This clip is taken from the Joe Rogan Experience #1594 with Yannis Pappas. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1au5C4Mj2Gh9RzRD2c92kV?si=XLSq5rJpT3ivyMvXG502Tw
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This clip is taken from the Joe Rogan Experience #1594 with Yannis Pappas. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1au5C4Mj2Gh9RzRD2c92kV?si=XLSq5rJpT3ivyMvXG502Tw
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I belonged to a poorly funded inner city public HS collegiate team in the mid 70's. We were so poor in my freshman season, I shared wrestling shoes with my teammate. But what we lacked in funding we made up for in leadership and talent. These two factors led up to our team winning the public school league championship in my second season and I earned my own pair of shoes. It was a magical time in all our young lives.
Since then, individual members of that championship team have gone through so many challenges. Everything from fratricide to depression, homelessness and cancer diagnosis. But no matter how bad things got, things that would have devastated other men, my former teammates found a way to make the best of their challenges. If not overcoming, learning to live and still function with them.
I attribute this to the mental toughness we earned out there in the wrestlers circle.
There is no sport quite like amateur wrestling.
My sons are wrestlers. By far the Greatest Sport. Once you know what is going on it is so thrilling. My youngest at the Christmas Knockout tournament had a match with an athlete. Up 3 to 2 and his competition was trying to set up the blast double all match. He can not find the opening, but they both go for it, face to face you could hear it, dang! Then they reset and both go for it again, but louder this time and my son pushes through and gets the take down.
I am like you alright and his response is, “if you going to wrestle in College you have to be willing to put your face into it.”
I thought I was tough.
Those who challenge the thought of wrestling being the toughest sport…
Miss just one meal, see how you feel, then we’ll talk. 😏
Lol yanni sitting down with a crazy wrestler … so innocent
I was just an average high-school wrestler but, man… the mental toughness it fostered in me is a trait that can't be measured in gold or fame.
I've quit coke, booze, nicotine, and degenerate levels of obesity cold turkey simply because I woke up one day and said "I don't want to do this anymore" and completely stopped.
Wrestling cemented in me that, as long as I never give up and stay in the fight, I can find a way to turn things around in my favor.