This is one of the best stories ever told. I’ve watched this over 10 times

I love old wrestling stories. This is one of the best. And Sanders locked in the sauna! Insane!

"Coach! I didn't eat nothing yet." Unless you've cut weight like Barry, you just can't relate. I remember having dreams of donuts while cutting weight. The mental aspects of wrestling can prepare you for ANYTHING in life.

@davestuddaman8127

3 жыл бұрын

I used to get high off of weight cutting 😆

@bobklein1665

3 жыл бұрын

@@davestuddaman8127 I had teammates that would put their finger down their throat after eating a big Mac just so they could have the enjoyment of eating a big Mac,,, they would vomit it up 🤢 just sickening

@bobklein1665

3 жыл бұрын

Coach Jesse James in high school should have taught you better,,, Barry 😂

@pocketssmith5933

3 жыл бұрын

I remember not being able to sleep a wink while cutting

@rustygray5058

Жыл бұрын

@@pocketssmith5933 The last night before a weigh in, I always took some tylenol pm. Not only is my body railing at me for food, but I'm sore, I'm super dehyrated, and I'm also like a kid on christmas eve, too excited to sleep because I've got a tourney tomorrow.

“He’s on the floor sucking air through the crack.” That got me. 😂

I was at the University of Iowa at the time and remember this story clearly. It was so big at the time in Iowa, that it was in Sports Illustrated later.

The key is a routine. Such wisdom.

Gable seems like a fun guy to be around

This video triggers my PTSD with laughter & tears... only without the Conference & National Titles of course.

This is my most favorite of Barry's stories.

@toddhensley2204

3 жыл бұрын

Is this Barry Davis? Barry beat a friend of mine at state some years ago when Barry was a senior and my buddy was a sophomore.My friend was probably the best wrestler in the state at the time, however, he was in the same weight class as Davis. Davis was pound for pound the best in the country at that time.

Love this content, thanks flow!

back in '70's - - - a big upper weight Cuban American guy from Chicago wrestled for Iowa, he got fed up and walked away just before national's, Gable basically sent army navy marines and US air force to find him, got him back to Iowa, few weeks later he wins NCAA's, read recently he became huge success in business and life.

@Nogi1987

3 жыл бұрын

What was his name?

@natebook

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nogi1987 Frank Santana?

@natebook

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nogi1987 But he didn't wrestle for Gable though so maybe someone else

I was his workout partner and a hard cut. A couple tournaments he’d move up to 126 so I could get in.

It was amazing that he was able to wrestle at all.

This done need 1mil views . All the wrestling family understands everything.

What a great story from a great story-teller. Incredibly fun to listen to.

Gotta love Barry

Weight cutting math is like Einstein writing on the chalkboard hahaha if you know you know lmao

“Oh s*** ! The whole team is after me!”

I could have sworn he told the same story, but that Gable made Barry get out and run alongside the van to make weight. Was that a separate incident?

Dan Gable to CIA: I’m looking for Barry Davis. CIA: Who is this and who the hell is Barry Davis? Phone Hangs up.

@skeletonshorror5184

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaahah

So Barry Davis said his only opponent was the scale, if he makes weight the matches are easy and he wins nationals. But imagine your Ralph average NCAA wrestler, you kill yourself to make weight, the lose most the time, travel half way across USA for NCAA,s, kill yourself ot make weight but lost 2 matches and go home, zero recognition and that's it. Brutal

@johnjay6370

2 жыл бұрын

I have a story of a guy who tried out for the Navy Seals that told me Wrestling practice was hands down harder, a medical condition was the reason he did not make it, but not because he could not get through the training! Wrestling at that level (NCAA) is one of the hardest physical challenges anyone can do in the world. I am sure most wrestlers at that level have a successful life and I am sure it has a lot to do with the physical and mental toughness they got from those practices. I wrestled a bit in HS, but it was not for me, I can say Football practice was a cake walk compared to wrestling practice. Football practice doing 2 a days in the middle of summer is nothing compared to wrestling practice...

@adudeuknow

Жыл бұрын

@@johnjay6370 as a ex division 1 wrestler i can tell you with absolute certainty this is accurate. i don't know if all programs are the same but the more well known ones are. i would tell people in life about the workouts and they literally labeled me a complete bull-shitter. hardly anyone believed me. i was a heavyweight that weighed around 255 and that was at like 14% body fat. a average afternoon practice for me saw me lose 10-12 lbs. we had dummies on the wall we would practice shooting on. we used to have a garbage can right there next to us so that we could just vomit without having to really stop working out. we would be going very very hard just taking shots but you'd get yourself into this mental state where even though you were going incredibly hard you'd get this nice rhythm that your body would get used to. coach would just wait for it and start with the little digs so then we would find ourselves taking it up to this next level and wouldn't stop until our body's failed. i used to love 1 mile runs on the track with a 55lb dumbbell in each hand. if we dropped a weight, the 1 mile started over from zero. i hated that more than anything. it would always end up being a 6 mile run at least. lol. i tell you what though, my grip was so freakish at one point i could crush an apple in my hand. i used to also grab opponents by the wrist while we were hand fighting in neutral and just not let go. some wrestlers would get so focused on trying to free their wrists they'd open themselves up for a shot. injury cut everything short for me and i miss it every day. i am almost 40 and cant make it 5 minutes without the sport on my brain.

@johnjay6370

Жыл бұрын

@@adudeuknow thanks for sharing!! I also bet you are doing well for yourself too!

@adudeuknow

Жыл бұрын

@@johnjay6370 you bet! quite well. wrestling no matter what level makes you into a different breed of person. usually the successful variety as you said.

God I was always ten over day before as well. Hell. He describes it exactly how it's done as well. Lose a couple, drink, lose a couple, drink. Yuuup. God. I feel like a veteran here nodding my head at his war stories about the mental battle about being ten over CONSTANTLY. If you fidget with your routine when you're always ten over... you're fucked. The dry heaving , yep. Man. This guy knows the struggle. Loved listening to this.

God damn this sport was insane back in the day

Enjoyed this story. Go Hawkeyes!

I note that Gable speaks in a very similar way. Is it a regional accent?

@davestuddaman8127

3 жыл бұрын

Iowan

Ahh Barry is so cute and cuddly. Let's hear his same old Gable stories 100x.

This is wrestling!

Kind of weird that Gable has so many of his athletes go awol.

@evciachic

3 жыл бұрын

being the best in the country is quite a bit of pressure. and it sounds like gable did everything he could to help his athletes. It would be weird if no one ever tried to buck that kind of pressure.

@justinbt

3 жыл бұрын

Not weird. Just filtering out the weaker ones.

The thing that got me was that Lou Banach did the same thing a couple years before this???!

Hy Vee babaaaaaay!

Cutting weight for wrestlers is abuse. Unhealthy, malnourishment, sometimes lifetime health damage. Should not be allowed.

@Astrobrant2

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the abuses were rampant. That's why they instituted weight certification in high schools as early as 1977. It wasn't until 1997, after three college wrestlers died from cutting too much weight, that the NCAA instituted minimum weight rules. Abuses were also common in youth age-weight rec football many years ago, and those often brutal weight-cutting practices became regulated and prohibited. I think it was unforgiveable for coaches and parents to put 11-13-year-old kids through that torture -- especially considering that those are some of the most rapid-growth years.

Omg bwahahahahaha

Locking that guy in the sauna? What a horrible thing. So glad these archaic weight cutting methods are gone.

@areshotrod6395

3 жыл бұрын

Haha you have 0 clue huh

@SirScubaSlice

3 жыл бұрын

Seems to be that all of your flowrestling comments are small minded to say the least, anywho, all of my teammates have sauna suits and an extra one for cutting. Nothing has changed besides a bs hydration piss test that we got by also. It’s a beautiful sport you don’t seem to understand, have a great day!

@jasonmiller9495

2 жыл бұрын

Our coaches in High School used to do so of these same tactics. Wrestling room was at a constant 110 degrees . The normal student would walk in and immediately run right back out. The insane ones stayed and voluntarily starved themselves while non stop performing insane cardio and live wrestling drills just to hopefully win your match on Wednesday and Saturday night