"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:
two parts to your problem. first part is practice which i'm sure you already know or you would not be taking the time to email me if you did not care about improving. second, bottom wrestling is like riding a bike. the reason i refer to riding a bike is because once you understand how to maintain the position on bottom it really does not change. once i understood how to hold my base and seal off it never changed and I used if from little league all the way through college. this is the exact reason why we have a riding time point in college because nobody can hold good guys down.
here are a few things you need to work on and then advance from here:
you need to work on being able to hold your base. first moves off the whistle are great but when you don't win on the whistle you need to know how to hold your base, seal off, get hand control, and then get out.
base drill: get in a base and hold it for 30 sec. or 1 min go's where the top man can do whatever he wants to try and get you out of it. this will force you to learn how to shift your hips against his pressure.
sealing off drill: top man attempts to put legs in, pull you out of your base, or attempts to tie up a wrist. your job is to keep the legs out (keep hips low, knees together, sometimes shifting away from him) and keep your wrist free
capturing hand control: work on shoving your opponents hands from under your arms to the outside of your hips and keeping control of his wrist without getting your wrist tied up. make sure to keep your elbows tight to your body.
once you feel you have this then you add your stand-up, sit-out, or whatever else you like.
best of luck
cary
i think we are going to
i think we are going to shoot this system of holding your base, sealing off, etc and add to give everyone a visual of what my post is talking about.
location
we wrestle out of michigan
the club is the canton club but we also go to nxt level practices once a week, mike krause is a very good coach
the kids he practices with won nuway this year, one of them also went to the middle school duals in maryland where he did quite well, and that same kid just got back from some duals in lowell, MI where he went undefeated, so we are getting to practice at a very high level, my son may not appreciate it but he will once this season starts and he sees how much he has improved
we have been very lucky to find such good coaches and practice partners
it has been a lot of fun we have met some great people who have been helping us along and giving us great advice
i have not had a lot of time to view the site but what i have seen i really like, this is a great idea that is long over due
enlightenment
Great advice.
My son is just learning to wrestle and we have been concentrating on stance and defense. He is starting to get points in practice as he understands how to defend his legs. And he is slowly getting some offense from being on his feet. He is lucky to be in a very tough room so his learning curve is staying quite steep. Which is allowing him to get much better much quicker than most kids.
BUT the biggest issue he has is being on the bottom. Most kids who are still practicing this time of year are quite good and understand how to put in legs and such. My son has been having a tough time as he is just getting pounded on bottom. I have been struggling on how to explain and approach the concepts needed for him to get better on the bottom. This idea is so simple I kind of feel stupid for not seeing it myself. The same concepts for being on your feet apply for being on the bottom. Maintain form, hand control, keep your base sound. Once you can do these things then you can start attacking (in this case switch, stand up ect...).
Great advice. Thanks Cary
BTW- for some reason nothing will stay in caps........any ideas?
yes, keep it simple. this
yes, keep it simple. this is what I say about the site everything is built in progression for a reason. there is a lot of technique but if you rush you will pay a price.
no caps the only thing in the site that can be in caps is the logo at the top. just design thing we did. where are you wrestling out of?