Wrestling is a complex mix of team and individual sport. Unlike most team sports your coach won’t be watching your every move at practice. Your expedition can get bumpy, there is no one out there with you in tough matches, no one to help you. Everyone including world champions take lumps, this can be very […]
Category: wrestling life
How Participation Trophies Are Making Our Kids Soft
How Youth Sports Are Making Our Kids Soft “There are no points for second place.” Those words may fly at elite military institutions like Top Gun, in moments winning can mean the difference between life and death, but it is not the case in youth sports leagues across America, where kids get points for coming […]
Here’s what I know so far this season.
1. The national title is up for grabs. This might be the most wide-open field in modern history. With all the factors accounted for (injuries, freshman adjustments, coaching up or down, peaking) I can see scenarios that could lead to 4-5 different teams winning the title in March. 2. The same can be said at […]
Christmas Gift Guide for your wrestler. Update
So you’ve got a wrestler in the family? Or two? That’s a great reason to consider some of these ideas for the holidays: (Much of this will be age and experience related.) Stocking Stuffers: 1. Tea tree oil soap and shampoo – anti-fungal for ring worm or other mat funk. 2. A good multi vitamin […]
Christmas Gift Guide for your wrestler.
So you’ve got a wrestler in the family? Or two? That’s a great reason to consider some of these ideas for the holidays: (Much of this will be age and experience related.) Stocking Stuffers: 1. Tea tree oil soap and shampoo – anti-fungal for ring worm or other mat funk. 2. A good multi vitamin […]
E:60 ESPN Narrated by Dan Gable
https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11792437
Zach Sheaffer Talks Drexel Wrestling
10 Laws Of Self-Reliance Needy People Hate
Isaiah Hinkel is a former wrestler and is currently an over achiever. “Where did our sages get the idea that man have normal desires? What made them imagine that man must necessarily wish what is sensible and advantageous? What man needs is only his own independent wishing, whatever […]
The True Value of Sport
Eric Morris has a good piece about wrestling and his life over at the Huffington Post. Morris is a PA wrestler that graduated from Wyoming Seminary and is now attending Harvard University. Every year, around 400,000 college students sign their name on dense compilations of written rules and regulations issued by the NCAA. These rules […]