Horsetooth Hybrid Grappling Club

Just a reminder...Thursday night wrestling practices resume this week (4/30)!!! Expect some judo-style trips to be integrated into the freestyle session 👊🏻

Kids/families, 6:45 p.m. (folkstyle)
Teens, adults, 7:45 p.m. (freestyle)

See you on the mats 🙏🏻

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The last few weeks we've been working hard on using an outside step to get to head outside and head inside singles. At this morning's practice, for instance, we focused on wrist control attacks into an outside step with the option of a misdirection to the other leg.

Attached is another great setup for the outside step, as shown by national champ Levi Hanes!

Remember...young and old wrestlers alike 😉...you don't have to wrestle ear to ear and move linearly forwards and backwards. Adding an outside step is a great way to get your feet moving to create angles of attack!

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Get • How to: set up your Outside Step like a NCAA CHAMP🔥🤼
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Hey!!! Just a little reminder that practices are cancelled Saturday, March 7, for middle school district championships...hope to see you on the mats this Sunday!!! 🤼🙏🏻

Knowing moves (often associated with exercise, technique, or routines) and movement skills (the underlying ability to control, coordinate, and adapt the body) represent two different approaches to physical training and capability.

As you progress in wrestling or other combat sports, try to focus on the latter, i.e., movement skills. Why? In wrestling we have a finite number of 'moves', like single-leg takedowns, ducks, mat returns, etc., while any one of these moves will need to be applied in an infinite number of ways.

Consider this posted video of a mind-blowing duck under performed by . Be sure to watch the slowed down version several times...how low he gets, the movement of his feet outward, how both knees are on the mat together for just a split second... 🤯

This is not a duck that was accomplished through 10,000+ hours of dry repetitions...repetition, after all, is not the mother of skill.

This was an application of elite movement skills honed through a lifetime of wrestling in competitions and practices that mimicked the randomness of opponents' reaction. It's a skill with duck unders that achieved through repetition without repetition. 😊

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One of the GREATEST domestic matches in USA wrestling history‼️🔥🤯

At the 1996 Olympic Trials - we were treated to one of the most elite American matchups ever. Olympic Champion🥇Kendall CROSS (USA/OSU) faced off with 2x World Champion🥇Terry BRANDS (USA/IOWA) in a brutal 3 match series. Brands was the favorite as the returning 1995 World Champion, but Cross was special that year and kept throwing Brands to his back.

The battle between 2 elite American champions ended with a razor-thin victory for Cross (8-7) who went on to win the Olympics later that summer.

LEGENDS 🤝‼️