Summer

With the upcoming summer everyone is busy and deserves a little break.  Time for family, friends and preparing for the upcoming seasons.  I know it is hard to juggle work friends and training.  It is hard to put one above the other, but it has to be done.  If you manage your time and resources all can be accomplished.  We will have open gyms on Tuesday and Thursday nights.  It is an hour that you can put in to get better.  I know you don't think it is much but if you add it up it is only 21 hours out of your summer.  It is two T.V shows a night that you can come and get better.  I have heard a lot of people say isn't wrestling a winter sport.  Yes, it is if you want it to be.  If you want it to be a winter sport it will show.  If you don't think it is a winter sport but a year round approach it will show as well.  Which one do you think will show better results?  I know the answer and have yet to be proven wrong.  Are their athletes that can just show up and perform at a high success rate?  Yep,  but I don't know any of them on our team. 
High school athletics need to be fun.  That is why we participate in them.  I get that, but why not put yourself in the best possible place to have fun.  I have talked to many wrestlers that are winning and have asked them if they are having fun.  Surprisingly their answer is yes.  I have asked wrestlers that are struggling and not winning the matches that they should or losing close matches.  Their answer is usually no.  So I am not saying winning is everything, because it is not.  But performing at the highest level you can is.  Putting yourself in the best possible position to be the best you can is.  That is life, heck we all get beat once in awhile, but dusting ourselves off and getting back after it what wrestlers and competitors do.  Make life fun, make training fun, make competing fun.  Push yourself to point of excellence.  That is a challenge,  never giving up.  Having people say you can't and then showing them you can and did.