What's underneath the wrestling singlet?

[jasalex]

I had the privilege to attend a major college wrestling championship last year. The weigh ins were hidden, but I happened to see many of the guys in a holding area getting ready for their respective weigh ins. But there, was not a jockstrap in sight. There were briefs, both white and colored, plenty of short compression shorts and even boxers. I cannot imagine wrestling in loose boxers?
So what gives with these athletes and what they wear underneath their singlets?

 

[wrestlecoach]

It is very sporadic and regional. Even on the team I help with there are guys who are diehard jockstrap wearers at every practice and a few home meets but never take one with them when we travel. Others wear them but hide them under black compression shorts. Being seen with an obvious strap line is very uncool with a lot of college guys now. I run into maybe 3 to 5 schools a year besides us that have guys wearing them.

We were at a school a couple years ago and a couple of my guys ask for a jock and we hadn't brought any extra. I ask the home coach if he had any, he kind of smirked and said those are old school and didn't even answer my request. Almost like admitting he had any on hand was something to be ashamed of. I sent him a few things about the importance of jockstraps and such. I have noticed at least 2 guys one his team wearing one at a tournament they hosted last year. I haven't had the right opportunity to ask him about it again though.

To be honest the high school age guys are more receptive to wearing a jockstrap than the college guys. The funny thing about that is they think its cool because they think its a college thing, if they only knew they had more balls than the college guys.

 

[DSF140]

I never liked them because they would irritate my taint and where my sack attached to my groin.

 

[jasalex]

I know jockstraps are a little hard to come by. I am dating myself, but jockstraps were once plentiful as gym unifroms, LOL>

It is very sporadic and regional. Even on the team I help with there are guys who are diehard jockstrap wearers at every practice and a few home meets but never take one with them when we travel. Others wear them but hide them under black compression shorts. Being seen with an obvious strap line is very uncool with a lot of college guys now. I run into maybe 3 to 5 schools a year besides us that have guys wearing them.

We were at a school a couple years ago and a couple of my guys ask for a jock and we hadn't brought any extra. I ask the home coach if he had any, he kind of smirked and said those are old school and didn't even answer my request. Almost like admitting he had any on hand was something to be ashamed of. I sent him a few things about the importance of jockstraps and such. I have noticed at least 2 guys one his team wearing one at a tournament they hosted last year. I haven't had the right opportunity to ask him about it again though.

To be honest the high school age guys are more receptive to wearing a jockstrap than the college guys. The funny thing about that is they think its cool because they think its a college thing, if they only knew they had more balls than the college guys.

 

[wrestlecoach]

I know jockstraps are a little hard to come by. I am dating myself, but jockstraps were once plentiful as gym unifroms, LOL>

Definitely, even in my day in middle school they were and I am only 37.

In our equipment room I can lay my hand on at least 3 or 4 dozen new jocks, and I know find another 15 or so floating around in either the dirty laundry cart or the clean pile, and probably a couple hanging in guys lockers.

Sometimes if we have a visiting team come through I go ahead and put a jock out of the clean laundry in the locker of any guys who I know wears one, ever, just so the visitors can get it in their mind that jocks are not a thing of the past.

I think what happened was a few coaches who happened to teach PE got reprimanded for making his PE class kids act like actual athletes.........go figure....expect a kid to be athletic in PE. So after some whiney mothers and wimpy fathers got involved they took away mandatory jocks and showers for PE..............NOT for athletics. Coaches got scared though and gave up on teaching the guys right.

Athletic teams are allowed to be held to a higher standard. Whether it be having a B or C average to play instead of just a D to pass, or wearing certain items like mouthpieces or pads or jockstraps or cups, or showering before getting back on a bus that the general student population will be on the next morning.

It is a shame how may young men grow up with very little manly guidance of any kind.

 

[Tony56]

I was in high school in the 1970s and jockstraps were mandatory for anything athletic, even PE classes.
I know high school guys who were wearing them in the 1980s so I am not sure when they went out of style.
My guess is that the advent of compression shorts made jockstraps less needed.

 

[wrestlecoach]

I think the across the board expectation for every young man/boy to wear a jockstrap started fading a bit in the 80's from what I know from the guys I know from that time frame.
The 90's definitely brought about a decline even in sports, but most definitely in PE.

Wrestlers were pretty good about wearing a jock through the 90's and even for the first decade of this century.

The hidden cam video's of the late 90's got a lot of wrestlers to wearing something over their jocks, others just didn't care if someone filmed them showering or hanging around a locker room in a jockstrap.........that was my mentality.

The worst thing at happened to jockstraps from a wrestlers standpoint was when they ruled it as not an acceptable undergarment for weigh in and skin checks. Those that wore boxers and usually weighed naked or in their jock, now had to find a light weight acceptable undergarment to weigh in, once they went to the trouble of putting that on, many didn't bother to go back and put their jock on afterwards. Coaches at that time were not sure how to read that rule and told a lot of guys not to or even they were not allowed to wear a jockstrap at all, and most high schools for sure stopped supplying them at that time. Those guys are the college wrestlers of today. The current high school guys who were not around when that rule went into place just know they can't go to weigh in naked or wearing a jock like their older brothers or Dads used to. They don't have that initial ban on jocks mentality.

 

[JohnDoeXXXm]

Strap lines are very masculine, as is the wide band over your shorts in back so sometimes some bare cheeks show...

 

[Tony56]

The worst thing at happened to jockstraps from a wrestlers standpoint was when they ruled it as not an acceptable undergarment for weigh in and skin checks.

Why were jockstraps ruled unacceptable for weigh ins?

 

[wrestlecoach]

Part of it was under the excuse title IX acceptance I think. Allow girls on a boys team and make them equal. Therefor no more boys naked or with their hind ends showing. Although I am not sure how they think a bunch of teenage boys in their underwear is much better.

The previous rule was they could wear "no more" than an undergarment, and there was a rationale for that. Weigh-ins also are when wrestlers undergo checks for skin conditions such as ringworm. It is a total body check of limbs and torsos.
"They didn't want you covering up some kind of communicable skin condition,"

Now its "competitors must weigh in wearing "suitable" undergarments."
That means something covering the buttocks, groin and (in the case of girls) the breasts.

 

[1120370]

I never wrestled but I like to cycle a lot, and when I was getting into it - a lot of the guys I would ride with would tell me (when I asked) that a jock strap was the best option when It came to what to wear under a singlet. We would wear something similar to a wrestling singlet but maybe a bit thicker in fabric, I think the slang term is bibs?

 

[deleted300444]

I had the privilege to attend a major college wrestling championship last year. The weigh ins were hidden, but I happened to see many of the guys in a holding area getting ready for their respective weigh ins. But there, was not a jockstrap in sight. There were briefs, both white and colored, plenty of short compression shorts and even boxers. I cannot imagine wrestling in loose boxers?
So what gives with these athletes and what they wear underneath their singlets?

I can't believe that jocks are not the go to undergear for wrestling singlets. However, not surprised, as so many basket ball players where compression shorts.

Sounding like others...."in my day".....we were issued jock straps for gym class....however, not a mandatory wear requirement for gym class...yet if you were on the wrestling team...and I was...jock was required for all practice, period.

 

[Abagnale12]

I had the privilege to attend a major college wrestling championship last year. The weigh ins were hidden, but I happened to see many of the guys in a holding area getting ready for their respective weigh ins. But there, was not a jockstrap in sight. There were briefs, both white and colored, plenty of short compression shorts and even boxers. I cannot imagine wrestling in loose boxers?
So what gives with these athletes and what they wear underneath their singlets?

I wore nothing under mine...

 

[MiddleCountryMo]

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this is the wwe wrestler charlie haas sporting a very see through singlet with some nice jockstrap lines

 

[RLJR]

Some guys wear undies, some nothing at all.

 

[Bennyboi147]

Some guys wear undies, some nothing at all.View attachment 1456108 View attachment 1456109

The second one is totally photoshopped.

 

[RLJR]

The second one is totally photoshopped.

This one is photoshopped

 

[DSF140]

This one is photoshopped

Yes, it is photo shopped, which is a shame because the rest of the pic is hot as fuck.

 

[RLJR]