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If you are talking from the beginning of season to what you want to wrestle that is fine. But if you are naturally weighing 10 to 15 pounds more than you wrestle then honestly that is a problem. That is the whole reason the rules got put in place so kids didn't do that type of cut. I did that cut in high school and even worse in college. I would hope that people are not cheating the fat charts and allowing wrestlers to still do this.

Let's think of it this way. We are supposed to only be allowed to let a wrestler lose 1.5% a week because that is the healthy thing to do. A 138 pound wrestler should be allowed to lose 2.07 a week. Divide that by 7 days that is approximately .3 pounds a day. So you miss one day of practice you get 1 pound allowance. I can buy that because the .3 pounds puts you over your target. If you miss 2 days of practice you get 2 pounds which should be, if you are doing your charts right .6 pounds. I am okay with the 1 pound. I am not okay with the 2 pounds because I think it goes against the whole point of the monitoring weight and the math doesn't come close to adding up.

I don't feel sad for those poor frail near-adults that made the decision to cut weight to make a certain class. You can't have it both ways. There is an absolute reason for weight classes.

If your walls are drywall in the basement I highly highly recommend wall mats unless you are good at patching drywall. I can send you some nice pictures.

I say no to the weight allowance because kids shouldn't be cutting that much. They already have 2 pounds from after Christmas. But that's just me. If they get 2 pounds more that is a total of 4 pounds, that is almost a whole different weight class.

Oh he is real. Decent wrestler and coach. But he is getting a little old.

@dadslifeof3 don't let @Y21AB troll you. He did and does bleed PH red and black and fully understands how everything works. He just gets bored this time of the year and likes to pop back on the board and mess with people.

Any reason we can't try to make this happen?

My only question would be does it bother the wrestlers that just lost in the State finals to immediately have a mic shoved in their face. It's a pretty big moment for the wrestler and they may need some time to comprehend everything that just happened. But maybe I am just soft.

Robert also said he was pushing for the awards to be on the podium but that the powers to be really liked being able to hand out the awards after the matches. Trev let me know if I heard that wrong.

With the pools are there usually enough lanes for both to practice at the same time?

Here is a question. If it is sanctioned can the girls still practice with the boys? If not this causes some interesting challenges. Facility use and scheduling is the first that come to mind. During season many schools have youth programs that use the same room and mats. So there would be days that you would need to schedule girls practice, boys practice, then youth club practice. I can't think of any schools that only have one basketball court but on the other hand I don't know any schools that have more than one wrestling room. Then coaching challenges come in. It is already hard enough to find coaches let alone quality coaches to help with programs. This would add even more time and resources that are necessary. As far as the benefit for girls go at first this might be a step back. The State of Indiana had 2 Olympic wrestlers and that came from practicing and competing against boys. It will be quite a while before girl wrestling is built up enough for them to get the same competition they have now. Offseason will be able to offset much of this and possibly the solution would be to have the season offset from the current season to help with some of these things. The other thing is the reality of getting to 5 wrestlers on 120 teams before this is sanctioned by the IHSAA and financially supported is going to be challenging for sure. We had 2 girls before covid and we lost them during that time. We have a couple in the youth program. But to be honest wrestling is just now becoming a more popular thing to do in our school for the boys let alone the girls. So getting girls out is also an issue for some schools. On top of that listening to Katie Kriebel at the ISWCA meeting was enlightening on how you should coach girls differently and I feel she had some very valid points. As a male I struggle to understand my wife all the time and we have been together for over 20 years. I personally don't have daughters so this is an arena that may need some honest guidance if you want to do it right especially for those of us without daughters. Concerning funds someone told me that California didn't dedicate funds to girls wrestling but instead they took the boys funds and split it and from what I heard the boys numbers dropped. I can't find anything to back this up so please don't take it as a fact. I just think it needs to be looked at holistically from the top down and look at what the challenges and the possible outcomes will be for every school. The good and the bad. I am supportive of all things wrestling. Including girls wrestling, especially after watching how good Juliano Ocampo is. I would really like to see it be it's own thing. I am sure there are a ton more people that have put more thought into than me and I would be happy to part of a much larger conversation of how to implement this successfully.

Look through all 1000 posts that I have posted in the last however many years this forum has been around and find one where I dog a kid or wish them anything bad. You will not find it. It's just not in my character. Obviously you know what I have been trying to help do in the area. If you ever have any confusion with my intentions please feel free to just come and talk to me personally. I am pretty easy going dude as long as it isn't in middle of a wrestling match.

Wow slow your roll. It means there is no way to tell how bad it is from the stands. Like the commercial if you stay at a Holiday Express you can be smarter than a doctor. No ill will wished here. I am part of the fan club. In the background I have asked a few people how he is doing. So chill please.

Bottom line it is supposed to be random. First round 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 then times that by 4.

Yep you gotta be the guy!

The way it usually works as a coach and a wrestler. If there is a draw you are dreading the worst you will probably get it.

Yeah there is a special kind of bug going around nailing everyone. Went through our team pretty hard. Helped some of our wrestlers cut some weight though.

You can talk to your close friends and ask. Maybe they will let you check out their account. I personally like Rudis+. But to be honest I am little tired of watching wrestling at the moment.

I was thinking about Connersville this weekend while Track kept crashing and at times we had to wait 10 minutes or more between individual matches to begin. Or when there was a break in the match. I have experienced this at every tournament I have been to in the last few months. Sometimes old school can just be better. I am pretty sick of tournaments relying on their Wifi connection and being connected to Track. Coming from a guy that setups and fixes networks for a living there are too many things that can go wrong, especially when things aren't setup right. I have decided to write a program called cached wrestling that doesn't rely on the internet and will upload the data when it is available. Caprino said he would be my business partner.

All for the price of a magazine!!!! This is a very slippery slope...........................

Tough wrestler. He wrestled us well.

I find this to be very beneficial also. I have always ran an open practice for the youth. Gives you the ability to reach the parents with what you are coaching also. It also keeps everything very transparent. That is a huge challenge. To my knowledge many states allow you to practice with other kids from other schools in a club environment outside the school system during season. Don't even bring this up to the IHSAA. They will never budge on this but I think it could be huge for wrestlers like yours in that situation.

I have ran more sharks and minnows games and hashima than probably anyone I know. I have been coaching for 25 years and I have a pretty good retention rate along with my programs fielding a good number of wrestlers. There needs to be different levels of wrestling for different ages. But… focusing on fun at the upper levels is just lying to the kids about what it will take. I built a place that is full multimedia to help reach the video age wrestlers. As far as the drug abuse situations that takes getting personal relationships with the kids. Like Joe said each kid is reached differently.