Coaching

Dave Pineau knew after two season's he had found a winner with Digital Scouting Video Sharing database. Having tried a popular Game Tape exchange service, and then sharing games using thumb drives, he had little hope of finding a system that everyone could be happy with.

At the end of every season athletes talk about how next season will be better. When you ask them how, they often talk about how hard they are going to train. Well, if everyone is saying and doing the same thing, what is going to be the difference? The two that come to mind is summer training and the intensity in which you train. As an athlete you can't wait for things to happen, you have to make it happen.

The embedded video below shows the x-ankle Freestyle Wrestling turn in detail, both the offense and defense.

Improvements in technology and iPhone Apps is making it very easy to capture, edit and share videos. Techsmith's Coach's Eye is an iPhone App coaches can use to help them take their athletes to the next level.

When the rules of wrestling change, so do the technical trends. There was a time the fall or pin was the ultimate goal.

This is a follow up to an earlier post What is match fixing in wrestling?. I didn't intend to have a follow up post, but when I read a news paper article that indicated Peter Forsberg played a hockey game with the intent to lose in order to get a better draw in the play off round.

There are a number of ways to penetrate the legs of your opponent to score a high crotch takedown. This article looks at two more ways to get into the legs.

Is giving up a round in wrestling the same as fixing a match? Or is the problem with deciding on how a certain match will go by deciding the winner of a round or two before it starts? How about if wrestlers from the same club decide to split the first two rounds and wrestle the third for real, does that make it legitimate? To tell you the truth, I don't know but think it is worth talking about.

In 1979 the Canadian National Wrestling team competed in a wrestling tournament in Cuba. Many of the matches were video recorded and these recordings were brought back to Canada were they sat in storage for over 30 years.

An athlete's success can be measured a number of ways, but for a lot of people it is only results. This makes OJ Simpson, Rae Carruth, Art Schlichter and a bunch more, successes. Mind you, you may have to go to a prisson to get an autograph.

Canada Senior Women's Wrestling Team just placed second in the World finishing ahead of over 40 countries entered in the tournament. This is an outstanding performance.

In recent weeks I have read of a view situations where teachers have been sending friend invitations to students. It is also happening in the sport world were coaches and inviting their athletes and athletes are inviting their coaches to be friends.

Online video viewing seems to be more common TV Viewing these days.  I am asking 5 questions  I would like you to answer, short and sweet yes and no answers only.

Acquiring technical skill in a sport is critical for athletes that want to succeed. Athletes and coaches with open and creative minds may have an advantage in this area.

What Lynyrd Skynyrd taught me about coaching wrestling.

The Digitalscouting Video Sharing System was developed to increase access and portability of your video library. As each day goes by more and more mobile phone subscribers are using their phones to view videos. According to Nielson mobile video viewing went up 43 percent from 2009 to 2010.

Steven Covey wrote pages on the principle of First Understand before being Understood in his book 7 Habits of Successful People. The more I learn about coaching the more I feel this principle is something all coaches should practice and be expert in if they want top results.

If you are planning to video record a competition for someone or having someone record one for you, there are some things to considerations before pressing the record button.  You only have one chance to record the game correctly, be prepared.

Buvaisar Hamidovich Saitiev Clinic was one of the best I had ever seen. Technique was great the intensity of his movements was simply incredible.

Looking for a fun project for your team. Wordle combined with cafepress, empower your team members to create cool customized t-shirts.