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I would start off by trying to organize an inter squad meet with your own guys. Try to make it as similar to a high school dual meet if possible. Get a mat out into a gym, have all the families come to watch and get them acclimated to what a match would be like. If they handle that well, then moving on to more friendship type meets with other Muncie area clubs.

We set them up to where a club will come and just have live wrestling for an hour and let them get as many matches, without the full formal tournament pressure and get mat time against other wrestlers.

4 hours ago, Mattyb said:

Got Franklin Central too. They’ve been making some noise of late.

 

What?????...... too soon???

HA, that's funny. If only that was actually me that posted that noise, but I'm pretty sure I know who did. Wish they would have just put their name on it.

FC did have some tough wrestlers at the Capital City Classic. Add them and should be a good conference tournament.

1 hour ago, Bigtoe19 said:

Sir, with all due Respect. You need to do some research in the Youth section. There is a fabulous section every year on incoming Freshman that will make an IMPACT.  Yes the Region has a lot of talent. But your are overlooking 3 of the TOP 5!!

 

      Jones (BBurg) , Purdy (Castle) & Schoeff (Avon) will make a run at a Berth to go to State in their Weight classes ! BT19

Was going to say the youth section has been pretty good over the past few years with info on quality middle school wrestlers.

4 minutes ago, SWINfan said:

You on a computer or the App on your phone?  

If you are on your computer, pull up Track Wrestling and on the dashboard, click on the video camera icon on each match and it will take you right to ESPN's stream.  You'll have to log in but once you do, you can do the same for all mats.  Right now, I have 5 of the 8 mats on different tabs on my laptops. 

Thanks, must be something on my end as it keeps redirecting me to espn.com and not pulling up the live stream.

I can't seem to be getting mine to pull up online. Anyone have a direct link that is working?

12 minutes ago, Mattyb said:

Here my point. Don’t make it about winning and losing. Make it about a day with your family and hopefully a day of making friends.

 

This right here. I think a lot of people are getting caught up in notion, that they have to be competing at age 4 and competing all the time sometimes two tournaments a weekend, to be a good wrestler later. The tournaments should be about the experience at youngs, from 4 up to say around 10-12. Take them to a few meets, let them hang out with teammates and build a bond early with each other. Even if they lose both matches right off the bat, let them hang out and cheer on their teammates for a little longer.

Once they start approaching middle school age level, if you ask them if they're ready to step up and they are, then let them start cranking out tournaments left and right. You don't want to burn them out before they even get there though. Make it fun for the little guys and quit worrying about getting them 40+ matches. How many guys have we seen recently have very little experience prior to HS and still doing well at IHSAA State Finals?

Let them be kids and gauge their mental capabilities on how much they can handle once they start getting into the middle school age.

Awesome to see a high school team add wrestling. Hope you find someone that will make big strides with the opportunity.

Step out rule would be nice but i can see that adding more length to a day.

College out of bounds rules would be great.

30 seconds of inactivity or advancement to fall position from top man, back to neutral no escape point though.

11 hours ago, redcobra said:

This error had nothing to do with the IHSAA ... they have been busting it on your behalf and are working hard to make this a great experience for everyone.   If you have to throw someone under the bus throw me.  Mark Durham.  The buck for this TW mistake has to land somewhere.   They were built this morning while I was in transit from some Evansville events back to Indy ... I should have pulled over at the Exit 87 Country Mark gas station on I69 south and checked them before they went public.   I didn't.   As it turns out they were set-up correctly, but there is a little check-box at the bottom of the build screen that says, more or less, "use saved lines instead of default lines" ... well, it needs to be checked and wasn't.   And you know the rest of the story.   Again, I am sorry.   

The "Show" was fantastic.  

Running a tournament is never just a simple thing as many people would expect. I've ran a few smaller tournaments, nothing to the magnitude of the ones you run. The ongoing list of options they have of situating a tournament can easily be over looked. A lot goes into preparing for such tournaments. Mistakes happen and you owned up to it. I think I can say it on behalf of many folks here, we certainly appreciate all the work you do to get these things situated and running. Trackwrestling is a gift and a curse sometimes, but doesn't take away all the hard work the tournament staff and directors put into it.

With a bunch of fun going Evansville fans this past Saturday, it's the first time I've heard the crowd start yelling stalling on a computer. Not sure I ever saw officials warn the computer for the stalling though.

With the right setup, you can watch all four mats at the same time. Year I wasn't able to make it, I had two mats going on one computer and two more going on our tv (through our Xbox.)

Some people got happy for a minute when they saw the change thinking it might have actually changed.

I still remember seeing some wrestlers coming into state finals in the early 2000's with 50,55 plus matches. I thought our almost 25+ was a lot, then see these guys with twice as many matches.

Awesome to see this. Daughter is only 7 and enjoying every minute of wrestling. Hopefully both her joy of wrestling continues along with women's wrestling continuing to grow. Would be great for her to have the same opportunities as the guys once they graduate from HS.

I remember watching some of these matches. Those were some long days, and was impressed how well some of those middle school kids wrestled. What's even more impressive is how much MS wrestling competition is getting better and deeper. Those middle weights at MS state are usually a pretty long tough road to win in those big brackets.

Impressive list of guys on there.

On 1/29/2019 at 11:29 PM, tskin said:

What sectionals was that at? 

Mooresville Sectional.

With the weekend he had, he's got my vote. I guess being a wrestler helps.

Just curios, how many girl's some of you have in your program?

Currently Greenwood HS has 0. Middle school has 2 and our club has 2.

I'm looking and trying to figure how to recruit more. It's not as easy as walking over to a football field. I'm wondering those with big #'s, what avenue did you guys take to get those #'s up?

Since this seems to be nothing but openings for elementary duals teams lately, I thought it'd be nice to get back to some more conversation.

What are some of your favorite drills for your youth wrestlers?

For newer/little kids, I like to do pretty basic drill where bottom man works up from belly to base, while top guy has hands behind back trying to get chest pressure right in middle of back. Once wrestler comes up to base, they drop to belly and top man jumps to other side. I don't really have a name for the drill but helps little guys learn good chest position, balance and bottom guy builds base with some pressure coming down on him.

Very few if any AAU individual tournaments. Mostly USA Wrestling sponsored tournaments through the states local association, here it's ISWA.

As of now, there are a lot of club dual meets in November and December with individual tournaments starting up in mid-late December and running through ISWA state in March.

As for out of state events/wrestlers, it depends on each tournament. A lot of tournaments, like ours will allow out of state wrestlers. The only tournaments I know where they are restricted to in state wrestlers, are ISWA State and IHSWCA Middle School state tournaments, not sure on Ohio's policies.

Whoever is competing will need a USA wrestling card if you don't already have one. www.usawmembership.com

Here's what my parents did for the CPMS wrestling room several years ago.

As part of all of this still unfolds, I'm still curious about other assistant coaches? I know Hellickson has been mentioned and seemed to give his part in reports, but I haven't seen much on other assistant coaches. Was there only 2 coaches during this time period? I understand Jordan is a political figure and once you go there crap hits the fan, but I haven't seen anything being reported about other coaches at the time. What is their point of view, did they hear anything from wrestlers, and did they hear anything from wrestlers?

Edit::

Found some stuff from other coaches, but the media is certainly going after Jordan more so than other coaches.

“What has been said about Jim Jordan is absolutely wrong,” the six coaches said in the statement. “We all worked on the wrestling coaching staff during Jim’s tenure at The Ohio State University. None of us saw or heard of abuse of OSU wrestlers.”

On 4/24/2018 at 8:44 AM, gogoplata89 said:

Wow, that sucks.

Yea, I know they are looking to fill it ASAP, so if anyone is interested, submit those applications now.

Well you can open up the Whiteland position again. Williams had a change of heart the day after it was announced. Got the ol Josh McDaniel’d. So Whiteland is back to looking for a new head coach. 

https://www.applitrack.com/centralindiana/onlineapp/jobpostings/view.asp?district=1464&category=Athletics%2FActivities

This weekend is Tournament of Champions in Ohio which always has tough competition. Lots of IN guys on the list.

32 minutes ago, Y2CJ41 said:

Here is information on Whiteland's new coach
http://cpcsdin.apptegy.us/article/46976?org=athletics

The Athletic Department would like to welcome our new wrestling coach Travis Williams to the Warrior Family.  Coach Williams comes to us from Clifton, IL (Central HS) where he has been the head coach for the past 11 seasons.  This past season he took 6 wrestlers to the Illinois state championships where he had a runner-up and a 3rd place finisher.  He earned his degree's at Olivet Nazarene University and will be teaching Social Studies at WCHS.  Welcome Coach Williams!!   

Dang Joe. Can't even let me announce our own program's news? Faster trigger finger's than Pistol Pete.