What are we missing?

Our Best Wrestlers Must Combine The Following Principals:

• 10,000 hours honing your skills

• Deliberate Practice

In Theory…

Wolfpack Season = 3 Hours X 3 Days X 11 Weeks X 6 Years = 594 Hours

7th and 8th Grade = 3 Hours X 6 Days X 9 Weeks X 2 Years = 324 Hours

9th – 12th Grade = 4 Hours X 6 Days X 11 Weeks X 4 Years = 1056 Hours

Freestyle = 2 Hours X 3 Days X 20 Weeks = 120 Hours Per Year

Our average wrestlers have had many more

hours than most wrestlers elsewhere…

Therefore…

What are we missing?

Deliberate Practice

TIGER PRINCIPLE

Tiger’s father gave him his first golf club which he used from a height chair at 18 months. He won his first tournament at

age 22.

That is 20 Years of Practice

Deliberate Practice

Tiger is known to shoot the same exact shot over 300 times simulating a championship shot while practicing.

1) Deliberate practice is designed specifically to improve performance. The key word is "designed." The essence of deliberate practice is continually stretching an individual just beyond his or her current abilities. That may sound obvious, but most of us don't do it in the activities we think of as practice. At the driving range or at the piano, most of us are just doing what we've done before and hoping to maintain the level of performance that we probably reached long ago.

What is Deliberate Wrestling Practice?

Deliberate PracticeComplexity Work Type Skill Level How Achieved

Simple New Move

Learning Phase Proficiency Slow Drilling 25-50% Effort

ComplicatedDrilling Known Technique

Deliberate Practice Literacy 90-100% Effort Simulating a Real Situation

Complex Live Situations

Deliberate Practice Mastery 100-110% Effort

Deliberate wrestling practice examples

http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/78955-wyoming-practice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XosVLd1gqQk

How are you pushing

yourself?

How do you hold others accountable?