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Post by coachebed on Dec 30, 2023 1:16:40 GMT -5
ROUTINES CURE ANXIETY As a competitive athlete, I was no stranger to the pre-game jitters. That surge of adrenaline, while often beneficial for enhancing performance, can also manifest as anxiety, hindering your ability to perform at your best. The good news is that there's an effective antidote to competition anxiety – routine. Establishing a pre-competition routine provides a sense of familiarity and predictability, acting as an anchor in the midst of heightened emotions. It allows you to focus on the actions you need to take rather than dwelling on potential outcomes. Focus on the things you can control before your match! What can you control? Music You Listen To Warm Exercises What You Eat What You Tell Yourself Any questions relating to pre-match routine, feel free to respond to the email. -Coach Ebed MORE BLOG POST HERE: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blog
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Post by coachebed on Jan 1, 2024 10:47:26 GMT -5
THE PERFECT PRACTICE PARTNER Over the years I have had 100’s of practice partners and this was my experience. Drilling Partner: I got much better when I had a partner that gave the correct amount of resistance. He wasn’t going live, but also wasn’t being a WET NOODLE haha. He would give me different looks as I drilled to help prepare me for match like situations. Although he kept me accountable with my technique, making sure I did it correctly, he made sure I was successful when it was my turn to score. Live Partner: I would always mix my partners up. I looked for 3 different people, one I could beat, one that was at my level and a challenge partner. I loved getting different looks to help prepare me for all types of opponents. It also helped me balance gaining confidence in my techniques with challenging myself. -Coach Ebed MORE BLOG POST HERE: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blog
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Post by coachebed on Jan 3, 2024 14:21:46 GMT -5
AGGRESSION IS GOOD I used to have a trouble attacking in matches. I was afraid that if I was aggressive I would get scored on. I tried to change this habit by being over aggressive in practice. So I set a goal of 100 LEG ATTACK attempts for every practice. This not only helped me be more offensive in matches but it also helped my rate of learning increase rapidly. Attacking so much in live got me better at finishing leg attacks as well as recovering from failed shot attempts. As a coach I understand even more the value of being aggressive! If my athlete does not attack the only advice I can give him is to shoot next time haha. If my athlete is aggressive we can review the different positions he got in and work the technical side of his wrestling. I encourage you next practice to set a goal of 100 LEG ATTACKS. Be more aggressive and watch your improvement sky rocket! Best, Ebed Jarrell MORE BLOG POST HERE: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blog
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Post by coachebed on Jan 6, 2024 18:21:30 GMT -5
What Is My Role As A Wrestling Parent? As a coach I have seen both sides of wrestling parents. One that fosters growth and another that fosters resentment and frustration. My dad had no experience wrestling besides maybe getting into a couple scraps with his friends and brother haha. I think in a lot of ways that was good. I didn’t have a dad that was always on top of me critiquing me at every match and practice. He was able to stay my dad and my coach was my coach. As my two sons continue to grow (Gideon 2 and Ezra 9 months), I am in a complete different situation. My job is wrestling, that’s my passion! How can I as a coach and father help my sons find success? From my experience, the parents that help their kids focus on improvement and effort rather than results tend to see better outcomes. I also see value in letting the coaches coach, giving your kids space and allow the coaches to critique and guide them. I even had fathers in similar situations as me, recommend I don’t coach my sons. So if I’m not supposed to coach my kids what can I do? In addition to, focusing on improvement and effort, I also see value when parents DON’T make excuses for their kids. For example, your son/daughter just lost to someone older. After the match you could say “it’s ok they were older.” Which may be true, but I think a better response might be, “great effort out there, don’t worry about it you’ll make the improvements and continue to get better.” Now if they gave a poor effort I think it’s perfectly fine to say, “I know you can go harder than that, next match I want to see you go 100% it doesn’t matter if you win or lose.” From my experience you have to find a balance of honesty and encouragement. One other great quality I have seen in parents is the ability to help their child emotionally deal with wins and loses. It’s common for a child to be upset when they lose and excited when they win. Helping them to act in an appropriate way on and off the mat is important. A great way to help your child understand how to act is to show them a teammate who displays good sportsmanship. I’ll keep you guys updated on anything else I learn as I continue to parent/coach my own kids haha. WRESTLING SECRETS BLOG: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blogBest, Coach Ebed
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Post by coachebed on Jan 8, 2024 10:13:20 GMT -5
Tips For Competing In A Wrestling Tournament: I used to get so exhausted by the end of a wrestling tournament. It was my sophomore year in college and I was competing at the Southern Scuffle, one of the toughest tournaments in the country. After losing around 10lbs and getting a horrible night sleep, I arrived at the University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga. As soon as I arrived I checked my weight and realized I was a half pound over. I worked out for 30 minutes to make weight, then I ate and drank and gave myself 45 minutes until I had to warm up for the day. Throughout the day from 8AM-8PM I had 4 matches all spread out. Every match I had to warmup and compete at my highest level. In between matches I was cheering my teammates on and watching my competition. I finished my last match at 8PM and went to go cut weight for the second day of the tournament. After getting to a pound over I went to sleep at 11PM and woke up to repeat another day of tough wrestling. I was so tired by the last match of my second day that I knew I had to change something. So I talked with my brother Stephen to get some advice. What he told me dramatically helped my energy levels during a tournament. After every match my brother made sure he ate and drank something and then took a 10 minute nap. He also encouraged me to avoid watching to much wrestling throughout the day, although it is a lot of fun, cheering on your teammates can be draining. I implemented this in my next tournament and immediately felt 10X better. Next tournament, encourage your child to eat something after their match put a timer on for 10 minutes and go lay down. WRESTLING SECRETS BLOG: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blogBest, Ebed Jarrell
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Post by coachebed on Jan 15, 2024 13:19:14 GMT -5
How Should You Warm-Up For Competitions? My first match at wrestling tournaments always used to be MY WORST. I remember feeling so tired with in the first minutes of my match. This last thing I wanted was to lose a match because I wasn’t ready to go. Now I only had this issue in tournaments, so I tried to figure out the difference between my dual meets and tournaments. What stood out to me the most was my pre-match warm-up. In dual meets, our coach would always run as through a warm-up as a team. For tournaments we were given the freedom to warm-up how we saw fit. After realizing this I came up with my own system to warm-up, it’s helped me greatly and I hope it can do the same for you! Competition Warm-Up: (this is done with the team or a partner at the beginning of the day) Jogging (3 minutes): Sprints (2 minutes): Follow jogging with short sprints to activate fast-twitch muscles. Mimic quick bursts of energy required in wrestling. Stance and Motion (5 minutes): Shots, downblocks, sprawls, fakes. Hard Drill Session (7-10 minutes): Perform intense drilling with a partner. Focus on high-intensity moves, takedowns, and escapes. Live Hand-fighting (3 sets of 30 second goes) Helps get your first match out of the way. Final Jog or Walk (2 minutes): Conclude the warm-up with a light jog or walk. Warm-Up 10 minutes before match: (often this has to be done off the mat because matches are going on) Jogging (2 minutes): Start with a light jog to elevate heart rate and increase blood flow. Sprints (2-5 Sprints): Follow jogging with short sprints to activate fast-twitch muscles. Mimic quick bursts of energy required in wrestling. Stance and Motion ( 2 minutes): Downblocks, fakes, and motion. Emphasize proper positioning and quick changes in direction. WRESTLING SECRETS BLOG: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blogBest, Ebed Jarrell
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Post by coachebed on Jan 23, 2024 9:40:08 GMT -5
I Started Wrestling Too Late Unless you started at 4 years old you probably had the thought “I started WRESTLING too LATE.” or “I wish I started wrestling earlier.” I started wrestling in 5th grade maybe earlier than a lot of you guys, but still thought the same thing. “If I started earlier I would be so much better.” While this may or may not be true, I do know that the improvement I made from 5th grade to 11th was about the same as from 11th too 12th. I wanted to wrestle Division 1 and was far better my competition. How was I able to make such big improvements in one year? There were several things I learned and implemented between my Junior and Senior year, but one thing that made a big difference was SPECIALIZATION. Every practice/private my coach would focus on the same handful of positions and techniques. The issue was not that I didn’t know enough moves, it was that I needed to be able to hit my moves against better opponents. My focus was on perfecting the techniques against a variety of defensive situations. As well as, building a series of techniques that connected together to ensure I could score no matter what my opponents reaction was. So I encourage you if you feel like you’re starting late, don’t try to LEARN EVERYTHING. Pick techniques that you like in each position and start mastering them. As your opponents stop the techniques add the details needed to still get the score. WRESTLING SECRETS BLOG: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blogBest, Coach Ebed
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Post by coachebed on Jan 31, 2024 11:02:25 GMT -5
I finished a disappointing Junior year of wrestling and was looking back on my season trying to wrap my head around. What did I do wrong? With only ONE YEAR LEFT, it was crunch time and I needed to get MUCH BETTER! That’s when I met my mentor John Clark! For the next 2 years this man took me under his wing and taught me the fundamental techniques and concepts of wrestling. We traveled all across the Northeast doing camps and private lessons. I even found myself doing private lessons on a PRIVATE ISLAND, but we can leave that story for another day haha. I learned that wrestling technique is not about learning curtain moves, it’s about staying in GOOD position and understanding the fundamental concepts of wrestling. I not only learned proper technique but also the reasoning behind it. I fell in love with learning wrestling, knowing that if I stopped taking in new information I was going to stop getting better. After seeing so much success in both my personal wrestling and my athletes. I decided to put everything I learned online FOR FREE! To help get you results IMMEDIATELY I created a Wrestling Assessment Quiz. Which will give you the EXACT TECHNIQUES your child needs to improve on! Here's the link to my FREE WRESTLING ASSESSMENT QUIZ: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-skills-assessment-survey-what-positionGo check it out and let me know what you think. -Thanks Coach Ebed
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Post by coachebed on Feb 5, 2024 9:46:54 GMT -5
Technique is KING but without high INTENSITY it is hard to compete at a high level. Last year my team IRON FAITH competed against one of the best teams in the country STELLAR TRAINED. After getting completely destroyed I came to a realization. Next practice I gave my team a little speech and it went something like this. “Your technique is the same as theirs, what you’re lacking in is INTENSITY. You guys are learning the same moves, but can’t CHAIN MOVES together FAST ENOUGH. In order to be able to keep up with someones PACE you must drill and go live at a much higher intensity." Here’s my two tips to help increase your INTENSITY & CHAIN WRESTLING of your athlete. 1. Make sure your partner is giving you realistic looks as you drill. 2. Be very offensive in live, SHOOT 100 TIMES EVERY LIVE PORTION OF PRACTICE. WRESTLING SECRETS BLOG: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blog-Thanks Coach Ebed
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Post by coachebed on Feb 13, 2024 9:30:21 GMT -5
I frequently hear coaches tell their athletes to “GET MAD”! Trying to get them to WRESTLE HARDER. This reminds me of a practice I had in college. It was first to 100 TAKEDOWNS. This meant practice wasn’t over till you or your practice partner got 100 TAKEDOWNS. I was at about 50-0 takedowns on my teammate, pushing him up against the wall. When out of frustration he elbowed me square in the nose! I gave no reaction and continued to finish off the second set of 50. This is how I always wrestled ALL BUSINESS with NO EMOTIONS. Giving your full effort should be standard and you should not try to stir up ANGER to help bring that out. As a coach, when I see my athlete get angry and start wrestling harder as a result, I take the kid to the side and ask: WHY HAVEN’T YOU BEEN GOING YOUR HARDEST THE WHOLE TIME? WHY ARE YOU NOW GOING HARDER WHEN YOUR ANGRY? If you want consistency in your child’s performance encourage them to not let their EMOTIONS dictate their EFFORTS. Not only will ANGER cloud your judgment in a match, but continued practice of this emotion will fuel it to become your child’s default when they face adversity in real life situations. If you know anyone that would benefit from my WRESTLING SECRETS NEWSLETTER please share the below link: www.ironfaith.com/coach-ebed-wrestling-newsletterBest, Coach Ebed
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Post by coachebed on Feb 20, 2024 11:56:21 GMT -5
I've heard many coaches say practice partners don't matter. I STRONGLY disagree! Nothing gets an athlete better than having a GREAT PRACTICE PARTNER and a GREAT COACH. As a coach I make it a priority for my athletes to become GREAT PRACTICE PARTNERS. It is a SKILL THAT CAN BE LEARNED! WHAT IS A GOOD PRACTICE PARTNER? A good practice partner…… gives a variety of defenses as you drill. (Sprawl, Funk Roll, Sit The Corner, Kick Out) keeps you accountable making sure your technique is PERFECT. doesn’t go LIVE when drilling. (This Can Be Very Frustrating) is competitive during live and pushes you to go harder. Good practice partners matters and you’re the practice partner! WRESTLING SECRETS NEWSLETTER: www.ironfaith.com/wrestling-secrets-blogBest, Coach Ebed
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