There are similarities and differences among the three disciplines.

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“There were so many matches and medals this weekend, it would be impossible to summarize them all,” Hass said. “Seventh-grader Ngai Kivalu with a bronze and two gold medals in the 14U girls division after only starting wrestling five months ago. Andrew Erickson who had an amazingly difficult bracket, but walked away with two bronze and a silver. The extra work Jed Davis has been putting in all season was rewarded with two golds and a bronze. And the whole team of 14U and 16U girls that are plowing ahead and beginning to make a name for the Juneau girls wrestling team. And its hard to forget the match Alex Marx-Beierly had beating high school state champ Tristan Mayer and Hendrick Van Kirk, competing at 126 pounds, made the finals all three days.”


Folkstyle and freestyle allow leg attacks, but the country wise email marketing list American folkstyle system rewards control and freestyle rewards execution. Freestyle wrestling is just that: a free style of wrestling. Points come faster and matches often end quicker. Folkstyle won’t have as many throws since referees will stop any potentially dangerous moves. Greco-Roman, as mentioned above, only allows attacks above the waist, which often leads to spectacular throws. This can also lead to low-scoring matches since attacks are limited to half of the body. Scoring, lengths and numbers of periods also differ in the three disciplines at various levels.

“Each wrestling style has its own unique feel, nuances, and difficulties,” Hass said. “Folkstyle is the most common style in America and the style that is practiced in school programs…it is often the most physically demanding as a match can last up to six minutes with no breaks. Greco Roman wrestling is unique in that you cannot attack or use legs to score and it rewards throws of ‘grand amplitude’ (an opponent being lifted completely off the ground, controlled, and thrown in a sweeping curve, landing in a direct and immediate danger position of being pinned). Thus, wrestlers that are more apt at upper body often find success in Greco Roman. Freestyle is the most common international style of wrestling. In the USA most of the high level collegiate wrestlers go onto careers in freestyle wrestling with aspirations of making the world or Olympic stage. Freestyle is fast paced and rewards offensive action. This can be a struggle for a defensive minded wrestler, and with points scoring so quickly a match can be over in the blink of an eye.”