I don't think anyone looks forward to wrestling practice. After school, and after that warm-up, I knew hell was going to be unleashed. That smell of chlorine as the freshmen are cleaning the mats, just makes you realize another hellish practice was only minutes away. I haven't played other sports, but do football, soccer, track etc players look forward to practice because they get to chill with their friends?
@@777Skeptic my boys play baseball as well. Baseball is like being on vacation.....zero stress, practices where they don't even break a sweat, literally a game to them.
Everyone talks about Gable being maniacal, they don’t talk about the fact that he is walking around with a dry mop picking up sweat so his athletes stay safe throughout the practice. That’s pretty darn special attention to detail. Gable was the right man for certain men.
This practice looks like a hell scape. The metal clanging, the grunts of anguish, while Dan Gable cruises around with mop like Charon, the boatman who takes dead souls to Hades. Yeah, I hate wrestling.
the interesting thing about this is that the core structures and principles of this wrestling practice fill and influence the wrestling rooms of America. That's how large Gable's influence is.
For the lay person that isn't obsessed with college wrestling, I'll share some context. This is one of the many National Iowa championship teams from the early 2000s. This is the HWC practice where these collegiate animals are honing their skills for international (Olympic) freestyle competition. These are some of the cream of the crop in college wrestling beating the hell out of each other. Lincoln Mac, Joe Williams, Jeff McGinness, Mark Ironside and others were all multiple time NCAA champs.
I’ve known Mike mena for a long time, he would come out to the club I wrestled at and train us from time to time. Truly one of the oddest, but most focused humans I’ve ever met.
@@sodadad102 He came to a clinic where I brought some of my guys, and he just came up to me and said your guys are really green, coach, lol. He had great technique, especially when it came to getting in deep on leg shots enough to turn the shot into a lift.
Our HS wrestling coach had us watch a video of his practices. When you see the Brands bros crying, you don't complain about your own practices any more!
@@cfbaddict7284 No it wouldn’t. Everybody pretty much over trained back then. The science behind training has become so much more details and rigorous.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 I feel like overtraining is different in this situation vs a clinical weight-room. Because while it may be sup optimal for some things there’s a certain amount of grit and skill you still get. Still probably true I just don’t know how you draw the line.
35:18 Dan Gable pushing a mop to keep the mats dry.... while in BJJ clubs the instructor makes white belts clean the mats. We need to get over ourselves in BJJ
Yes and no, white belts aren't top level athletes that Gable wants to keep from slipping and getting hurt because he wanted to win. There's a difference there, I don't mind cleaning the mats after rolling, I'm a blue belt.
King Kong do you go to a restaurant and clean your own table? Do you go to a hotel and wash the linens and towels? When you are paying for a service you should not be cleaning mats. I'm a black belt. And I run a BJJ gym as my only source of income.
@@BadWolfMMANashville None of those other things you mentioned are martial arts though, which a big part are rooted in discipline and respect. I've never seen anyone complain over this personally, I see it more as team and we all contribute in some way.
Dan Gable would do that even if it was beginners. In college while wrestling for championships at the highest level he would help anyone. People just wanting to lose some weight he would make time for
You have a point. In college dan Gable would help anyone with training. Even if it was just someone trying to lose weight As a teenager he worked construction and always looked for the toughest work that nobody wanted to do
The greatest of all time, cruising around with a dust mop wearing prison slides, knowing damn well he could stretch any fucker in there at will. And they know it too....
I met Jeff McGiness at Chertow camp. He led warm ups before Saturday night live session! It was freaking brutal. I remember leaving that session and if I would have had to defend myself I would have been screwed! Couldn’t pick my arms up! 25 minutes of warm fucked everyone in that room up!
Seeing Ironside wincing doing push-ups, seeing the mat, hearing Gable talk gives me PTSD. Anyone who has wrestled for years and years knows what I'm talking about. Pain and the ability to deal with it.
At first it looked like Mena vs Ubasa Ironside vs McGinnes Anderson vs Mcilravy Zadick vs Tom Brands Schwab vs Terry Brands Fulsaas vs Fullhart Williams vs Zalesky (2nd half, not sure who he was wrestling before that) Oostendorp vs ? Looked like at the end Zadick vs Terry Brands Fullhart vs Jessman Smith Ironside vs Schwab Williams vs Anderson
10:19 Ok now 🤣🤣🤣 it's just a big no. 10:22 so that's what Cheal Sonnen was trying to do with Fedor and then ended up under him and losing the fight. Not all wrasteling moves work in mma.
Actually you would have a much better chance of hitting that move in mma vs a high caliber college wrestler who has better base skills in that position. I can hit this move with a decent percentage of success in BJJ unless the guy considerably outweighs me.
There’s is a vibe before wrestling practice everyone is like oh shit
Yup lol. Calm before the storm
Man if that doesn’t speak to the truth. It’s like damn coach I’m on your team dude.
I don't think anyone looks forward to wrestling practice. After school, and after that warm-up, I knew hell was going to be unleashed. That smell of chlorine as the freshmen are cleaning the mats, just makes you realize another hellish practice was only minutes away.
I haven't played other sports, but do football, soccer, track etc players look forward to practice because they get to chill with their friends?
@@777Skeptic Track, 100%... our practice was 90% dicking around and 10% practicing our events.
@@777Skeptic my boys play baseball as well. Baseball is like being on vacation.....zero stress, practices where they don't even break a sweat, literally a game to them.
Everyone talks about Gable being maniacal, they don’t talk about the fact that he is walking around with a dry mop picking up sweat so his athletes stay safe throughout the practice. That’s pretty darn special attention to detail. Gable was the right man for certain men.
you've never been in a more humid, more slippery room than the old room in carver.
This practice looks like a hell scape. The metal clanging, the grunts of anguish, while Dan Gable cruises around with mop like Charon, the boatman who takes dead souls to Hades.
Yeah, I hate wrestling.
Some of us love the journey to Hades.
written by some sofa bound dude who has no idea the path to being a champion
I am college basketball player
I play point guard
I love basketball
the interesting thing about this is that the core structures and principles of this wrestling practice fill and influence the wrestling rooms of America. That's how large Gable's influence is.
Every time I see Dan Gable look up and glare while mopping my heart stops beating.
For the lay person that isn't obsessed with college wrestling, I'll share some context. This is one of the many National Iowa championship teams from the early 2000s. This is the HWC practice where these collegiate animals are honing their skills for international (Olympic) freestyle competition. These are some of the cream of the crop in college wrestling beating the hell out of each other. Lincoln Mac, Joe Williams, Jeff McGinness, Mark Ironside and others were all multiple time NCAA champs.
This was way before early 2000’s.
@@wrestlermike22I woudnt say way before. Maybe mid to late 90s
There are at least 25-30 NCAA titles rolling around in this video. And Mike Mena.
I’ve known Mike mena for a long time, he would come out to the club I wrestled at and train us from time to time. Truly one of the oddest, but most focused humans I’ve ever met.
@@sodadad102 He came to a clinic where I brought some of my guys, and he just came up to me and said your guys are really green, coach, lol. He had great technique, especially when it came to getting in deep on leg shots enough to turn the shot into a lift.
Lol
Vicious.
Our HS wrestling coach had us watch a video of his practices. When you see the Brands bros crying, you don't complain about your own practices any more!
They probably Overtrained.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 considering the success they had it would be hard to argue that
@@cfbaddict7284 No it wouldn’t. Everybody pretty much over trained back then. The science behind training has become so much more details and rigorous.
That type of training makes you strong enough not to quit on yourselves
@@daytonasayswhat9333 I feel like overtraining is different in this situation vs a clinical weight-room. Because while it may be sup optimal for some things there’s a certain amount of grit and skill you still get. Still probably true I just don’t know how you draw the line.
35:18 Dan Gable pushing a mop to keep the mats dry.... while in BJJ clubs the instructor makes white belts clean the mats. We need to get over ourselves in BJJ
Yes and no, white belts aren't top level athletes that Gable wants to keep from slipping and getting hurt because he wanted to win. There's a difference there, I don't mind cleaning the mats after rolling, I'm a blue belt.
King Kong do you go to a restaurant and clean your own table? Do you go to a hotel and wash the linens and towels? When you are paying for a service you should not be cleaning mats. I'm a black belt. And I run a BJJ gym as my only source of income.
@@BadWolfMMANashville None of those other things you mentioned are martial arts though, which a big part are rooted in discipline and respect. I've never seen anyone complain over this personally, I see it more as team and we all contribute in some way.
Dan Gable would do that even if it was beginners. In college while wrestling for championships at the highest level he would help anyone. People just wanting to lose some weight he would make time for
You have a point. In college dan Gable would help anyone with training. Even if it was just someone trying to lose weight
As a teenager he worked construction and always looked for the toughest work that nobody wanted to do
The start was dope that’s like looking inside a locker room and hearing Vince Lombardi speak!
It would’ve been such a privilege to wrestle for Gable
The greatest of all time, cruising around with a dust mop wearing prison slides, knowing damn well he could stretch any fucker in there at will. And they know it too....
😂😂😂😂
someone swears, gable says watch ur language, takes me back to my coach who always kept us aware of our "frustrations"
I learned everything I ever needed to know about myself after only 2 weeks in that room.
Great stuff, thanks for posting
22:59 Humble Savage mopping with the hand wraps! Not above anything in the trenches right with them! Fucking love that!
I don't miss this at all.
Lol. It had its day.
Yup my final season just ended like 2 weeks ago. Wrestling practices are something I'll never miss
26:38...I've definitely been there like the guy on the bench... sweating so much from being so hot that you get cold when you stop moving...
I met Jeff McGiness at Chertow camp. He led warm ups before Saturday night live session! It was freaking brutal. I remember leaving that session and if I would have had to defend myself I would have been screwed! Couldn’t pick my arms up! 25 minutes of warm fucked everyone in that room up!
There's something special about wrestling it can turn you mentally unbreakable Warrior no other sport can do it
Many sports do that.
@@stanpotter7764 not that many compare to wrestling.
@@USA_Wrestling_799 pretty much any other combative sport.
@@miguelberetta7887 Um no, there are not a lot of course sports like mma and boxing are as tough but all I was saying is most sports don’t compare
@@USA_Wrestling_799 that's dumb to say, because both of those are harder.
One life will soon be past , wrestle like it will be your last.
53:16 Dan Gable the chiropractic massage therapist ! Run now 😝
this is life right here. god dman it.
24.7.29
Dan Gable is the man!
This is gold
These guys are studs
Seeing Ironside wincing doing push-ups, seeing the mat, hearing Gable talk gives me PTSD. Anyone who has wrestled for years and years knows what I'm talking about. Pain and the ability to deal with it.
Yup even if your a nobody if you’ve wrestled you’ve had an experience no other has had
I can hear nails being clipped
Lincoln Hawk, best Hawkeye ever!
Ok, it’s Hawkeye WC, not the college practice. That would explain the freestyle.
Every coach should watch
This is amazing!! Can someone tell me what year this is from?
Thanks for posting !!!
When was this?
Iron sharpens iron. Nothing but killers
Who is wrestling with who? I recognize several wrestlers, but I can’t tell who they’re wrestling with.
At first it looked like
Mena vs Ubasa
Ironside vs McGinnes
Anderson vs Mcilravy
Zadick vs Tom Brands
Schwab vs Terry Brands
Fulsaas vs Fullhart
Williams vs Zalesky (2nd half, not sure who he was wrestling before that)
Oostendorp vs ?
Looked like at the end
Zadick vs Terry Brands
Fullhart vs Jessman Smith
Ironside vs Schwab
Williams vs Anderson
Wow. That’s a lot of experience on the mat in one video. A person would probably get better wrestling these guys even if they never score a point.
What year is this from?
Edit:’looking at the shoes, and joe Williams, I’m thinking 1996-1998.
97
got mcilravy (93-97) w/ joe too
what a privilege it would have been to train in that room
gable was not using a mop it was a push broom.
Is that Tom Brands @ 43:19?
10:19 Ok now 🤣🤣🤣 it's just a big no.
10:22 so that's what Cheal Sonnen was trying to do with Fedor and then ended up under him and losing the fight.
Not all wrasteling moves work in mma.
Actually you would have a much better chance of hitting that move in mma vs a high caliber college wrestler who has better base skills in that position. I can hit this move with a decent percentage of success in BJJ unless the guy considerably outweighs me.
@@tommym321 which move?
Are they going live or drilling in the beginning
Drilling
It's a hard spar
well from the shoes i ma thining maybe 99 2000 2001at the lastest maybe?
Lincoln Mcilravy kicking ass
whos the guy wrestling with joe williams?
@@Mid-StateWrestling-yi4mw Not Z...but the other guy in the beginning of the video
Aleksandr Karelin
David Spangler.. local kid tough af
@@Para_Normal_Guy lol
I dont know who is that going with zadick and mcirvary either i think that is zalesky goign with joe williams
Mental Toughness.
This is awesome. Got any more videos like this?
im not sure who is going with ironside
I'm an Iowa guy. Meaning Iowa raised. Dan Gable is a God in Iowa. Like in ghostbusters. He's a God. Not, THE GOD.
I thought that was Adam Devine from workaholics in the thumbnail
lol! same here.
shout out to Selma from Bakersfield!
@@Castaneda-qe8ry hell yah the best west coast wrestling comes off the 99!
It’s 2000 guys training for upcoming trials
Anybody knows what year this is?
No later than 1998 with John Oostendorp being there.
53:46 this was sketchy as H
Who was the Asian guy?
Pablo Ubasa
@@GiglioFava thankyou just looked him up
97' it looks like
damn Joe Williams looked older than zelesky. he looked early 40's lol
This is nothing compared to basketball practice.
Ur jokin
@@ultimategamer4010 no I am not, Gamer.
@@millertb3550 yes you are, tim
Bro this isn’t even the whole practice,