The Most Underrated Coaching Tool: Your Tone
It’s not just what you say—but how you say it that can help your wrestlers win more matches.…
Methods for Breaking Bad Wrestling Habits
One of the hardest things as a coach is breaking a wrestler’s bad habits. Wherever it came from, it’s now your responsibility to help them fix it and create new habits.
Stop using a shot gun
Some of my wrestlers recently attended a clinic by a well known national coach and complained to me…
Tips for improving how you teach wrestling technique
In a different post, I provide tips for verbally explaining technique that will improve how quickly and effectively…
10 Tips for Explaining Moves Better
Ever show a move, send your wrestlers off to drill it, and it’s almost like they weren’t even…
How to approach referees (and hopefully get more calls)
Believe it or not, there is an art to talking to referees. Despite what you might think, they…
Deliberate Practice – How to Speed Up the Learning Curve
As the wrestling season goes on it’s easy to fall into a routine of drilling simply for the…
Why Teach Offense Before Defense
I purposefully don’t teach the defense to a move until kids have had at least a week or…
The Top 6 Principles & Skills to Teach
Coaches often teach moves independent of each other with no particular sequence or order. Principles will apply across…