Kinder/Beginner (6:00pm - 7:00pm):
Kinder and Beginner practices are the same for all first year wrestlers.  The difference between the two is that the Kinder wrestlers require parent involvement on the mat.  For all of our first year wrestlers, our coaching philosophy involves teaching the very foundation of wrestling.  Focus will start with proper stances and continue to progress with defense, takedowns, turns and more.  Each wrestler will practice technique with a partner and progress to more live wrestling as the season and the skills improve.  SCYW has a great group of volunteer coaches for the beginner program, who have many years of wrestling experience and knowledge.  Some may even be faces you recognize from the wrestling community.  If you have little or no wrestling knowledge, we still encourage you to get on the mat and learn with the kids and help out during practices.  

Advanced Beginner (6:00pm - 7:00pm):
In addition to our Kinder/Beginner mat that focus on our first year wrestlers, we also have Advanced Beginner practices that run the same time.  This practice is wrestlers who appear to be understanding technique quickly or more experienced wrestlers not ready for the intensity of our advanced practices, but are ready for more focused instruction in a smaller group.  Coaches will help make these determinations, so please talk to one of them if you feel this is where your wrestler should be.  During this practice, the coaches focus on more advanced techniques with more one-on-one coaching.  Drilling is more frequent and live wrestling happens sooner in the season.

Each of these practices tend to end in a game to keep things fun.  You will often see the dodgeballs come out at the end of practice or sharks and minnows being played.

Advanced (7:00pm - 8:30pm):
Advanced practices are broken up into two groups as well.  Our first-year Advanced group continues to build on techniques learned in the early years of being in our program.  As the group is also smaller than our Advanced group, there is more one-on-one time and instruction.  There is an expectation that when you are at practice, you are working on getting better.  When the time comes to work on live wrestling, both the Advanced groups come together.

Our highest level of Advanced practice are our most experienced wrestlers.  Many of them have multiple years of experience in our program and in competitions.  Many wrestle or train at M2 Training Center in the offseason.  Neither of these is a requirement to practice with the group, but to speaks to the level of wrestling that is going to be taught.  Nearly everyone in this practice have the foundations of wrestling understood and can execute them.  They understand the basics and can execute them, but also know or want to learn how to take their wrestling to the next level.  Our coaches will teach these techniques and expect the most focus out of this group.  It may be a little more fast paced than our other practices.

Games are also part of the Advanced practices, but every practice may not end in them.  Practices that do not end in games may end in conditioning especially as we get later into the season.

Tech Tuesdays (6:00pm - 7:30pm day subject to change):
Tech Tuesdays are smaller group instruction for either of our Advanced groups.  This combined practice is slower paced and allows for a more focused instruction and more questions to be asked.