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Great Job!  I am glad you enjoyed it!  It does really make it special for the kids especially for some of those kids on your team that may never get the ability to wrestle at state or under the lights.

With the great Drizzle Storm of 2017 causing it to get canceled last year it is not looking good.

That is awesome!  We have tinkered with it the last 2 years and I think we have some changes for next year.  If you have a team Facebook page you can live stream from there as well but there just won't be any commentary.

The one thing we have struggled with is getting the media to our event.  We invite every newspaper in the area and even try some television stations and can't get anyone out.  It's pretty frustrating.

Good luck with your event and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me!

1 hour ago, TeamGarcia said:

Also MD will win the best HS restrooms in the State in the hottest gym . 2 years I went there I was like D@mn....  this is nice! 

Walk back out the doors Your in 1960’s hot Gym . Lol. 

Love the tradition on the walls .  Absolutely Perfect will miss seeing  that. 

 

Being a coach and on the floor and in the locker rooms all day, I didn't know those restrooms existed for a number of years.  The first time I walked in I honestly thought I had been transported to a different universe. 

Huge Thanks to Bloomington South for traveling to southern Indiana on a Wednesday night.  The Final Score was Bloomington South 36 vs Floyd Central 25.  Match count was 7 to 7 with Bloomington winning the bonus point battle.  The atmosphere was awesome with the lights, sound, and state finals announcer Kevin Whitehead calling the action.  The matches were just as exciting as the atmosphere.  It was a great night for wrestling.  We (Floyd Central) are excited about getting to compete in their Regional this year.

Also shout out to the Madison youth program and Silver Creek Middle School (Local Start up team) for coming out and being the opening act.  Just like the varsity there was a lot of exciting matches.

If you would like to watch the action it is has been posted to our Facebook Page.

Floyd Central High School is once again doing "Rage on The Stage"  This is an idea that we took from some of the college programs around the country.  We will be wrestling Bloomington South in our Schools auditorium.  Floyd Central has a nationally recognized theater program and they help us put on a really god show with lights and music.

This Year we will be wrestling the Bloomington South Panthers!!

We have State Finals veteran official Kevin Hulsman to officiate and we have also landed the State Finals announcer Kevin Whitehead to announce this event.

If your are in the Southern Indiana Area you should really come check out this event.  We also plan on running Facebook live.  So like our page here Floyd Central Facebook Page to watch.

Dec. 13th

Youth/Middle School 5pm

JV 6:30pm

Varsity Face Offs: 7:00pm

Live drilling is a little different than what we consider sparring.  Sparring we go about 75% and always move through positions. Live Drilling is something I picked up when Reggie Wright was one of my coaches at IU.  I thought they were miserable and would always prefer wrestling live, hence why we now incorporate them.

You should be finishing at match speed but instead of simply cutting your opponent the guy getting takedown has to roll over and stand up.  Same guy does takedowns the entire time.  We usually go :30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 1:30, 1:00, :30.  The intensity is often dictated by how quickly the guy getting takedown gets up.

Once one guy goes it is the other guys turn.  We will do it where 1 guy does the entire pyramid then the other guy or where we alternate and each guy does the time.

I hope this helps.  It gives the feeling and conditioning of match speed but is also way lower risk of injury.

We are probably 75% drilling and 25% live at the beginning of the season.  As the season moves towards the post season those percentages flip.  We also incorporate live drilling which I believe is significantly more difficult than wrestling live. 

Go to the Ihsaa website and check out a lot of the wrestling information.  Go to the 2017-2018 tab.  There is info on dates, weight requirements etc.  I'd read the weight management, winter bulletin, and make sure the coach does the online rules meeting.

http://www.ihsaa.org/Sports/Boys/Wrestling/tabid/74/Default.aspx#21062242-2017-18

Brad made it to the Spider wall were it eventually slipped.  Unfortunately his run did not make the cut even though some people falling on the first obstacle did!!!  I'm sure he will try again next year as he's developed the itch.

As a fun side note every year we head out to Terry Spine's, Brad's dad and one of our youth coaches, house and run an obstacle course through his woods to kick off our season.  I am excited to see what new and crazy obstacles they have for us this year as I know they built some new ones to help Brad train.

In case you missed it Brad qualified for the Vegas finals last night.  Not bad for his first season!!

Just an update if you are interested.

If you don't go blind from the impending solar eclipse on Monday Aug 21st you can watch Brad Spine on the finals episode of Kansas City that night.

We are told that he should be getting some airtime in this episode.

Stinks we didn't get to see his run. He said he fell at the very end of the bar hop right before the warp wall. 

From talking to Brad I believe he will be featured more in the Kansas City finals episode that airs Aug 14th. 

And interview with Brad about the upcoming show on Monday!

http://www.wave3.com/story/35791869/floyd-county-man-competes-on-american-ninja-warrior#.WVd1f_fHqys.facebook

Tune in or set your DVR to American Ninja Warrior next Monday, July 3rd, at 8pm to watch former Floyd Central Wrestler Brad Spine compete. We don't know how he did but if you've seen any of his videos he probably fared okay. 

Congrats Michael!!  It has been a long time coming.  Coach Weimer is going to do an amazing job!  I hope the people of Noblesville High School like passion because he's bring a lot of it!!

This is a classless way to do business on the part of the IHSAA.  That is about as simple as I can put it and not be in danger of being banned from this site.

I totally agree!!!  Is this something the Coaches Association recommends or do does bringing this up just make us look like the whiny wrestling coaches?  Would bringing this up hold us back on other requests?

Here is the real question.  If you let a 106, 113, 120, 126 pounders to weigh 2 over does the weighin the following week count as a qualifying weighin because all 4 of those weight classes would have to lose more than 1.5% in order to get back down to their weight class the following week.  I know when we ran into this this year I only allowed those guys 1lb just to be safe.

I believe we have the JV refs figured out.

We ended up losing an extremely tight and exciting dual to St. X last night 28-34.

The video of the event is posted on our Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/floydcentralwrestling/

The varsity portion starts about 2 hours and 20 minutes in. You will be able to get a feel for the sound, lighting and everything.

Live stream is up and running on the Facebook page pages above!

Sounds cool...We use to wrestle St.X at a cathedral 5 way dual...They always had some quality guys..I actually wrestled Isaac Knable that went ended up at IU...Good luck and send them packing bk to the bluegrass state withat a L!

Isaac Knable grew up in our youth program before attending St. X. Isaac and I were also teammates at IU. Our dual is usually very competitive with emotions running high!

We are breaking out some pretty awesome custom singlets for this dual thanks to EI Sports!!!!  Hope to see a lot of local Southern Indiana wrestling fans tomorrow night!

We are taking a play our of some of the college programs playbook the past few year and The #19 Floyd Central Highlanders will be wrestling the #3(KY) St. Xavier Tigers on our auditorium stage on Dec 23rd. The Floyd Central vs St. X dual is always a fun and exciting dual and we have decided to amp it up a notch this year. Our middle school programs will start the program, then a few JV matches and varsity will be the main event.

I know that is is the date of the IHSWCA team state but if anyone is close to the Southern Indiana area this will be an amazing high school wrestling event to attend. We have a national recognized theater program that has agreed to work with us on sound and lighting as well.

Our Facebook page will have updates and reminders next week. We also plan on trying to run a Facebook Live feed from our Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/floydcentralwrestling/

Hope to see you guys there!!!

I think developing a crowd and a more intense atmosphere for week night or even weekend duals (Quads possibly) would be great for the sport.  My eyes were really opened to this just this year.  We (Floyd Central) hosted our HHC Duals on Friday and Saturday, we typically only host the Friday portion of the event and its always a fun atmosphere.  On Friday night 4 teams wrestle 2 duals. 1st Round Floyd vs Jeffersonville and New Albany vs Jennings County with the 2nd round be Floyd vs Jennings and Jeff vs New Albany.

On Friday night our gym was packed with friends, family, and alumni from the 3 local schools.  So much so that people were having trouble finding places to sit.  The atmosphere was fun, loud and intense.  I talked to my AD that night I said man the crowd was awesome and that we might be in trouble for Saturday with seating since 4 more teams were coming with JVs.

9am Saturday rolls around with the addition of 4 more teams and there was plenty of seating.  Yeah those friends and people trickled in throughout the day but the atmosphere was not nearly as fun as the night before.

I am with the everyone else in that I don't want to drop a weekend dual like calumet where my wrestlers have a chance to see multiple state ranked teams and individuals.  But I do think there is something to be said for making wrestling more of a fan friendly sport and there has to be a happy medium.  A weekend quad or tri against tough teams might be solution.  I believe if we can get people to matches more consistently it would for sure help the numbers.

Also as a coach when I try to think when my wrestlers get banged up and injured the most it is for sure after a long weekend and if it isn't the first its the 2nd or 3rd long weekend in a row we wrestle.