole it. I think if I couldve had that book to learn and study I would've been a state champ, national champ and made the Olympics. Haha, but maybe I'm serious > it was the best book ever published on the techniques of takedowns.
I still have that book
@@georgeletsou2694 that is really great, wish I had it even though I'm past wrestling age
Bobby Douglas released some good books, but he was definitely not the first to release books on the technical aspects of wrestling, in fact he wouldn't even be in the first fifty. I get where you're coming from and I'm going to ignore the hundreds of books released internationally before the advent of American collegiate wrestling. Even by that metric, Bobby Douglas is actually pretty late, as the first guy would have been Farmer Burns all the way back in the 1910s. It was his mail-order catalogs which he blitzed mailboxes with all across the US which helped popularize wrestling and turn it into a collegiate/interscholastic sport. Then his protege Frank Gotch released a couple books on technique. Spalding had several wrestling technique books available by mail during the 1910s-1920s.
Ed Gallagher, the guy who started Oklahoma State's program, was really the first in the way that you're saying Bobby was first. Gallagher had a couple books on wrestling tech ique as far back as the 1930s, and revised them both several times over the next decade or so. Rex Peery, one of his wrestlers and the eventual coach at Pitt and also a three-time national champion, produced several books widely available from the 1950s to the 1980s. Those are just a few of the sets of books strictly written by American collegiate and freestyle wrestlers who came up in the same system as Bobby Douglas, to say nothing of the hundreds, if not thousands of books widely available by the 1970s on the technical aspects of wrestling, dating back, well, at least 80-90 years by the 1970s.
Good interview.
Didn’t Bobby Douglas beat him 5 times in one day? He never says this. Bobby Douglas dominated Dan Gable.
Bobby Douglas gave Gable one of his worst losses.
AhPhoey yes. Gable was a college sophomore. 19 years old. Douglas 26.
save us the history lesson
@@petermiller1472 You need to head to the badminton channel. Over to your left.
Jake Lawrence Doesn’t matter you step on the Matt you are equals.
I'm going to search that match.
Dan great coach and athlete but maybe he should give God a little credit
he should give whoever he wants credit