Comments on: Is Iowa-style wrestling dead? Terry Brands says no

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:16:03 +0000

Agreed Mr. Qualitza, I love listening to those guys talk.

By: Randy Qualitza

Randy Qualitza — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:59:06 +0000

Listening to Terry Brands gets me pumped up. I’m 65 and still coaching. But, when listening to Tom & Terry, I get motivated and understand the purpose of what I am doing in guiding young men to better lives through the great sport of wrestling.

Thank you 411 for allowing us to hear such testimonies to life, sport, and the sense of being.

By: Ken Klingman

Ken Klingman — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:31:23 +0000

This past wrestling season I walked into the Iowa room just as Tom Brands was about to address the team before a practice. At the same time Terry was mopping the mat. It is said that “more is caught than taught.” If that is true then 30 or so Hawkeye student/athletes caught a lesson in humility that day. Hopefully they will take it forward into their own lives as Terry is living it in his. Perhaps map-mopping is the wrestling version of feet-washing that Jesus taught his disciples to do as an act of service.