Always Keep Them Guessing: A Father's Wrestling Wisdom

My opponents were thinking, what is he going to do? Double Leg Take Down? Single Leg Sweep? Guillotine? Arm Drag or is he trying to get me to move first and take me down with a countermove?

My father always said, “Son, always keep them guessing! Make them think you are going one way and after they have committed themselves, go the other way!”

Then he would smile and say, “Son, a good Horse Thief never reveals his plans until the horses are safely home! “

A white-haired elder in a black UNC Pembroke Wrestling T-shirt crouches in a wrestling stance, hands ready, before a wall with carved Northwest Coast paddle and bird art.