Ask Cael: Hey Cael, do you think you’d ever be interested in doing ADCC submission wrestling championships?…

Story Published Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Question from Xiong: Hey Cael, do you think you’d ever be interested in doing ADCC submission wrestling championships? In the world of grappling there are two exceptional families, the Gracies and the Sandersons. Collegiate/Freestyle wrestling hasn’t won since Mark Kerr in 2000 and it’d be great to see you in action again. knowing your history it’d probably be easy to get invited and a mans body doesn’t truly peak till about 33-35 yrs old. don’t you ever just watch MMA, see peoples weaknesses and say Ii could beat him”.

I would enjoy trying and learning submission grappling. We play around with it occasionally before or after practice for fun. We had world champion submission grappler Ricky Lundell in our wrestling room this past year learning to wrestle. It was really cool watching him and learning a few tricks from him. However, if I was going to compete in anything I would probably just wrestle. That is all I know. I could control someone pretty well but I don’t know any submission techniques.

If I wouldn’t have jumped into coaching I may have tried MMA, but hard to say. It is fascinating and incredible competition. It’s funny that you ask but yes I do question how I could do when I watch mma, but that’s just the competitor in me. I would guess most people do. I do the same thing when I watch all sports. I watch and instead of just enjoying the game I wonder how well I could do in the situation and wonder how well I would have done at that sport if I had put the same amount of time, focus, and energy into it as I have wrestling. Ultimately I just love to compete. It doesn’t matter what it is. If we’re not competing, it’s not fun.

I love the competition of coaching and trying to help people be the best they can be.

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