shaner10

What exactly is your concerns with NUWAY? NUWAY PRIMARY FOCUS IS IN FOLKSTYLE! From your comments I assume you are against providing our youth more opportunities to compete! It's not like Organizations are beating doors down in Memphis! TENWAY ACTUALLY plans to start hosting Folkstyle events in Memphis! How many has AAU HOSTED There? It's unfortunate that you're against it but others in Memphis are supportive. TENWAY will not interfere with USA. You have a right not to support the organization and that's fine. We welcome you but we will move forward with or without your support!

http://www.nuwaywrestling.com/page/show/1206036-about-nuway

http://www.nuwaywrestling.com/page/show/1205801-nuway-state-associations

https://m.facebook.com/tenwaywrestling/

TENWAY Tournament is up to 151, the event will take place! Registration is still open until Friday at 4pm, we encourage all to participate, please visit the TENWAY FB page. This is the first event. TENWAY IS AN Extention of NUWAY led by Dave Dean, Father of Gabe Dean! TN was voted in and recognized as a NUWAY member on 12/2/2016. No tournaments are currently planned at this time with the exception of our 1st Wvent on 3/4/2017. Events are already being planned for our state as well as many other NUWAY Affiliated including MI, PA, OH, NY, NY, CA, FL and many others! GHouse has voiced his displeasure and that's fine as he has the right to do so! His HS he attended is fully supporting and actually have a few of their best youth wrestler entered. GHouse doesn't have to attend either if he chooses not to! The event will go on with out him!

Watch out for Demontez Carlton @Dtezz2 SR McGavock QB. Unofficial to TN 9/19/15, Ole Miss showing interest as well. Demontez is most likely to switch positions at the next level.

Bates is registered under a team TN club and plans to wrestle in TNAAU state tournament.

Thanks everyone for replying. I'm not partial to one club or another. Great feedback from everyone. I chose Father Ryan and Cleveland because they have been good over the years past and seem to take different approaches to building their programs. That's my opinion though. Higher calling(Cleveland feeder) seems to really build their (k-5) program where as Nashville Catholic doesn't really start hitting heavy until 5-8 grade! I just found it interesting that both are very good and take various approaches at being successful!

Great feedback. Thanks for posting.

This is a little off topic from the norm of rankings and so forth but I'm a little curious. There are many clubs in TN, GA, etc. that are focusing more on youth wrestling. Is this a trend to grow the sport or simply build established programs? I'm all for both. The reason I ask is because I know of several high school programs that are really good and have weak/non-existent club programs or vice versa! There are several that have both, good HS and club. I always hear many say it starts with a good feeder program. Is that really true? Or are there really coaches out there that can develop kids at the Middle School/HS level? I have two that wrestle and both started fairly early, one was 9 and the other was 4. They love the sport of wrestling. I grew up in a community that didn't have wrestling so I feel this is good for my kids because they get to choose their own path. On the flip side I hear other coaches say "Just bring them to practice, if they want to compete then let them, if not then don't." I must say I agree with this because I don't want to push any sport on my kid. We play multiple sports to break up the seasons. They will eventually figure out what they want to do. So, lets look at the big picture. Baseball has become a year round sport, does it take playing year round to be successful? I don't think so, but many parents believe it does, especially baseball. I personally am not in that baseball boat. I played collegially and turned out ok. Not perfect but I get by. So, lets get back to wrestling, for example; Cleveland is sending 2-4 teams to wrestle in the Dixie Duals. My son from Nashville, TN will wrestle from a team out of GA. Cleveland is a very good program that has a well established feeder program. Why isn't Father Ryan sending a dual team? Do they put that much emphasis into their club program? If not why? Is it because of Div. II, Or simply Ryan truly believes they can coach kids up when they are older? All my questions are ones that i thought of. This thread is by no means to bash another club. It's simply a thread to get opinions on youth wrestling and their effect on future programs. All feedback is welcome. Fire away!

Durdon, I messaged you on FB.

Hi, I just emailed a a link posted on the website. I just wanted a little more info regarding club. The website says registration is on Jan 7 or sometime around then. The schedule posted also says club will not start in til mid Jan. is this correct? I know many AAU tournaments begin at the beginning of December. We would def like to be on the mat before them If at all possible. Any feed back is greatly appreciated. I know we plan to be participating in the earlier tournaments in Dec. but will def need some mat time before then. I figured the late start for club may be due to the MS season still taking place. Also when would club practices be held? Who will be the club coaches and how many participant would you anticipate for crumb snatcher ages and will experienced coaches be involved with those ages. Thanks for all your help. We are just trying to decide to stay where we are or make the change to NCW. We are very interested in making the change in attempt to finding a good room to push our kids. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Shaner Gobbell

I was told the other day that the age groups will remain the same. Voted to not change age groups at recent meetings. There had been a lot of chatter that the age groups would change.

Thank you for the feedback! I've been watching the website bit hadn't seen anything posted. I do have one other question. I have an older son that's in 8th grade that will wrestle for his school in Metro and won't be finished til the first of the year, I know sounds crazy but metro is odd at times. Could I bring him out as well? Ryan would be closer for us than Lebanon where we have been going. It's my 8 year olds 5th year of wrestling and we just want something closer where he can still progress and learn. My whole family has been in that program or a part of it in some way and we would like too as well!