r/wrestling

My son recently started at a new club as his previous is a youth, k-8 club only and he will be going into high school next year.

He made really big jumps at his previous clubs the last two years. They were very detailed oriented. First part of practice would be coach showing technique and drilling with staff going around room correcting. They would always finish with some live periods.

At his new club, it's completely different. Very little drilling or technique being taught. A lot of situation live and live wrestling. I don't really see the coaches correcting or coaching during these periods.

I did ask a coach about it and he said they like doing learning by exposure. Put the kids into live situations and have them work through it and figure out ways to score and what works best for you.

This new club has very good reputation, really strong kids in the room, and always produce hammers. Problem is my son is continuing to express frustration about how the practices are set up and feeling like he is not getting coaching/learning new technique. I've been keeping an open-mind and telling him that he is most likely improving, even though it may not feel that way just by wrestling really talented kids in these live situations.

Is this type of coaching/predominantly live practices effective?

How big of a weight gap do you think it takes for wrestling to stop being effective for wrestlers against people? How many pounds?

Seems like David Taylor was slenderman in college. He dominated people with his lankiness.

But then on the world stage he transformed into a stocky wrestler.

Does anyone know why? I’m a stocky bulldog who hated wrestling tall skinnies.

I’m a junior in hs.

Junior was my first year wrestling next is my last year of hs.

I have a system for neutral and top already.

Just need to refine fundamentals a bit more.

And add a mix of chain wrestling drills.

My goal is to become an Olympic gold medalist super far I know.

My first step is to qualify and win state champion.

Neutral Im finding my rhythm in scrambling,

Not advanced scrambling yet.

Bottom is where I get discouraged so I joined a jiu jitsu gym for knowledge since it’s difficult at least for me to find proper bottom manuals/videos.

My nearest wrestling gym is a hour away unfortunately.

So much talk just to say where do you learn bottom and advanced scrambling videos

Next year will be my sophomore year and i’m aiming to wrestle 133 (last season i wrestled 133 then 127 after Christmas), right now in april i’m waking up at around 142 (a lot of it most likely bloat). I know it’s a long time until next season, but say i get to 145-148 in the summer, would it still be reasonable to try for 133 without totally draining myself? Right now i’m probably barely eating above maintenance calories, so i’m not really overeating.

Hey guys, Freestyle and greco season just started and i took around a month and a week or two off wrestling because somehow every single gym near me was closed until then, so now im back to wrestling and the guys who i could takedown with ease are giving me issues, what do i do? im a junior in hs this is my second year doing offseason and i wrestled varsity at a 3a level if this helps in any way. i’m looking for any and all help thanks in advance

Any idea why no one except fake is registered? Are they just doing the trials?