That dropping down to get a locked hands call...
- Thread starter hawknut
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Shouldn't put yourself in that situation. Meyer showed some of the worst mat awareness I have ever seen during that match. Not only the locked hands but he kept working for a reversal when he could have easily gotten the escape. It cost him about 3 minutes of the match. Take the 1 point and get some takedowns! He was playing into the other kids strengths by rolling around with him.
Looked like a couple little kids out there trading reversals rolling around. I was hoping we were going to cut him in the third when we were on top.
That would have made too much sense, classic case of expecting a different outcome from doing the same thing. It should have been apparent by then that riding/rolling with the guy was a 50/50 proposition. Meyer won a lot of close matches flopping around on the mat this year, he got burned this time.
When the wrestlers get themselves in that position (I won't describe it), the other teams coach is telling his wrestler to drop purposely to get locked hands. It's happened more than once. It's now a little trick they use. Heck, Brown won a title with it, although a different version. But, we never catch on, and we never do it ourselves. If he just gives up escape and not locked hands, it's overtime. maybe I am just being bitchy about a crappy match. Even though he is not wrestling well, if he wins that match (that with any strategy, he could have won) he has a legitimate path to AA.
