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By: Ryan Lancaster "The leader is the mortar in the bricks of a group when the winds of losing, struggle, and failure howl.” - Seth Davis “How you think when you lose will determines how long it will be until you win.” - GK Chesterton “At such moments, the Warrior of the Light is not concerned with results. He examines his heart and asks: ‘Did I fight the good fight?’ If the answer is ‘yes,’ he can rest. If the answer is ‘no,’ he picks up his sword and begins training all over again.” —Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light. Everyone Wants to Win, But Not Everyone Can There is little doubt that winning is a program element that will help attract fans to local dual meets and tournaments. However, the reality is that only one team can win the state title, 8 that can finish in the top 8, and 10 that can put themselves in the final team rankings. This means that there is a limit to the number of programs at each division that can rely on winning to build attendance. Even when winning oc...

Today, the Michigan Wrestling Association sent a letter to Governor Whitmer, the Michigan Department of Health, and other members of state leadership asking for interscholastic wrestling to be allowed to begin on February 1st in Michigan. If you support our message, we are asking for your help in advocating for all our student-athletes and coaches. You can make a difference by doing the following: Forward this message to the families of the student-athletes in your program and ask them to consider sharing it as well. Contact Michigan state senators and representatives to support the push to provide our student-athletes and coaches with an opportunity to have a season this school year. Please share with them your thoughts and concerns while advocating for the young people in our state. Feel free to share our letter with them as well. For the MDHHS, the contact email for Dr. Kalhdun is: GregoryR2@michigan.gov Link to contact Governor: https://somgovweb.state.mi.us/ GovRelations/ContactGo...

🖶 Print This Article Michigan Wrestling Resource recently caught up with Isaiah Thomas a former wrestler, coach, and official to discuss his new podcast, The Coach T Podcast , as well as his decision to step down from coaching, and lessons wrestling has imparted on him. Isaiah was an all-State and 2x letter winner at Muskegon Community College. He also was a Regional Coach of the Year at Bay City Western where he coached Two State Champs. His ability to step into different roles in our sport with the same passion and drive for success is a sign to me that the Coach T Podcast (and this interview) will be fire! MWR: We have ten seconds, why should someone listen to your podcast? What’s in it for them? What kind of person would relate to your content? Thomas: I believe with my experience I can give great insight to those interested in learning about Coaching from all three perspectives: Competitor, Coach and Official. The knowledge that they can gain from my experiences I believe wou...

The follow article was printed in the Forest Hills Central Wrestling Clinic Program featuring Dan Gable in the fall of 1997. It has been edited for grammatical accuracy and syntax.  POWER AND TOUGHNESS DAN GABLE'S WINNING FORMULA FOR WRESTLING by DAN GABLE, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNER 🖶 Print This Article Do you want to know the secret to be a winning Wrestler? There are two vital ingredients, and they're no secret. You've got to know what you're doing - know the techniques, the positions, the moves, know where you are every minute on the mat. And you've got to be in top physical condition to be able to make those right moves. Anybody can say, "Okay, now I know what it takes to be a wrestler." But the boys who go to the top are the ones who realize it takes lots of extra effort, more than what the average athlete is willing to make. The Olympic quality wrestler is the one who works out every morning, who goes out and runs 2 to 2-1/2 miles before school. He ...

Article by Neil Kiernan 🖶 Print This Article Don't tell parents to "trust the process" make them part of the process.   There has been a consistent trend in the conversations surrounding youth sports. There is a lot of talk of what is considered to be a crisis of burnout and lack of interest in youth sports. The coaching community seems to of decided the best way to handle the issue is to place the blame squarely on parents.  According to Wade Schalles and Ben Askren wrestling retains about 40% of it's participants after two years of participation in wrestling. While I have never looked at any hard statistics my personal experience would give me a an inclination to believe it.  The most prevalent theory as to why is generally that parents are over-pushing kids. And that they should sit back and "trust the process". This picture has been circulating from a lot of coaches recently and it compelled me to start this blog rather then having to type out my observ...