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Applying Pressure: Valentin Kalika

Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 01:12:48
Publish Date: 2025-07-21 13:38:30
Description:

Gene Zannetti talks with US Olympic Coach Valentin Kalika about how it's harder to shift from Freestyle to Greco, why a Greco wrestler needs to have an engineer's mind, and why Judo is technically not wrestling.


Timestamps:

2:02 - Greco to Freestyle is an easier shift

12:03 - A Greco mind needs to be like an engineer

21:43 - Positions and angles

25:29 - Tips for applying pressure

34:00 - Mechanical difficulties in Freestyle

38:42 - Judo is not wrestling

43:47 - The best at applying pressure

51:55 - Wrestling with a system


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