In the day and age of playstations, gamecubes, and computers it's INCREDIBLY hard to get kids motivated. Whether its at the kids or high school level. They just don't have the same mentallity as say even 4 years ago. Hard work has really been put on the back burner and kids don't like to pay that little price for victory. You shouldn't worry all that much about motivating a younger (9- younger) wrestler. Let them have fun at those ages, then as they get alittle older start putting them on the road to success. Like Murray said above every wrestler is very different from the next so it takes work. Whatever it takes I haven't found it yet... Hope to someday..