There are three types of practice methods wrestling coaches widely use to teach skills in youth and high school wrestling: Repetitive drilling Video review Structured play However, by far, repetitive drilling is the method that nearly all wrestling coaches not only prefer but rely on almost exclusively. This is a mistake. Youth and high school […]
Jordan Burroughs is the greatest American freestyle wrestler of this generation. He is an Olympic wrestling champion, a 5x world champion, and just won his 9th world medal in total. Yesterday, in his post-match interview, Burroughs dropped several meaningful nuggets of wisdom, so I highly recommend you watch the full video. However, one short quote […]
The mindset of a wrestler who keeps looking at the clock during a match is an outcome mindset. When a wrestler has an outcome mindset, they tend to orient their focus on the future instead of the present. In addition, an outcome mindset debilitates performance as these wresters orient their locus of control on external […]