I'm all for offensive wrestling and I want everyone I coach to put points on the board but I don't want to just win matches, I want to win championships.

The europeans approach the sport differently and it gives them an advantage.  We have trained ourselves falsely to look at defensive wrestling as a lack of guts, lack of hard work, even a lack of character on the part of the wrestler that chooses a defensive style.

"mr. kolat, this will be my 3rd year of wrestling for my high school.  I'm not that good yet.  I was wondering if it would be possible for your advice on wrestling from the referees position cause my weakest area of wrestling."  thanks dan

dan:

The idea behind kolat.com came to me about 6 months ago.  the process has been a long road to take from and idea to reality for everyone to use as the best wrestling technique database out there.  originally i set out to only create the video database for my club members and myself as a training tool.  after seeing it develop and start to come to life i reflected on what my parents had to do for me when i was young and progressing in the sport.