Hey everyone,
My oldest son just turned 5, this is his second year wrestling anyway yesterday he asked me if we could by him a wrestling video. At first I thought he meant that fake WWE stuff because we had just past all those dvds in Walmart. Imagine my surprise when he said no dad A REAL wrestling video. I told him yes and that I would see where to get one.

Sooooo I was wondering if any of you could help me out and suggest a good instructional series, one that he can watch and grow with. Oh if you have a suggestion could you also link me to where I can buy said video? Thanks ahead of time

Fraggle Rocks

Wrestling videos can be very helpful. At a young age however they are more for the parent than for the kid. They are very dry and boring. And this is coming from a wrestling addict who has a son that is also a wrestling addict. I would start with some of the instuctional videos free on flowrestling.com. they are short enough to keep their attention, but very good. The 1-2 hour tapes are very hard to get through more than about 15 minutes a crack.

JMO

24/7

i just got the purler videos with the begginer, phase 1 and 2 and the begginer part is very good, and its not as boring as some i have seen, and i think kids would benifit from it. just my 2 cents, i also have the granby system videos.

Thanks I have been showing him clips from flowrestling and youtube. I will have to check out the Purler videos.

Fraggle...are you THE Fraggle Rock? As in state champ heavyweight Fraggle Rock?

What's up Fatboy!

I knew that had to be you. Your kiddo in your avatar looks just like a mini-frags.

Anyway, you're just about the last person on this board that needs any instructional videos! Teach what you know!

Fraggle,
There are many exceptional wrestling instructional videos out there. 24/7 is correct, flowrestling is an excellent resource as well. I have found that for the money, kolat.com is an excellent bargain. The amount of video clips that are on the site, the ability to request something be added from Cary Kolat, and the ability to watch his practices make his site an exceptional bargain. The clips are generally short, so your son can watch as little or as much as he wants, and are an excellent resource for the parent who is trying to assist his son/daughter in learning wrestling technique. Hope he is having fun and having a great season!

Yeah, I help out but he wants a video to watch so I figured it couldn't hurt. If he wants to watch one then he will be quite!!! lol

Bump

Here are some clips from a DVD I put together for new kids or kids wanting to study through the offseason for our club. Hope this helps.
Leg Riding www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCRKNTkFZOY
Tilts www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8XZz_zCkY
Optional Start & misc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7rLl4TgECA
Hammer Series 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vhNr6JJoTs
Hammer Series 2/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=APBzFHsrsjg
Front Headlocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhX1VG2OwvI
Sit Outs www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvqzAaded_g
Duckunder www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvN4g_FzbNo
Turks www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5CV_70IaFI
Sweeps www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1i6PDmPBJo
2 other good resources are:
USA wrestlings site www.themat.com and
the PDF side of this site has good step by steps-
http://hawkwrestling.sports.officelive.com/moves.aspx

Hope you find this beneficial. I am not sure what you were specifically seeking help with/on.

WOW! Good stuff for the offseason! allot of stuff your program has not installed at least not with my 2 boys! thank you!

Fraggle, Just my opinion but, I like to see others learn from my mistakes. So what I would recommend getting him to watch college wrestling on tv with you that way he can see the big picture and begin to grow some wrestling idols or heros he likes to watch and you'll see him soak these people up and memic them.

Also at that early age focus on a few key moves. We crowded my sons head at an early age with technique. He could do a sit-in, switch, stand-up, grandby etc.. But not with great technique mideocure at best. Looking back I think that he knew so much it crowed his head during matches. I would pick two moves in every position and wait til his tecnique was FLAWLESS in practice and tournaments before adding to it.

And this I know to be true teach him a blast double and a single leg. Then teach he the proper technique on finishing IE Crackdown, turn corner, sit to hip and head hunt etc.. finishing from bad positions after the shot. 90% of young wrestlers let go when sprawled on cause they don't know what to do this will help.

Now all kids are different but I went down the road your going and with my kid we spent alot of time watching videos and should have went fishing cause he got nothing from it. And lastly we still to this day take all technique at practice and 1 on 1 we break them down to the bare bones and teach the reasoning for doing these correctly to get the most understanding he can. Fun for him and me.. Place a HUGE understanding in "We don't call it losing, WE call it learning" its fine to lose if you learn from mistakes. Good luck