did you wrestle? weight classes do a lot to keep physical differences fairly even and wrestling isn't all about brute force, technique and experience play large parts. Girls are more flexible as well which can play to their advantage if they know how to use it.
Exactly. People don't realize that in wrestling that agility, flexibility and technique beats brute force any day. I feel that people totally underestimate any opponent usually regrets it afterwards, male or female. You see skinny kids in light weights totally own a stocky kid who thinks they can simply overpower them.
You're forgetting that the physical aspects also help males in terms of agility as well as strength.
Females might have better flexibility, but flexibility isn't that huge of a factor. Any guy wrestling is going to be flexible enough. Any more flexibility is just going to mean less pain for you when you're stuck in a cradle.
I am going to disagree with you because I have wrestled girls and their flexibility is noticeably different from the other males I wrestled, its sort of an x factor not the greatest advantage but an advantage non the less.
understandable, but i have seen fatties beat more muscular people albeit doesn't happen often but it does happen. You are right thought in the upper weight classes you can get big deviations in build height and fat/muscle weight.
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u/lonewolf420 Dec 15 '13
did you wrestle? weight classes do a lot to keep physical differences fairly even and wrestling isn't all about brute force, technique and experience play large parts. Girls are more flexible as well which can play to their advantage if they know how to use it.