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Multi-time World Team member and 2016 Olympian Robby Smith (130 kg, NYAC) is leaving the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs — his home for 13 years — to join 2014 World Teamer Joe Rau (87 kg) at the Chicago Regional Training Center on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Rau, 27, had previously competed for Minnesota Storm, the famed wrestling club in which he got his start upon graduating from Elmhurst College five years ago.

Five Point Move returns as hosts Tim Hands and Dennis Hall talk with U.S. World Team members Adam Coon and Ellis Coleman as they prepare for the 2018 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary in October.

Five Point Move hosts Tim Hands and Dennis Hall talk with Williams Baptist Greco coach Jonathan Drendel and past U.S. World Team member Cheney Haight.

Five Point Move hosts Tim Hands and Dennis Hall talk with Andrew Berreyesa and Brandon Mueller.

Five Point Move returns with hosts Tim Hands and Dennis Hall to talk about the upcoming U.S. Open with Spenser Mango and Joe Uccellini

Northern Michigan's Dalton Roberts chimes in on the most recent episode of the FivePointMove Podcast.

Five Point Move returns with hosts Tim Hands and guest host Joe Rau as they visit with a two more great guests on Episode 13 -- RaVaughn Perkins and John Stefanowicz.

Five Point Move returns with hosts Tim Hands and Dennis Hall as they visit with a pair of accomplished Greco-Roman stars, Max Nowry and Pat Smith. Stories abound, so strap in and don't get thrown.

Randy Couture, a two-time U.S. Greco-Roman World Team member and former UFC champion joins Dennis Hall and Tim Hands on FivePointMove.

The Flying Squirrel, Ellis Coleman, joins the Five Point Move Podcast with host Tim Hands to talk about the state of Greco, his career and of course, the rules. Coleman's represented the U.S. on both World and Olympic teams in his career.

The dynamite Junior World Champion Kamal Bey joins Dennis Hall and Tim Hands for Episode 9 of the FivePointMove Podcast. An Illinois native, Bey has been training at the U.S. Olympic Training Center since his senior year of high school. The dynamic force scored 61 points en route to winning the Junior World title in Tampere, Finland in August.

Two-time Olympian and six-time U.S. World Team member Spenser Mango joins Dennis Hall and Tim Hands for Episode 8 of the FivePointMove Podcast. Topics are simple: The 2017 World Championships in Paris.

Northern Michigan coach and two-time World bronze medalist Andy Bisek joins Naval Academy assistant coach Nate Engel on Episode 7 of the Five Point Move podcast. Topics include the upcoming Greco-Roman World Championships, Engel's participation in the Maccabiah Games and whether or not Bisek has a hammock.

Never one to hold back, Ben Provisor joins Tim Hands and Dennis Hall on the latest episode of the Five Point Move podcast. Provisor has trained with Hall since he was a tike and the two-time Olympian is readying for his first World Championships appearance. (Language warning)

Episode 5 of “The Five Point Move Podcast” brings to you the one and only Robby Smith (NYAC), the popular bearded heavyweight who has enjoyed a dominant stay atop the pecking order at 130 kilograms in the US. Now a four-time US World Team member following his Olympic run in 2016, Smith dished on a variety of topics pertaining to his career while providing entertaining tidbits to serve as context. All of the major bulletpoints are hit including his move up to 120 kilos (now 130) from 96 after 2012, his coming-out party at the 2015 World Championships, training for Rio, and where he sees his career headed through the remainder of the current quad.It has been an especially interesting time in Smith’s career as of late. Following the Rio Games he required surgery on his wrist, a trying period that kept him off the mat. The forced respite also affected his psyche. Once he finally resumed training after the new year, an ankle sprain popped up and derailed his progress. But Smith persevered. In March, he returned to

Greco-Roman world teamer Cheney Haight joins the show to talk with Tim Hands and Dennis Hall after his time off and return to wrestling to make the 2017 U.S. Greco-Roman World Team.

Multiple-time Greco-Roman world teamer Joe Betterman joins the show to talk with Tim Hands and Dennis Hall about life after competition and the World Team Trials.

The second episode of the Five Point Move Podcast is up and ready. For our first guest, we wanted to get a Greco-Roman athlete who accomplished big things on the mat, big things off the mat and more than anything, is just a genuinely great person — that’s why it’s two-time Olympian and six-time World Team member Spenser Mango. Now an assistant coach for the Army/WCAP, the team in which he finished his career and experienced plenty of high points with, Mango opens up about how he has felt so far in his early post-retirement along with some of the challenges (and advantages) he faces in his emerging coaching career.Also involved are USA Wrestling’s new modifications to the United World Wrestling Greco-Roman rule-set. This includes the new emphasis on “hooking” as well as the new caution-and-two on the table for the second call on finger-grabbing. Needless to say, co-host Dennis Hall has some reactions to this topic that are worth the price of admission. Other aspects of Mango’s career and a couple of stories bo

SHARE TWEET SHARE EMAIL COMMENTSAfter a good deal of planning and some confusing yet necessary on-the-job training, the very first episode of the “Five Point Move Podcast” is finally here. Myself (Tim) along with co-host 1995 World Champion and 1996 Olympic silver medalist Dennis Hall decided this was the right time to get going in this direction, what with everything going on currently.The maiden episode includes some thoughts on the 98 kilogram weight class in the United States ahead of the World Team Trials and banter regarding how Hall helps age-group competitors get comfortable with Greco. Also brought up is the college system and why it is often difficult to motivate collegians to participate in the classical style. Here, Hall reflects back on what his approach was when he qualified for the World Championships while a student at Wisconsin. Of course, other topics are tossed in occasionally for good measure.The sound quality is decent, but not perfect — that will be improved going forward. There are vari