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#28475 01/11/04 11:28 PM
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Okay, I've been wondering about this for a long time, and after Chewbacca's post I decided to create this gem of a question:

Why is it that some studs wear their singlets so high? I don't recall ever seeing a fish or mediocre wrestler hiking up their shorts, but the really impressive wrestlers seem to do this a lot. If an authority (preferably Doug Hoover, the master of wrestling fashion) could post on this topic, I would appreciate it.

Also, feel free to post up any other studs who have the same sense of style. (Clay Center and Manhattan finals singlets excluded.)

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Our new singlets seem to wanna rise to the occasion


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#28477 01/12/04 12:58 AM
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Basehor has some old school ones from like the mid to early 90s i think maybe older an they look like clays but green with gold trim.I like them better than the new ones we have.


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#28478 01/12/04 01:22 AM
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OUCH...are the mid to early 90's really old school now? i'm old.

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actually, i don't remember many that were in the same class as hoover in the "early 90's, but i do remember that 3/4 of our team wore leg-long tights under their singlet. I of course went with the stylish knee pads that went from my upper thigh to mid shin. i remember that they were always falling down and really didn't save my knees, but after not washing them over a time period of a couple weeks, no one wanted to be near me.

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well, i know that cody garcia does it.

ever since i wrestled on the freestyle national team a couple of years ago and got those really high singlets, i've done the same thing.


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#28481 01/12/04 02:55 AM
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I love my high-rise singlets. They're pimp.


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#28482 01/12/04 06:55 AM
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Id figure the badasses and better wrestlers hike those singlet leg deals up because most wrestle freestyle/greco and that "high" fashion in freesytle/greco translates to folkstyle when the highschool season starts. And from this summer wrestling their skills improve to badass form or improve their skills greatly. But i have seen plenty of good wrestlers hike them up when they didnt wrestle greco or freestyle.

A few that i noticed pulled the singlet legs up:
- Adam Venegas(OLN), Drew Ibarra(STA), Nolan Cisper(STA), Sequoya Hill(WHS), Cody Garcia(HUT), Chino Elsrode(OLS), Ryan Sonderegor(SME), Nick Clayton(SMS), Aaron Bartels(OLE), Ryan Parks(OLN), Matt Somers(LFS) Ben Suh(SMS, i tried but most of time they fell down because my legs were so scrawny!)


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I did it b/c the leg part of all singlets I wore always rode up any way. Might as well start them their and get used to it so you don't spend time on the mat pulling your singlet down.
Plus, if you got good legs, you want to show em. Especially a highschool wrestler.


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#28484 01/12/04 07:56 PM
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no no no, you hike the singlet up to accent your junk, mainly to show off for the amazingly hott Hutch cheerleaders. WOWeeWOW WOW. And Mad props to Garcia, his match against Knox was amazing, but so were Hutch's Cheerleaders.

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I do remember at newton last year seeing hemmerling and his treetrunk legs wearing a singlet that was riding up a bit north of the mason-dixon line. I figure that the studs do it cuz they can pull it off. Nobody wants to see a fat JV 215lber wearing a singlet that creeps up.


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Big ups to Rocknraider for the extensive list of hikers. I can't think of any others that did it on a consistant basis.

Also, anyone who does that is either vain (french word for sweet) or a vegan.

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#28487 01/14/04 02:57 AM
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Everybody at Shawnee Heights has done it the last couple of years. My theory is that they started following Tanner Gardner's lead. And I know for a fact he did it in immitation of Doug Hoover. So, it is infact Hoover's fault that I had to watch my teammates in what amounts to a one piece swimming suit. I would never wear anything so high, it would chaffe my cheeks!


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#28488 01/14/04 05:53 AM
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Ahhhh yes, i remember the days of Tanner Gardner pulling up his singlet so high i thought it would touch his chin. I found it odd because he had scrawny legs like myself, but oh well.

He really had them quite pulled up in the state finals of 2003(him vs. karl brown).

By the way Nolan Cisper and Drew Ibarra had ridiciously big thighs for their weight classes. Pulling up the singlets made those thighs look like big ol'Christmas hams


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#28489 01/14/04 04:48 PM
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I think it was Hoover the one year in the finals looked like his singlet was underwear with a pair of suspenders...didn't look to comfortable.


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#28490 10/11/04 01:52 PM
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Man, there used to be some sweet freakin' topics on this forum.

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I don't really consider myself a badass, maybe average, but I think the reason people hike those singlets up are for a couple of reasons, yes one being to accentuate the junk, but the other being level of comfort. You have better mobility without the singlet pulling yours legs back together. I know many of the guys on my highschool team did it as well.

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I recall a kid from Leavenworth last year show quite a bit of leg at our duel. I thought it made him look like a freakespecially with the mad scientist hairstyle he had going with it, them he headbutted one of our wrestlers, made him bleed and completely pulverized him, I didn't say anything after that.

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I only have one wish on my Christmas List: to see Mark Robinson in a skimpy, hiked up, cleavage bust'n freestyle singlet.

"That Hansel's so hot right now....Hansel.


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#28494 10/14/04 10:15 PM
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Just give it time, I'm almost ready to do that...

And I can't remember if I had a post on here earlier about that Leavenworth kid just being a tool. But I think I did.

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