"The Iowa Style" is referred to often, although by now it's only by those in the Iowa camp. And it's a joke. It means nothing now... except perhaps for the exact opposite of it's original meaning.
How about talking top side rides? The lack of takedowns may concern you, but the inability for any Iowa wrestler to but a ride on is more concerning to me than what you mentioned. Take bottom vs Iowa is an automatic point. If they do get a ride, it's merely to hang on, there is no attempt to get a turn.
It’s more than pathetic. Not surprising though. Iowa doesn’t have one coach that excelled at top wrestling, and it’s pretty damn apparent at this point that they’re not good at teaching it either.
If you can’t take anybody down, you should be able to ride? Wtf is the point of wrestling if you can’t do either one?
7 falls this season.
We don't develop talent especially well either.
People don’t get this, but this is a huge part of PSU lapping the field the past few years. A large majority show marked improvement on top during their careers. First to be able to ride guys in critical moments and later to be able to score on top. Lots of examples:
Thanks for posting why Penn St has success on the Iowa boards
Was just commenting on @TarpHawk1 s post about pins, but you’re welcome. Wasn’t aware that commenting on both the most active college wrestling boards was an exclusive right of yours. And it certainly wasn’t antagonistic ( except probably to some of the extremists) which is more than I can say for some of your comments. Not that there is anything wrong with a little back and forth. If Grip or Ironbird object, let them have at it.Thanks for posting why Penn St has success on the Iowa boards
I personally don't object to any wrestling fans coming to engage in good wrestling conversation. I watch as much wrestling as I can, of course I want Iowa to beat everyone, but I enjoy all of wrestling first.
Thanks for posting why Penn St has success on the Iowa boards
Good post. A hard or tough ride also wears on the opponent thus making takedowns easier. I think back to the days of TnT Steiner, they'd throw legs in, break your back for a while and then destroy you. Both were some of my fav Iowa wrestlers.
Riding isn’t the same as turning. Riding can only get you, at most, one point per match.
I’m sorry if this is going to start a firestorm with you, but this is just a stupid post. Most PSU fans can rattle off names like Matter, Abe, Hunter, Lynch, Martin, McCoy, etc. unless they are youngsters. We can also rattle off Iowa champs as well- you do realize that Pennsylvania has been a great high school wrestling state for a very long time, don’t you? Most wrestling fans were HS wrestlers, not D1 wrestlers and those were the guys your coaches talked about.
Riding at critical moments of a match wins an awful lot of matches. As many as turning guys does, probably more at a high level.
Fair enough, means you are not one of them. There are great wrestling fans everywhere I have sat next to many of them from PA being an east coast guy. Quick trivia question without looking, how many National champs has PSU had from Long Island NY. Tuff question even for a long time fan
Real quick I can only think of McCoy. Probably one of the oldtimers as well.
DeStefanis and Lemyre. McKoy was from Longwood I used to wrestle in a holiday tournament at that HS every year, DeStefanis was one of several brothers From Locust Valley just up the road from where I grew up. He was the coach at central Conn one of the schools I was going to wrestle for coming out of HS. Lemyre was way back when, school called Mepham HS they produced several national champions back in that era
Damn, should have gotten DiStefanis, but you put me under time pressure. I wouldn’t have gotten Lemyre unless I looked it up.
