Where were all you guys the last two years?
I ran a Purler Wrestling Academy, Foundations of Wrestling, weekly practice in Evansville, IN from October 2007 to December 2009. I stopped at the end of 2009 due to low attendance. When Nick Purler and I decided to close it down it was down to one student. This Foundations of Wrestling weekly practice was supplemental to your school or club practices and ran year round. I taught the Purler system and also had numerous one day Purler Takedown Camps as well as one day Purler Leg-Riding Camps. Nick Purler would e-mailed me the weekly practices. They were identical to the one's he and his brother Tony did at their weekly Foundations of Wrestling practices. It was for elementary, middle, and high school wrestlers. While Nick and Tony have waiting lists, I was struggling to have two, three, or four kids come consistently.
We thought Southern Indiana would be a hot bed for wrestling also, and that this weekly, year long academy would succeed. I advertised it on this web site, Indianamat.com, for the whole two years. I set out fliers and talked to hundreds of parents who liked the idea, but when push came to shove they did not come. If I had a dollar for every parent who called me and then did not show up, I could retire to sunny Florida.
I would like to have a Regional Training Site here in Evansville, IN also, but when I asked around someone told me they tried it and nobody came. Funny, this sounds familiar.
Good luck to you guys. I hope you figure it out. I would be more than willing to reopen if there is enough interest. Contact Nick Purler at www.purlerwrestling.com if you would like the Evansville, IN site to reopen.