people who think that coaches are "hiding" something are acting a little childish. We have had closed practices in the past, then we went away from it for about 6 years. We closed practices again this year. It's all how you approach things. In my opinion if a parent wants to go through the background check and the bronze certification, then they should be allowed to become a coach, they should not be allowed to coach their own kid. Too many dads who "wrestled" want to be there to push their own kid too far, and have NO interest in the other kids in the club. CBR, SEK, be truthful and ask yourself this question, are you in it for the club, or are you in it for YOUR SON! Also realize that to learn the sport of wrestling it takes time, just because you go to more practices, or try to learn more moves, doesn't mean that your son or daughter will have earlier success. for now let the coaches do their job, and be a parent, sit back and enjoy the victories. remeber that wrestling teaches us that some victories are very small and that most don't have medals attached. if you want to teach at home there are hundreds of videos on youtube, watch together and learn. good luck to all.
I'm sorry that they had closed practices in the past. For the past three years we have not so that's all I have known. I'm not trying to live my past through my kid by any means cause I never wrestled, my school did not offer it. We were not asked or warned before we signed up and paid our money for the club. We were just told that practices were gonna be closed. So with that being said, I can tell you just because someone wrestled for years and learned all there was about wrestling, it does not make them a coach by any means. It takes a lot more than just being a past wrestler to be a coach. I can tell you that first hand with what I have seen in my short three years in the sport. There are coaches I have seen at tournaments that have no right to be telling a kid what to do. I am not expert at each sport by no means, nobody is, but I do consider myself a coach. It takes compassion, leadership, a general knowledge of the sport, and much more. I never once said our coaches were hiding anything, I never thought that for one second. I just know, that when my kids hits the mat, he looks at me, I look at him, we nod our heads and he wrestles. He knows what he needs to do and doesn't need me yelling at him to get up, get off his back, don't reach back, etc. I'll also be the first one to ask one of our coaches to sit beside me in the corner. I have never told any of our coaches to move so I could coach my kid. But I do wanna be there mat side when he wrestles. If I'm wrong, than maybe I'm just always gonna be wrong.
