Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion Freestyle/Greco New Freestyle/Greco Rules?

As the Kids season is near the end and Freestyle and Greco are starting up, I havn't seen any new rules yet. Can anyone help with this? Juby? Hinderliter? Cokeley?

I know they changed the clinch for greco but don't know the details enough to tell you any more than that.

In Freestyle, at the world cup they are now calling passivity at the ends of periods to avoid clinches (made it sound like they wouldn't do it if someone was up 1-0), seems very political. He stress control the center. Coach Jones addressed us with this at NCAA's and said the refs would be enforcing this at the U.S. Nationals.
Also, you can't just push someone out of bounds from the feet and expect to get a point. They have to be under a real attack, this is a change bc as long as you were both one your feet and one guy was pushed out it was a forsure point and now it isn't. Also, people used to get a leg and just run to the out of bounds, now if you don't try to finish on the mat and you just run the guy out of bounds they could possibly not give any points. Sounds like they just made freestyle more political than it already is. Hope that helps.

Here are some items that Juby sent us from Tucci. On the freestyle, they are not calling passivity, but rather fleeing the hold, but only if it is 0-0.

1. while in the standing position, the foot of a wrestler must be
COMPLETELY out of bounds in order for a point to be given. the old rule
was that the foot had to touch the line to initiate the point.

2. the mat chairman cannot initiate a fall situation but he MUST confirm
the fall. if the referee and judge call the fall and the mat chairman
disagrees, the referee must not stop the match. therefore, eye contact
with the mat chairman is imperative.

3. in a freestyle match, if the score is 0-0 and time is counting down,
the official must look for center mat position and who is maintaining
it. as the early European tours have indicated, FILA , the international
governing body of wrestling is looking for more scoring. in this case if
one wrestler is backing up and blocking or hanging on the wrist or hand,
a caution and a point will be called for fleeing the hold. (remember, we
no longer have a passivity call.) this situation usually occurs in
scoreless periods near the time completion.

4. in greco-roman wrestling, the same situation occurs but more
tolerance is needed by the official because of the shorter time in the
period. also, in greco, in a clinch situation when there is no score, do
not bring the wrestlers to their feet with 10-15 seconds left in the
clinch if one wrestler is aggressively working to score.