USA Wrestling And NUWAY

I can verify that USAW has not changed a thing as far as the experience for the youth wrestlers and parents at their tournaments. After wrestling all summer at SCWAY tournaments finding plenty of mat time sometimes with much older opponents, we attended a local USA tournament in Sacramento, CA- SAWA.

Immediately we were blown off and treated rudely when the USA staff could not take 2 seconds out to answer which mat the little ones would be placed on, someone grumbled "all over" as there were two gyms and I bring toys for the kids to play with as I am holding off on the Nintendo DS as long as possible, I just wanted to know which corner to go to? Simple right? My wife and I are looking at each other like why are we being treated like this and feeling very uncomfortable?

That may have been just a misread right? Nope, the scribbled on brackets came out and we had 1 match after a 2 hour drive and not even best of 3! I asked my wife to straighten this out as I stood by quietly and she is very nice and has a pleasant voice, again she was talked to rudely and told the brackets will not be changed. I stepped in and requested the 4-5 matches promised in the flyer and explained that I can not have over 4 hours of drive time in for 3 minutes of mat time and my son would gladly wrestle up in age anyone close in weight to get his mat time. I was yelled at by the USA TD that the brackets would not be changed and the usual USA TD intimidation tactics were used, not backing down he finally gave me a round robin and exhibition time. However I was unable to find a willing participant to exhibition and the single opponent would not wrestle after 2 matches.
Why is this so important? None of this has ever and probably will ever happen at a SCWAY event. The staff has worked with me to make better wrestlers providing mat time and any help requested.

I am not sure about the SCWAY insurance, in California the land of litigation, I think you better stay on your toes insurance wise.

As far as which tournament a new young wrestler should go to, that would be SCWAY providing a rich wrestling experience and no intimidation to unsuspecting parents.
I am an unbiased parent of a young wrestler and hold both cards, I love Freestyle and most of all Greco but our children are required to perform Folkstyle if they would like to wrestle in school. SCWAY has provided our family with an enjoyable wrestling experience versus dealing with the USA -if you do not like it go somewhere else attitude. We used to have to shut up or risk being blackballed from wrestling, USA could basically do whatever they liked to you and your wrestlers.

Las Vegas was a joke. The tournament only lasted one day instead of two. I took my son and was very disappointed. They also charged too much.

I can verify that USAW has not changed a thing as far as the experience for the youth wrestlers and parents at their tournaments. After wrestling all summer at SCWAY tournaments finding plenty of mat time sometimes with much older opponents, we attended a local USA tournament in Sacramento, CA- SAWA.

Immediately we were blown off and treated rudely when the USA staff could not take 2 seconds out to answer which mat the little ones would be placed on, someone grumbled "all over" as there were two gyms and I bring toys for the kids to play with as I am holding off on the Nintendo DS as long as possible, I just wanted to know which corner to go to? Simple right? My wife and I are looking at each other like why are we being treated like this and feeling very uncomfortable?

That may have been just a misread right? Nope, the scribbled on brackets came out and we had 1 match after a 2 hour drive and not even best of 3! I asked my wife to straighten this out as I stood by quietly and she is very nice and has a pleasant voice, again she was talked to rudely and told the brackets will not be changed. I stepped in and requested the 4-5 matches promised in the flyer and explained that I can not have over 4 hours of drive time in for 3 minutes of mat time and my son would gladly wrestle up in age anyone close in weight to get his mat time. I was yelled at by the USA TD that the brackets would not be changed and the usual USA TD intimidation tactics were used, not backing down he finally gave me a round robin and exhibition time. However I was unable to find a willing participant to exhibition and the single opponent would not wrestle after 2 matches.
Why is this so important? None of this has ever and probably will ever happen at a SCWAY event. The staff has worked with me to make better wrestlers providing mat time and any help requested.

I am not sure about the SCWAY insurance, in California the land of litigation, I think you better stay on your toes insurance wise.

As far as which tournament a new young wrestler should go to, that would be SCWAY providing a rich wrestling experience and no intimidation to unsuspecting parents.
I am an unbiased parent of a young wrestler and hold both cards, I love Freestyle and most of all Greco but our children are required to perform Folkstyle if they would like to wrestle in school. SCWAY has provided our family with an enjoyable wrestling experience versus dealing with the USA -if you do not like it go somewhere else attitude. We used to have to shut up or risk being blackballed from wrestling, USA could basically do whatever they liked to you and your wrestlers.

No class? We wouldn't be where we're at now if anyone from USAW had any class, including the majority of the state organizations and the good ol boys who run them.

CA Scrapper your out of your mind. The Tulare event had 1 HS State place winner because his HS Coach made him go as he is on the USAW board we had 3 alone in his weight class at Lemoore and two that beat him last year. We had the best rookies and lightweights there at the kids level. We now have 40 clubs in the Central Valley alone and 150 in the state. They are not doing both a few will but the majority will wrestle spring folkstyle/dual trips. Many of the parents are driving the ship as they are sick of the way they have been treated. Your very mistaken if you think we wont have events all year and trips monthly. AZ, NV, OR, WA, AK, UT the whole region will be shuttling kids around.

Keep doing what your doing and you will keep getting what your getting

Parents don't even ask when they sign up because they just want their kids to compete. The only people crying about insurance are the people working for USAW to scare people away. The interesting thing is, in any other youth sport, no one seems to whine about insurance. Not even in youth football. Maybe thats the reason why those other sports thrive because its about getting kids competing and with the USAW folks its all about control. If people wish to sign up with another organization, they should have the freedom to do so without having to worry about USAW people trying to scare them into staying put.

why don't you guys just contact someone fron nuway. Flo is a kind of a different place to solicit this information.

Wow, at least spell your harsh words correctly. Are you from the Zoolander school for kids that don't read so good?

this is USA wrestlings strategy. The NUWAY insurance is very solid and meets the needs of people who host events and run practices. It is really a non issue that they are trying to make an issue of. They need something else better than this to turn things around. NUWAY isn't their problem. They (USA W) are their own worst problem. In my opinion of course.

In my state USAW tournaments are some of the worst ran tournaments around and the most expensive. I've been to some NUWAY tournaments and they are far superior than USAW on all levels, including state organization. In my state, the USAW folks could care less about the kids and the parents and are only concerned with their own pockets and do nothing to benefit the kids. Sure, maybe NUWAY's insurance isn't as good as AAU or USAW, but what they make up for is a far greater experience for the kids and I, along with many others I've spoke with are okay with that.

Frankly, I'm sick and tired of all these USAW folks trying to scare people away with fears of spinal injuries. If that is your tactic to try and win people back over to your side, you clearly don't understand what people really want with this sport and never will.

I called our coach last night and told me he thinks we only have 10K accidental. Is this true?

BTW, AAU has the best insurance coverage for secondary medical. I believe they have double the cap that USAW has and its far cheaper as well.

What is NUWAY, MYWAY.. accidental insurance coverage? Someone told me only $25K. Is this true? It seems to be a big secret. Is there a policy posted or website I can look at? Thanks

To Parent, sure hope none of your kids do any other sports in their lifetime, especially football because youth football has the same amount of coverage as NUWAY does. Better not play youth soccer because they have less coverage than football does.

Fact is, MYWAY and other NUWAY states have been operating for years with your supposed, less and superior insurance and people seem to be very okay with that. Seems to me the only people whining about insurance all the time are the USAW diehards that use it as a scare tactic.
Don't worry though, you can keep scaring people about the insurance and NUWAY will slowly continue to add states around the nation for our youth to wrestle in at a much cheaper rate.