Do you think you would have been impacted as a wrestler if...

• lowsingle174

  there was the same amount of technology as there is today? I remember in 1995, my senior year getting every newspaper from my area and looking through all results. Canton repository, cleveland plain dealer, akron beacon journal... all of them, every Sunday. Now you can see every result from every team that wrestled that weekend with the click of a button.. How do you think it would have made you better or worse? How has technology impacted our wrestlers these days? I know that you can get a look at your competition much easier now.
  The answer for me would be yes, I would have been impacted.
  Just curious.
• iwrestle365

  I think it depends on the kid how it affects them. I know pretty much every kid in central ohio and am usually pretty good at predicting results, but some kids are intimidated or even become overconfident when they know the outcome of every match there opponent has wrestled the entire year and it does effect your wrestling.
• Bitterrunner-up

  Lowsingle...I was like you. Every Sunday I would actually go down to the library and look up results from newspapers from around the state. The day the Brakeman Report came out every year I read it cover-to-cover before I went to bed that night (still do, BTW). I felt like I was pretty well versed regarding results and who was at what weight and such. The place technology would have really changed things for me would have been Flo. Not so much to scout opponents, but to watch great wrestlers and to learn technique. The archive of "Technique Tuesdays" is just awesome and I bet the stuff on their Technique Wave is even better. Something about having that variety of coaches and styles and the ability to pause and re-watch over and over. It just breaks things down in a way that I find much easier to grasp. Oh, the things I could have learned!
• cradle3

  Good topic. Graduated in 95 as well, every sunday (or mon eve) would go to the local library & read results from cinci inquiry, cle plain dealer, toledo tribune, etc. Not so sure how much it matters. Kids still have ot go out there & scrap one-on-one. When it comes ot scouting opponents, i think it makes somewhat of a difference. During the match, ain't no internet, flowrestling, etc. Just you, your moves, work ethic, conditioning, etc.
• cruiser_96

  

  Nope. I'd have still stunk.
• sackerdrag_135

  I think advancements in technology can play a major role in improving out training methods. Many of us learned technique from video (How low can you go?) that wasn't available to wrestlers in the 70's. The internet allows athletes and coaches access to alot more high level wrestling competition and technique than we would have had access to 10 years ago. In 30 seconds I can watch Russian nationals or learn an ankle pick from Cael. It is especially helpful for matrats that can't get enough because it gives them another means of training. I can pretty much guarantee that Westie101 would not have improved at the rate he did (despite fantastic coaching) without the use of flo/youtube etc.
• Con_Alma

  cruiser_96;641512 wrote:Nope. I'd have still stunk.

  
  Awwww, come on now. Four-time Sectional qualifier is nothing to sneeze at!!
• cruiser_96

  

  Thanks, con. I appreciate that.
• 80baby

  I think the real thing that would have helped me out the most would have been the ability to access all the off season training opportunities through out the state. Look at all of the off season training that is posted on the web today camps, open mats and tournaments you name it you can find it and depending on who got your e-mail address just click on your in box. I remember looking through the paper every Sunday checking out results and trying to find out who wrestled who. Back in my day you had to know some body just to find out whom and where people where wrestling if you wanted to spend your off weekend watching them wrestle. Wow it would have been awesome just to been able to record my own matches and go back to study my own technique.
• I Wear Pants

  Flowrestling, youtube, etc helped me a lot. It was convenient not only to be able to watch your own matchest to see what you can improve but to be able to watch matches and instruction from coaches and wrestlers that are better/know more than you from around the world.
  
  If someone wants to they can really use the internet as a great tool to help them improve their game. Sure it's just one small tool that you can use and doesn't replace hard work and mat time but sometimes it's the little things that can take you to that next level.
• Gardens35

  lowsingle174;641272 wrote:there was the same amount of technology as there is today? I remember in 1995, my senior year getting every newspaper from my area and looking through all results. Canton repository, cleveland plain dealer, akron beacon journal... all of them, every Sunday. Now you can see every result from every team that wrestled that weekend with the click of a button.. How do you think it would have made you better or worse? How has technology impacted our wrestlers these days? I know that you can get a look at your competition much easier now.
  The answer for me would be yes, I would have been impacted.
  Just curious.

  
  Lowsingle, I thought I noticed on another thread that you're from Alliance. Way back when (20 years or so before you graduated), the Eastern Ohio Wrestling League would deliver weekly Results/Recaps to all the teams in the league. They were posted on the locker room wall. It was the best way to keep track of the local competition......of course, the regular season schedule back then was basically all local duals and the one Holiday Tournament where you got to wrestle some "real strangers". After Sectionals, there was little "good" information unless you knew someone from camp, scrimmages, or the district/state tournaments from the year before. I don't remember if Alliance was in the EOWL then, but I'm sure they wrestled in the "AAA" sectionals at Fitch and Hubbard, and the District Tournament which was at Akron North High School then.
  
  If you're not from Alliance.....disregard this rant.
• cruiser_96

  

  He's an Aviator. ...and one tough hombre, too.
• lowsingle174

  We weren't in the EOWL back then, we were in the Federal League. Frank Mancini was my high school coach, and between him and his Brother Dom, I usually an Idea on who I was wrestling at the district and state tournaments, or other places that had wrestlers that I hadn't seen yet.
  I agree with bitterrunner-up, I would have STUDIED flowrestling.
• Gardens35

  Yes, I know the bro's. They're younger than me so I intimidate them with old man strength and dirty looks. But only if I'm in the mood.