Dan Severn Explains How Wrestling Is Psychological Warfare

The pin is ultimate victory. So if you got pinned in a match and you're about to wrestle the same guy again, are you do you have positive thoughts going to your mind or do you have maybe some negative cloudy thoughts that are going to your mind? Yeah. You're not really looking forward to it. Exactly. Again, that's why wrestling is is both it's a physical but it's also a psychological. Mine was all about psychological warfare. So to me it's like ultimate victory, the pin. I always pushed for the pin and that's where it le led me to some incredible records through my high school career knowing that uh I mean I got during the during the summer months when I started doing my freestyle and that where I had to wait towards the end of weigh-ins because if I waited early and people saw me at 198 they would move to 220. Oh yeah. Or if I'm at 220 and they can make 198, they go down to 198 or they go heavy because they should know that I'm a very aggressive and physical pinner. Where does that come from? Well, again, stuff that I read. It was from the magazines. Yeah. Well, again, just the magazines, but it it talked about the psychological aspect. It never talked about the pin, but in my mind, I kept thinking, well, just just like you said right now, because you wrestled. That's why I didn't I'm not trying to leave you out, but but but uh the fact that you wrestling wrestling just if someone just beats you by a couple points, you think, "Okay, I can just go back home. I ski a little more. I get better and and I I I can I can get I get you." But when someone physically ms you and against your will, pins you, they have stolen your soul. And I was like I I was you know like that mat that mat is my real estate and you've just trespassed. That's how I look at going my point now is I am going to make life so miserable for you. I'm going to drive you off my piece of real estate and everything within my legal confines and even some stuff that's pushing the boundaries of legality. Oh, I'm going to do Yeah. Like what like what what do you do that push the boundaries? Well, there's there's a technique known as a collar tie. you know exactly what a clown tie is, but basically is where you know most wrestlers as they're getting close. You you do like a a shoulder post. What that does, it takes you your weight off your toes and rocks it back on your heels. A wrestler can't shoot when he's got when his weight's on his heels. His weight's got to be on his toes. So he's in a forte type motion. So as you get close just just to be hit a quick little it I could I could do several things very quickly towards like I post both my hands. I will hit you and I'll pull you right back into where you rock back and forth. But then I come up hit you with the clubber with a collar tie. But I did it so quickly, so precisely. But then I also knew where am I hitting you with my collar tie. How am I am I doing it with a hand, a palm, or am I leading with a wristbone? That's right. So there's a very popular sport out now known that Dana White promotes it. Slap fighting. Power slap. Yeah, power slap. Yeah. So, it's like going, "What's your thoughts about power slap?" Oh, man. I don't I I mean, I I've see it when it comes through my feed, but I don't I don't get it. I don't get why everyone's voluntarily getting hit in the face by huge. Have you seen it there as well? It looks like a quick way to to lose some brain cells to me. That's what it looks like. It looks like a great way to feel terrible for the rest of your life. Yeah. And you get three chance and but it's but there's no defense. It's crazy. But Dana White says how much safer he has made and it just there is no defense like in wrestling. You can sprawl in fighting I can at least counter strike back. Yeah. Yeah. But here I have to simply I can't I can't even I can't I can't suck my I got I got to keep it out here. Yeah. And you got to let the guy basically size it up wind up perfect to hit you perfectly. He gets he gets three swings to like put on there. Okay. Now I can't believe it. But okay. But this is the way the diabolical mind of dance ever hell works. I'll get I'll get into it. I'm not going to compete. I'm gonna be a coach. Sure. And I'm going to go get me several athletes, but I'm going to recruit basketball players. Why do you think I'm going to get a basketball player? Hand size, hands, long, huge hands. Both long arms. Okay, think about that first off people. But basketball players, the fact that they can dunk basketballs and stuff like that, they've got this wingspan. Yeah. So now when when they size up and they're going Yeah. D by the time they they wind up, they palm a basketball. So when that thing hits you, it's going to cover. And if you could teach them how to lead with the with that palm and all, I see nothing but knockouts. Yeah, you heard it all right here, folks. Coach Dan is telling you how to become a champion. If you're not a basketball player, maybe you shouldn't get into power slap. That power slam.