I understand what you guys are saying but at that age. They need to be able to welcome the challenge. the old saying "to be the best you have to wrestle the best". And by this time we as coaches have to try to instil the no excuses attitude. They have to be prepared in Highschool to wrestle upper classmen. And they are expected to win no matter what the age. If our kids want to make a run at being 4xers. We have to brain wash that age fear out of them. To me the harder task is theres not classes. Over the years I've seen many kids place in highschool and go 0-2 at kids state. I'm sure thats a little disheartening. But we should expect for it to be tough and try to prepare them for that. After all changing it back comes with challenges too.


Jon Trowbridge
Ive never had the fear of getting beat thats how most people lose.