I'm really hoping my school gets a wrestling team next year. We're the on high-school in the city not to have one If we do get one, I'm SO joining. My jujitsu reflexes of choking and using guard may be a pain tho. Even one year of high-school wrestling would definitely help with my take-downs, which sorely need work. I've started focusing more on neck strength and bridging. Any other conditioning I should really focus on for wrestling specifically? I got a copy of Lessons in Wrestling and Physical Culture by Martin "farmer" Burns and will follow the workouts therein as well as studying the holds as they MAY come in handy . No triangle chokes this time I'm also going to take dance (yeah yeah, call me a fairy :hat for the leg/core strength and flexibility (oh and the chicks :evil. If I'm working on it for martial arts anyways I may as well get a credit for it. I'm hoping I'll be tanked (& skillin) if I can do dance for a semester and wrestling all year. Any tips you guys could offer would be great.
If your smart enough to take dance for both the chix and the core strength, and you forgot cardio. I think your smart enought to figure things out yourself. Any real tips will come from your wrestling coach and teammates.
definately do it. I don't understand why, but wrestling does have better takedowns then jiu jitsu and judo it seems, even though the principles are the same.
I'm actually with both of you on this one, although the zhoo zheetsu guys apparently dance no-gi. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH31NDIlFIM"]YouTube[/ame] The original poster, however, will probably have the gi vs. no-gi dancing issue simply answered by the instructor.
I'd prefer no-Gi dancing :happy: [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P4xD8H_-fqk[/ame] Got to be the 2nd best use of a boxing ring ever:evil: I think taking dance is a great idea. Not just for the cross-overs of balance etc: it's just one of those life skills that you'll never regret having.
Particularly if you're male, you'll get drooled over by women if you can dance well. Never be short of partners either.
My father-in-law was a wrestling coach and said two of his best guys ever were two brothers who were forced into ballet at a young age by their mother (until they rebelled and went out for the wrestling team). He always says, "I tell you, there is something to that ballet!" Of course they could just have been two brothers who were naturally gifted athletes.
