End of Year 2009

Wrestling has officially ended for 2009, starting again 1st of February 2010.

We had our official end of year party today, with a ten pin bowling session organised for the kids followed by dinner at a Chinese restaurant. It was great to see everyone again. Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year.

In reality, Emma and I will still be training over the holidays. She has just gone off to India again for the Commonwealth Championships. Good luck Emma!

Training Break

We are currently taking a break from training at Fremantle. In the meantime, we wish Coach Butler a speedy recovery from illness.

Emma Chalmers has left for the United States to compete in the NYAC Wrestling Championships. Good luck Emma!

The WA State Championships are tentatively scheduled for 6th December. We may recommence training the week prior to that. Any suggestions, please email Jonathan on: jonathantan77@yahoo.com

Jonathan on Holidays

I'll be on holidays for a couple of weeks. Monday 26-Oct-09 is the last training session that I will be taking until I return. There will be no Monday or Wednesday classes during this period.

I will resume taking classes on Monday 16-Nov-09.

For information on Wednesday classes, please contact Chris Butler.

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Emma Chalmers has got 2 more training sessions to finalise her training for the Invitation Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Tournament! All the best to her!

Updates Post School Age Nationals

First of all, congratulations to all Fremantle and WA wrestlers who competed at last week's School-age Nationals. It was a very successful event and the organisation was spot on.

Training at Freo is on this week only on Friday (16-Oct) for the seniors.

Next week, the only classes available are:
Juniors will resume training on Wednesday 21-Oct at 5.00pm. Rhea will run the class.
Senior classes will run on Monday and Friday next week.

Training Update

Training update for the National School-Age championships in October.

Everything is going pretty well, and we are working very closely to my overall plan. As of this week (mid September), we have 2 more weeks of conditioning left before tapering off for competition.

Technically, I still think that we are too light on defence. Defending against attacks starts with having a really aggressive attitude where you must push yourself to work harder than the attacker. Too often, wrestlers are still looking for quick go-behinds or reversals against their opponent's attacks.

Our sparring has become very focussed and quite competitive. 3 minutes is now the norm for each round.

Weigh In for 2009 Winter Cup

The weigh-in for Sunday's "Winter Cup" tournament will be held at Fremantle PCYC on Friday 24-July-09 at 6.30pm.

Scales will be available from 4:30 and weigh in will last for a period of 1 hour. Please remind your wrestlers that if you do no weigh in on Friday you cannot enter the comp.

Registration will also be done at the weigh in.

The tournament will be at Fremantle PCYC on Sunday 26-July-09, starting 10.30am.

No Training on Friday 24th-July

There is no training at Fremantle on Friday 24-July-09.

Training will be as normal on Mondays 20-July and 27-Jul.
Remember that there is also a tournament at Freo on Sunday 26th-July.