!! www.WrestlingUSA.com April 15, 2015 VOL. L, NO. 9 $5.00 50th Anniversary Editor-In-Chief LANNY BRYANT WRESTLING USA MAGAZINE Order of Merit National Wrestling Hall of Fame LETTER FROM THE EDITOR AAU National Wrestling Hall of Fame Managing Editor Ohio State Wins It’s First Ever CODY BRYANT Championship in Wrestling Assistant Editor By Cody Bryant, Managing Editor ANN BRYANT National Editor hio State used the strength of two champions (three finalists) and two addi- DAN FICKEL tional All-Americans to out distance second place Iowa by 18 points to win National Photographer their first NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship with 102 points. An WYATT SCHULTZ all-time attendance record over six sessions of 113,013 fans watched as Contributing Editor Ohio State forged three wrestlers into the finals during Friday night semi- BILL WELKER Ofinal matches to outdistance Iowa, Edinboro, Missouri and Cornell. 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Magazine - April 15, 2015 page 3 WRESTLINGTABLE ofUSA Contents MAGAZINE April 15, 2015 VOL. L, NO. 9 THE NATIONAL VOICE OF HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING LETTER FROM THE EDITOR HIGH SCHOOL ACTION 3 Ohio State Wins Its First Ever 18 2014-2015 Sophomore and Freshmen Championship in Wrestling Rankings By Cody Bryant, Managing Editor By Dan Fickel, National Editor WRESTLING STRENGTH WRESTLER PROFILE 6 Should You Train to Muscular Fatigue? 26 No Limitations for Indiana Native By Matt Brzycki Michael Fetters By Rich Torres MAT MUSES 10 ... on the Trials of Being a Wrestling COACHES CORNER Official 30 Coach Brian Smith of Missouri on By Dr. Bill Welker Tiger Style By Eddie Goldman TOP TECHNIQUE 16 Underhook Pull to Double-Leg By Alec Ortiz Wisconsin - 285 lbs. Skyler Kurt (Lodi) executing a head outside lift on his 2015 NCWA National Championships - 141 lbs. Ryan Diehl (Liberty) in on opponent from Beloit Turner in the WIAA Sectional Tournament. Photo by a single leg takedown on Alexis Martinez (Glendale CC). Diehl won by Doreen Reinwand. technical fall 16-0 in this semi-final match. Photo by Sam Janicki. page 4 April 15, 2015 - Wrestling U.S.A. Magazine WRESTLING Strength Should You Train to Muscular Fatigue? By Matt Brzycki t was Sunday, January 7, 1996. I was one of six pan- methodologies – which actually dated back to the mid- elists who participated in a roundtable discussion 1970s – created a great deal of hostility within the strength- during the National Strength and Conditioning coaching community; most of the time, the two camps got Association (NSCA) Strength and Conditioning along about as well as the Arabs and Israelis. And the ten- ConferenceI for Football that was held in New Orleans. The sion was evident at the conference. NSCA had intentionally set up the roundtable as an “us As a side note, the northeast was on the verge of getting versus them” debate with the six panelists falling into one clobbered by “The Blizzard of the Century” which eventu- of two camps, even going so far as to sit the two camps at ally dumped more than 30 inches of snow on Philadelphia, separate tables. Essentially, one side favored the training shutting down a good chunk of Pennsylvania – which methodologies that were promoted by the NSCA and one included the airport into which I was flying – and strand- side opposed those methodologies. ing me for two extra days in a place that consistently ranks Nowadays, many strength coaches administer hybrid among the annual leaders in murders per capita of any programs which are a mix of more than one training major city in the United States. But I digress. methodology. This is really a smart move since being Near the end of the roundtable discussion, one of the labeled as a card-carrying member of one camp or another pro-NSCA panelists made this comment (or words to the often impacts employment opportunities and job security. effect): “Training your athletes to [muscular] failure is But in the 1990s and earlier, the vast majority of strength teaching them to fail.” I must admit, this was a very clever coaches were purists; for the most part, they sided with use of words.