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 FOUNDATION
WRESTLING - Taking the guess work out of wrestling
and coaching by offering a 'game plan' to successful wrestling
/ coaching. We offer solutions.
Our 4-step course includes: Beginner’s series, Phase
I, Phase II, Phase III.
Check out our Techniques List for a checklist of which techniques are covered by each of our DVDs.
Our youth / beginner’s series is recommended for wrestlers
with zero to three years of experience. Many of the skills
and ideas shared on our Beginner’s series are areas
not covered in many wrestling programs. We have had many wrestlers
train at Purler Wrestling Academy that have as much as 4-5
years of experience that knew little more than a half nelson
and double leg. Our beginner’s series is not only for
beginners in the sport of wrestling, but also serves as an
introduction to the Foundation wrestling system of wrestling.
Our Youth / Beginner’s DVDs focus the wrestlers on fundamental
positioning and hand-fighting while putting an emphasis on
high percentage / low-risk techniques from the common wrestling
positions. However, our primary focus is on the high percentage
but easier to learn skills so that the wrestlers can quickly
develop an arsenal of ‘go to’ techniques from
wrestling’s most common positions. This creates confidence
and excitement for the wrestlers and parents alike, and also
makes or a more enjoyable experience for the coaches as well.
Too often, we waste time with our novice wrestlers trying
to force feed them the techniques and skills that they are
not ready to learn. I have seen this in other sports that
I’ve done as well and this is something the wrestling
coaches must not do! We need for our newer wrestlers to enjoy
the sport immediately and Foundation Wrestling Youth/ Beginner’s
series will do this for you.
: I will never forget
joining Karate when I was 8 or 9 years old (before getting
into wrestling) and remembering how excited I was! But, after
4 to 5 weeks of nothing but stretching and maybe throwing
punches in the air, I quit. And to be honest, I should have
quit sooner! I am not a quitter, the instructor just had NO
CLUE of how to teach Karate to kids. The instructor probably
should have had us stretching out well, kicking and hitting
things, developing the fine motor skills of our kicks and
punches, sparring with the heavy bag using these skills, and
then stretched again before going home. And maybe he should
have broken some boards in front of us too or kicked out a
light bulb or something so we knew what we were working towards.
- In wrestling, we do the same thing. It is vital that we
get the kids involved and engaged with wrestling moves and
not spend the entire practice trying to develop only the
extremely difficult areas of wrestling. Some of wrestling's
greatest tricks are not difficult to learn and Foundation
Wrestling Beginner's series covers all of these from each
of the most common wrestling positions. Furthermore, this
leaves plenty of time of live wrestling. Beginners (and
all wrestlers) need tons of live wrestling time (35-40 minutes
each practice) since this is when they learn ‘how’
to wrestle.
I played soccer for
many years and was continually frustrated in how a scrimmage
(live soccer play) was considered a special little prize or
a treat. I used to get very angry and to this day I have yet
to see a World Cup soccer match where the athletes dribble
a ball around some cones and then stand in line for 10 minutes
waiting for another turn. Don’t fall into this trap!
Please remember that hard wrestling is NOT a privilege. It
is vital to their success and in learning the sport of wrestling.
Kids will be learning their hips and what to do and NOT to
do on the mat. The coach should teach them how to wrestle,
how to drill, move their feet, move their opponent, develop
some good raw skills / moves, and let them get after it!!
Speaking of games, remember that live wrestling is a game!!
You should hit 35-45 minutes of hard wrestling in each practice.
This sounds like a lot but keep in mind that they are not
knowledgeable enough about wrestling to have VERY intense
live wrestling sessions, so 40 minutes is perfect for them.
Plus, this is why they joined in the first place. Do not ruin
wrestling for them. Also, this much live wresting is impossible
if you have only a 1.5 hour practice so I suggest to have
2 hour practices and keep them busy. Time will fly by and
they will be back for more.
- Remember, you are not going to teach them how to wrestle
in ONE season, much less one practice, so just do a great
job, let them enjoy wrestling, and they can figure out the
rest on their own. When getting Foundation Wrestling Beginner’s
series together, I volunteered to coach the Francis Howell
Central Junior Spartans and coached the new / newer wrestlers.
It was not easy, especially for someone that has been only
involved in very high-level wrestling for so many years.
But I sure did get some good ‘research’ done
for these dvds and feel I have hit the nail on the head
for other coaches and wrestling parents with kids that are
new to wrestling. Good luck!
Phase I of Foundation Wresting is the sport of wrestling
defined, explained, and taught. Many feel that Foundation
Wrestling / Phase I is the finest wrestling product ever produced
for the sport of wrestling, and we believe that is true. You
will learn that wrestling is made up of 4 key areas and that
your FOUNDATION is built upon these 4 pillars: Match Readiness
/ Positioning / Hand-fighting / Technique.
Part I offers you an overall look at what wrestling is all
about. Wrestling is a complicated sport, I'll give you that.
However, we have a way of making it way more complicated than
it really needs to be.
- Read
the book
If a wrestler or a coach was to read the booklet provided
with FOUNDATION WRESTLING Phase I and gain not only an understanding
of WHAT and HOW to think when preparing for competition,
but also a game plan to follow for their individual wrestling
or training the minds of their team. The competitive mind
must be 'trained' just as the competitor's muscles and technical
skills must be trained into him. I'll teach you how
to do that.
- Understand Positioning
In addition, Phase I offers a you a very pin-pointed study
of the concept of POSITIONING. What is POSITIONING? From
a coaching stand point, if my wrestler gets taken down with
10 single legs this weekend, I am not going to work single
leg counters with my wrestler but FIRST, I want to find
out WHY he had an opponent on his legs 10 times to
begin with! This is positioning. I'll teach you about
positioning on our feet as well as the 5 main POWER POSITIONS:
Neutral / top / bottom / leg attack / sprawl position.
- Hand-fighting
When you watch and study our HANDFIGHTING section, you'll
be entertained and also educated on exactly what is happening
on the wrestling mat. Wrestling is not two men trying to
do moves on each other, it is an organized fight. However,
we fight with technique and you (the wrestler and coach)
will learn the 5 ways of breaking your opponent's stance.
Once you can set up your opponent, you can score.
You can't win matches by staring and too often, we teach
kids to 'be aggressive' by shooting / diving for his legs.
Being aggressive means attacking your opponent's wrestling
stance.
Simply stated: if POSITIONING is so important, doesn't it
make sense to be able to break your opponent's position?
That is hand-fighting.
- Technique
FOUNDATION WRESTLING offers you the BEST 1-2 moves form
the MOST COMMON areas in wrestling. Positions you will find
yourself in during almost every wrestling match. For example,
from the top position my opponent is going to stand up,
maybe 5 times a match. If I get 60 matches this season,
that is 300 times I need to put him back to the wrestling
mat. I may get 400 front headlocks this season. My
opponent may grab a collar tie on me 375 times this season.
I may be able to get 225 cross wrist ties from top position
each season, as these are common positions. From these
COMMON positions, you have 1-3 GREAT techniques and Foundation
Wrestling teaches you what to do, how to do it, and most
importantly how to learn and teach it!
The Foundation System / Purler Wrestling Academy approach
is to get kids into the medals quickly! Our zero-to-hero
technique system offers you a solution of where to
begin, as sometimes it can seem over-whelming.
- What right looks like
To
help the wrestlers and coaches, we include a DVD of wrestling
workouts, drilling, etc so coaches, parents, and wrestlers
alike have a visual example of what GOOD drilling looks
like. Coaches also get an example of HOW to teach
wrestling moves in practice as well as a 'wrestling workout
lesson plan' to follow that aids in developing a meaningful
and efficient workout.
Phase II takes you into the ‘next tier’ of wrestling
techniques that you will need to know and understand since
the more advanced wrestlers will have a somewhat different
set of common positions. For example, the better wrestlers
can wrestle off of their hip and often times scramble from
our leg attack finishes. We offer the best ways of finishing
from these ‘deal-breaker’ positions and much more.
Furthermore, you will learn more about controlling the better
wrestlers’ attack hand, more secondary attacks, the
difference between winning and losing 1 point matches (training
manual), and basically how to begin to beat the better wrestlers
that you face.
Also, our full length leg riding DVD will put you over the
edge and into a different level of wrestling. Purler Wrestling
is about the best there is at teaching leg riding and we have
college wrestling coaches seeking out Purler wrestlers in
part because of their skill with mat wrestling.
To top it all off, we offer the same ‘how to drill’
material that you would get in Phase I.
To round out our Phase II series, we offer you another training
manual for study that builds upon what you studied in Phase
I.
Phase III is rounds out our 4-step training course that is FOUNDATION WRESTLING by adding 4 complete discs which build upon the key areas of hand-fighting, scrambling, tricks-of-the-trade, advanced finishes, etc. Furthermore, we add to our advanced technique list by teaching areas such as the low-single series, an extreme bar arm series, advanced defense from commonly neglected areas such as the mid-level position, etc. Phase III is beyond the scope of 'team training' but very well suited for the coach that wants to pick-and-choose supplemental areas to cover in his workouts or the individual wrestler / coach that just wants to gobble up the sport of wrestling and know more technique than most college coaches know.
Coaches should teach the series in ‘chunks’ and
get the teaching out of the way and let the drilling begin.
Too often, coaches do all the work and the kids seem bored
sitting on the wall watching the coach do moves. Get some
weekend camps going with your team, teach them 75% of the
Phase I dvds or all the leg-riding and then drill them the
next 2-3 weeks and then do it again. Teach Part II in a mini-camp
format as well. Spend 2 Saturdays hammering this stuff out.
Don't waste time running the hall ways or track when you could
be implementing FOUNDATION WRESTLING into your rooms.
Just as the dusty treadmills in our basements are doing us
absolutely NO GOOD, neither will FOUNDATION WRESTLING. You
must USE this series. Now, we can never promise that you will
pin every opponent every time or reverse them at will, but
you will win more matches, individual gold medals, win more
team titles and beat so many kids you haven’t beaten
before that you will be amazed. USE THIS SERIES. Also, don't
think you have to use everything I have outlined. If it doesn't
suit you or fit into your game plan or wrestling philosophy,
then fine. Use the other 80% of it and your wrestling and
coaching will summit, I can guarantee it!
Stay posted to our website or view our advertising and get
involved in one of our camps. We'll teach you or your teams
the entire system and you can go home and hammer away on it.
This is the shortcut.
For more information on Purler Wrestling, Inc. and to browse
the official website on Purler Wrestling Academy, I invite
you to visit our top of the line website at www.purlerwrestling.com.
Here you will find details on our academy, summer training
camps, weekend training, etc.
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