Christina Young is the Membership Director for Oklahoma USA Wrestling, and the mother of 15-year-old Carter Young, a 2017 USA Wrestling Cadet freestyle runner-up and Cadet Greco-Roman national champion at 94 pounds. She’s watched a lot of wrestling…
Competition is an important part wrestling; but it’s only one part. Competition in conjunction with training, drilling, and conditioning helps in the development of young wrestlers. Each area is as important as the next. With that being said,…
The one key and essential ingredient that is required to succeed in wrestling is self discipline. We talk often at practice about doing everything right. Training intensely, eating correctly, getting enough sleep, focusing on what you need to…
Goal setting is a process that the world’s best wrestlers learn and implement to achieve a top level of performance. It’s a powerful mental training technique that will have a profound impact on your wrestling as well as…
Train Hard The number one reason why wrestlers lack confidence in their abilities is because they simply don’t have enough to be confident about. Some wrestlers go through the motions during practice and don’t put forth the effort…
Constantly look to score. Focus on putting points on the board, not winning the match.Score the next point. Each moment of wrestling.Win the battle off the whistle. (top and bottom)Look to turn and pin (don’t just ride).Your tie…
MORNING – Weigh yourself and record in training log. *Determine how much you “float” each night between bedtime and morning weigh-in. Drink 1-2 glasses of water to replenish what you lost in your sleep that night. You may want…
Take 20 minutes and be brutally honest with yourself and you will have a good idea the area of your mindset you need to improve on. Take your time and think each question through. Goal Setting Do I…
1) Opponent Stands Up From Bottom. Do: Lift and Return Don’t: Pull them on top of you, Release easily or drop to legs and hold on. The Lift-n-Return is one of the prettiest moves in wrestling. You know you’re watching…
Now that most wrestlers have wrestled a significant number of matches it is time to evaluate your performance. It is critical that wrestlers improve from now until the end of the season and post season and to do…