Program to Save New Wrestling Parents Time, Money, and Headaches
Although I wrestled from elementary through high school, and played college football, there was a steep learning curve when I was a new wrestling parent nearly a decade ago. I made so many mistakes I can’t even count them.
Mistakes such as:
- Paying for private lessons my son didn’t need.
- Traveling around the country for wrestling tournaments that turned out to be a waste of time.
- Feeding my son the wrong things on tournament days.
- Bouncing from club to club chasing partners.
- Not having a thought out game plan for how to use wrestling to help my son become a better person.
These are just a few of the mistakes. Youth wrestling is full of landmines that parents must navigate and there is a hard way and easy way to figure this out. I took the hard way.
The Hard Way to Navigate Youth Wrestling
The hard way is to make the mistakes and hope you learn from them before you do too much damage to your kid. I was lucky. It turns out that I’m a pretty fast learner.
I recognized the errors in my approach before I did permanent damage to my two sons. They are now in year 8 and year 5 of their wrestling experiences. My older son bore the brunt of my mistakes. He was the guinea pig and my younger son received great benefits from this.
My younger son became a youth wrestling state champion in his second year of wrestling. My guinea pig son did not become a youth state champion until his 5th year of wrestling, which was the same year his younger brother won it as well.
The year both of my sons won youth state titles not so coincidentally coincides with the year I finally got it. Since then, my older son has won 2 additional state titles and is now a 3x youth state champion and my younger son is now a 2x youth state champion and a 3x finalist.
What’s even more important, they both love wrestling and both are learning to develop their self-motivation to keep getting better. These two points are not only critical, but are also now core to what I believe about raising youth wrestlers. It’s one thing to push your child to be a champion, it’s totally different to teach them how to push themselves.
The Easy Way to Navigate Youth Wrestling
The easy way to navigate youth wrestling is to learn from someone else’s mistakes and avoid the landmines altogether. Just as my younger son got all the benefits from the mistakes I made with his brother, your child can too.
Through my one on one family coaching program you can fast track yourself around the typical mistakes parents make. You can also save yourself time, money, and a whole lot of headaches. This coaching program is specifically for parents with children new to wrestling or with less than 3 years of experience.
To learn more about the details of this coaching program, the cost, and time commitment contact me here.