What If USA Switched To Only Freestyle?

To give you a better understanding of this blog you first must understand something. In the USA all wrestling from junior league to college is a style of wrestling called folkstyle. Folkstyle is a combination of both Olympic style wrestling called freestyle and Greco-Roman. You only train freestyle in the summer in the U.S. so it gives us a huge disadvantage when we go to international competition. With the USA team still does well and always is near the top. If we were to train only freestyle and Greco-Roman we would be one of the most unstoppable forces to compete. Seeing that we only train freestyle for half the year as kids if you are even wrestling year-round and we still come near the top, I think there is no question we would always be at the top. 


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