El Dorado Hills Wrestling Dojo Teaches Responsibility

     The Wrestling Dojo is running an open enrollment wrestling camp for the entire summer of 2013. The Wrestling camp includes two skills sessions on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 am to 10:30 am and one match hour on Friday from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. The ten week long camp is in place for wrestlers from different schools to come together to train, on a weekly basis, review the technique from other summer camps and get in the routine of having fun on the mat and learning new and exciting technique. In addition to wrestling, the Wrestling Dojo includes a curriculum that helps the wrestlers apply the skills and concepts they learn on the mat in their everyday life off the mat. This martial arts centered wrestling curriculum makes the ordinary wrestler into an extraordinary Dojo Wrestler.

     One concept we will be talking about and reviewing over and over again is the importance of responsibility. Responsibility is an essential ingredient for student athletes to find success at the high school and collegiate level. For example: Wrestler A and Wrestler B both have a tournament coming up at the end of the month. They are both great students in their classes and also train to beat the best of the best wrestlers in town. Wrestler A (having gone through the Dojo Wrestler program) knows it is their responsibility to let the teacher know that there is a tournament coming up at the end of the month and that he/she will unfortunately have to miss class. The teacher is pleasantly nice about it and lets him/her know that there happens to be a test on that day, but since he gave notice with plenty of time in advance it won't be a problem and that they will be able to figure it out. Wrestler B on the other hand waits until the day before the tournament to let the teacher know that he/she will not in class tomorrow and that he needs to have a make up test. The teacher, slightly agitated that the student waited until the last minute, tell him/her that there is no class policy to give make up tests and he/she can either choose to go to the tournament or stay in school and take the test. No wrestler would want to be in the shoes of Wrestler B, but as a student athlete it is the students responsibility to let the teachers know well in advance that they will be missing some classes during the school year and some of them will fall on the date of a test.
     There are plenty of other examples and reasons of how a student athlete will benefit from being responsible. During this summer camp wrestlers will graduate from camp knowing the importance of responsibility both on and off the mat. El Dorado Hills Wrestling Dojo is a location where all wrestlers from all schools are welcome to learn about responsibility of being a student-wrestler.

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