r/grappling

I’ve been working on College Wrestling 27 for over a year, and I just released a huge update the game has ever had.
A Living Wrestling World
Every wrestler now competes in a full season — not just the one you’re controlling.
You can tap any wrestler in the country and see:
• Full season record
• Match-by-match history
• Tournament results
• Win/loss streaks
• Injuries
• Transfer history
If a wrestler is 18-4, you can see exactly who they beat and who they lost to.
Real NCAA Match Logic
We rebuilt the wrestling engine to be much closer to real college wrestling:
• 3-point takedowns
• Riding time
• Major decisions
• Tech falls
• Sudden victory overtime
• Real dual scoring
• Forfeits for open weights
Real Brackets
Tournaments now run through actual seeded brackets.
Placements aren’t randomly generated anymore. Every placement comes from simulated matches and bracket results.
Recruiting, NIL & Transfer Portal
• Explore colleges earlier in high school
• Verbal commitments are honored at graduation
• Transfer portal windows actually open and close
• NIL deals are more realistic
• Freshmen develop naturally instead of instantly becoming superstars
Coach Mode Improvements
• Shared schedules between Wrestler Mode and Coach Mode
• Fixed lineup issues (no more multiple starters at one weight)
• Redshirts preserve eligibility correctly
• Academics matter
• Realistic scholarship distribution based on the NCAA 9.9 limit
• Improved roster management and team rankings
New Screens
• Historical NCAA Champions screen
• Social feed for NIL deals, appearances, and events
• Expanded recruiting and college exploration
Hundreds of Fixes
Cleaner UI, larger buttons, better save reliability, sharper text, improved simulation accuracy, and a ton of bug fixes throughout the game.
If you’re a college wrestling fan, I’d love to hear what features you’d like to see next.
📱 College Wrestling 27 (iOS)
Thanks to everyone who’s been testing and giving feedback.

i'm going into my sophomore year of highschool and i have to step up and be the varsity starter since the senior who was starting my freshman year graduated i didn't wrestle that much do to injuries and being second string and it was my first year ive been going to a lot of camps and open mats i have good top and bottom game its just i suck at neutral i have good sprawls i just can't hit shots please help and give tips

I want to hear from the females in the group, what is your go-to outfit for grappling/fighting. It’s been a bit since I have done this, but I always rock my leggings (sometimes flared) or spandex shorts when grappling/fighting

So I did judo and bjj competitively since I was a child, and wrestled in college. Basically ive grappled all my life. My knees are shot, fingers are crooked, had broken ribs etc. But I've never got cauliflower ear. I do see tons of other blackbelts and experienced grapplers with no cauli but it still kinda feels weird. Ik its just cuz i got very flexible ears but still. Anyone else kinda feel weird for not having it despite experience? P.s I do know this is very silly and a moot point if I can smash. But still, does cross my mind sometimes.

Can the ones with real experience with concussions explain their immediate symptoms and how long it took to go back to “normal”? Last sparring day I got rocked pretty hard with a hook finished training and driving home got a banging headache and brain fog pretty bad, haven’t really felt the same since that day. Mental sharpness hasn’t been there and my memory is lacking way more, not much other symptoms like sunlight sensitivity or loud noises. What did you guys do during recovery? Did you still train? Cardio? Weightlifting? What’s a realistic timeline for feeling 100% again.

Im turning 16 next month, 5'5 and quite stocky with leaner arms and thicker legs and terrible physical perfomance and recovery due to alot of traumatic stuff going on causing a very sedentary lifestyle (joints a little weak but not a huge issue, some back pain, bit of fat, terrible cardio all probably caused by still going on issues of sleepless nights) Im super lost between Judo and BJJ. I was going to pick wrestling (since its like the most elite grappling sport ever) but with distance (1 hour 20 minutes distance) and £85 for 2 sessions a week it wasnt gonna happen. I have fitness/physique improvement dreams, confidence goals, trying to become better looking, be good at self defense because my area is really rough, and maybe become an mma fighter with a grappling heavy style.

Anyways I came here because I literally do not know what to pick, at all. It seems pros and cons are absolutely equals.

For what I even want to do, I want to learn alot of takedowns (which i was pointed to judo) but THEN I absolutely despise gi (pointed to no gi) but I hated ground fighting and scrambles and rolls and guard ect (again back to judo) but I wanted leg attacks (back to no gi) but then im also managing really bad acne and being shoved into the floor with my face scraping everything around it isnt fun + eczema on the elbows (back to judo), but I want a good mma base (BJJ) but then I heard i shouldn't do bjj because the stocky build is a downfall especially as someone who isnt a gifted grappler/athletic/has a base in something like wrestling, but still like submissions (so back to judo) then I heard it super sucks translating all your gi moves to anything no gi (so back to bjj) but i have super slow recovery and the schedule of judo classes are much more spread apart (so judo again), however for self defense both show to be greatly good at that. also wearing glasses and taking them on and off is for demonstrations, then practising, then back on for demonstrations and then off for sparring is very annoying but manageable (which i know is fine in bjj but also fine in judo I heard) also both have painfully long learning curves in both their ways which is something ill adapt to depending on whichever one turns out to be the better choice, id also be willing to try and adapt my weak mental health to it since im gonna have to do something one way or the other

Ontop of this, both Judo and BJJ are in the same area and heavily accessible so its not like id pick one over the other for "distance because thats the one you can train often) however pricing is interesting. BJJ offers 2x two hour sessions a week (Wednesday friday) for a flat out £55 which is no gi which here and there a wrestler will come and teach us double and single leg takedowns, and various different positions which i thought is really cool. Judo is a flat out £45 for about 1 hour session 2x a week monday thursday (way cheaper which is good living in a poor family in east london) - the catch is a decent gi is pretty annoying to get price wise (£65 the cheapest I found) and needing TWO for both sessions + I heard theres some sort of liscense i need to pay for which was around £30. So thats QUITE alot of money to go on the first month for Judo (which is something I could probably afford, but wouldnt be too happy about)

Its probably worth mentioning I've never done judo before, but ive done BJJ since late 2025 (around October, but taking weirdly terrible chunks of time off due to mental health so not good at it at all) I enjoy some things like learning pummeling and its transitions to the back leading to takedowns, learning doubles and singles, learning easy escapes from bottom side control (super easy escapes only really) but I feel lost doing pretty much anything else

I was tired of getting advice from AI telling me just whatever I wanted to hear at the time and changing the answer with each factor being brought into equation. I have until my bday (July 22) to actually really decide what to lock into, whether to stick it out or bjj, or make the jump to judo? All advice welcome🫶 please no try both out and see what you like because I actually dont know what I like, both look awesome and also technically in some ways bad and im just trying to figure out what would be BEST

We always talk about the elite athletes, the instructionals, and the monthly membership costs, but I rarely see anyone break down the actual day-to-day payroll of the people teaching the classes.
BJJ is notorious for paying peanuts to assistant coaches or doing "mats for memberships" trades, but what does the ladder actually look like when you scale up?

I got a partial patellaectomy and I wanted to practice judo. Don't know if that's off the table, probably is. But I wanted to ask others if they have any experience practicing a form of grappling with a bad knee or knees

Hi everyone!

I suffer from reoccurring shoulder dislocations, I train a lot and having it dislocating twice a week when it was bad wasn't uncommon for me. I started S&C and physio around 7/8 months ago, it is definitely improving but not remotely close to a normal shoulder.

I had an mri and ortho consult and they told me i would Need surgery, 2-3 months total recovery and should be back to normal After that (around 3% reoccurrence depending on exposure to risk factors, I know bjj Is One but im doing It mainly hoping to be back on the mats without having to protect One side the whole time).

Any experience on coming back After that? Are you able to roll as a normal (ish) human being or they are fooling me?

Not asking for Medical advice, Just a bit of peace of mind.