Typically when you hear the term “three outs” as a sports metaphor, your mind immediately thinks of baseball: “Three strikes and you’re out!” This metaphor generally means that you have three shots at making a mistake and then you’re in trouble. While this usage can come in handy quite often, I now like John Wooden’s […]
Practice schedules are tight. Youth wrestling coaches must get a lot done with little time and resources. As a result, assigning young wrestlers homework may be the best way to get them to develop their mental skills with the least amount of disruption to the normal practice routine. Specifically, there are 5 mental skills youth […]
One of the things I always say is that youth sports reveals character in children, it doesn’t build character. It’s up to parents and coaches to build character using youth sports as the classroom. With this intention in mind, there are three character traits in particular I think good coaches consistently use youth sports as […]