How Kyle Dake teched through Pan-Ams in 6 Minutes (2023)

This is a deep dive, step by step, how Kyle Dake teched everyone at Pan-Ams (2023).
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Match 1 vs Mauricio Sanchez
1:40 Match 2 vs Adam Thomson
2:48 Match 3 vs Franklin Maren
4:22 Match 4 vs Franklin Gomez
#wrestling #freestyle #panams

[@landenx]

Brother your channel is QUALITY!

[@lawsonransom8318]

The man is no longer a man. He has become machine, without a trace of human emotion on his face.

[@garydobbins6622]

I’ve seen him smile in intense scrambles. He is so focused that what shows on his face.

[@jackchalance3542]

​@@garydobbins6622 he didn't show any facial ques or human emotion in this video.

[@Tagerrun]

@@jackchalance3542 probably because it wasn’t enough of a challenge for him so he was bored and not into the way he described it. Just my guess.

[@garydobbins6622]

@@Tagerrun did you see Snyder at pan-ams. Another tech-point beast. USA will be represented well

[@jsimo1431]

lol!!!

[@bormz7191]

Dake might be the most technical wrestler I've ever scene. Don't get me wrong, he's certainly strong and fast, but when it comes to his body position, center of mass, and technique, he's like Goku using ultra instinct.

[@HuntGuy101]

Seen*

[@timvovk1162]

@@HuntGuy101 It's 'scene' as in, in any scene that OP witnessed, Dake came out on top with being most technical

[@broombroom3208]

@@timvovk1162 love Drake's new single

[@blakewinberry]

you are very good at explaining the play by play of these matches keep it up

[@jonyoung6446]

wayyyyy better than that josiah kid from penn state & mostly all of the other mainstream wrestling media accounts... just watch breaking down "dake" too much, big brother is watching

[@WrestlingUniversity]

Fire content brother thank you for the recap

[@seth.ciasulli]

Thanks man, I appreciate it

[@garydobbins6622]

@@seth.ciasulli Kyle keepin it real , n you keepin it simple. He just gets better. Luv watching him wrestle.

[@armandoruiz8963]

Best wrestler I’ve seen in my lifetime, you can make a valid argument that he’s is the greatest collegiate wrestler of all time 4 NCAA titles 4 different weight classes, incredible 😎😎

[@user-cq6dg6ql9j]

Dake made an enormous transition from folk style to freestyle in a fashion I have never seen. Most retain their base from freestyle (Sanderson with ankle picks and Burroughs with his signature double legs for example), but Dake seems to have created an entirely different tool box and it has served him well.

[@quincyspielberger4366]

I don't think so. Dake had his 4 signature folkstyle moves that just didn't transition to freestyle. I think he peaked in 2013. He never leveled up in freestyle. Burroughs beat the poor guy year after year for a full decade until he gave up and went up a weight class and then got beat by J'Den Cox. There are 10 weight classes for world tournaments and only 6 for Olympics. Guys would trade 50 world titles for one Olympic gold. Nolf or Burroughs will block him again next year. He got teched 11-0 in his ONLY Olympic showing...

[@joefromcocamo5863]

@@quincyspielberger4366 Yes but in all fairness in many of the other matches that Burroughs beat Dake was at a time when Dake wrestled in the challenge tournament and had to win 4 matches in one day against the best guys in the country and then the same night had to wrestle Burroughs in a two out of three. Those were the rules and that is the way it was but I think Dake would have won some of those matches in todays format

[@quincyspielberger4366]

@@joefromcocamo5863 Dake even tried to go up a weight class and got beat by J'Den Cox. He is a world champion and a great wrestler just not an Olympic gold medalist caliber athlete. One of the best folkstyle wrestlers ever! He just didn't make the transition to freestyle. Another reason we need freestyle at an earlier age.

[@joefromcocamo5863]

@@quincyspielberger4366 Dake, first wrestler to win a world title without giving up a point since Dan Gablein 1972. Seven time world champion Jordan Burrooughs wrestles a wight class up because he lost to Dake at final X in the olympic year.

[@quincyspielberger4366]

@@joefromcocamo5863 LMAO!!! He lost to Dake at final X for the first time in a DECADE! Burroughs also shattered his ankle and missed 13 weeks of training just before the final X - educate yourself and you'll see that Dake was awesome in college but Burroughs and Cox held the poor guy down for the next 10 years.

[@cloud9847]

from this video alone it's clear that he's every bit as intelligent as he is skilled in wrestling. He knows everything required to score any point needed and seems to pull it on the fly. I'm sure they all know the point system by heart but knowing it and being able to squeeze every point possible out of it are different things. Seems to have incredible wrestling IQ.

[@apollo105]

The final was a great depiction of how thin the margins of error are in high level comp cause frank is arguably top 5 in the world. Just made some positional mistakes on the feet and in par terre and kyle didnt give him any time to adjust in kyle dake fashion

[@quincyspielberger4366]

Close margins?!?! Dake lost 11-0 in the second round of Tokyo. Then the guy he lost to lost in the finals! The real matches are the Olympic matches. There's 6 weight classes instead of 10 and they all bring their A game!

[@joefromcocamo5863]

@@quincyspielberger4366 That is what happens when a wrestler has his head up his butt. After that match Dake wrestled at a level better than anybody in the weight class, maybe the tournament.

[@wrestlingscience]

Frank is not top 5 lol. Maybe top 15 but good points nonetheless

[@apollo105]

@@wrestlingscience i think youd be surprised 😭😭 Granted frank is 36 but im sure by worlds we see a different Frank.

[@anklepick9524]

Frank is not top 5.

[@slipperysteve8]

Excited for him to go for Olympic gold and seal his legacy

[@Stefon_X]

This series is incredible, pls pls keep it up man

[@HebrewHercules]

Nice break down

[@morriskl3]

Thank you!

[@thedon3346]

Dam...Been watching Dake for a long time now. To see where he is at just wrestling wise/all around. I can say "im not surprised mfers"

[@michaelpowell3204]

That out of bounds throw vs Maren looks exactly like the USA Wrestling logo.

[@broheme8922]

@4:44 Great illustration of what I don't like about international freestyle scoring. Same position, defender never even gets back to ground, and it's two separate scoring moves. When a 10 point gap ends matches, points should not be handed out this way for what is really a single move. Not as bad as a takedown and 4x leg lace roll ending a match, but still... (Now cue the roid raging "you don't know sh*t about wrassling crowd).

[@daneslayer2269]

Dake is going to get a gold this time. He’s an alien 👽!! Go get what’s yours KD!!

[@jackbauer408]

Gomez’s leg muscles at 0:19 are just.. aggravating

[@keysersoze5920]

Since losing in the Olympic semis, Dake is on a “mission.”

[@tedvanduzen8867]

this is actually the ecaxt same a s sumo but less weight. amazing!!!

[@calebprouty288]

Damn that's amazing, Dake is non stop. Hopefully he'll have the gas tank necessary once he comes against better opponents.

[@NaterWrestle1037]

Dake is always in shape

[@Jrobb1999]

I know these guys are all world class but he makes them look like novice wrestlers in their first tournament. Damn, Kyle is just so good

[@rogerodle8750]

Kyle Dake is massive. Check the side by sides during the hand raising.

[@quincyspielberger4366]

Dake is a beast!

[@flowerswerewarpaint646]

Given Dake had a rough go at the last olympics, thats dope

[@solutions_advocated7016]

Sir Drake is a bull reminds me of a young Sammie Henson,rare power explosion

[@CFagan]

3:22 doesn't it make much more sense to refer to this position as chest wrap, especially since Dake scores from bodylock throws all the time?

[@jonyoung6446]

kyle dake is incredibly great at wrestling. Team USA on TOP of the WORLD!!!

[@alancrookston5906]

Might be the greatest America wrestler ever…has a strong case for it

[@TheCaliRhino]

This is the definition of "there's levels to this shit" personified.

[@Quanthe3rd]

Can you do a vid on yiannis semi finals match?

[@seth.ciasulli]

Sure, i think I’ll do another compilation video of his tournament, see if it does as well as this Kyle Dake one

[@steelofcrom]

Needs to go to Ivan Yargin

[@brucepeckham6043]

Kyle Dake is a legend in this sport aleady and he is at his best now. God help the Russian who they hand pick to compete with him in Worlds

[@brianp.mccarthy9829]

Dake is very good and the competition is not very good in his weight class in this Pan Am Event!

[@samuelemeryjiujitsu]

What. The. Fuck. 🎉😮

[@Longarmshortarm]

Why did the first guy allow him to grab his head so easily?

[@alexanderednie1205]

S A V A G E

[@jsimo1431]

i hope he goes into MMA

[@samuelemeryjiujitsu]

I appreciate this video. I didn't realize he did this this year. One thing tho, it's called Running the Pipe, not Pike.

[@seth.ciasulli]

thank you! copying and pasting this from another comment that I replied to: i've heard it called both ways, as I coach i leaned toward "running the pike", as like.. when using a pike (medieval weapon) you would use a chopping motion, and that's how i explained it when it comes to the motion you need to do.. also i didn't feel comfortable using the phrase "running pipe" in front of a room full of kids, regardless if they know what else that term could mean, so i avoided that

[@24HourDesign]

@@seth.ciasulli I've also heard running the Pike, could be regional, like a upper mid-west, east coast thing?

[@NaterWrestle1037]

No it's running the pike lol

[@juandenz2008]

That's interesting, I'm going to say that mostly I've heard it referred to as running the pipe (probably 90%+ of the time). (Not saying that running the pike is wrong though, the origin of a lot of these terms is obscure). The explanation I heard is that the motion resembles what oil well workers would do when building a pipeline. They would slide the pipe between their legs to the next worker, who would also slide the pipe etc.

[@johnpyle702]

BEAST MODE

[@yt.damian]

How is all that muscle only 74kgs?

[@haraldodunkirk1432]

Judo really needs to learn from FS’s scoring.

[@scal7122]

Man hes huge compared tk everyone too

[@williamoleary9330]

And so he should. Now all of this means zip if he doesn’t win the Gold Medal next year.

[@thotty69]

Since when can we not arch on guts? Kd stuck himself twice.

[@user-tz9jh6pv2j]

if only he wasn't born at the same time as Jordan Burroughs lol

[@jstrusins8753]

Being able to gut wrench multiple times doesn't seem right. Used to be only one gut was allowed. No knock on Dake.. he's awesome.. he'd probably just gut wrench to a body lift...

[@jameshegeman5660]

The rules for multiple consecutive turns in par terre need to be more strictly interpreted. I would never have awarded Dake additional exposure points for trying to go back the other way with his gut wrench without first allowing the bottom man to return to the base par terre position (with hips down).

[@chadh6855]

I dunno, I don't think most of those wrestlers could win a high school state tournament in the midwest or northeast US.

[@seth.ciasulli]

Gomez is an NCAA champ, 3x All-American, World Silver in 2011.. he’s very good

[@l.rongardner2150]

If the U.S. Wrestling Federation was smart, they'd pay Kyle by the hour for his high-"tech" work.

[@otto8936]

We can’t really say that Dake is one of “the best US wrestlers of all time”. At least not in freestyle. Sure, he has a few world championship titles under his belt (without Russians competing; also, remember, he lost to the JV Russian option in the most recent Olympics), but until he gets an Olympic gold, then he isn’t even a top 10 best US wrestler of all time.

[@Damon_Roach]

I’m curious who your top 10 are, if Dake isn’t in it? I’m sure you’ve got Cael, Burroughs, John Smith, Dan Gable, Kyle Snyder, Gable Steveson, Dave Schultz? Who you got?

[@Damon_Roach]

I should definitely add Bruce Baumgartner, Kenny Monday, Mark Schultz, and J’Den Cox to the convo. It’s hard tho bc there’s different criteria: other Olympic gold medalists like Varner, Gardner, Cejudo didn’t typically reach the top in other tourneys

[@otto8936]

@@Damon_Roach This includes greco: 1. John Smith 2. Jordan Burroughs 3. Bruce Baumgartner 4. Rulon Gardner (hot take, I know) 5. Dave Schultz 6. Kyle Snyder 7. David Taylor 8. Kenny Monday 9. Dan Gable 10. Cael Sanderson

[@Damon_Roach]

@@otto8936 excellent list- any good list should have a hot take 😉

[@spoj3922]

@@otto8936 is this in order

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

Maybe school was not your thing. Teched is an adjective, that means mentally unsound. Oh the irony.

[@spoj3922]

You don't come off as educated yourself

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

@@spoj3922oh look, The over-enthusiastic subscriber chiming in. I'm so glad you have formed your opinion. I gave a fact. Here's a hint for you. Opinions require nothing but belief Facts require proof. Are you up to speed yet?

[@garydobbins6622]

Lolololololo take it to the mat!

[@jasonswift9310]

Jason Nolf will punish Dake!! Nickal has been training with Nolf hard for this monumental changing of the guard!!!

[@joefromcocamo5863]

At some point Nolf will beat Dake but the way that Dake is wrestling right now ? Nickal is another insane wrestler but as good as he was, he may not even have been able to score on Dake and he may have been good enough to be a world champ.

[@johnpyle702]

TOO STRONG FOR THESE GUYS

[@AntonioLopez-kw3ev]

Didn’t this guy lose badly to a 3rd world country guy and everyone and himself were very quiet about that loss?