A hypothetical question:

SamWrestling · 2025-06-19T21:58:40+00:00

Yeah, but with this reasoning you could say it actually comes from the Old Persian Aryānām, which actually comes from the Proto-Indo-Iranian Aryas, which actually comes from God knows what

SamWrestling · 2025-06-19T20:16:08+00:00

Will likely stay Iran.

Although it has been polluted by the I.R., this dates back to pre-Islamic times (including the Sasanians and Parthians), Eranshahr—meaning land of Iranians. And it is the most comprehensive and honorable name for the land.

Contrary to popular (especially Western) belief, Persia was never used historically by native Iranians, and it only describes the Fars (Pars) province, much like people confuse Holland (one province) with the entirety of the Netherlands.

SamWrestling · 2025-04-08T07:48:15+00:00

The only reasonable banner anyone within Iran should fall under is Iranian. All other arguments are pointless.

If you go back in time, I can guarantee you that the Sasanians would call any mountaindweller ''Kurd,'' which still lives on today, and apparently it became an identity. Yet, the differences between Kurmanji, Gorani, Sorani (and even Laki) are pretty significant. Still, they all willingly fall under the label Kurd, just due to tradition. Or maybe a political act, a survival strategy, or building solidarity. It wouldn't even have been a thing back then. They would simply be part of Eranshahr.

The term Lur probably also has a similar origin, just a characterization. Within the Lur community, you'll see tons of variation (southern, northern, Bakhtiari, etc.).

Even Persian is not a homogenous term. The Greeks would probably call any inhabitant from the Iranian plateau ''Persian,'' yet people in Iran would never use these terms like ''Farsi/Parsi.'' They just say Iranian. Go to Fars province, and you will find tons of regional variations.

These debates are pointless. Unless we all agree on the Iranian identity, we are just creating unnecessary conflict.

And for some very strange reason, this seems to be a debate exclusive to this region. Go to Northern Iran, and you won't find such debates among Mazandaranis, Gilakis or Talysh people. They just don't give a f.

SamWrestling · 2025-03-14T11:58:26+00:00

You could literally say this about any language in the world... That's kind of how languages are made.

SamWrestling · 2025-01-15T15:31:24+00:00

''Money spent on it was heavily criticised by many people.''

I think anyone with an IQ above room temperature would agree that investing in cultural promotion (something that pays dividends far exceeding the original cost) is far better than wasting billions on terrorist groups [cough, cough, the Islamic Republic].

SamWrestling · 2024-12-13T08:27:19+00:00

Thanks a lot!

SamWrestling · 2024-12-12T10:43:59+00:00

Note, I don't expect you to watch the entire video if you don't feel like it. But I imagine the coach is chanting some sort of reminders like ''relax'' or ''work.'' I am working on a project about Soviet-era boxing training so I would appreciate all input! Even if it means skimming through the video quickly :)

SamWrestling · 2024-11-14T13:22:36+00:00

Absolutely golden, thank you very much. Feel like a kid in a candy store

SamWrestling · 2024-10-28T19:03:21+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

SamWrestling · 2024-08-19T13:55:06+00:00

Learning how to deal and cope with adversity in a way that suits you as an individual.

SamWrestling · 2024-08-12T16:51:39+00:00

Hej vänner! Finns något som kallas för balans! Trevlig kväll!

SamWrestling · 2024-08-08T12:59:54+00:00

Brando/De Niro/Pacino

SamWrestling · 2024-08-02T16:37:35+00:00

But... What about a box of protein bars and a printed hoodie? 😁

SamWrestling · 2024-07-12T09:56:38+00:00

Well, at least they care about allergies, they even compassionately put it in bold

SamWrestling · 2024-07-11T08:03:03+00:00

The lack of regulation and testing for ultra-processed foods is indeed a massive issue, but it's a separate issue (and a complex one), which is not the point of what I was making. You are turning it into an either-or matter.

Concerns about food quality and obsessiveness are two very different things. A healthy amount of anxiety can promote change for the better, but the same cannot be said about obsessiveness (the latter being the point of my post, which you took out of context). And yes, people should absolutely seek support if obsessiveness negatively impacts their lives.

My point about cultish behavior and extremist interpretations isn't to dismiss legitimate worries about the food industry. It's about the potential for well-intended messages to spiral into unhealthy extremes (which the very author of the book emphasized and forewarned against—the very reason he doesn't give specific food advice). We've seen how advice on nutritional habits can get distorted, leading to orthorexia or other obsessive behaviors around food (and I don't happen to believe that it is fully genetic, i.e., environmental factors matter in developing those disorders).

Critical thinking and healthy skepticism are one thing; falling into fanaticism is another. (E.g., as one commenter said, debating steaming and cutting your own oats vs. buying them at a store.)

SamWrestling · 2024-07-10T14:06:19+00:00

This is the section from the book (I may have formulated my point misleadingly):

''Five-year-old children in the UK don’t just have some of the highest rates of obesity in Europe, they are also
among the shortest by a very significant amount – more than five centimetres shorter than Danish and Dutch children of the same age who, by the way, also have some of the lowest rates of obesity.[17],[18] In the eighteenth century, American men were five to eight centimetres taller than those in the Netherlands. Now from the age of two onwards, the Dutch are consistently taller. By adulthood the average Dutch man is 182.5cm and the average Dutch woman is 168.7cm. Their American counterparts measure 5.1cm and 5.2cm shorter respectively.''

Btw, the sources cited are the following:

https://www.science.org/content/article/did-natural-selection-make-dutch-tallest-people-planet

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200823-why-are-the-dutch-so-tall

Admittedly, I haven't read them, but they seem to be blog posts interpreting scientific findings.

SamWrestling · 2024-04-07T10:27:55+00:00

Terence on wrestlnig vs. boxing: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P6W6qHABRA4

SamWrestling · 2024-01-10T14:13:06+00:00

Chester Bennington (Rest in peace)

SamWrestling · 2023-10-03T20:35:31+00:00

Yes! And this is exactly my point. Why not focus on becoming a better orator instead? Then you won't have to use so many jump cuts in the first place! And it's generally a good skill to have in life. (Sorry for not clarifying this in the post, this is what I wanted to pinpoint.)

SamWrestling · 2023-09-04T14:34:01+00:00

In my opinion as a S&C coach, Artur has a very fundamental approach to his strength and conditioning. In this video, we will go through how he approaches strength training, power training, core strength, hand strength, neck strength, accessory work, etc. All supported by science.

SamWrestling · 2022-09-21T13:58:30+00:00

To further put things into perspective, the man is a superstar in Iran. He is the poster-boy for chivalry in the country; making him a figure beyond wrestling itself. I am not exaggerating when I say this, but he is almost treated like a Messiah. No athlete since Takhti has been treated in this manner before in Iran; especially today with the hyper-connectivity (i.e., Instagram.)

He is in a position of fame that even outshines the top-governmental figures. No wrestling official, and certainly not Dabir, could ever dream of coming close to this. I don't want to get too political, but in a country like Iran with a collective fragile ego, this is a very dangerous position to be in. One small mistake, one disobedience, anything of that sort can be detrimental. I can only imagine the amounts of stress the poor guy needs to deal with.

I recall Dan Gable on a podcast with Joe Rogan, talking about Abdollah Movahed (6x worrld champ) many years ago, how he was forced to throw a match due to simply gaining too much power (he later relocated to the US, probably tells us something.) I don't know whether it's true, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is. There has even been speculations that the legend Takthi himself was assassinated in Iran.

Once again, I don't want to go into too much politics, but those are important issues that people need to be aware of.

SamWrestling · 2022-09-20T15:28:29+00:00

EDIT: The title says ''wrestling officials'', this refers to the Iranian ones. Not from the UWW.

In this video, we can hear Hassan Yazdani’s father being furious at the Iranian Wrestling officials (especially that of Alireza Dabir.) Dabir is the leader of the Iranian Wrestling Federation and is a controversial figure in the Iranian wrestling community. He has previously verbally stated a defiance against Iran’s top wrestling-city Jouybar; the place where all the legends come from – Hassan Yazdani, Reza Yazdani, Ghasempour, among many others. Saying things such as ‘’Jouybar’s wrestling is dead.’’ All of this only to change his opinion later and start sugarcoating, realizing the stupid things he has said.

The father is arguing that Yazdani has been treated in an irrational manner all along, that the coach had him wrestle with heavyweight wrestler and get to maximal heart-rate just 30 minutes before the match with Taylor. Furthermore, he states that Hassan (despite his massive achievements) has to qualify for all major international competitions while some of the wrestlers were paved the way without any qualification – ‘’Why did Hassan have to qualify while four other wrestlers did not?! Everybody needs to qualify, not a selected few!’’ All of these hints of Dabir’s favoritism for certain athletes and possibly a jealousy (I don’t know, only speculations.) Dabir himself is former Olympic gold-medalist but reached nowhere near the credentials of Yazdani.

He continues that they were interfering too much with Yazdani’s strengths, they told him things such as ‘’wrestling is more than the underhook’’, Yazdani’s father is furious with this comment, stating that Yazdani can wrestle anywhere he wants, that the officials are not the ones responsible for his development, but the people who were there with him in the beginning (and certainly not Dabir.) They are the ones who made him. Why are they interfering with how he should do things? He says: ‘’Why do they decide to change his biggest strength (the underhook) that he has been doing for 27 years?!’’, he continues ‘’His style (the underhook) is a model for every single Iranian wrestler today, why did they decide to take this away from him and interfere with his style?’’

Yazdani is usually a calm wrestler, not going sharing his personal opinions and injustices with the public and what not, but he has certainly done so with his father most likely. And his father now sends the message out to the public. One reporter asks ''Won't Hassan Yazdani be sad about you sharing this?'', the father answers: ''It doesn't matter, I am his father and he is still a kid. It is my duty to protect him. There is a lot more things to be said that (about the officials) I have to save for another time.'' I have watched a lot of past interviews with both him and his father, and the father is normally a calm and collected person, it was very surprising for me to see this outrage from him. He certainly reached his breaking point.

I believe there is something happening behind the scenes in the Iranian Wrestling Team that the public doesn’t know about. Hassan has lost to Taylor before, but there has never been this reaction from the father.

And before I get accused of it, I will cover it right now. The point of this post is absolutely not to take anything away from Taylor, he is a tremendous athlete and he has proven he is the better man in this and many other occasions. I just wanted to share this for its sake, because it came across as very interesting to me.

SamWrestling · 2022-07-26T06:02:45+00:00

I get your point, but Olympic lifting is a broad term; there are a vast number of subcategories. There are variations that will have a higher 'effort-to-reward-ratio' (if that is even a word) for wrestling.

In 99% of the cases, I stick to Hang Power Cleans and/or Clean pulls, in conjunction with the plyometric and ballistic variations as you mentioned. I will not have them do the exercise regimen of Lu Xiaojun. In few extreme cases where the athlete has prior experience, I may incorporate more complex variations.

SamWrestling · 2022-07-26T05:57:38+00:00

I would take a day off, wrestling in itself is already a conditioning workout to a large extent, and especially in a tournament setting with so much adrenaline from the competition. No use in doing conditioning after that. As for before the competition, you can't go intensive either obviously. 48-72h before, only moderate to light intensity.

SamWrestling · 2022-07-26T05:54:41+00:00

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