Long long millennium ago, I had a smart young whipper-snapper in my room who possessed, shall we say, Blue (from Jurassic World) intelligence but Dog Poo athletic ability.

Never the fast kid…

or the strong kid…

or even the one with great hips, but he had one overwhelmingly beneficial characteristic:

His ability to embrace my system of wrestling, especially this turn series I had just refined.

Fortunately for him, this series didn’t require that which he didn’t have:

• strength
• speed
• athleticism

Every week, we’d work on this series, starting with the setup, and finishing with the three finishes.

Every week, he’d get better and better with it, until we unleashed him – and this powerful series – on the wrestling world.

Result:  that turn landed him a spot in the state tournament, where he turned near fall points on state level athletes with it.

It also led him to his school’s career near fall, and season near fall records – which he held until another kid from his school, who also trained with me, and learned the same series, broke it.

Tomorrow’s camp will feature this long-forgotten, devastating turn (and my college counselors will no doubt take it back and start tormenting other collegians with it).

Once you learn this series, your opponent is in for a world of hurt – because he can’t stop it.

If you want to dominate your opponents with this devastating, yet largely forgotten turn that they’ll never see coming, join us – but hurry.

This closes down tonight (June 28)

In less than half an hour, the entire lawn had been mowed….front, side, field, back…

• splotches of unmoved grass in every section…
• hit a rock and nearly wiped out the pool…
• kid flying through the air screaming…
• and one very happy teenager (and much less happy adult).

The randomness of it all reminded me how most athletes and parents approach camps and training.

Jump from gym to gym, getting little pieces of unmowed knowledge to try piecing together later on.

Many take this approach for years, not realizing that what looks like the short cut, is really the long way around.

Kinda like having to go over the entire yard again because you missed critical pieces the first time.

Instead of adapting the ADHD approach to wrestling training, you can opt to:

Discover this powerful system of wrestling – and capture it in just one week.

Randy

PS:  This week’s Takedown Master Camp is almost full – if you want in, now’s your chance

My dog, we’ll call him Sam (since that’s what he comes to) loooooves wrestling camp.  Camp season is the highlight of his year.  So many new friends to make, and wrestlers to play with!

He also likes to show off his vast knowledge of the English language as well as his spelling skills.

One year, he got so excited about seeing one of his favorite campers….

that he peed on him.

Twice.

(While the affinity went both ways, at least the wrestler was able to control himself).

Anyway, playing with Sam is just one of the many fun things you can do at camp this summer.

Here are some additional activities we partake in here in the country:

• Swimming in our pool
• Soccer games on our sports field
• Wrestlers wandering zombie-like off our property playing Pokémon go (we had to curb that though)
• Playing the just plain fun nighttime game whose name can’t be mentioned
• Fireworks if you’re here at the right time
• Cookouts and marshmallow roasts
• Dodgeball
• And new this summer: laser tag!

Oh and lest I forget….

you can learn a complete system of wrestling on your feet, and the mat (youth wrestlers get good chunk of it…younger youth gets our brand new skills camp).

Congrats to you if you have already snagged your spot in summer camps (bring an extra change of clothes in case Sam takes a special liking to you).  Encourage your friends to join you at camp while there are still openings.

Randy

PS  Now that its June, time is a-wastin’.   grab your spot now while there’s still time

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

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).

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

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.