Youth Wrestling

I have two sons 17 months apart. They have been wrestling each other at home for years now

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Anyone else have a kid in wrestling?

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My son just wrapped up 4 years of wrestling for his high school and is currently at LA Tech. They don't have a team but they have a wrestling club and he joined.

He also does BJJ and I am also a BJJ instructor. We get lots of kids that do both and also do tournaments in both. Pretty good crossover between wrestling and BJJ.

do him a favor and get your kid in golf instead.

It really helps develop functional strength

Danny hodge is in his 80's and can still crush an apple with his hand

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It really helps develop functional strength

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Yes it does, especially in football.


Wrestling just hit our corner of Houston about 5 years ago. My son was on the first wrestling team at his high school and it was kind of comical since the initial coach had no clue about wrestling. We had a former Olympic wrestler at our martial arts school that would come work with us so I helped some with the kids but still it was kinda like the blind leading the blind since I did not wrestle in tournaments when I was in school. It wasn't until year 2 that the high school hired a football coach that actually wrestled in college and he took the team over. Then it was trying to field more wrestlers to get on the team so the coach basically told all the D-Line and O-Line guys that if they wanted to start the following year, they should think highly of wrestling. It worked and the program has steadily gotten larger. We actually had a kid win state in his weight class last year.