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I am a club coach only now and formerly a HS coach who had a club team with a private facility OFF campus. TSSAA has a tendency to flip flop allot on interpretation and on who you speak to about it. The last I understood there can be NO OPEN FACILITY during the dead perios that has wrestling involved in TSSAA, regardless of the coach or club coach. Your kids can practice OFF site at a NON TSSAA governed location, but there can be NO TSSAA sanctioned coach present. Coaches, you can not call up and "retire" your title for the off season, TSSAA referees to this as yo yo-ing. You can be striped of your coaching credentials for doing this.
NOTE: In dead periods other HS coaches can coach your kids in an offsite location that is not a TSSAA facility. They just CAN NOT come in contact with their own kids, talk to their own kids, instruct, watch, or be in the presence of their kids.
They even get as vague as saying that a coach on the premises of a non TSSAA facility while kids are practicing on a club team is in violation.
Just a word to the wise, you had better safe than sorry. I also understand that penalties can not just affect your wrestling team but they can extend the long arm of TSSAA into other sports and penalize them for wrestling violations.
BE CAREFUL
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I am a club coach only now and formerly a HS coach who had a club team with a private facility OFF campus. TSSAA has a tendency to flip flop allot on interpretation and on who you speak to about it. The last I understood there can be NO OPEN FACILITY that has wrestling involved in TSSAA regardless of the coach or club coach. Your kids can practice OFF site at a NON TSSAA governed location with NO coach that is registered as a TSSAA coach. Coaches, you can not call up and "retire" your title for the off season, TSSAA referees to this as yo yo-ing. You can be striped of your coaching credentials for doing this.
They even get as vague as saying that a coach on the premises of a non TSSAA facility while kids are practicing on a club team is in violation.
Just a word to the wise, you had better safe than sorry. I also understand that penalties can not just affect your wrestling team but they can extend the long arm of TSSAA into other sports and penalize them for wrestling violations.
BE CAREFUL
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It doesnt get much better than a guy like Zeke telling you why you should freestyle.
Pole the tope 4 placers in nearly every weight class at state and will bet that most have wrestled freestyle.
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Why wrestle freestyle?
You dont a much better expert than that telling you why to wrestle Freestyle.
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Also Cory Watson of MTSU was there . Cory was 4th place finisher in the MAC Championships and a Nationals Qualifier. Ryan and Eric were the Blackman wrestlers and both also were state qualifiers. Hope that Coach Trick and or Coach Smith look into the coaching opening at Blackman.
I would love to coach HS, unfortunately my day job prevents me from doing that now. Its a honor to even be mentioned, so thank you. Lions pride will alwasy be running as long as I am around and we will always have great camps, Freestyle Seasons and other things involved with wrestling.
We appreciate the coaches, parents, and wrestlers support.
Look forward to next year when its very possible we may have a coach coming on staff that wrestled for Gable for 4 years.... Working on that as we speak....
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FYI
The following wrestlers are Lions Pride Wrestlers who went on to the TSSAA State Championships:
Hunter Allen (Mount Juliet)
Jamison Cherry (Mount Juliet)
Scott Seamen (Mount Juliet)
Matt Seamen (Mount Juliet
Brett Jackel (Hendersonville)
Caleb Alsup (Friendship Christian)
Jake Smith (Friendship Christian)
Hunter Adcock (Wilson Central)
Jacob Belcher (Wilson Central)
Dylan Hershenback(Wilson Central)
Jeremy Hargis (Blackman)
It could be you or your wrestlers name on this list next year, get registered now... Practices start on March 16th....
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Lions Pride Grappling is the premier training club for Freestyle Wrestling, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Folkstyle Wrestling, and Submission Grappling in Middle Tennessee.
SPRING SEASON REGISTRATION BEGINS MARCH 2ND & 3rd, 09
We Have provided two (2) convenient locations for you to register for the USA Wrestling Freestyle and Greco-roman Season. You can register at the following locations and dates:
3/2/09 6:00-7:30 Mt. Juliet HS Wilson County
3/3/09 6:00-7:30 Beech HS Sumner County
You can register at any time after these dates up to May 31st. For effective training we typically do not go back to beginning of training for any student who enrolls late. Attendance from the start of the program is important, however not necessary as we always do review so the later enrolled students can catch up. Mat time practicing their new found knowledge is what they lose.
STUDENT MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
USA Wrestling Card $35 One Time Fee Paid To USA Wrestling (Read More)
Wrestler $50
Sibling(s) $40 ea.
PRACTICE DAY TIME PRACTICE LOCATION (2 Locations)
Monday (2 Locations) 6:00-7:30 PM Beech HS or Wilson Central HS
Tuesday 6:00-7:30 PM Mt. Juliet HS
Thursday 6:00-7:30 PM Wilson Central HS
SEASON ENDS JUNE 31ST
Visit Lions Pride Grappling Website
Or email us for more information
Questions?
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April 2009
Pat Nailen Classic
Date(s):
April 11th
Location:
Germantown High School
7653 Old Poplar Pike
Germantown, TN 38138
Tournament Format:
Freestyle and Greco-Roman Tournament
Age Divisions: Bantam, Intermediate, Novice, Schoolboy, Cadet, Junior, and Open
Weigh-ins: TBA
April 2009
Lions Pride Invitational
Date(s):
April 25th
Location:
Wilson Central HS
419 Wildcat way
Lebanon, TN 37090
Tournament Format:
Freestyle and Greco-Roman Tournament, & SUBMISSION GRAPPLING
Age Divisions: Bantam, Intermediate, Novice, Schoolboy, Cadet, Junior, and Open, Veteran (all)
Weigh-ins: 7:30 AM
May 2009
High Calling Wrestling Club Tournament
Date(s):
May 9th
Location:
Jones Wrestling Center
850 Raider Drive
Cleveland, TN 37311
Tournament Format:
Freestyle and Greco-Roman Tournament
Age Divisions: TBA
Weigh-ins: TBA
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If you want to make a trip one day a week up to Lions Pride, we have kids freestyle....
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I'm am looking to find some sort of Freestyle tournaments here in this off-season. If anyone could tell me where to find a schedule of perhaps name a few off, it'd be great.
What area of the state are you from? You can go to my site (www.tennwrestling.com) to see tourney schedules. You will need your USA wrestling card of course to compete and I would suggest getting connected with a freestyle club. There is also a list of clubs on the TWF site that you can get to...
There was no pre-qualifiers last year for State But the big season ending tourney in Atlanta required you to have wrestled at your state championships. There currently are 3 major tourneys in TN but my club is going to about 4 in Indiana and a 1000 wrestler tourney up at Purdue University. We are taking a day trip. If you are a state runner up you should come train at my facility, you wont be runner up next year.
We also have the TNT (Tennessee National Team) duals and we go to either in Kansas, Missouri or Iowa. We take a duals team that is the best wrestler in Freestyle in the state in each weight to compete against the best duals team from across the USA. Its a great experience to get some national exposure.
Coach Trick
Lions Pride Grappling
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True, Lions Pride Grappling is starting another Freestyle & Greco Roman Season. USA Wrestling season begins in March and runs through the end of June. We practice and train 3 days a week and hit tournaments on the weekends here in TN and a few other states like Indiana, Illinois, and Georgia.
We have multiple locations this year due to the large response and we want to accommodate every wrestler we can get into the program.
If you are a first time wrestler or a seasoners veteran we have the training to get you to the next level.
We train kids from 5yrs old to adults. Coaches who want to learn and get some training are welcome to come and roll for FREE.
We have 2 locations for registration this year, March 2nd at Mt. Juliet HS and March 3rd at Beech.
Spend one Freestyle season with us and we will give you 2 years of training in 3-4 months. Come test your skills against some of the best wrestlers in the state... There is nothing like the speed and flashiness of freestyle.
See you at registration
Coach Trick
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That is good to hear. I will look forward to receiving the entries.
For everyone else you only have a few hours left to register for Greco with registration closing tonight at 7:00 P.M.
My goal will be to have brackets for Greco up late tonight but possibly Thursday night.
So far we have a total of 45 athletes registered for Greco. I hope we can continue to see that list grow today.
Coach, go check you gmail, I sent you my roster. I only say that because for some reason my email domain gets caught by gmail and I get dumped into your spam folders. Please check your spam folder for our roster. If you could, please confirm you recieved it by emailing me at coach@lionspridegrappling.com.
Thanks
Coach Trick
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Thats great!
Are any of them planning on wrestling Greco on Friday night? If so you only have until tomorrow at 7:00 P.M. to get them registered.
We will take walk-ups for freestyle but pre-registration is preferred as that will make the bracketing run much more smoothly.
As of now I have 8 Greco wrestlers who will be signing up, my roster will be there today.
Coach Trick
Lions Pride Grappling
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Information for the TWF State Freestyle and Greco-Roman Tournament has been posted on the TWF website's scheduling page.
Check out www.tennwrestling.com for details.
Or get the flyer here.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Remember to get your Greco registration in by 7:00 P.M. Wednesday May 7th. Walk-ups will be allowed for the freestyle tournament but pre-registration there will help make things run a lot quicker.
Lions Pride Grappling is bringing about 20 Wrestlers and we are looknig forward to some great competition.
Coach Trick
Lions Pride Grappling
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I along with a few other coaches are running a Freestyle, Greco-Roman, Folk style program for Kids, Teens and Adults on the Mt. Juliet and Lebanon line at the corners of HWY 109 & HWY 70. Go to www.lionspridegrappling.com for more information.
There was a post this morning about us as well. We currently have around 45 registered wrestlers and we are also a Copper Certified Charter Club for USA Wrestling. We attend as many tournaments as we can throughout the season and we currently have been hitting them on a weekly basis. We travel around the state of tennessee as well as other nearby states that offer good tournaments.
In addition to wrestling will be starting our submission grappling school in a couple weeks as the Freestyle and Greco Roman season comes to an end in June. We will train in Folk Style Wrestling, Submission Grappling, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, Striking, Boxing, and MMA fighting. We will be adding a full 20 ft octagon by late summer.
For those interested in getting the next level of training from a very seasoned and decorated coaching staff, look us up. Only 40$ per month to train for wrestling.
Coach Trick
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well said, now if TSSAA could just get the point. They have definitely got to much power these days and they throw it around way to much. TSSAA always goes back to that they are looking out for the interest of the child in that they want to make sure a coach does not monopolize a kids time with one sport. The reality is that they want to level the playing field and reward those that don't do the extra work to be better. Nothing like trying to get a scholarship, or be pro athlete. Everyone is equal and everyone gets a trophy and a ribbon. Its the most apathetic organization around. It in fact rewards mediocrity and it is slowly strangling individual drive for accomplishment.