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This could be my favorite time of year. College is just starting up I made it back to Columbia and th ewhoel team is here. I am so close with all the guys on the team it feels like a family reunion that is going to last for the next nine months. There are a lot of changes in Columbia this fall though, too many people gone. Matt Pell(Virginia) and Bart Horton(Air Froce) said their goodbyes within the last month, it hurts losing these two because they have been mainstays in my training and as friends for the last five… more »

When Matin came to my house to do my interview with flowrestilng i was a wreck. Nervous that I would say something stupid and completely embarrass myself. That was nothing compared to doing this blog. I have sat down three different times trying to figure out what I wanted to write about. All the while having Martin breathing down my neck like an english composition teacher! On his visit to my house Martin and I satyed up late talking about wrestling and how it's changing in the new "digital era" when one of us came up with the idea of… more »

Growing up in Davenport, Iowa in 1960 I had never heard of Olympic wrestling – heck - I’d never even heard of the Olympics. I was ten years old and on every Monday in the summer, because the Davenport Times-Democrat published baseball statistics every Sunday, I could tell you the batting averages of Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews and the ERAs of Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette.

When school began we started reading about the Olympics in our Weekly Readers. I still remember how impressed I was reading about Wilma Rudolph. In those days we still… more »

Well Flowrestling will be heading out to a country I have never heard of before. Am I a little nervous about going to a place that is a couple of miles from Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq? Yeah but Im excited too. I cant wait to see wrestlers from all different nationalities. I want to know what wrestling means to these other countries. Why are the Eastern block countries so good? What is a trip like this for our American wrestlers. Where do they go eat, do they go out, or is it just hanging out in the hotel lobby. What… more »

It is 7 am on a Sunday and the roosters are crowing outside our new world headquarters in Austin, Texas. Our neighbors have roosters and our other neighbors have bunnies. IT is kinda cool for a guy like me who grew up and went to high school in Chicago, to have a bit of the country life even in Austin. Im really excited about the new office we have. It is a two story building that is a house converted to an office. I believe here we can continue to work day and night to make dramatic and creative changes… more »

I was almost finished writing this and the computer crashed so I will try again. I am sitting at the OTC and just finished watching the Gallick-Zadick wrestle off. It has motivated me to write about something I already had the idea to write about. It is wrestling's self esteem problem. Lets start with freestyle the new rules are crap, I have not talked to one senior level freestyle wrestler that likes the new rules. When a ref and a coin flip often determine the winner of a match, then something is fundamentally wrong with our great sport. No other… more »

Martin recently called me about doing a blog for flowrestling.com, being a huge fan of flocasts and Martin naturally I obliged. I have been without internet for days as I was working Steve Glassy's Camp of Champions in Alaska. So as I sit here in the Seattle airport on the cold tile at 12:30am, I don't really have any idea what day it is, I will give you my innermost thoughts. My very busy summer camp season is rapidly coming to a close. I finished my last session earlier today in Alaska, and started my long trek home. First a… more »

One of the things I learned traveling up I35 from John Smith, Brian Smith, & J Robinson is that the little things matter.

I learned from John Smith how important the technical and mental perspective in your given expertise. He focuses on crossing all the t s and dotting all the i s with his wrestlers on the mat and studies their weaknesses and strengths constantly. It is intense experience being around John Smith in the wrestling room because you can feel his mind turning and analyzing and gaging everything going on.

From Brian… more »

"Do the Right Thing"

We all have heard these four words. Maybe it was from a coach or a parent. Its simplicity cut through any kind of BS we might be ready to spew. A coach would say it and it stuck out like a sore thumb in my mind. Years later if I was trying to take the easy way out in something, those words would come to me and make me say to myself..."cut the BS and do the right thing."

Sometimes it would be hard...One summer I painted houses to make… more »