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Photo of 1972 Olympic medalists, and Iowa State teammates Ben Peterson, Chris Taylor and Dan Gable.
Looking for something positive to add to your resolution list for 2020? Why not add “Dan Gable University” to the list?
The first video in the USA Wrestling Legends Series is Dan Gable University, featuring Olympic gold medalist, world champion, two-time NCAA champion and Hall of Fame Distinguished Member Dan Gable, was released on November 27.
The series contains 26 chapters and more than three hours of interviews, history, tips, and tales with Coach Gable in his home, his cabin, at the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame, and a tour in his home town of Waterloo, Iowa.
“Our executive director, Rich Bender, walked into my office two years ago and said he’d been speaking with Coach Gable about cementing his legacy in our sport,” said Mike Clayton, the USA Wrestling NCEP Manager. “His vision was to create an educational and fun program that anyone inside or outside of our sport would enjoy. We met with Coach Gable on six different visits over two years to create this amazing series of stories. As an Iowa kid myself, working and learning with Coach Gable was a dream come true!”
Chapter topics include:
Dan Gabe University - Trailer
Link: https://youtu.be/kXUzLgiZtis (watch now for free!)
(2m 11s)
Gable Promo - What is the Legends Series?
Link https://youtu.be/AjEt74wwgYo (watch now for free!)
Filmed outside the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in Cresco IA.
(1m 03s)
Chapter 1 - When Did I Know I Was Good?
When Gable realized he was “pretty good,” practicing with Carl Adams, Ben Peterson and Chris Taylor.
(3m 20s)
Chapter 2 - The Art of the Fight
Link: https://youtu.be/J_IxxTJ0S1o(watch now for a FREE CHAPTER of DGU!)
The theory behind the painting, toughness vs understanding, strategy and learning the sport, had to lose the Owings’ match, what coaching is about, down blocking techniques.
(5m 47s)
Chapter 3 - Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame and Gable’s Heroes
Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in Cresco IA “a wrestling town,” 1965 ISU NCAA Championship Team, Tom Peckham, Jim Nance, Bob Hess, Dale Hansen, Cresco History Wall, Dr. Harold Nichols, Gary Kurdelmeier, Norman Borlaug (Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Wrestler), Gable is recognized by locals and encourages young wrestlers.
(5m 57s)
Chapter 4 - Diane
No quit, home of his sister’s murder, moving into her room, pressure to keep his parents together, training route, being recognized, Gable Museum, take it on.
(6m 48s)
Chapter 5 - Motivation Defined
Motivation comes from inside you, have a great reason to get out of bed, need to get knocked down, positive coaching is key, coaching to the individual athlete, know your subject and know your subjects, YMCA, being a student, nothing is perfect. (8m 50s)
Chapter 6 - The Gable Mindset
Gable discusses visualization, the big step after the Owings loss, loss of his sister, down 2-0 in the ’71 Worlds and hits “the” foot sweep, coached by Doug Blubaugh, practicing with a football dummy, domination and doubts.
(8m 46s)
Chapter 7 - Training In a Car Dealership
His in-home wrestling room, training in a car dealership, Olympic Dr, what makes Gable laugh, coaching today, leading by example, and losing headgear.
(8m 26s)
Chapter 8 - The Beginnings
Nesbit Orange, Coach Martin Lundvall, Jr High football, Jr High wrestling room, Spinback, becoming a good student, grad school work in counseling, sleep walking, Lowell Elementary, why all the running?, West HS’s Bellamy Award ’62.
(11m 40s)
Chapter 9 - More Than Four Decades of Experience
“Why I was a good coach,” importance of international travel, and over four decades of World and Olympic experience.
(5m 09s)
Chapter X (10) - Iowa Team Poster Tour
What’s Inside?
Dan Gable on working with The Smithsonian Institute, an Iowa team poster tour from his basement, Going for X (10) in a row, on coach’s row, on peaking athletes, on accountability, and Saving Olympic Wrestling.
(16m 19s)
Chapter 11 - International Career 1966-1973
What’s Inside?
Gable records year by year his trips to World and Olympic Camps and Championships, training with Yojiro Uetake Obata, Gable connects a training issue leading to the Owings loss, on following the World’s best at the ’70 Worlds, alternate to Bobby Douglas in ’70, how he got the nickname “Gatorade Boy,” and Iran’s Movahed.
(7m 30s)
Chapter 12 - Women’s Wrestling
On the importance of providing everyone the opportunity to learn, love, and grow through our great sport of wrestling.
(3m 10s)
Chapter 13 - Spies in Ames
The masterful plot behind getting Gable to Iowa and was it really all over a box of athletic tape?
(7m 04s)
Chapter 14 - I Shoot I Score
His HS Coach (Bob Siddens) and being hung on a hook, feeling sorry for yourself, leadership, team captain at Waterloo West and Iowa State, earned respect, multi-sport participation (football, baseball, basketball, wrestling, swimming), the most dangerous part of wrestling, still coaching, the toughest sports to watch, no points for takedowns, international rules history and theory, Mark Ironside, Rick Sanders, advice on developing a scoring strategy, Brad Penrith, and go-to attacks.
(14m 53s)
Chapter 15 - Educate the People
The importance of learning about the sport, following the top in the World, why he’s a “lifer,” transition from athlete to coach, the role of his family’s first TV set (age 4), the importance of recovery, healthy weight management, the theory of Dan Gable University.
(8m 49s)
Chapter 16 - Our Best Coaches To Youth Levels
Coaching youth sports, Kevin Jackson, what athletes should focus on, prioritize the sport first on policies, gotta “hook” the kids, let kids make mistakes, “that’s coaching”, Joe Williams, Bill Weick, communication between coach and parents.
(9m 05s)
Chapter 17 - Fanatical?
On being fanatical.
(2m 12s)
Chapter 18 - Not Happy at 50%
Everyone needs to feel success, great leaders want everyone to walk out that door inspired and feeling good (in business or in wrestling).
(3m 22s)
Chapter 19 - Make the Call
Making the wrong call in ’97 with Mena, prep athletes to make their own call, Eric Guerrero, Oklahoma State nerves, Coaching John Smith and a match memory Gable can’t forget.
(4m 06s)
Chapter 20 - Go When It’s Going Good
Practice planning as an athlete and as a coach, when to follow the plan, when to change the plan. (3m 15s)
Chapter 21 - Easy or Easier?
Time with fans and friends, it isn’t automatic, “The” Quote. (8m 37s)
Chapter 22 - Family & Priorities
Building his country home, strategy to move to the country, Kathy Gable steals the show, love of pheasant hunting and giving it up, responsibilities to family and family of wrestlers, sacrifices, recovery, making adjustments, learning. (10m 54s)
Chapter 23 - 1994 World Team Lessons Learned
Panic, only two weeks out from Worlds, wanting to win too much, learning from ’94’s mistakes, backing off the athletes to peak, won 23 straight matches in the Friday rounds (quarters/semis), don’t make the same mistakes, feel good. (7m 33s)
Chapter 24 - ’97 NCAAs “The Last Hoorah”
1997 NCAA record breaking team, 1994 World Team lesson learned, Ironside was the measuring stick, not sleeping, peaking for ’97 NCAAs, positive reinforcement with Kasey Gillis, changing the order of award presenters.
(9m 27s)
Chapter 25 - Still Inside My Head
Post Larry Owings, why love from family got him back on track, refocusing, not done with that loss yet, the mental edge.
(8m 12s)
Chapter 26 - Forgiveness?
Anybody is vulnerable, being prepared, apologies.
(1m 55s)
How Do We Access the Video Series?
USA Wrestling members can purchase the series from their online profile at USAWmembership.com. Click on “Extras” and then “Dan Gable University” to access the Legends Series videos. Cost is $24.95 for regular members and $19.95 for HP members.
Fans who are not current USA Wrestling members can purchase the course for $34.95 by creating a free account and profile in the USA Wrestling membership system.
Created by USA Wrestling’s National Coaches Education Program, in partnership with the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Dan Gable Museum, the goal of the new series is to help share the stories of the people who have helped forge the way for amateur wrestling in America and the world.
Looking for something positive to add to your resolution list for 2020? Why not add “Dan Gable University” to the list?
The first video in the USA Wrestling Legends Series is Dan Gable University, featuring Olympic gold medalist, world champion, two-time NCAA champion and Hall of Fame Distinguished Member Dan Gable, was released on November 27.
The series contains 26 chapters and more than three hours of interviews, history, tips, and tales with Coach Gable in his home, his cabin, at the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame, and a tour in his home town of Waterloo, Iowa.
“Our executive director, Rich Bender, walked into my office two years ago and said he’d been speaking with Coach Gable about cementing his legacy in our sport,” said Mike Clayton, the USA Wrestling NCEP Manager. “His vision was to create an educational and fun program that anyone inside or outside of our sport would enjoy. We met with Coach Gable on six different visits over two years to create this amazing series of stories. As an Iowa kid myself, working and learning with Coach Gable was a dream come true!”
Chapter topics include:
Dan Gabe University - Trailer
Link: https://youtu.be/kXUzLgiZtis (watch now for free!)
(2m 11s)
Gable Promo - What is the Legends Series?
Link https://youtu.be/AjEt74wwgYo (watch now for free!)
Filmed outside the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in Cresco IA.
(1m 03s)
Chapter 1 - When Did I Know I Was Good?
When Gable realized he was “pretty good,” practicing with Carl Adams, Ben Peterson and Chris Taylor.
(3m 20s)
Chapter 2 - The Art of the Fight
Link: https://youtu.be/J_IxxTJ0S1o(watch now for a FREE CHAPTER of DGU!)
The theory behind the painting, toughness vs understanding, strategy and learning the sport, had to lose the Owings’ match, what coaching is about, down blocking techniques.
(5m 47s)
Chapter 3 - Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame and Gable’s Heroes
Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in Cresco IA “a wrestling town,” 1965 ISU NCAA Championship Team, Tom Peckham, Jim Nance, Bob Hess, Dale Hansen, Cresco History Wall, Dr. Harold Nichols, Gary Kurdelmeier, Norman Borlaug (Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Wrestler), Gable is recognized by locals and encourages young wrestlers.
(5m 57s)
Chapter 4 - Diane
No quit, home of his sister’s murder, moving into her room, pressure to keep his parents together, training route, being recognized, Gable Museum, take it on.
(6m 48s)
Chapter 5 - Motivation Defined
Motivation comes from inside you, have a great reason to get out of bed, need to get knocked down, positive coaching is key, coaching to the individual athlete, know your subject and know your subjects, YMCA, being a student, nothing is perfect. (8m 50s)
Chapter 6 - The Gable Mindset
Gable discusses visualization, the big step after the Owings loss, loss of his sister, down 2-0 in the ’71 Worlds and hits “the” foot sweep, coached by Doug Blubaugh, practicing with a football dummy, domination and doubts.
(8m 46s)
Chapter 7 - Training In a Car Dealership
His in-home wrestling room, training in a car dealership, Olympic Dr, what makes Gable laugh, coaching today, leading by example, and losing headgear.
(8m 26s)
Chapter 8 - The Beginnings
Nesbit Orange, Coach Martin Lundvall, Jr High football, Jr High wrestling room, Spinback, becoming a good student, grad school work in counseling, sleep walking, Lowell Elementary, why all the running?, West HS’s Bellamy Award ’62.
(11m 40s)
Chapter 9 - More Than Four Decades of Experience
“Why I was a good coach,” importance of international travel, and over four decades of World and Olympic experience.
(5m 09s)
Chapter X (10) - Iowa Team Poster Tour
What’s Inside?
Dan Gable on working with The Smithsonian Institute, an Iowa team poster tour from his basement, Going for X (10) in a row, on coach’s row, on peaking athletes, on accountability, and Saving Olympic Wrestling.
(16m 19s)
Chapter 11 - International Career 1966-1973
What’s Inside?
Gable records year by year his trips to World and Olympic Camps and Championships, training with Yojiro Uetake Obata, Gable connects a training issue leading to the Owings loss, on following the World’s best at the ’70 Worlds, alternate to Bobby Douglas in ’70, how he got the nickname “Gatorade Boy,” and Iran’s Movahed.
(7m 30s)
Chapter 12 - Women’s Wrestling
On the importance of providing everyone the opportunity to learn, love, and grow through our great sport of wrestling.
(3m 10s)
Chapter 13 - Spies in Ames
The masterful plot behind getting Gable to Iowa and was it really all over a box of athletic tape?
(7m 04s)
Chapter 14 - I Shoot I Score
His HS Coach (Bob Siddens) and being hung on a hook, feeling sorry for yourself, leadership, team captain at Waterloo West and Iowa State, earned respect, multi-sport participation (football, baseball, basketball, wrestling, swimming), the most dangerous part of wrestling, still coaching, the toughest sports to watch, no points for takedowns, international rules history and theory, Mark Ironside, Rick Sanders, advice on developing a scoring strategy, Brad Penrith, and go-to attacks.
(14m 53s)
Chapter 15 - Educate the People
The importance of learning about the sport, following the top in the World, why he’s a “lifer,” transition from athlete to coach, the role of his family’s first TV set (age 4), the importance of recovery, healthy weight management, the theory of Dan Gable University.
(8m 49s)
Chapter 16 - Our Best Coaches To Youth Levels
Coaching youth sports, Kevin Jackson, what athletes should focus on, prioritize the sport first on policies, gotta “hook” the kids, let kids make mistakes, “that’s coaching”, Joe Williams, Bill Weick, communication between coach and parents.
(9m 05s)
Chapter 17 - Fanatical?
On being fanatical.
(2m 12s)
Chapter 18 - Not Happy at 50%
Everyone needs to feel success, great leaders want everyone to walk out that door inspired and feeling good (in business or in wrestling).
(3m 22s)
Chapter 19 - Make the Call
Making the wrong call in ’97 with Mena, prep athletes to make their own call, Eric Guerrero, Oklahoma State nerves, Coaching John Smith and a match memory Gable can’t forget.
(4m 06s)
Chapter 20 - Go When It’s Going Good
Practice planning as an athlete and as a coach, when to follow the plan, when to change the plan. (3m 15s)
Chapter 21 - Easy or Easier?
Time with fans and friends, it isn’t automatic, “The” Quote. (8m 37s)
Chapter 22 - Family & Priorities
Building his country home, strategy to move to the country, Kathy Gable steals the show, love of pheasant hunting and giving it up, responsibilities to family and family of wrestlers, sacrifices, recovery, making adjustments, learning. (10m 54s)
Chapter 23 - 1994 World Team Lessons Learned
Panic, only two weeks out from Worlds, wanting to win too much, learning from ’94’s mistakes, backing off the athletes to peak, won 23 straight matches in the Friday rounds (quarters/semis), don’t make the same mistakes, feel good. (7m 33s)
Chapter 24 - ’97 NCAAs “The Last Hoorah”
1997 NCAA record breaking team, 1994 World Team lesson learned, Ironside was the measuring stick, not sleeping, peaking for ’97 NCAAs, positive reinforcement with Kasey Gillis, changing the order of award presenters.
(9m 27s)
Chapter 25 - Still Inside My Head
Post Larry Owings, why love from family got him back on track, refocusing, not done with that loss yet, the mental edge.
(8m 12s)
Chapter 26 - Forgiveness?
Anybody is vulnerable, being prepared, apologies.
(1m 55s)
How Do We Access the Video Series?
USA Wrestling members can purchase the series from their online profile at USAWmembership.com. Click on “Extras” and then “Dan Gable University” to access the Legends Series videos. Cost is $24.95 for regular members and $19.95 for HP members.
Fans who are not current USA Wrestling members can purchase the course for $34.95 by creating a free account and profile in the USA Wrestling membership system.
Created by USA Wrestling’s National Coaches Education Program, in partnership with the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Dan Gable Museum, the goal of the new series is to help share the stories of the people who have helped forge the way for amateur wrestling in America and the world.
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