I fucking hate this kind of people, I’m sorry, but I do. My country is full of them, this is literally the default here…
Save meeee, I wanna go to the Netherlands or some place 😭

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The US does folkstyle throughout non-college school years

    The main US wrestling for guys in college is also still folkstyle. Back awhile ago you could find freestyle tournaments but they weren’t official college matches, although they’re probably more popular/widespread now. Never knew anyone who wrestled greco though.

    If women these days wrestle in college under freestyle I wonder if there’ll be a push to get a men’s league as well. Seems a little silly to be the only country that does non-olympic wrestling, or at least with a wrestling that’s pretty damn close to freestyle. I know plenty of other forms of wrestling exist (like ssireum, Mongolian wrestling, sumo, etc) but they’re at least not terribly close to the Olympics.

    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Oh I have no idea what college-level uses, or if its the same between mens and womens divisions. I assume it is, since women’s programs aren’t terribly widespread even now (frankly even men’s wrestling isn’t big at the college level, most schools don’t offer it at all in my experience). It makes sense I guess that it’s still folk, but I’d just assumed it was freestyle cuz the one college I looked at with a wrestling program was freestyle. Might have just been club activities though, this was decades back by now. But yeah I also found it rather odd that we set ourselves up for failure that way.

      I had a friend who did greco for a while, huge tank of a dude. Fun to watch but never wanted to try myself.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I was just surprised because the wikipedia freestyle wrestling article mentioned that the WCWA wrestled freestyle. As far as I can see the men’s divisions still wrestle folk. I think wrestling popularity in general is regional though. I wrestled in a small division and we had to travel pretty far to get to tournaments all the time, but the NCAA is pretty huge and wrestling at least in the midwest is massive I think.