Welcome to Wrestling Consultants
Not enough kids turn out:
1. Any experienced coach knows that the more wrestlers on the practice mat the better chance he has of winning.  Now with 14 weight classes it takes a lot of people to have a full team.  It is also vital for the wrestlers to have several practice partners if they are going to be in top condition and to have variety and fun in practice.

We will send to you several suggestions that are clever  ways to recruit students to your program.  Remember there have been many future champions who never guessed they had the talent to wrestle until something or someone got them to try.  The suggestions we give to you will have a lot of students who never considered wrestling talking about and interested in trying wrestling.  You will even have the faculty talking positively about the program.  Our guarantee--if after trying these suggestions the numbers of those who try out for the sport are not up at least 20% we will fully refund your money.  Some who have tried these suggestions have experienced an astounding 500% increase in the number of wrestlers trying out.


There are very few spectators at our home matches, we can’t seem to get the student body involved in our program and / or there is little faculty support for the program:
2, 7, 8. Would you like to see your spectators up from 15 to 20 at each home match to a 1000? Would you like to see students in large numbers at the home matches? Would you like to see the faculty supportive and even enthusiastically talking up wrestling? Several programs that have used our suggestions have done just that.  This step-by-step method shows you how to work with parents,  faculty, student-body, and community people to fill the bleachers. Entertaining them with exciting wrestling will keep them coming back.  When there is a multitude of paying spectators at each match, it motivates the wrestlers, brings enthusiasm to the whole program and makes the athletic director and principal happy because of the funds generated.  This may be the best purchase of your life. If these suggestions fully implemented do not double your spectators we will fully refund your money.


We don’t have enough money for our program:
3. With fewer and fewer avenues of revenue going to schools over the past several years it is becoming imperative that programs often have to raise their own money.  Here are some successful ways in which to do just that.  These are ways that involve the students, the parents and the community to help bring in the money needed for your program goals.  If these suggestions are not helpful to this end for you, your money will be fully refunded.


In key situations I can’t find the rule in the rulebook fast enough to be of help:
4. We offer for sale “Wolfe’s Wrestling Rules Concordance.” This publication is a complete “every word” index to the High School Wrestling Rules.  How many times in a critical situation, where you knew you were right, but couldn’t prove it because you couldn’t find it fast enough in the rulebook.  It is usually in a critical situation that  means the difference between your wrestler winning and losing the match.  Now you can find all the rules quickly, easily and support your wrestlers. 
“Wolfe’s Concordance” is also a powerful tool in helping a referee study for the referee’s exam. This pocket size pamphlet is a must for every coach and referee and the person who has it will be far ahead of those who don’t. Below are some of the testimonials of those who have used “Wolfe’s Concordance.”

TESTIMONIALS

" This is the best idea since toasted bread.  I don’t go to a match without my rulebook or without “Wolfe’s.”

(Darrell White, Coach, Zillah, Washington)


"I have stopped counting how many times this little book has helped us win a match.  Referees make mistakes, but they usually correct those mistakes if you can show them in the rulebook where they are wrong. The correct application of the rules makes all the difference.  Before I had “Wolfe’s” I couldn’t find the rules quick enough to make a difference, now I do. This index saves valuable time especially during the pressure of competition. "
(Tom Ritchie, Coach, Fairbanks, Alaska)

"I love having “Wolfe’s Concordance” with me at clinics or at tournaments.  The referees get in the darnedest arguments about some of the rules until we find it in the rule book. It makes me look pretty smart when I can find the rule quickly.   I can because of this book.  It is a necessary tool for every wrestling referee, coach or scorer."

(Shane Harrington, Referee, Homer, Alaska)


“Wolfe’s Wrestling Concordance” has been available only in Washington and Alaska the last ten years. However, Wrestlingconsultants.com is now selling the latest edition nationwide. 


We don’t have a winning philosophy, we don’t have the talent to compete with other schools or we're simply curious about “Funk Wrestling”:
5, 6, 11. Philosophy is probably more important to having a winning team than any one thing.  A winning philosophy is the channel that will guide you to your eventual goal.  With the right philosophy lesser talented teams can overcome their more talented opponents.   Below is the introduction to a book that could change your philosophy to a winning philosophy. 


This book has been touted as the first “Funk Wrestling Text” The Five-Point Philosophy is the philosophy of many “Funk Wrestlers.”


The Five-Point Philosophy

Perhaps the best way to introduce the 5-Point Philosophy in Wrestling is to talk about football. In the 50's and 60's football in America had one philosophy, the " Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust" philosophy. Nearly every team High School through Pros adhered to this philosophy. Simply stated this philosophy is: if you can get at least 3 yards every time you carry the ball, no one can keep you from scoring every time you get the ball and thus winning.

This was a very successful philosophy; it was also very safe, with little risk taken. Razzle-dazzle was considered unsafe and unwise. Unfortunately football games during this period of football history were sometimes as fun for the fan as watching grass grow. Games usually devolved into shoving matches dominated by the defense, and were usually played between the 20-yard lines. Game scores were usually 7-6, 9-6, or 3-0, a high scoring game might be 14-10.

Then in the 70's several very innovative coaches, like Daryl Royal of Texas, Levell Edwards of BYU, Jimmy Johnson of Miami who either invented or recognized systems which put razzle-dazzle in the offense. More importantly they changed their philosophy it became "The Big Play Philosophy." Simply stated this new philosophy was: " out of any three downs we may not gain any ground on two of them, but on the third down, we will make 10 yards and every once in a while the play will go all the way. Soon football games were wide-open passing and running games dominated by the offense. Games were intense for the players and coaches, but exciting for the fans. Game scores are often 60-45, 42-41, a low scoring game might be 26-14 and rarely does a team go without scoring. This new exciting philosophy catapulted football into the major college sport. It spilled over into the Pros and to a certain extent high school as well.

Now to Wrestling, for the past 40 years wrestling also has had one predominate philosophy. It has been a "Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust" type philosophy. I'll bet nearly every serious Coach or wrestler has heard it or even espoused in at one time or another. The philosophy usually is stated something like this: "If you can take a guy down and can escape from him then you will beat him."

This is a fairly sound philosophy. If a wrestler can get all the takedowns and can escape from his opponent then all the wrestling should be on the feet and he should never get in trouble. Wrestling which has overwhelmingly accepted this philosophy has become relegated to mostly takedowns and escapes where both men vie for position on their feet to get the next takedown. Wrestlers often look like they are stalling because they take special care not to let themselves get out of position so they won't be taken down. Once on the mat they work for a quick escape usually facilitated by the fact that the top man will probably let them go so they both can go takedowns again. Unfortunately, this has made wrestling sometimes very boring to watch. Coaches have concentrated on teaching takedowns and escapes, neglecting exciting parts of wrestling for fans and wrestlers alike, especially the pin. Still no one has come up with a way stop this philosophy therefore it continues to dominate wrestling.

A few years ago I took a few years off from wrestling to referee and watch wrestling from a neutral standpoint. During these years I was most impressed with how a five-point takedown (takedown to a persons back) or a five-point reversal (reversal to a persons back) changed the climate of the match. A wrestler who had 4 takedowns to none and pretty well dominated the match, was suddenly reversed to his back to be beaten by one point. A wrestler would be put to his back the first round and then would spend the rest of the match trying to catch up only to fall short. Two five-point moves by one wrestler would put the match out of reach for the other wrestler. Slowly I started putting together the "5-Point Philosophy."

This Philosophy effectively defeats the old philosophy in wrestling. It teaches wrestlers how to score 5-point moves, when to use them and how to score them successfully. Less talented wrestlers completely frustrate their opponents. And the fans love it. There is a lot going on all the time on the mat and a lot of the opponent on their backs. Pins skyrocket and kids love the style because it’s more fun. You as a coach will have more fun teaching this philosophy, your wrestlers will have more success and the fans will pay in to see your kids wrestle.

This fully illustrated and bound book will be available through Wrestlingconsultants.com.  Regularly priced at $24.95, Wrestlingconsultants.com will sell the book at price of $15.95. 


I’d like to see the assistant coaches used more effectively:
9.  Assistant coaches are the most underused talent on most wrestling teams.  Sometimes they are treated like warm bodies to be there the discipline the wrestlers and to occasionally help teach a move.  Assistant coaches feel extreme frustration when their expertise is not used fully and they will be less than enthused about the program and sometimes even negative about it.
    
However, if a head coach follows the suggestions we have put together on how to use your assistant coaches effectively, a great coaching team will be developed.  Every coach will feel as if he is part of the success of the team.  They will enthusiastically support the head coach and the wrestlers.  They will clamor to be back the next year and be proponents of the program to the community.  These suggestions are well worth the price for any coach. 



Wrestlingconsultant.com is considering additional positions as consultants.  We are looking for retired coaches and referees who have wide experience in wrestling. They should have sustained a successful program especially through tough and trying experiences. Please E-mail a resume.

Wrestlingconsultants.com is also soliciting successful solutions to problems that face wrestling programs. 
Please fully explain the problem and the successful solution by E-mail.  If we publish the solution with our
materials you will be entitled to a royalty.