yeah....My partner at work is a two time state champ at 57 or 67 cant remember but he one is the toughest bastards I ever met, started it in grade school and he coaches now in winter....I love it when one of the young guys at work feel like a friendly grapple , he has a way of making people look real bad , ears all closed off chewed up lol.....people like that are why other people invented guns
lol yeah I was a beast in JV but the level of competition when I got to Varsity was insane. I was average in Varsity.
It really helped my game on ground grappling when I rolled with and submitted people 30-60 pounds more than me later on down the road when I got into full contact sparring after High School. The sense of balance on the ground and countering moves made it much easier already having a strong base.
My cousin took 3rd in the counties and our coach was a former state champ... the intuition of those champs is at a really high level!
Great.... now I'm remembering how much I miss it... ugh!!!