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I agree South83. Rod Oldham was a very good man and always cheered me on in the summer tourneys. We even had a heart to heart talk after I won the WV Open States. He did not care that we were once rivalries, just a good man. But Joe, will be like a dad always... but that day ... we lost to South.. w...

The entire PHS team paid for it dearly! Never seen Joe so mad at the entire team in my entire life that night.

Wow! Thanks everyone for the texts and phone calls, very surprised!! I will be ok and I have faced adversity all my life so this is nothing. Going to be hard not going to Vegas this year because I have been going every year since 1990 and it has been a special place for me, my weight class is stacke...

Ahhhh .. the kidder.. when I was trying to motivate kids into getting more involved in both Free and Greco. No one calls me out unless they have a reason... this sport was NEVER been about me but I take it that people are rubbed the wrong way. To answer your question about not seeing me on the wrest...

WP1992 I think it is the failed Six Sigma crap that is being used. Not that it is important but just to let you know it is worthless in companies as it is on here because it is too complicated to use. This coming from a MBB in the crappy method. Greco, As a Six Sigma Green belt, I understand your p...

WP1992
I think it is the failed Six Sigma crap that is being used.
Not that it is important but just to let you know it is worthless in companies as it is on here because it is too complicated to use. This coming from a MBB in the crappy method.

Stucradle Kids come and go in every club.... I think Zahid and Anthony are better off training with the Arizona team as they have guys there that they can train with at their level. Pico... great kid but no... he went to another club besides last I heard he trains with his MMA club guys. If this spo...

Jealous much? Something that you kids need to understand. A great wrestler will have many coaches throughout his career. Most high school coaches will “ inherit” a good kid that has been through a great feeder program. A kid with great dedication on the off seasons by joining a club with different c...

Then you don’t know wrestling kiddo! Jim Akerly was a great wrestler that was a finalist at the precious Midlands and has one of the best records from WVU. He is even a better coach. My respects to running a club for kids to get exposed to the International style of wrestling which is the ultimate l...

Flynn is a very good coach from what my friends in Vista (Flynn’s hometown) are telling me ... we will see. The name of the game is recruiting and I disagree with just recruiting from PA and negative! They did not write the book on wrestling! Are they strong .. yes .. but what about Ohio? NJ? Oklaho...

Actually Stucradle I coach at a year round Free and Greco club and yes I mentioned “ My guys” both students and team mates!( I am still competing Nationally.)You have to understand that CA has huge population to draw from as most of my students range from 5-24 years of age. Yes, I have a few that ar...

Sigh... this is so childish. My guys don’t really care about “ The fastest pin or the least time on the mat awards!!” All they care is if they win against a good opponent! Your telling me kids come to tournaments because they want to win the “ Fastest pin” award?? I would never take my guys to a tou...

Matcoach90

AMEN!!

Hey Stud! I don’t know if CA has any fancy wrestling but we do have clubs that practice ONLY Greco and Free all year round. WV has good coaches there to teach both. In Greco, having the underhooks is an advantage that can produce a lot of throws! I agree with you about entering the free tournament i...

That’s why folk style sucks, i get thrown both salto and suplay, as well as slammed off the mats head first. But I still get up. Guess those are the rules of this American “catch as catch can wrestling.” Instead of disqualifying the “ thrower” just give the other guy a point? Just imagine when we go...

I don’t follow WV wrestling but making statements like “ no one will ever beat “———“ in WV. Most of you young kids never watched Dan Gable lose his last college match of his career. Saunderson got beat out of the Olympic trials on his last go. Anyone can be beaten and that is why we never underestim...

Love it!
Miss WV and it’s crazy people
Hope you are doing well my friend and I would like to take you up on the turkey hunt someday.

Be safe and enjoy life
Greg

Hey my very good friend... I was just playing around trying to diffuse any differences. Lol I hope you are doing good yourself my friend! Miss hanging out with “ my” people from home. Keep in touch and I will always remember the time I had blood all over the mat, was winning in the finals but you th...

Who is this Gator guy? Seems to be favoring one school over the others. I hope he is not being biased on a certain school because I heard he graduated from the other school across the river!

Calm down everyone... it is just WV wrestling!
Now who is going to train for the Olympics?

WV16refgk

Have you ever ref before? I mean I wrastle in WV, a time or two but I don’t think I have seen you before! I hope your not that one particular fella that had fans screaming at him every time a whistle was blown!

This wv16refgk even know how to ref? I bet he has never been on the mat .. maybe to walk across to rub his shoes on the mat!

Ben Darmstadt is one hell of a stud!!!

One of the best in the country!

AAA42coach

Thank You Sir!

Hope to meet you and PHD someday

PHD

I agree with you 100% about him being reserve but this is a huge tournament. It is nerve racking for any kid but he did get 4th! Thank You Sir for the luck !

AAAcoach 42

The arena is huge!!!!!
Lots of space to sit and sold out!

Love this place !!

Will do PHD.. good kids! Great tournament and a great deal of college scouts out here as well. A couple of my 3rd-4th and 5th-6th kids are talking to the recruiters. Is it common to have these scouts being rude to “demand” to talk to a kid while conducting meetings and practices? Had to throw two of...

Was the coach’s name Branstetter?

Yea... well that is the way they roll back home.
Hope you can make some changes there..

AA coach 126
Calm down son!
Reread what I wrote
I don’t know what changed Days / Time

The tourney will probable have some scheduled changes...

We are just talking about positive things

Ok
Enough of this conversation
Got kids to coach in the finals

Have a great weekend everyone

AAAcoach42 Who do you know at Poway? That is who I am helping! Steven Neal and I are helping out as I used to coach for Fallbrook in the late 90’s as well. You are very correct on the wrestling organization here... it is the best!! We have masters tournament every weekend and it is a blast! I bet we...

Aaacoach32 I am coaching my team in the CA states as I type this! But do you have the resources to run a State event such as this one? I have not been to a WV state tourney in years, so I don’t know What’s changed. One more note: It is really unfair to compare state to state tourney’s because here i...