I'm not going to agree with everything Gutwrench said, but I think he makes a good point about KS kids needing to improve on their feet. I did OK in high school, but I'm embarassed to look back at tapes of high school matches. My stance was terrible, my shots were average at best, and I basically only had 1 set-up. But as ugly as it was, it worked for high school.

Then you get to college, and realize how hard it really is to take down a quality opponent. I guess that's where my earlier comment came from about the sportsmanship of the takedown & let him/her up mentality -- because I was on the wrong side of that a couple of times in college. My most humiliating loss ever was 21-7. If this guy could have just convinced himself that he could turn me, we could have had a respectable 4-2 match. But NO, he had to put on a takedown clinic. In hindsight, this was probably the best thing that ever happened to me in college.

I still don't like kids who take someone down and let them up if they are doing it to a clearly inferior opponent. But if you can do it to a good opponent, then more power to you. It is a lot more fun to watch 2 quality wrestlers on their feet than in any other position (in my opinion anyway).