#95 Daryl Weber - NCAA Champ, Founder of Attack Style Wrestling

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Daryl Weber won two Iowa high school state titles wrestling for Dan Mashek, the winningest Iowa High School Wrestling Coach in history, at Don Bosco HS. He then went on to wrestle at the University of Iowa under Dan Gable from ’91-’96. During his time at U of Iowa he was a three time All-American, Big Ten titlist, and NCAA Champion. After graduating from Iowa he continued to compete internationally in Freestyle through 2000. While competing internationally Coach Weber took second at the U.S. Open, won the Sunkist Open, and wrestled in over a dozen international freestyle tournaments. Hope you enjoy this one folks!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	It was one of those sports that was always there. Like no matter what was going on in your life,
0:08.8	I could always go to that wrestling room and put my time in and see results.
0:18.3	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability. and Pivot and Change
0:23.0	wrestling gave us that ability.
0:25.0	I would say nothing in life has impacted me
0:28.0	or the things wrestling has taught me
0:30.0	in terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:33.6	Toughness.
0:34.6	Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:36.4	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:41.9	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling.
0:52.0	For me, wrestling save my life because it
0:54.1	allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:58.0	We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled, natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:08.8	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:13.8	It humbled me, taught me humility.
1:15.6	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:19.2	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:21.8	You learn, you learn how to
1:23.0	adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:25.0	You know, if I look back my time, I could
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