Wrestling

So to start this out, this year I got a phone call from the school athletic director saying, I looked at your schedule and this semester you have a break from 3:00-4:30 so I have your name down to coach. Well I didn’t know I was wrestling this semester but OK. So we have tryouts and I get a team of great guys. But 4 of them have never stepped on a mat. We started practice 3 weeks ago and only for an hour and a half on Mon, & Wed. Not much time to say the least. What do you do with that? Well we started working on shots & stance, setups and sprawling. Then just this week we got to the ground game. This week we had our first meet and to say the least some of them were a little Nervis for their first match. I just told them they know what they are doing (small lie) and to act like they have been there before. Also on top of that it is three-day weekend and I only had 8 out of 15 wrestlers tonight. 4 with mat time & 4 without. The others I lost to Utah, Vegas, and meeting future mother in laws. The tam we were wrestling had 11 guys and added 4 more to there team tonight (cheap). So all but one of my guys had to wrestle twice jumping to all different weights. It seemed as if most of them we got pinned or pinned them. But 3 of the 4 that had never wrestled won at least one of their match's. One of them wrestling against a 2 time state champ. Plus the rest of my guys who knew what they were doing did pretty well. At the en of the night we tied them 39-39. Although I think given the circumstances we cleaned the mat with those guys. Next week should be even more fun. I just need to teach them how to get off their backs.