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Keep Calm….

I had an email almost ready to go out when I started feeling a little off.  So I decided to pick it back up in the morning.

However….
In the morning I woke up in excruciating pain, and after numerous attempts by my dear sweet loving wife (threatening me with bodily harm), I finally agreed to go to Urgent Care.

From there, the pain got worse, and I was transported by ambulance to Licking
Memorial Hospital in Newark.

It actually was a rather pleasant ride.  My condition would come and go – and when it flared up, the pain would send me through the roof.  Then it would subside for a while – maybe 10 minutes – and I’d get a reprieve.  I was in subside mode – through almost the entire ambulance ride, up until 2 minutes before arrival at the hospital. Then it reared its ugly head, causing me to utter some unrepeatable niceties.

Anyway, following IV fluids, pain meds, and a CT scan, we had a diagnosis:

Kidney stone.

A few years ago we had a wrestler at camp who got kidney stones on a regular basis (very unusual for a young person but he had a lot of trouble with them).  I now have a much deeper understanding of just how much pain he had to be in.

So now I’m just waiting for this little stone to pass (should be a day or two, according to the doctor) so I can get on with my bike – I mean, my life.

So there ’tis. 

(wait for it……..)

IF you have the stones to challenge yourself to develop a system of wrestling this summer, and have not already secured your spot…

stay hydrated and go here

Hey – its all I could manage in my weakened condition.

-Randy

“I Went to camp and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt!”

Yesterday’s discussion about the thou$ands that people waste/spend on camps left out one not-so memorable piece of the experience:

the brand new $5 shirt you got to stuff in your bag.

Might be worth $10 if you got an autograph.

If the only thing you remember about camp is the shirt, perhaps you may want this instead…

Train here and discover a powerful system of wrestling

This is your chance to gain an (almost) unfair advantage over your opponent – right from the whistle.

From the feet, You can discover:

  • A simple technique so you are positioned to attack – but nearly impossible to take down.
  • The most dynamic set-up system to create openings and angles so you can attack your opponent multiple ways
  • Own the circle – by systematically breaking your opponent's position
  • Learn the finer details that give elite wrestlers the best chance to finish their shots…every time!
  • Much, much, more,  aimed at making you a master of the takedown.

On the mat, you can discover:

  • How to turn the best athletes quickly
  • Exploit the most common tendencies that athletes do and coaches teach
  • From bottom, shut down the opponent’s attacks in the first split-second
  • Learn why it never matters what the opponent’s first move is…from top or down
  • Much, much more to fast track your top and down positions

And a cool T-shirt to boot (autographs are discouraged though, I’ve got lousy handwriting).

go here and grab your spot

Randy

PS. The Last session of camp is a comprehensive “final exam” review session to reinforce what you’ve learned through the week (most camps don’t dare even attempt this but we embrace it).

The power of One
This local kid was wrestling in a tournament recently when his opponent threw legs on him, quickly broke him down and promptly “ripped him a new one.”

This local kid was wrestling in a tournament recently when his opponent threw legs on him, quickly broke him down and promptly “ripped him a new one.”

You have exactly 1 second, from the time legs are in, to counter.  If you counter successfully, no problem.  In the next few seconds you can be scoring an escape, reversal or more –  quickly and efficiently.

But this kid froze.

Later in the match, same athlete ended up with a 2 on 1.  

Didn’t score.

Again:  he froze.

In both cases, instead of immediately moving to the next step…

He hesitated.

During our Olympic Styles training, we have a saying:  He who hesitates gets tossed.

That same hesitation will also get you beat in folkstyle more often than not.

In the match above that I watched with my own 4 eyes, This wrestler froze because, instead of instinctively doing what he’s been trained to do…

He was trying to think of which thing to do.

This happens often when a wrestler is exposed to multiple solutions to the same problem.

Example:  Five different trainers may – probably will –  show you 5 different ways to hit a single leg.  Even if all 5 of them are right (most of them are probably flawed but that’s for another time), which one will you hit?

More likely than not…

None of them.

Hence, I introduce you to the Power of One.

As in, One System of doing things.

When in critical situations, you have exactly No Time to Think – Only react.

Learning one proven, highly successful system of winning wrestling takes you down the path to:

  • Fast implementation of moves
  • Reacting rather than thinking
  • High confidence level, knowing exactly what to do next

Athletes who train here this summer will automate THIS ONE system so completely, that I will proudly display, with full confidence, their training via the Final Exam (we even record it as proof that I’ve done my job).

It is a thing to behold.

An entire room of athletes, speed drilling through the entire system taught in just one week – and excelling at it, too.

Most camps don’t DARE to attempt this – because the result would be an abject failure.

Here, the expectations are high – and the results on full display for every parent to see at the last session.

Learn more here

Randy

How Geezer Ref whipped Stud Rick without his cane

Back in Yeee Olde Country, I was at a local wrestling tournament and watching the open division.

THE Stud of the Valley, this young, muscle-bound, 4X state placer named Rick (name not changed to protect the guilty), was faced off in the finals against…

A short, balding, big bellied referee with flabby arms.

And we all stood around the mat, ready to watch this travesty unfold.

“Where’s the pay phone?  We’re gonna need to call the medic soon,” we all thought.

[For you young-ins, people used to have to put a quarter in a pay phone to make a call because cell phones weren’t invented yet.  Not only did the kids not have phones, the adults didn’t either.  Shocking, huh?]

Yet I digress, the match has started.

Rick the Stud is ready to tear Geezer Ref apart and we’re all lined up to watch the entertainment.

He attacks,  Geezer moves slowly – and counters him.  

Score:  2-0 Geezer Ref!

Back on their feet, stud Rick continues his attacks…

To no avail. 

Geezer Ref has an answer to everything Rick does.

We are now watching this unfold in stunned silence.

When the match is over, Geezer Ref has prevailed – and Rick hasn’t even scored a point.

How in the world does something like this happen?

Geezer, as it turns out, didn’t just fall off the turnip truck.  He had been a highly successful wrestler in his day, and, like most successful wrestlers, followed this simple formula:

  • Position yourself so you can’t be attacked (Rick, the quicker and stronger wrestler, could not attack him because his positioning was excellent)
  • Break your opponent’s position
  • Score at will

You can discover the secret to positioning, and neutralizing superior athletes, this summer – and you don’t even need a big belly.

Wrestler jumps into mosh pit and loses more than his toes

I recently stumbled across this article about moshing, and how many injuries occur at these things.

Especially at rock concerts.

Paul Wertheimer, president of a concert crowd management company, recommends steel toed boots at these events because, apparently, more toes are getting smashed than pumpkins.

“There is no way to crowd surf or stage dive safely consistently,” he said.
(source:  ABC news.go.com:  Mosh pit or death pit?)

As dangerous as mosh pits can be, here’s something even more dangerous if you're a wrestler:

Jumping into the mosh pit of wrestling camps.  That mosh pit often looks like this:

  • Stars eager to give you their autograph
  • Different moves and clinicians every session
  • No system, just random moves
  • Fancy Clinic moves that look great but don’t work against the good kids
  • No re-enforcement of technique
  • lots of merchandise shoved your way
  • You leave camp and wonder, “what did I learn?”
  • You’re no better off (but your wallet is lighter) than when you started.

When you’re done with camp, if you can’t speed drill with precision through the entire camp’s technique – you probably wasted your time.

Even worse:  there's a better than even chance that your wrestling skills got crushed like toes at a Metallica concert.

This summer, you can avoid the mosh pit and adopt this proven, highly successful wrestling system as your own.

Randy

How this high school coach led his team to Super Bowl glory

Are you kidding me? Some high school coach is going to beat Belichick? No Way!



That’s what a lot of people thought…

  • expert people. 
  • Betting people. 
  • Oddsmaking people.

You can hardly fault them their skepticism.

After all, Belichick is one of the greatest coaches in NFL history, owning 5 Super Bowl rings.

His rival on the other sidelines,  Doug Pederson, was coaching high school football 10 years ago.

How’d he do it?

By developing a simple, highly effective offensive system.

From one formation, they can attack the defense 6 different ways (similar to our dynamic inside series that is an essential part of our system.  We attack 5 different ways, reading our opponent’s reaction and imposing our will accordingly.)

Based on the reaction of your opponent, you run the play that works. 

The system is simple yet ingenious.  Simple enough that a backup quarterback can learn to execute it in a few short weeks and lead his team to Super Bowl glory.

Pederson followed this process to train his athletes

I know that because they were prepared, and this is the only way you can be that prepared.

Phantom of the takedown

Recently I joined my family for a wonderful evening of terrible food and attended a

performance at a way-outdated packed claustrophe’s-nightmare of a theatre with too many steps and not enough bathrooms…. and also encountered incredibly stupid drivers that nearly ran me over.

Good time to be had by all.

The performance reminded me of the struggles many wrestlers face.

Because just like this show's diabolically frustrated star, haunting his theatre and dropping chandeliers,

Many wrestlers are equally frustrated by this:

  • Struggling to finish shots and losing key matches by 1…
  • Failing to escape the clutches of the tough leg rider
  • Struggling to score those crucial back points that can seal your win in critical go-to matches…
  • And failing to lasso your opponent and put him away when you have the chance

Your answer to solving every one of these struggles, is straight in front of you.

We will train to win from each of them in the next two workouts…

including next Tuesday’s (Jan 16) special Pinner’s paradise session, where you can learn to vent your diabolical frustrations and finish off your opponent with your own magic lasso.

Randy

Your answer to solving every one of these struggles, is straight in front of you.

We will train to win from each of them in the next two workouts…

including next Tuesday’s (Jan 16) special Pinner’s paradise session, where you can learn to vent your diabolical frustrations and finish off your opponent with your own magic lasso.

Randy

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