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Teaching from core wrestling positions

Tuesday, September 29th 2009 @ 12:54 PM post viewed 805 times

Teaching Core Wrestling Positions

I’ve been coaching wrestling since high school. As a young coach I taught wrestling techniques one after the other. Young wrestlers could do the technique that I was teaching, but struggled while trying it during live situational goes. It wasn’t until I was on World and Olympic teams that I learned how to teach wrestling techniques in a group sequence with a core position. If I am teaching throws from the over under position, I have to show the position and break it down to the smallest details. At this point I stress the core position that the athletes need to know and understand in order to do all the throws from that position. I have the wrestlers wrestle from that position and drill movement and controlling that position so it becomes natural for them. It may take a whole practice teaching a core wrestling position. After teaching the core wrestling position, at the next practice I show the techniques that work from that position. My athletes have had more success since I have been teaching this way. They are able to flow or chain wrestle a lot more effectively.

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Donald Royer
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donaldroyer said on Monday, September 20th 2010 @ 10:41 PM:

Coach Hall,

This makes perfect sense. I like the fact of not overloading your young student. Make sure to work on the details,

Great Comment.

Bob O Connor
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mainer said on Tuesday, September 21st 2010 @ 6:16 PM:

Coach,

When we started this way things felt smother in or practice room, but I still find myself trying to show to much in a practice.I have only been coaching 5 years and I am learning all the time. I travled to Kolats this spring and sat in on a nights drill session and they were running this way. As a coach I know all I need to do is fine tune the little things now and we go from good to great.All the tehnique in the world will not correct poor position!

Thanks to all at WWR & Kolat

Josh Porter
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JoshPorter said on Tuesday, September 28th 2010 @ 9:03 PM:

This is an area that I am really trying to improve on. My first couple of years coaching I just showed moves. I love the kids that ask why I do this. Those kids are the ones who have made me a better coach. Breaking the positions down is the key to being able to answer why.

ryan weinzen
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butchy said on Wednesday, September 29th 2010 @ 3:55 PM:

The small things in life are generally the most important, SAME as for drilling wrestling moves!!!!

mike dodge
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mdodge said on Wednesday, September 29th 2010 @ 9:09 PM:

What are the list of "Core Positions" that you feel all wrestlers should be familiar with?

Bob O Connor
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mainer said on Thursday, September 30th 2010 @ 8:47 AM:

Coach

Core positions-Feet(stance)-Top -Bottom -Sprawl- Defence( when your stuck in on a bad shot)

mike dodge
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mdodge said on Thursday, September 30th 2010 @ 9:55 AM:

Mainer,

I teach from those positions. I asked for the specific list because of what Coach Hall wrote in the opening blog. He wrote about the "Over Under Position".... to me this is more of a tie-up.

If an over under is a core position...then are collar ties, 2-on-1, etc. core positions.

Thanks for the reply.

Bob O Connor
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mainer said on Friday, October 1st 2010 @ 12:18 PM:

Coach

By core positions I mean a postioin where you are strong. On your feet (feet wide ,chest low facing the mat ,lead with your head and hands)In this position you are hard to score on-"Core position".On a bad shot hop your knees in under your chest pull the leg in and you are almost guarenteed a stale mate.If you know moves from here,crack down,peek out etc. they are technique.

Roger Brigham
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Alliance said on Wednesday, October 20th 2010 @ 10:32 AM:

I have always stressed two elements when I coach: position (where you are strong, where you are weak) and mechanics (what makes the moves work). Too often I have seen wrestlers come to me who 'know' several moves but do not understand how they work so they do them poorly with too much effort and too little success and they do not know how to ad lib. We teach relatively few moves in the beginning but build up a great base of body awareness on which to add the moves in as they progress.