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Tips for Helping Your Athletes Unwind Using Their Comfort Zone (Phones) with Kim Karr - Digital4Good

Tips for Helping Your Athletes Unwind Using Their Comfort Zone (Phones) with Kim Karr – Digital4Good

Watch as Kim Karr discusses tips that administrators and coaches can use to help athletes unwind using their comfort zone (phones). Communication and conversations about an athlete’s phone can impact their mood and stress level. […]

Feb 25, 2025
Coaching Yourself: Controlling Your Anger

Coaching Yourself: Controlling Your Anger

By: Rainer Martens and Robin S. Vealey Originally Published in: Successful Coaching Provided by: Human Kinetics The very nature of sport—the potential for injustice and for physical and mental injury—increases the likelihood of coaches experiencing […]

Feb 25, 2025
Single Leg Finishes with Jeremy Spates - Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville
Feb 11, 2025

Single Leg Finishes with Jeremy Spates – Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville

Watch as Coach Jeremy Spates explains and demonstrates finishing a single from up top when the opponent is pushing you away with extended arms or grabbing wrists. Use your arm to drive up the arm […]

What Are Your Athletes' Biggest Influences?

What Are Your Athletes’ Biggest Influences? with Chet Scott – Built to Lead

Watch as Chet Scott explains the ‘leadership is influence’ concept, and that you know you are a leader if you have followers. If you are going to lead and influence your players, it would be […]

Feb 11, 2025
Three Impactful Ways to Help Athletes Build Mental Strength Right Now

Three Impactful Ways to Help Athletes Build Mental Strength Right Now

By: Julie Hatfield-Still Athletics are about more than just winning games or improving physical skills, it’s also a critical time for building the mental strength athletes need to succeed in sports and life. As a […]

Feb 11, 2025
Ankle Picks & Options
Feb 5, 2025

Ankle Picks & Options with Dalton Jensen – Univ. of Nebraska at Kearney

Watch as Coach Dalton Jensen explains and demonstrates ankle picks and different options based on the opponent’s response. He starts off in a collar tie and focuses on controlling the far side wrist. During the […]

Quad Pod Cradle Defense

Quad Pod Cradle Defense with Austin DeVoe – Colorado School of Mines

Watch as Coach Austin DeVoe explains and demonstrates a quad pod cradle defense. From a quad pod position, the inside knee will go down between the legs while the inside foot does not move. Move […]

Feb 3, 2025
Shot, Re-Shot Drill with Jarion Beets - Ponderosa HS (CO)
Jan 28, 2025

Shot, Re-Shot Drill with Jarion Beets – Ponderosa High School (CO)

Watch as Coach Jarion Beets explains and demonstrates this everyday shot, re-shot drill. The attacking wrestler will take a shot, and the down defender blocks, which is then followed by a re-attack shot. After a […]

Leaders Must be Great Communicators with Robert Grasso - La Jolla Country Day School (CA)

Leaders Must Be Great Communicators with Robert Grasso – La Jolla Country Day School (CA)

Watch as Robert Grasso explains his philosophy of leadership on how athletes must be great communicators. They must be able to communicate with teammates as well as the coaches. He stresses that team leaders should […]

Jan 28, 2025
Student Athletes and the Media

Student-Athletes and the Media

By: Carolyn Peck Originally Published in: Winning Ways of Women Coaches Provided by: Human Kinetics Inviting the media into your sports program means they have access to the student-athletes. I highly recommend, before you allow media […]

Jan 28, 2025
Top Position: Hammer Lock with Ryan Deakin - Former NCAA Coach
Jan 14, 2025

Top Position: Hammer Lock with Ryan Deakin

Watch as Ryan Deakin explains and demonstrates the hammer lock series. At the whistle, he chops, finds a wrist, and drives. When the opponent is flat, open your chest to the ceiling with your elbow […]

Minimizing Your Athlete’s Anxiety with Robert Schinke - Laurentian University

Minimizing Your Athletes’ Anxiety with Robert Schinke – Laurentian Univ.

Watch as Robert Schinke discusses minimizing your athletes’ anxiety. Lack of confidence is the main cause of anxiety for athletes as an upcoming event nears. Focusing on previous negative performances instead of their positive performances […]

Jan 14, 2025
Leading others

Leading Others

By: Jamy Bechler – Athletic Director at Midway University (KY) Originally Published in: THE LEADERSHIP PLAYBOOK It is not just enough to lead yourself effectively, you must also have a positive influence on others, John […]

Jan 14, 2025
2 Single Leg Drills
Jan 9, 2025

2 Single Leg Drills with Mike Poeta – Univ. of Illinois

Watch as Coach Mike Poeta explains and demonstrates these 2 single leg drills. The partner will kneel with one leg down and Coach will hit a single to the leg that is down. Coach is […]

Scoring From Ties

Scoring From Ties with Bryan Snyder – Univ. of Nebraska

Watch as Coach Bryan Snyder explains that after you are comfortable clearing ties, the focus should be on scoring from those ties. He demonstrates three attacks from the collar tie: the hard snap, eastern shrug, […]

Jan 8, 2025
Fundamentals Create the Highlights

Fundamentals Create the Highlights with Brian Smith – Univ. of Missouri

Watch as Coach Brian Smith explains the importance of stressing fundamentals to your wrestlers. They must understand that fundamentals are the basis of successful wrestlers at any level. The fundamentals of stance, level change, penetration […]

Jan 7, 2025
Drag Set-Up Drill

Drag Set-Up Drill with Mark Branch – Univ. of Wyoming

Watch as Coach Mark Branch explains, and wrestlers demonstrate the Drag Set-Up Drill. This is a great drill to help players get focused and ready for practice after they have completed warmups. One wrestler will […]

Dec 20, 2024
Best Versus Worst Performances

Best Versus Worst Performances

By: Dr. Colleen M. Hacker Originally Published in: Achieving Excellence Provided by: Human Kinetics By examining your best performances and comparing and contrasting them with your worst performances, you can identify the key elements of […]

Dec 20, 2024
Hip Heist Drill with Jeremy Spates - Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville
Dec 10, 2024

Hip Heist Drill with Jeremy Spates – Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville

Watch as Coach Jeremy Spates explains and demonstrates the Hip Heist Drill. The wrestler will pop up, start to circle left, then hip heist the bottom leg and come under. He recommends not bringing the […]

Run the Stance Motion Drill at the End of Practice

Run the Stance Motion Drill at the End of Practice with Keith Gavin – Univ. of Pittsburgh

Watch as Coach Keith Gavin explains why he likes to run the Stance Motion Drill at the end of practice, especially during the season. After practice the wrestlers are tired, and it is important for […]

Dec 10, 2024
Holistic Coaching for the Benefit of All Players

Holistic Coaching for the Benefit of All Players

Originally published in an Adam Sarancik Book “Never confuse winning with succeeding. A successful league and team is one that inspires its players to want to come back again tomorrow.” Too often, leagues and teams […]

Dec 10, 2024
Spiral Ride Defense
Dec 4, 2024

Spiral Ride Defense with Dakota Bauer – Colorado School of Mines

Watch as Coach Dakota Bauer explains and demonstrates three ways of defending the spiral ride. #1 is Changeover: when you feel pressure, take the inside hand and clear it over and go to the far […]

Accept It or Correct It with Alan Stein Jr.

Accept It or Correct It with Alan Stein, Jr.

Alan Stein, Jr. explains that every single behavior that goes on in your program, on or off the field, is either something you accept or correct. He also explains how eliminating some behaviors, such as […]

Dec 3, 2024
Escaping After Standing Up

Escaping After Standing Up with Dave Crowell – Nazareth Area High School (PA)

Watch as Coach David Crowell explains the perfect position for escaping after standing up. The opponent will have one arm on the belly and the other needs to be on the arm held tight against […]

Dec 2, 2024
Nov 22, 2024

Full-Feature! Go-To Drills with Matt Storniolo – Northwestern Univ.

7 DAYS ONLY! Access to this 28-minute session from a Denver Wrestling Coaches Clinic that is available in our Wrestling Coaches Insider +Plus video library will expire on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – Enjoy! Watch […]

Defending an Outside Shot with Sammy Sasso - Ohio State University

Defending an Outside Shot with Sammy Sasso – Ohio State Univ.

Watch as Sammy Sasso explains and demonstrate defending against an outside shot. When the opponent’s head is to the outside and his shoulder is tight to the abdomen you must set the corner. Slide and […]

Nov 21, 2024
Single Leg and High Crotch Positional Warmup Drills

Single Leg and High Crotch Positional Warmup Drills with Jake Arnone – Colorado School of Mines

Watch as Coach Jake Arnone explains and demonstrates these positional warmup drills. The first drill, the Single Leg, starts with an emphasis on position, knee behind knee and shoulder over the thigh, and head on […]

Nov 21, 2024
Hazing/Bullying in Athletics

Hazing/Bullying in Athletics

By: David T. Morris Originally Published in: Student-Athletes: Control Your Own Destiny   Definition of Bullying: As defined by the organization, stopbullying.gov, “bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real […]

Nov 21, 2024
Sweep Single with Ryan Deakin
Nov 12, 2024

Sweep Single with Ryan Deakin

Watch as Coach Ryan Deakin explains and demonstrates this sweep single and finish. His first moves are a backhand punch then the right hand, circle, make the opponent take a step, sweep the leg and […]

Empowering Coaches: Strategies for Supporting Youth from Struggling Homes in Athletics

Empowering Coaches: Strategies for Supporting Youth from Struggling Homes in Athletics

By: Scott Garvis, CMAA Provided By: NHSACA As a coach, it’s essential to support students who come from struggling homes. These kids may face various challenges, and coaches can play a vital role in providing […]

Nov 12, 2024
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