Cayden will pin if he is the best wrestler at parkside

@Iliketopwaterfishing

9 ай бұрын

He actually pinned it

@trilokh3956

9 ай бұрын

​@@IliketopwaterfishingI can see that buddy

@elileggett1640

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully he pins his opponent next

@Iliketopwaterfishing

9 ай бұрын

@@elileggett1640 nice one

@Iliketopwaterfishing

8 ай бұрын

@EverythingYouCanThink_Of yes

1000x better than devoting your life to impressing a coach so he hands you a starting spot, fairest tryout in all of sports.

@CaydenHenschel

8 ай бұрын

True

@mikekrasovec6390

8 ай бұрын

In timed events such as track and field, swimming, speed skating or cycling time trials performance is easily objectively measured. This would also apply to high jump, long jump, shot put or weight lifting.

@TobyH.

7 ай бұрын

Not always, dude. I've seen coaches start the guy who LOST the ranking match because he thinks the guy who lost matches up better in tournaments. Tom Brands has done it, for sure, back in the Clark/Gilman era.

@TobyH.

7 ай бұрын

Not always, dude. I've seen coaches start the guy who LOST the ranking match because he thinks the guy who lost matches up better in tournaments. Tom Brands has done it, for sure, back in the Clark/Gilman era.

@esijs4253

7 ай бұрын

😊

I like them because it’s more equitable, if you’ve ever lost a starting spot in another sport, it can often feel really unfair

@CaydenHenschel

9 ай бұрын

True, I would say who places higher at tournaments should start in most occasions

@scal7122

9 ай бұрын

This is so true thisnis why i liked wrestling better than football ive seen senior teammates lose spots politically on the football team to younger guys

@kman9884

9 ай бұрын

@@scal7122If you’re not in the coach’s class or your parent isn’t a booster, you’re basically fucked.

@_Zephster

9 ай бұрын

​@scal7122 in my football team we are 3-7 and our coaches still start freshmen because they like them

@ucckyop2913

9 ай бұрын

@@CaydenHenschelyea true styles make match ups but I always liked dawging my teammate cuz I knew what he was gonna do lmao

It’s what makes the sport pure… in other sports other players can start over you just bc of the coach… in this amazing sport the better man starts every time.

Bro my softmore year I had 7 wrestle offs. 2 of them I was sick for (still won). I can definitely say it is very stressful to have a wrestle off against someone you know (also if you lose word spreads quickly around school and you just feel terrible about losing)

@mandom9697

9 ай бұрын

Damn. I better not lose this year

@Haragakiza

9 ай бұрын

@@mandom9697you got this

@user-xl1pc2nu5t

9 ай бұрын

You could just for-fit that’s what our guy did

@atheist6997

9 ай бұрын

​@@user-xl1pc2nu5tthat's worse than losing

@brika856

9 ай бұрын

Sophomore

For real, I have wrestle offs for varsity tomorrow

@Jace_0B

9 ай бұрын

I had mine last week

@adamfischer8744

9 ай бұрын

Good luck man and remeber don't think just wrestle even if you don't win still wrestle good

@Jace_0B

9 ай бұрын

@@adamfischer8744 ya fr tho

@Patricktheluchador

9 ай бұрын

Best of luck to you!

@oliverstoltze7055

9 ай бұрын

Nice did u win

I’m my high school, I have to compete for 138 against 3 other people so you know the heat is up. Good thing I watch Cayden’s wrestling matches and I take good note so maybe I make varsity….

@FatherMullet

8 ай бұрын

Maybe? Then you've already lost, my friend. I feel you definitely WILL. Much love and good luck!! It'll be the best thing you've ever done in hindsight. 💪🏾

@slumery

7 ай бұрын

138 is a tough ass weight. Best of luck.

So stressful. The whole day I am nervous

@shawncrain8401

8 ай бұрын

I used to be nervous starting the weekend before I hated that about wrestling and only wrestled so I didn’t even know if other sports were as nerve wracking as it, It would weirdly dissapear once it started though 😂😂😂😂

Flashback in the late October of 2023

I have never wrestled professionally, but we Afghans have a tradition of wrestling. So when me and my brother wrestle it’s always very close battle a one sided game. Because we know each other that well.

i was up in my wrestle off then i got hurt and lost my varsity spot. dude that “beat” me lost all 5 matches at our invite saturday😭

@Dantheman2634

7 ай бұрын

What state was this?

i have my first college wrestle off/ challenge tomorrow 😬 Update it did not go all to well 😭 had to wrestle a 30 year old man for 126 while i’m 120 soaking wet💀💀 all good tho we about bounce back

@sirjacobsofunitedkingdom6845

9 ай бұрын

Good job and good luck

@mockdr

8 ай бұрын

Nah why is a 30 year old wrestling college kids

@nobelwarprize

8 ай бұрын

@@mockdrsounds like he had eligibility. It happens in college football all the time, some 30 year old walk on will make the team.

@TstanDa-Man

8 ай бұрын

@@mockdrcollege isn’t just for kids. You will learn that when your not a kid

Stressful, but it is the most fundamental part of wrestling and the lessons it teaches. Everyday is a fight for your right to battle.

The biggest battles that aren't ever seen by anyone but fellow team mates.

I lost every wrestle off. These guys were my buds and I rooted for them. When I was in the lineup I always crushed it, but in front of my teammates, I just didn’t have that same killer attitude.

I feel that it really sucks when you gotta wrestle off against your friend that you've known forever

Love your content dude! Just had my very first match today.

So it’s not just me that thought this way. It’s always never wrecking for wrestler offs even though you could be the best in the weight class. And that kinda makes it more nervous cause now everyone expects you to win

Wrestle offs are one of the truly great things about the sport. No coach chooses the lineup, no politics. If you win, you’re in that’s that

My coach was of the mindset that no spot was safe. So before big dual meets, we would always have everybody wrestle off for their spot, regardless if you’re a senior or freshman he only put in the best wrestler in the weight, didn’t care about seniority.

Wrestling teammates is what made my little man who he was! 9 yrs old 61lbs. Always wrestled 12 yr old 80 plus lbs. When I taught him it was just a number, he cleaned the matt with about all his opponents. Finished 28 & 4 his 1st yr. Was headed to finals and broke his nose. Had to forfeit. This is always recommended in my eyes. Win or lose, if you're coached right, you win even when ya don't 💪how do you beat the best if you don't wrestle the best? Sometimes the best is on your own team😁

As a freshman in high school I beat the 4 year starter who was sectional and regional champion by a score of 3-2 and he was so upset. I hated it for him but I had to get mine.

My Freashmen year there were 8 in my class to get thru to earn my varsity spot. I hated them that year too!

Had to do a wrestle off with a teammate for his weight class for our next meet. Guy had wrestled since he was 8...me 1 year. My obly real advatage was my strength at that age was insane for my size and weight. He got frustrated and decided when i pulled a nasty switch on him that he was gonna throw an elbow back and nailed me right in the nose.....facemask for the remainder of the season. HATED IT!

i feel that it was always rough fighting for your spot every week luckily i was always the only one on my team at 138 i just always wanted that 132 spot

It’s the worst when you are new to wrestling because you might only know a few good moves. But against an experienced teammate they can try new things on you.

I did lots of wrestle-offs back in the late 70's. After a while I focused on beating people up so bad that they didn't want to so it anymore. I'd win a match about 48-15 as we had 8 min. matches & no tech falls back then. I sent one guy to the hospital, so the campus was wondering what happened in the wrestling room.

We had wrestle off and a guy got pinned but still got the spot. The entire team was pissed at coach. Day of district championships the guy intentionally missed weight and we lost by 2 points 😂

THANK YOU ❤ because you make me a better wrestler and when I copy off one of your moves on your videos He was so proud of me. ❤❤❤❤

@CaydenHenschel

9 ай бұрын

Awesome!

Same Here I don’t like the fact that you have to wrestle someone you know for a position

I loved wrestling my teammates, but it was difficult to be serious because you know each other too well.

Wrestle offs are so necessary for so many reasons. A few of Which you pointed out here. When you get to the highest level you’re going to have the book on your opponent and vice Versa, you have to find a way to win. That’s #WrestleLife

Same it’s fun for me at start but then you relize they know all your moves

did one once and the ref was the kids dad.

The only reason I hate them is because if they are a someone I’m close with, I’m just gonna be playing around with them.

@TstanDa-Man

8 ай бұрын

You should save that for the bedroom 😉😂

I’m love all wrestle offs, wrestle the person who you are going to beat next.

When I was in high school, I wrestled heavy weight. The wrestler that was a grade above me was a three time state champion and later a collegiate all american. I looked at my wrestleoff, not because I wanted his starting spot, but more I wanted to see how far away I am. Year 1: Pinned in the 3rd period. Year 2: Challenged Twice. PInned the first time. Major decision. Year 3: Maj Decision and Decision. My senior year I tore my hamstring. I was better than the other person in my grade, but my hamstring was a huge liability. I didn't challenge the spot due to that. I would have been the starter if healthy. I beat this guy in ever wrestle off since 7th grade.

I wrestled on a State Championship team, in fact we were ranked #10 in the nation. Wrestle offs determined who started. Our B team would have placed in state alone.

@TobyH.

7 ай бұрын

I was an all state wrestler in HS. I only lost to 3 guys my Sr year, and one of them was a "B" team kid from Ponca City. He beat me in a close match. I felt terrible until I saw that the kid who started ahead of him was a 2 time state champion (and indeed became a 3 time state champ after that year). That "B" team kid also wrestled HWT sometimes (as a 190 pounder) and only lost to the 4A state champ 4-3. He was "B" team, but he was legitimately probably the second best guy in the state at 190 that year.

I’ve never had to wrestle my own teammate before, I was tempted to once in a mix and match but didn’t want to get killed by the coaches

Like I always tell myself there is no friends on the mat

High school wrestling just started, I’m probably going to have to wrestle my own brother for the heavyweight varsity spot (he’s better then me.)

When I wrestled D2 our program (Wheeling Jesuit) only did wrestle offs when both wrestlers were putting similar performances in competitions. It was rare for us to have wrestle offs.

We always ran them the night before. Never had any one challenge me for mine but had a couple upsets that screwed us at the meet after.

Always the hardest matches

A wrestle off is when I hurt my shoulder and ended my wrestling career 26-0

You and your teammate knowing what the other is going to do is exactly why it is so good for a warmup. You can't get away with any surprises, you can only rely on skill to get the better of them (so long as they're adjusting). And that's because you and your teammate will poke at each other's flaws until they are adjusted. I know it isn't the same as an actual match where you need to feel out your opponent, you don't know their style and strategy, but it is still great for improving.

I was fortunate enough to only ever have to put up with one wrestle off, and thankfully I was still able to start Varsity

I hated them to brotha, but at the end of the day when it came to varsity spots I wasn’t gonna let them get it back so I always preformed moves I never showed in practice and it worked half the time lmao

me too…I got thrown out of a tournament for setting up a “wwe” match w my teammate

We literally have our red versus gray today, which is where we go against the person in our weight class

See this was my favorite time of year, only lost once. I imagine had I been able to wrestle past freshman year at college I would've lost a few more tho....

We had one friday but my teammate got 3 flags for locking his hands because he had just got done doing freestyle and i had to give him a reminder of what folkstyle is so i got that toss

We always did it during practice never at any tournaments or duels

Nerves get worse when you lose the practice match

I went to my schools open wrestling ( where anyone can come in to have fun and try wrestling) I’ve never wrestled before and damn, it hard af

I personally don’t think that because it is showing who is the superior wrestler and who deserves that spot

I am 9 and I love wrestling I think I started when I was 4k

I have to wrestle off for varsity and I am dreading it.

@christianterraes8334

8 ай бұрын

Ça va bien se passer...

I hated my couch . I was made to go against three other guys before I could go for the starter . One right after the other . So by the time I got to the fourth guy I was done .

Fact of the matter is, teammates know who is better and what happens in the mat room

What he said is all true but when everybody’s off-season, that’s when you’re still wrestling, that’s how you beat him

A kid always wanted to take my spot and we would wrestle off countless of times back in highschool but he could never beat me. I always had his number I guess. Problem was that kid could beat anybody but me lol I only made it to regionals and he made it to state. Deep down I know my coach was frustrated asf but he was a firm believer on having to earn the spot. Sometimes you just have someone’s number in your back pocket lol

The entire point is that you know all their moves, thats why its a good measure of who is better.

Same lost my spot that I had all season because someone came down

we have #1,#2,and #3 in the state all at 113 lol. Feel bad for the #2 and #3 becasue they cant even wrestle up since we have the #1 in state at 120, 126, 132, and 138 lol. wrestle off are nutty each week though

Freshman year I had to wrestle off a senior I was better than him. The week before the wrestle off I was so nervous. I would be in school and couldnt focus. Every night before bed I wouldn’t be able to sleep. When the day came to wrestle off I lost. I was so nervous it took so much out of me.

Those sucked, I’d mess around and lose in a wrestle off to somebody but beat them in a tournament or going live

There are no real teammates in the room.

I loved clobbering my teammates :D Every time one ate too much and ended up in my weight class they paid the price :D

When you decide to go up or down a weight class because theyre vacant. We had 2 220s and i wanted my friend to wrestle 220 cuz i was stronger and can handle a 265 pound mate

Yeah kinda makes me feel bad. I had wrestle offs with the same person for 4yrs in high school, and I beat him every time. I almost just let him win my junior year because I could see the disappointment but idk the competitiveness side of me couldn’t let it happen.

Me and my friend are 1 pound apart and ALWAYS wrestle each other

Thanks again for this hot content lol

I haven’t wrestled but im pretty sure coaches do this so you have to use different tactics than what your used too doing with other opponents, so your ready for any opponent no matter what. Thats my opinion but I don’t know

funny when they talk trash waiting for wrestling season then stick them in like 2 seconds in front of everyone who thought they had varsity in the bag

I’m always out of breath and it feels like I’m doing it wrong and I never get it right when they tell me what to do, I switched partners so many times because I think they gave up on me

Man I just had to do that at the Veterans Day showcase but I ended up winning in the finals against him

just had my first match today, and it was way easier than when we do wrestle offs. but who knows maybe it was a beginners luck type of thing

The fact Ryan met Jesse Lee Peterson is the greatest thing to ever happen in YMH history

I just lost my second string spot on a middle school team because I wrestle the kid so much...Goodbye regionals

How about showing up to an open event and wrestling the guy you have to wrestle with for a starting position.

almost like match energy or more if you're the underdog

I was undefeated in wrestleoffs.

I never liked them because I had them after I ran a 5k in about 16 minutes. Coach would never tell us when…I heard later my opponent was tipped off. Anyways I lost and couldn’t get retry for about 8 weeks

@thatgui88

7 ай бұрын

That happened to me but I still beat my guy haha.

I was on such a small team i never had to do this.

Wrestled off my teammate for v spot one time and he had never scored on me, I taught him a move that he asked me to teach him and during that wrestle off he hit me with it got turn points and ended up stalling for the win

Just don't pull out every move in your arsenal during practice

That's why I lost my first was because it was at the end of practice

Cayden what’s your teammates wrestling shoes called?

I love them because i am bad at reading my enemy and my trainingpartner always does the same moves

Would you prefer a coin toss? Me neither

yk it's difficult that's why it's important

Got wrestle offs in 2 hours I hate them too but you got to do them

I was never able to have stuff like this I was my school's only heavyweight

True I also hate them too but whoever is better is whoever is better

They aren’t bad. It’s good to reaffirm why you’re at the top.

Hey man, do you have advice for a wrestler who is dealing with chronic back pain? I havent wrestled since january because of it, it also causes minor mobility issues like tight hips.

I wrestled backin the mid 90’s we did wrestle offs before every match. Is it still like that?? For non wrestlers that is like you have tryouts for Varsity Basketball and you make the team and after the first game the have tryouts for the varsity team again and that happens before every basketball game lol.

Dude I get it we all hate them as well

I love them I barely won mines 5-4 last time I did 1