At NLWC, who is all there to train at 97KG? I know 86kg is loaded with Brooks, Nickal and Taylor, but who is exclusively training at 97kg?
97KG Training partners
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Two Olympic Gold Medalists, one as coach, one as athlete. And Riley Lefever, I think too. Bo dabbled there, but decided on 86 (smart, I think).
I think it was Varner as a training partner--and Cael & Casey as coach that attracted him.
Yea Varner is interesting because he is probably the closest upperweight that has elite defense like J'den.
Very few American upperweights have really elite defensive skills like the Russians.
My defensive skills must be pretty elite also, because Snyder has never taken me down. And if I have anything to say about it - he never will.
Rumor has it that Cael is still the king of the mountain. (ie he can still beat everyone in the room, both NLWC and Penn State)
Cassar being a smaller Hwt in weight not strength was there to train with when not injured also.
I believe it for the play wrestling they favor. But I have a hard time seeing his endurance anywhere near say DT or Snyder’s level at this point in time. No knocks on the guy—he just has different priorities right now.
I would think cael could still win a go here and there but if snyder cant beat cael, hes got problems coming up.
Snyder has said that Cael is still really good and pushes him. I think you hit on the difference, Cael is not training to be world class so his endurance is not there. Probably what that means is Cael is still really good for the first period. But when you have a tag team of Cael Sanderson and Jake Varner to train with, you don't need much else.
This is probably correct. Cael doesn't have the gas tank to have a 6 minute go with Snyder, but a minute or two while Jake takes a minute or two works.
A Cael - Jake tag team would probably still do very well in competition.
When Kyle first came to NLWC, he gave an interview and Stated that Varner as a training partner was one of the reason for the move.
I posted elsewhere, but does anyone know why Nick isn't competing this weekend? He qualified for trials at US Nats last year. Hope he is healthy....
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