en-us Copyright 2006-2009 Flocasts Inc Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:24:46 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/assets/portal/simple30/images/logos/flowrestling-logo.gif http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/9225-how-your-wrestling-mentality-holds-you-back Wrestling makes us mentally strong and independent. When our coach asks us to run through a wall we simply ask "Head first or shoulder first?" However, we tend to believe that we don't need any help when it comes to running our program. We can do it all ourselves. We did it as competitors and we'll do it as coaches- or CEO's- of our program. I can do it all. I NEED to do it all.If you think of your program as a business executive thinks of his business then you will see that you shouldn't do it all. You probably have a to-do list a mile long and only get 60% of it done if you're lucky. THAT IS WHAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK. Where is your time best spent? What tasks can only you do? What tasks should only you do? Running practices? Then spend your time developing the best practices possible!Planning the season? Then develop a season plan and make sure your program is adhering to it on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.Administrating? Then fill out the forms your admin wants in a timely manner!Fund Raising? Then plan and implement it flawlessly.Marketing? Then build a marketing plan, consult an expert and make a difference!Recruiting? Then think about the best ways to do it, plan it out and get after it in a big way!Is there a better way? Can someone else do some of these tasks? Sure, they may not do it as good as you do- in fact they won't do it as well as you do. Accept that and move on. The fact is that your program will be better off with you doing the tasks that YOU have to do. I hear the excuse already... you don't have anyone to help. If you don't have an assistant then what about a manager, an intern, a teacher whose class needs a project, an alumnus, a booster, your wife, your kids, the annoying local die-hard wrestling fan that has been asking how he can help. It's only an obstacle and you're a wrestler- figure it out.Or you can stay where you are, continue working hard instead of smart and operate at 60% capacity. Jim Harshaw http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/9225-how-your-wrestling-mentality-holds-you-back Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:15:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209851 Kevin competed in the team tournament on October 17, 2009 and finished at 2 and 0 including a magnificent 17 second submission of his opponent. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209851 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:48:20 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/3801-vinnie-santaniello The Shore Thing Guys go through a Sunday Morning workout of some technique and then do some live goes. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/3801-vinnie-santaniello Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:30:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235904-shore-thing-practice Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235904-shore-thing-practice Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:23:36 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209785 Maccarthur Open in Maccarthur, Oklahoma-135 pounds 11th-12th grade division. Tyler's in the red and black singlet from Elgin and the girl is from Eisenhower in the blue singlet. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209785 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:32:39 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209784 second round of the consolations in the 11th-12th grade division of the maccarthur open in maccarthur,Oklahoma. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209784 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:31:51 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209782 consolation finals of the maccarthur open for the 11th-12th grade division. I am going for third and fourth. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209782 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:30:42 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209684 Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/209684 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:35 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/167-kerry-mccoy USA defeats Iran in World Cup 2001 - highlights - filmed by Keith Lowrance. Great stuff! Check out McCoy's pin to win the match for USA at the end. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/167-kerry-mccoy Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:25:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/556-jd-bergman Ohio RTC athlete JD Bergman fulfilled his weekly community service by teaching at the Columbus Desales Wrestling Program Fundraiser Camp. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/556-jd-bergman Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:17:28 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235903-mighty-cruisers-memories Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235903-mighty-cruisers-memories Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:05:02 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/2867-jared-opfer Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/2867-jared-opfer Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:57:05 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/501-will-rowe Former sooner and current senior level athlete Will Rowe teaches a duckunder from a wrist that he likes when wrestling a more powerful wrestler who has strong hips. Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/speaker/501-will-rowe Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:06:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235901-st-ignatius-november-practice Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235901-st-ignatius-november-practice Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:55:02 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235890-2009-messiah-invitational Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235890-2009-messiah-invitational Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:25:02 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235891-wisconsin-wrestling-coaches-convention Flowrestling http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/coverage/view/235891-wisconsin-wrestling-coaches-convention Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:17:15 -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/blogs/blogger/Lee Kemp/9113-message-94-keep-believing-in-your-miracle Don't quit the moment before your miracle... your breakthrough... your SUCCESS!If you keep believing your breakthrough will come. Your success will come.One way to keep your dream alive is to constantly visualize your success. Role play it in your mind. Then step out of your mind and role play your future success by acting it out.Really act it out. As a young wrestler I used to make an award stand in my bed room and role play getting up on the #1 spot after hearing the my name announced as the champion. Sounds corny but this stuff works.Another way is to make a feature film of your success in your mind and create a "highlight" trailer and play it constantly in your mind. www.LeeKemp.com Lee Kemp http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Lee Kemp/9113-message-94-keep-believing-in-your-miracle Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:15:00 -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/blogs/blogger/Lee Kemp/8902-message-93-are-you-holding-back The next question is WHAT are you holding back? For example; energy, effort and love, ect. We all hold something back. Holding back is the key reason we have Mediocre performances and experiences. Giving all you've got is the Key to Exceptional performance and experiences. Do you want to be EXCEPTIONAL ... or ... average? Just by waking up in the morning...You've Made it to the "Average" Club. What you do after that makes all the difference. Holding back is why people sometimes fail. When you hold back you never fully know what may have happened if you went "all out". Have you ever seen a person Passionate about something 'holding back"? Great Desire and Intentions are wonderful things to have... but ... Great Effort is more important. This is the classic "thinking about doing something versus actually doing it". "Remember Doing Something and Thinking about Doing Something Yields Entirely Different Results." The reason why some people don't "go all out" and give (what ever it is) all they've got is because they have a belief that what ever it is they are giving; energy, effort, love etc., is LIMITED and needs to be conserved and rationed, for fear it is going to run out (kind of like time in a day). By having this belief we gauge, on a case by case basis, how much we're going to give to something. Another reason for not going "all out" is Fear of Faliure. I'll address that in a later blog entry. IF WE GUESS WRONG BY GIVING "TOO LITTLE" .... often times WE FAIL at what ever it is we're doing! This scenario is especially bad because if fosters failure and mediocrity, and if we succeed it's just as bad because if fosters an attitude of low output EXPECTING good results. Strangely enough... WHAT DRAINS US OF OUR; ENERGY, EFFORT, LOVE (what ever) is the act of holding it back... not giving it 100%. WATCH THIS.... The more you hold back, or conserve something i.e., your ENERGY, EFFORT, LOVE (what ever), the more NARROW the channels through which "it" can flow WHEN YOU REALLY NEED IT or WANT IT! If you give it all at 100% the channel opens and flows freely. Example; if you hold back physical effort in athletic practices... the more difficult it is to give it (and express it) when you need it - to have the desired performance outcome. Another EXAMPLE; the more you hold back love... the more difficult it is to give it (and express it) when you need to. This applies to everything. Think about it... People that freely and fully give 100% of their Effort towards something seem to have an unending supply of it... and are usually successful at what ever they're doing. YOU DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT AND THEN GIVE IT EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT...EVERY DAY! www.LeeKemp.com Lee Kemp http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Lee Kemp/8902-message-93-are-you-holding-back Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:56:00 -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 http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/8867-why-not-us <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui> </object> <style> st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> Jim Harshaw http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Jim Harshaw/8867-why-not-us Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:23:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1479-cheesehead-tournament-joins-the-flonetwork The Cheesehead Wrestling Tournament is now on the Network! Its getting to be one of the toughest tournaments in the nation with schools like Apple Valley (MN), Montini Catholic (IL), Wyoming Seminary (PA), Brandon (FL), and Simley (MN). You can follow the action this year on the Cheesehead site as well as Flowrestling.  Do you have a tournament that needs a site? Give us a holler at flonetwork@flocasts.org Cheesehead Wrestling Tournament FloNetwork  Here is the match of the event from last year! Wrestling Videos on Flowrestling Pat Hitchins http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1479-cheesehead-tournament-joins-the-flonetwork Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:44:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1466-redmond-hs-joins-the-flonetwork FloNetwork is excited to have another West Coast Team onboard. Redmond High School in Redmond, Oregon is the latest team to join the FloNetwork. Headed up by Nathan Stanley, RHS is a force in Oregon, and now on the FloNetwork. Check out rhswrestling.com for more on the team, and its wrestlers.  If you have a HS team, organization, or want a cool website contact us to become part of the network (flonetwork@flocasts.org)   RHSWrestling.com   FloNetwork Pat Hitchins http://www.flowrestling.org/articles/view/1466-redmond-hs-joins-the-flonetwork Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:27:00 -0500 http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Mike Tamillow/8781-when-success-is-convenient It happens. A while back Mitch Hull was telling me a father called in and wanted to know what he could do so his kids would be Olympic champions. His children were 3 and 5, and Mitch described how ridiculous the question was. And I agreed, it is completely ridiculous. But I’ve also been to little kids tournaments and I understand how serious some parents take it. Chances are those two kids are going to get some serious beatings unless they get good. So I’m going to tell you the secret to success. Someone on Flo said that I was the only one who knows the secret to success. I got called out for hiding it. So I will tell. There are a ton of books out about success. Malcolm Gladwell almost got it right in outliers. However, he beats around the bush so much you’d wonder if he really knows the answer. Convenience. If success is convenient, it will happen. Most great cities are located near water. It is much more convenient to support more people. Agriculture made surviving a lot more convenient. The printing press made selling books more convenient. And cars make traveling more convenient. The internet has made the transfer of information much more convenient. This is the success of whole industries. The most important factor for the individual is still convenience. I always tell people school is a waste of time. Going to Northwestern just happened to be convenient. I got accepted. I didn’t work incredibly hard in high school or grade school. Most of the time I didn’t even do my homework until five minutes before class. But I was always surrounded by smart people; it made it easy to learn. I grew up in the right area of Illinois for wrestling. I went to a school in one of the best high school conferences in the nation. I had world class coaches and the best competition. And then I went to a college that had a lot of great wrestlers at my weight with more great coaches. The world around me made the real difference. Talent, hard work, and dedication just separated me from a very few other guys with the same opportunity. (and most of them had roughly the same success) By convenient, I mean without difficulties, not necessarily easy. I wake up in the morning and I have to walk two minutes to practice. I don’t have to search everywhere for someone to wrestle. And they are the best wrestlers and coaches at my fingertips. It’s all there. My only requirement is to do what I need to do. Simple. Money makes things everything more convenient. This is the true measure of money being equated to success. It is much easier to succeed at whatever you want when you have money. Punishment and reward is a failing system. People rarely measure the outcomes of their actions since we often see things turn out in a way we didn’t expect them to. Outside of the direct consequence of feeling guilty or proud, or the immediate emotions before we do something, we will make our decisions based on what is convenient. The first person to smile at us is the person we befriend. If that friend does drugs, we’ll do drugs. If that person is intelligent, we’ll learn. If you recognize what you want, you can make success more convenient. But it requires you to inconvenience yourself. That is the American dream, not hard work and rugged individualism. A bunch of immigrants inconvenience themselves by moving across an ocean where they don’t speak the language. In our country it’s a lot more convenient to succeed financially then in Uzbekistan. So my advice is just please don't beat your kids. Move to the right part of the country with the right coaches and wrestling partners, preferably have twins and then leave the rest up to the big doG. Mike Tamillow http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/Mike Tamillow/8781-when-success-is-convenient Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:20:00 -0500