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In this context, your chest is doing the work to pull your elbows towards one another.

@@WrestlingTournamentsDotCom oh, you meant that

From what I heard, Conzo struggled to be heavy enough to be eligible to wrestle; placing in the state as an undersized 8th grader is pretty impressive.

Yea it is impressive. Can’t wait until bulks up a bit. Kid has a world of talent!

Yes, but it's part of my curriculum. While the videos are all on RUclips, they are somewhat scattered here.

Hold your opponent's triceps, and try to make your elbows touch your belly button. That will stop this move from working against you.

While I agree with your general premise, it should not be compared to a headlock. A headlock is a bad move to teach youth wrestlers because a headlock puts you in a worse position once it is defended. A cement mixer will stop working, but it will not put the wrestler out of position, it just won't work. Also, the finishing position that is entered (arm across the back and arm around the head) is a common position at all levels of wrestling, and athletes need it for their long-term development. Lastly, with a sport that has a 40+% attrition rate for first-year athletes, getting children to their first wins quickly is important. WrestlingTournaments.com managed 15,000 athletes this year, and we are always trying to get kids to their first win as fast as possible (their first loss too). Children need to develop a love for the sport before they commit to becoming the champion. When athletes attend a WAR Zone, we hand-pick all matches on the fly while viewing detailed analytics of each athlete's lifetime performance; this lets us better balance win/loss ratios and keeps children more engaged.

@@WrestlingTournamentsDotCom I agree with a lot of what you said. The only thing that I would say regarding the 40% attrition rate in wrestling first year. There is another stat that is less talked about. That is the high attrition rate overtime of successful youth wrestlers. Getting too much success too early has a similar effect. And it’s not usually the hard work that burns kids out, kids don’t mind hard work as long as they are having fun. What really burns kids out is feeling like they are disappointing their parents. A kid can take a cement mixers straight to a 6U and 8U state championshp. Unfortunately a lot of times the parent will now have a higher expectation on their child’s successful and expect or assume that their child should now be at the top of the state every year going forward. For one that puts a lot of pressure on a child every year until they graduate. But secondly, that level of success is harder to sustain each year that they get older, because the state level of competition is higher at each increased age bracket. So while the kid is a great wrestler, he knows he’s disappointing Dad. How often do you overhear at tournaments parent talking to their child coming down on them regarding a tough loss. That is worst to a child then the loss itself. Obviously the parent has their kids best interest at heart, but may not realize the effect. Obviously you know this already, because you mentioned in your comment that it’s important to match kids with losses as well. Don’t get me wrong, cement mixers are a great move, and should absolutely be taught to every wrestler. Maybe just not the first move they learn, it’s not hard to find wins for new wrestlers at a local novice tournament. It’s insane the number of kids who are spamming cement mixers at the 8U level, and those kids are usually the one who are rarely losing. Which as I mentioned above is a double edged sword. You are right though, cement mixers will not put you out of position. Well except some kids will purposely spin to the front purposely putting their selves out of back top position, just so they can attempt a mixer lol. Additionally, even headlocks are not bad moves when executed properly. Headlocks have a bad reputation nowadays but I know a kid (now adult) who won PA HS state championship and NCAA All American status who specialized in headlocks.

@@TheKevinClarkson I agree completely. My curriculum teaches the cement mixer early, but we replace it with more effective movements not much further down the line. Another thing to add is the unfortunate reality that wrestling has become a business. Clubs that win more often are better at recruiting than those that do not. The uneducated consumer is trying to buy wins now, and has less interest on winning an ncaa title in 15 years. The idea that a club teaching better technique will win in the long run is only true if it can prevent its top athletes from being poached.

@@WrestlingTournamentsDotCom you are 100% correct. Regarding business aspect, buying wins, recruiting, long term success poaching. TBH that why I prompt these conversations on RUclips every chance I get. People read comments. You and I just provided a lot of dialogue and insight during our conversation. We just provided a lot of narrative around the subject. A lot of people will read the comments and hopefully take something from it. And to be clear to anyone who is reading this, we are not saying stay away from clubs who are winning, obviously winning is not a bad thing. But what I am saying is pay close attention to the culture and values of the club that you have your child attending and make sure they share similar values. And make sure they value your child’s long term success. If they have the best 8U duals team in the area, but are very thin at older age brackets, that doesn’t mean it’s a red flag, but there is often a correlation. So just pay mind to their values.

@@TheKevinClarkson If you're not already aware, you should check out what we are doing with www.WrestlingTournaments.com . Our company's mission is to get more kids involved with wrestling and to keep them longer. WAR Zone is our primary vehicle for doing this, as it is a better way of organizing wrestling at the developmental level. This video explains how WAR Zone works: ruclips.net/video/d7nsH7wLME0/видео.html

Try "knees over toes guy" , that might be helpful. If your pain is due to impact, try starting off your knees when you wrestle from neutral.

Go to the event's page. Click on the event menu and select help / tutorial. There is a form you can fill out to get a refund.

They might, and then you'll need to try something else.

Go to your account, click "my events," and then you can change your team for the event. The team you affiliated with, and the team you registered for the event under, are two different things.

@@WrestlingTournamentsDotCom thank you! Got it fixed! Super helpful!