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It has been a while

It's been too long since my last post. I had planned on keeping this blog up as an in general wrestling blog but feel a little short of that goal over the past few months. I am in my new job as dean at a new school and have taken on the responsibility of JV 1 coach. So far the common theme for this year has been transition. I am learning a new job and a school 4x the size of my last. I am taking the back seat for the first time in my wrestling coaching career. It has been a learning experience that is for sure. My new head coach knows his technique. We differ on our approaches, not in a bad way, but just different. We have a good group of kids that work pretty hard and most of them really want to be there. More kids here train year round or at least attend multiple off season tournaments and camps. I continue to love the underhook series and try to share that with my new guys. I have also fallen in love with turks and crab riding. As a wrestler my chain wrestling has improved and I continue to wish that I would have known then what I know now. Knees are getting bad shoulders are on their way out too. Only live once though. I follow the Reapers from a little distance. It's hard not being around those guys. Tonight they have their senior night and I will be in attendance. Congratulations to Pickett, Kelby and Mikal. You are all good young men with bright futures. I've enjoyed my time with you. I have watched some good videos lately and will be posting them shortly. I'll be sure to keep this thing running smoother from now on.

Dan Gable...still goin strong.

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Change of Colors.

I have spent the past two weeks working with Coach Torres at the Metea Valley Wrestling camp. It has been a weird experience to say the least. Taking a back seat has been a change that I have enjoyed. The business and administrative side of coaching was never my favorite. The kids here have welcomed me and listen to what I have to offer. I ran practice yesterday in Coach's absence and we didn't skip a beat. These guys work hard and I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of such a young program. We are young and talented...similar to what I left in Plano, which is good because we should and could go in a very positive direction very quickly....just like Plano.
I recently heard that Jose Villarreal will be taking over the program at Plano. I think he will do an outstanding job. He has been my lead technician over the past three years and I owed him a great deal to the success over that time period. His brother Ruben and Joe Kampf will round out his staff from what I hear and I can say that it will be harder to find a better staff in that conference. I wish them nothing but the best.

I will continue posting on this site, drills and videos that I have found helpful or just fun to watch. Thank you to all who have checked in on this blog. It has been a lot of fun to maintain. More content soon.

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