Congratulations to all the competitors at the X-Cup last weekend. It was great to see everyone focussed and wrestling positively using the techniques they had learnt over the last few months. As a coach, I was busy busy busy, working with the wrestlers to warm them up and to go over match strategy. It was great fun and a good learning experience for me too!

Technically, I took a lot of notes on each of the individual wrestlers. This information will be very useful over the next couple of months as we train towards the school-age nationals. In general, I thought the areas we need to work on as a group are: 1) Ground Defence, 2) Choosing the right setup for the takedown and 3) Sprawling.