en-us Copyright 2006-2010 Flocasts Inc Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:21:15 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/assets/portal/simple30/images/logos/flowrestling-logo.gif http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/202-jeff-buxton Buxton After 3 Wins At The Quad Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/202-jeff-buxton Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:53:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294938 Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294938 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:14:04 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294928 Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294928 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:50:48 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294920 Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294920 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:21:12 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294914 Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294914 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:50:36 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294904 Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/294904 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:22:06 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Lee Kemp/10505-message-98-dont-just-stand-there-mya-move-your-a Dr. Rob Gilbert, Leading Sports Psychologist, coined the phrase GOYA (Get off your A#%). I'm coining the phase MOVE YOUR A#%.Get up and start Moving... Not just anywhere... But Move in the direction of your GOALS.YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU WANT.. Right!Once You Know that... START MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION. Take a first step... then another... then another. You've heard the saying... if you stumble and fall... Stumble and fall forward. NEVER BACKWARD. Fight hard not to go backward.For those of you that trade stocks. it's like setting a trailing STOP after you've made some gains. If your stops are tight and continually adjusted upward you can never lose what you've gained.Set trailing stops in LIFE!What are we really saying... By moving your a#% you are creating a ACTION. When you create a action you are doing something.Here's the golden nugget... YOU CAN ALWAYS (without exception) CONTROL YOUR ACTIONS... AND YOUR ACTIONS ARE INDEPENDENT OF YOUR FEELINGS, EMOTIONS OR THOUGHTS.The trick is to make your actions move towards your goals, Remember this is independent of how you feel. Example - doing something you don't like.. but you know it is moving you in the direction you want. i.e., studying, lifting weights, working that 2nd job to pay for night school, or while in grammar school that job after school to pay for J Robinson's intensive camp, etc.It is by far easier to control and change you what you DO (i.e., your actions), than it is to control and change your feelings, emotions or thoughts.Successful people act even when they don't really want to. They take the feelings and emotions out of the equation. They consistently live by GOYA and MYA.www.LeeKemp.com Lee Kemp http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Lee Kemp/10505-message-98-dont-just-stand-there-mya-move-your-a Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:32:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236482-downriver-league-meet Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236482-downriver-league-meet Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:15:02 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/976-boris-novachkov Cal Poly Mustangs beat the ASU Sun Devils 21-18. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/976-boris-novachkov Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:59:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/photos/album_assoc/243439 Photos from...Riot founder and Chief Instigator Jim Harshaw discusses the changes you can make today to strengthen your program. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/photos/album_assoc/243439 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:48:44 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236480-riot-vblog Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236480-riot-vblog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:41:11 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/2217-evan-silver 112: Evan Silver-Blair vs Edgar Bright-St. Edward. Shot by Screwy Louie during the final round of the Blair Super Quad. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/2217-evan-silver Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:14:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236325-long-branch-54-12-absegami Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236325-long-branch-54-12-absegami Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:21:21 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236322-absegami-35-34-delbarton Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236322-absegami-35-34-delbarton Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:21:19 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236316-south-plainfield-35-21-camden-catholic Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/236316-south-plainfield-35-21-camden-catholic Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:21:15 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/2029-ben-askren 74kg: Ben Askren vs. Matt Gentry (Canada) Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/2029-ben-askren Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:08:56 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/photos/album_assoc/243196 Photos from...The Buffalo Bulls travel to Kent, Ohio to take on the top twenty Kent State Golden Flashes in a Mid American Conference Dual. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/photos/album_assoc/243196 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:39:51 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/10484-funny-explanation-of-wrestling-rules Seneca Valley High School Wrestling parent Tom Cully puts together an informative and often funny event program for matches. Here's an excerpt from the most recent one. "Rules We want to thank the students who have come tonight to cheer on the team. As this may be your first wrestling match, we will go over the basic rules. If you know the team by heart and even know how much weight they cut for tonight, skip ahead to page six. The rules of wrestling are basic as the sport was invented by caveman who were either fighting over a mate, fighting for a better cut of brontosaurus meat, wanted to take someone’s cave due to better writing inside or fought to be in the next Gieco commercial. Each match begins with both wrestlers standing in what is called the neutral position. They then shake hands before they then try to physically and mentally break the opponent. There are three periods to a match; each period is two minutes in length. The object of the match is to take your opponents shoulders or lower part of the shoulders called the scapula to the mat for two seconds. As one is not permitted to bring blunt instruments on to the mat, this goal at times is difficult to achieve. If one gets a pin (also called a fall), the match ends." Jim Harshaw http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/10484-funny-explanation-of-wrestling-rules Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:46:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Martin Floreani/10455-wrestling-cant-afford-coaches-who-do-not-produce Divison I coaching, or any level of coaching, in wrestling needs to be intense. If you are doing it right you probably are spending 70-80 hours a week on building your program and so are your assistants. There is just too much to do, marketing, raising money, counseling kids, recruiting and….coaching wrestling. A quote from Tom Ryan also applies here: "No matter all the hard work you do, we compete knowing that nothing is guaranteed because of our hard work". If you work hard and still CANT produce real results you STILL need to find another profession. The fact is that in every profession their are those that perform and those that do not. If you fail to perform or advance your program through several facets: marketing and community awareness, program sustainability, and of course results on the mat than you should probably find another profession. Coaches are the care takers of their program and if the program gets dropped or downsized it is ultimately their responsibility. John Hartupee's Duquesne University got dropped a couple of days ago. Frankly, probably like a lot of you I didn't know where it was even located. I knew it existed by reading results but probably would have to guess to tell you if it was division 1 or not. Well I learned that it was in the heart of Pittsburg PA. I also learned that John Hartupee was a coach at Duquesne for 12 seasons not for 1 or 2 season. He got beat out by every other sport at his university when they downsized from 20 to 16 sports. He was in the heart of wrestling country. There are a lot of things going for Duquesne Wrestling just in their geography. Ultimately this failure goes all on John Hartupee's shoulders. Is there a lot of responsibility with running a program? Absolutely. Is head coaching a collegiate wrestling a very dynamic position? Absolutely. In this case John Hartupee guided his ship into an iceberg, not over a course of weeks but over a course of years. They have been heading down this course for the last 5 years, and nothing was done to avoid this proverbial iceberg. Although its all on John Hartupee's shoulders, his alumni and the local wrestling community also should take some blame for not addressing this situation. They should have demanded more and been honest with him and the administration that he was not the right person for the job. He was not cut out for the job of head coach. Does that mean that John Hartupee is a bad person? Absolutely not. It just means he is not cut out forthis job. Is it 3x harder to be a great coach in wrestling than most other sports? Absolutely. John Hartupee may have been a good or great coach relative to other coaches in the nation, but he did not handle the complexity of being a division 1 wrestling coach. Marketing, Fundraising and Wrestling Results all need to happen at a very intense level. We as a community need to put more peer pressure for those that are not performing to leave to more eager coaches. Now John Hartupee's legacy goes down on the list with Chuck Kearney, the coach that was at the helm when Oregon dropped its program. Everyone knew it was ultimately his responsibility that the program got dropped. We can blame this that and the other, but the buck stops at the head coach. Im singling out John Hartupee and I may sound cruel, but what I think is cruel is about the 20-35 kids, in the heart of PA, who wont get a chance to wrestle at the collegiate level next year. They are missing out on the best and exciting sport in the world. I hear it over and over where ever I go…"some of these coaches are just collecting pay checks." Well shame on them. You have to earn the right to be a division 1 coach EVERY SINGLE YEAR. If you cant take this pressure and this criticism in this blog then get out of coaching, the community can find someone who will eagerly take it on. The coaches that should be leaving ARENT worthless. They hold a lot of knowledge and connections in the community that can really help the incoming coach. They most likely are an important part of the community. They are not, however, an important part of the community as a coach, they are a liability. Im an optimist through and through, but Im also a realist. There are plenty of schools that don't have big names outside of the wrestling community but are forces within. Mark Cody of American University may be wrestling's coach of the decade. American University is now fully funded! Also note that American University isn't in the heart of wrestling country where Duquesne existed. When he took it over it was barely even heard of with only a couple of scholarships. Was it an easy road? Hell no. Mark Cody just found a way. We need more coaches like him. And judging by the assistant coaches I see day in and day out there are plenty of people that have the potential! One last point. I sometimes see it a lot where the head coach is no longer have the drive and visionary behind a program. The program stays afloat and sometimes even thrives because of the hard working and driven assistant. This also holds a program back. Precious resources of a wrestling program are going to pay someone who isn't producing value. I ask all division 1 coaches to take a good look at yourself and evaluate yourself for the good of the sport. Martin Floreani http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Martin Floreani/10455-wrestling-cant-afford-coaches-who-do-not-produce Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:55:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/10483-where-is-the-fire When I was talking to a client the other day he mentioned how coaches (of any sport) tend to "pee on the fire closest to their feet." Besides the fact that this is a funny analogy, its true. The problem is there is a forest fire raging up in front of us in wrestling land. As coaches we tend to plan practice, prepare for the upcoming trip, tie up loose ends from the last trip, order gear, watch Flo Wrestling, or scout next weeks opponent. If we ever actually had the chance to put out all of those isolated fires at our feet (we won't) we would look up and see the forest fire. Duquesne University wrestling just looked up and saw it. Their house is on fire today. Without help from the fire fighters, smoke jumpers, and aerial firefighting helicopters (alumni, student-body, wrestling community, fans, NWCA, etc...) its too late. When you look up what do you see? Budget cuts? Title IX? Indifferent administrators? It may not be too late to cut a fire road. Your strength to fight will come from a strong community of people and businesses and student body and alumni around your program. They are out there but they're far from the heat and the smoke. They have lives they are living with jobs and bills and families and meetings taking up their attention. And when they have free time they turn on TV or go on Facebook or check their email or read the sports page or send a text message. That is precisely where you need to be. To tell them about your goals. To tell them about your athletes. To tell them about your successes. And to tell them about the forest fire. Do it now before your house catches fire. Jim Harshaw http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/10483-where-is-the-fire Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:14:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/10414-making-it-easy In the name of making it easy for wrestling fans to be wrestling fans, I have created the Riot Wrestling Report. This email newsletter will deliver the top wrestling headlines to you each week for free. Sign-up here. Jim Harshaw http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/10414-making-it-easy Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:34:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1642-american-victory AMERICAN VICTORY - The Remarkable and Inspirational Autobiography of Olympic Gold Medalist Henry Cejudo AMERICAN VICTORY - Wrestling, Dreams, and a Journey Toward Home   December 2, 2009, Phoenix AZ – In a new book from the Penguin Group (USA), AMERICAN VICTORY, readers embark on an inspirational journey, as Olympic Gold Medalist Henry Cejudo personally guides them through the depths of his memories, sharing intimate details of a story that inspired a nation, the story of his life. Although new heroes will be crowned each year during the Olympic Games, Americans will not soon forget the awe-inspiring story which unfolded before an international audience at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; a true story of hope and perseverance that prompted the masses to dream.    AMERICAN VICTORY: Wrestling, Dreams, and a Journey Toward Home by Henry Cejudo and Bill Plaschke (Celebra Hardcover Original; January 5, 2010; $24.95), is the powerful and inspiring memoir of a young and determined American-born son of undocumented Mexican immigrants who, against all odds and expectations, achieved his dream of becoming an Olympic champion. Henry Cejudo not only successfully achieved his dreams; he did it in grand style -- by making Olympic history.  Born in Los Angeles into a world of instability and poverty, Henry learned at an early age that at times one must fight to live, literally. Raised by a single mother with his six siblings, Henry’s life was far from easy, and never normal. Extreme poverty and living conditions that would have adversely affected most people, only succeeded in building Henry’s character and integrity. The determination, unbridled passion, and stubborn resolve of a life spent fighting both on and off the mat culminated in Henry’s invitation to compete under the Stars and Stripes.   Through it all, Henry’s family offered their unwavering support, as he grappled to find himself and fight for his dream, something Henry will always be thankful for, “Thank goodness. I did belong to somebody. Good or bad, I belonged to my family. We had no permanent home, but somehow... there beat a permanent heart,” he confides. At the Beijing Olympics, Henry Cejudo made history by becoming the youngest American to ever win a gold medal in freestyle wrestling. In addition, as the only American wrestler to bring home the gold during the 2008 Games, Cejudo is solely responsible for keeping U.S.A Wrestling’s four decade gold medal win streak alive.  Today, Henry offers guidance and inspiration to inner-city and at-risk youth across the country, sharing his story, fostering hope, and helping shape the lives of thousands of young athletes. AMERICAN VICTORY is a success story depicting a family’s struggle to survive, a young man’s indomitable spirit, and the American Dream.  AMERICAN VICTORY will be available in bookstores nationwide on January 5th, 2010. Pre-order’s available now on Amazon.com. For more information on Henry Cejudo, please visit www.HenryCejudo.com.    About the Authors: Henry Cejudo is a freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At twenty-one years old, he was the youngest American ever to have won an Olympic wrestling gold medal. Henry was born in Los Angeles. He currently lives in Phoenix Arizona, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bill Plaschke has been named the Associated Press Sports Columnist of the year four times. He has been a sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 1996 and is a regular panelist on ESPN’S “Around the Horn.” He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and his work has been featured frequently in The Best American Sports Writing.   Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1642-american-victory Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:38:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1567-flonetwork-website-builder Fill out my Wufoo form! Pat Hitchins http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1567-flonetwork-website-builder Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:28:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1539-the-cowboy-wrestling-club-joins-the-flonetwork Flowrestling is pumped to announce cowboywrestling.com as the newest member of the FloNetwork.  The Cowboy wrestling club's mission is to help develop Freestyle Olympic and World Champions.  A Cowboy has represented the Olympics in every Olympics since 1924.  Our rich history is the foundation for future success.  Everything we do, from winning NCAA titles to sending athletes overseas to compete in competitions is done in a way that develops a person and gives them the necessary tools to be successful on the mat.   Cowboywrestling.com FloNetwork     Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1539-the-cowboy-wrestling-club-joins-the-flonetwork Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:12:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1527-pennsylvania-youth-wrestling-joins-flonetwork Pennsylvania Youth Wrestling is a site that compiles the best wrestling info in the great state of PA. The site is run by Mark Morris, who has spent several years covering wrestling in the state. Already Mark has been active in creating some great video content, visiting Wyoming Seminary and Messiah College. FloNetwork Pennsylvania Youth Wrestling Pat Hitchins http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1527-pennsylvania-youth-wrestling-joins-flonetwork Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:44:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1493-wyoming-seminary-joins-the-flonetwork Wyoming Seminary has joined the FloNetwork. Wyoming Seminary, or more affectionately known as "Sem," is the oldest coeducational independent college preparatory school in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Their wrestling team is a dominant force in PA, and nationwide. The team is headed up by Coach John Gordon, who has over 26 years of highschool coaching experience.  If you are interested in getting your HS team on the Network, contact us at FloNetwork@flocasts.org). Wyoming Seminary FloNetwork Pat Hitchins http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1493-wyoming-seminary-joins-the-flonetwork Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:49:00 -0500