Originally posted by j_hrisc_ennings:
Freestyle is really good practice. Greco is trash because it teaches you to throw, and rarely are throwers any good in high school and beyond. Freestyle gives you technique and you can be good at freestyle using folkstyle moves. You don't have to know all the freestyle rules to do good in tournaments. Besides, the mat time is what causes the most improvement, not the style of wrestling.
someone obviously didn't wrestle much greco...cause if you did you would know that greco is also very good...it teaches you to use your hips a lot and last I remember, hips were a big thing in wrestling...it also teaches you position and other various things...
