ABCs of Becoming a Great Wrestler:

Attitude: its not whether you win that’s important .. its how you win. Its not whether you lose its how you lose. Wrestle to win not wrestle not to lose.

Belief: Believe that every time you step on the mat you are destined to win. If you are down going into the third period always believe you can outwork the opponent and scramble back into it.

Composure: Keep your cool and concentrate on the next move not the last one. Don’t lose concentration on what you need to do to improve your position during all phases of the match. Losing composure will result in you not achieving 100% of your “goal” or potential.

Determination: Never give up and never stop scrambling until time runs out.

Effort: Give yourself the best chances for success by always working hard in practice and in matches. You can never say you lost if you gave it 100% effort.

Focus: Concentrate your “efforts” on improving yourself every time you train. Focus on your weaknesses and make them your strengths.

Goals: Set short and long term goals, achieve them, reset goals, and repeat.

Heart: A wrestler with heart will always have that ability to give 100%. If you do not wrestle with heart you will always walk away, win or lose, feeling like you didn’t leave it all out there on the mat.

Intensity: Wrestle every time like it will be your last match. A wrestler who wrestles with intensity, heart and determination will always reach 100% of his potential.

To be continued…..