About Our Academy

OWNERSHIP

The first part of ownership is extreme accountability. This means that no matter what other factors contributing to an unwanted outcome, every part of the team (Parent, Coaches, Wrestlers) are LOOKING IN THE MIRROR for the points of improvement. The most disastrous thing we can do to our young people is have them believe that someone or something else outside of their control was the reason that they didn’t get what they want. Here are some examples:

“The ref made a bad call, that’s why I lost”
“My mom didn’t pack my shoes, that’s why I don’t have them”
“My teacher didn’t remind me, that’s why I didn’t get my project done on time”
“Coach ran practice too hard, that’s why I got hurt”

It is the leadership’s job (Wrestling parents and coaches) to raise our young people in a culture that forces accountability no matter how “unfair” or painful a situation may be. We cannot rob our young people of the pain of coming up short. When failure rears its ugly head, there’s ALWAYS something that the individual could have done better to improve the outcome. The second part of Ownership is responsibility. By the time our wrestlers hit high school, they should be fully taking care of their basic needs. A few examples include but are not limited to:

• Doing their own laundry (washing, drying, folding)
• Packing their own lunch for school
• Waking up on their own, making their bed (room must be organized before leaving)
• Making their own breakfast
• Getting their license on time and transporting themselves to school, training, recreation, etc.
• Signing up for wrestling tournaments, sticking to their schedule
• Directly communicating with coaches and other adult leaders in their life

FOCUS

The ability to focus and have “staying power” is critical in helping our young people succeed. Focus is most often lost due to adversity and rigor. It is important that we’re not “feeling sorry” for our young people. That justifies their feeling sorry for themselves, which can turn into a disastrous mindset. Continuing with the accountability, we always need to hold our young people accountable for staying focused. It is the short term focus through adversity and hardship to stay locked-on to their goals and purpose that creates the big picture focus that helps our wrestlers stay on the road to success and achievement.

EXECUTION

As the last two parts of our culture (Ownership and Focus) are very closely intertwined, so is the final step being Execution. It is the last and most critical piece to the puzzle. With everything else in order, if we don’t teach our young people the COURAGE to execute after doing everything else right…the efforts are almost totally wasted. Execution is something that we must make a habit of doing correctly and with high quality. In wrestling, the execution portion is simple…competing! In order to practice and sharpen the ability to execute, you must compete often. It is a real skill to be able to perform and execute at a high level on the mat. Ownership and Focus in the training portion will only take us 90% of the way. The last 10% of the process that gets us to our goals is EXECUTION on the mat.

THE TRAINING

Our training system is unlike any other. We have a proprietary system that has built-in evolution because of the high level of data collection that we do on a daily basis. We gather data on our wrestlers training attendance, lifting sessions, flexibility, athleticism, training output, match performance, team tournament performance, and parental involvement. Because of this, we are able to make the most accurate adjustments to our training that helps our wrestlers develop in the most efficient and effective way possible.