Dojo Wrestlers Write to ESPN Asking For more Wrestling

     The Wrestling Dojo of El Dorado Hills, CA is not just a place where wrestlers learn how to become better on the mat. The summer wrestling camp series of the Dojo Wrestler features many different off the mat activities to train the wrestlers awareness, develop responsibility, and build champions on and off the mat. The Dojo Wrestlers from this summer covered many different topics as seen below. Why do wrestlers need to wear singlets, A creative writing assignment on a wrestlers poem, research presentation on a great wrestler, and many others including todays in the dojo assignment, letter writing to ESPN.
     Recently, ESPN has become more active in covering all collegiate sports at the national scene, including wrestling. However there is definitely more prime time wrestling that could be shown! Covering the Big 10, Pac 10, and conference tournaments to qualify for the National Championships would make for great television. Some of the bigger tournaments during the heat of the season, Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, National Duals, Virginia Duals, Midlands would be great tournaments to cover during the season and create hype and anticipation as well. Even some conference rivalry dual meets would make for a great 60 to 90 minute program for viewers. More importantly, it would help wrestlers enjoy the sport as a spectator. By clinching more prime time for wrestling on ESPN, we also believe that more people would better understand the sport and appreciate the hard work and dedication required to be successful. We hope these letters reach out to the hearts of the producers at ESPN and help them see the value in promoting the sport of wrestling at all levels for all viewers. By taking a proactive instead of a reactive approach to promoting the sport of wrestling, Dojo Wrestlers expect to get a bigger community involved in their local wrestling matches and take away any possibility of their program ever being dropped from the athletics department.
     The letter writing assignment also gave the wrestlers an opportunity to share the wrestling shows they have seen on television. One show, "The Season" about the 2002 University of Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling Team, and another "The Streak" about a high school wrestling team in Florida that has gone undefeated for over 30 years.

Eliot Kelly 

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Dojo Wrestler

Sacramento Area Wrestling & Martial Arts Clinic for All Levels

     I'm very excited to share with you an event that will take place this Thursday and Friday in El Dorado Hills, CA. Quincy Clark, a 2000 Greco Roman Olympian for the United States at 84kg will be the featured clinician for this Wrestling Fundraiser to help a local wrestler travel to training camps in anticipation of making the national and olympic team as well as international wrestling tournaments.

     WHEN:
Thursday, July 25
Friday, July 26

     TIME:
10:00am - 2:30pm (Please bring lunch during 30min break)

     COST:
$50 one day. $75 for both (ALL Funds will go to support Olivia)

     LOCATION:
 1132 Suncast Lane #1
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

    CONTACT:
Tyler Brey 916. 276.3370

     Wrestlers and Martial Artists of all levels are welcome to join us for this wrestling clinic! See you on the mat!

Eliot Kelly

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EDH Wrestling Dojo

Summer Wrestling Camp News at El Dorado Hills Wrestling Dojo

     El Dorado Hills Wrestling Dojo Summer camps are about to wrap up the fourth week of camp for the summer of 2013. The theme for this summer is "elements of danger," a term loosely used by Lennie Zalesky while coaching at UC Davis and branded by Jon Clark, who redefined the meaning of dangerous wrestling with his always exciting wrestling matches. Although "elements of danger" might be taken as wrestling moves that are dangerous to do in a match, that would be inaccurate. Elements of danger is a concept or style of wrestling that keeps the opponent second guessing what will happen even when they are in the lead.
     Many wrestlers become satisfied with developing a great double, a stand up and a tilt. If you can do this on anyone at any level, in theory there is no one that can stop you from winning. However, that may not be the case for everyone, and no one would be interested in watching wrestling. The sport would become very boring to watch if all we saw were double legs, stand ups, and tilts. Elements of danger are feet to back, high percentage, low risk, high return moves. Not only does it get you a big lead and potentially the pin, but also excites the crowd and gets people to enjoy watching the sport of wrestling. Developing these elements of danger will definitely wow the crowd and get you closer to victory!
     In our first four weeks of wrestling we covered several elements of danger concepts while building on some key fundamentals of wrestling. Here is a simple breakdown of some of the techniques we covered in the four weeks. If you were in camp and we are missing anything, don't hesitate to add a comment!

Week One:

Over Under Position - Knee drop 

Over Under Position - In-N-out 

Under Hook Chop Attacks

Week Two:

Double

Hi-C - electric slide to tombstone

Single - electric slide to three toes

Set ups

Week Three:

Granby - Jump

Peterson - Eugene Special

Step Around - Big Harn

Brace Back

Week Four: 

High thigh leg riding series

Leg Ride defense

     In addition to developing skills during the Tuesday and Thursday 9:00-10:30 am sessions, this summer MATCH HOUR was introduced to implement the new technique in the heat of the battle situations from 6:00 to 7:00 pm every Friday. Match hour is an opportunity to wrestler not only with other middle school and high school wrestlers in a match situation but also wrestle with experienced wrestlers in the area. The first 15 minutes of match hour consists of drilling and warming up and stretching for injury prevention, and the remaining 45 minutes is devoted to wrestling. If you would like more information on becoming a Dojo Wrestler give us a call 916 595 4064.

Dojo Wrestler

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EDH Wrestling Dojo

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.

Dojo Wrestler

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See you on the mat!

Dojo Wrestler Summer Wrestling Camp: Learning Phase

     At our wrestling camp today, we really focused on the concept of skills, (technique), strength, and speed, three elements essential to developing an expert wrestler. When we first learn a new skill we are so excited and ready to implement it into our wrestling that we often neglect the initial step of skills development. I refer to the the initial step in skills development as the learning phase. In the learning phrase the body is being prepped with very little resistance and a very large window of opportunity to execute the technique. The neurons have to be allowed the time to sync with what the eyes have seen and the mind has visualized. This initial learning phase can be seen in other sports as well.

     Take for example the weight lifter. An olympic weight lifter will strip the weights off the bar and devote the first 30 minutes of a training session solely to technique. Lifting the weightless bar may not seem very intense or practical since the goal is to add a few hundred pounds to the bar for competition, but that's not the case. The expert weight lifter knows that having precise form and technique, skills, you can call it whatever you want... But the lifter knows that having precise technique will allow for another 10 or even 20 pounds to be lifted. Therefore it is essential for the lifter to devote time to the learning phase where the neurons are given time to train what the mind is wanting to perform. Knowing that the learning phase will give them the extra boost when the weight is piled on, an expert lifter will spend just as much focus during this training as any other part of training.
     A Dojo Wrestler is expected to do the same. Knowing that their skills will be tested in the heat of battle, a dojo wrestler trains during the learning phase with the same diligence and intensity as live wrestling. Once muscle memory is set and the neurons are firing at the same level as the mind, then it is appropriate to increase speed and resistance to simulate match situations.

Homework assignment: 

Write down technical instruction

Make a Wrestling Poem

Become of Dojo Wrestler this summer! 

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Summer Training = Winter Champions

Wrestling Camp in El Dorado Hills, CA on January/21/2013

      Wrestling Camp information in El Dorado Hills, CA. There will be a wrestling camp for students in grades 4 through 9 on Monday, January, 21. This is the Martin Luther King jr. holiday and the camp will run from 9am until 1pm.
     The camp will incorporate several unique features. First, the schedule will be broken into to sections; Fundamental Wrestling and Advanced Wrestling. The schedule is designed to build from one to the next and for wrestlers of all experiences to train with one another. While the fundamental portion of the wrestling camp will cover and present the basics in a way that will allow for a wrestler to build on what they already covered in the beginning of the season. The advanced section of the wrestling camp will feature an incorporation of the fundamental principles in a systematic way.
     The camp will be led by coaches Eliot Kelly and Beau Weiner. Both coaches of the Wrestling Dojo wrestled at the division one level in the state of California along with coaching experience at Stanford University and UC Davis. In addition to an excellent coaching resume, both coaches are examples of striving for excellence on and off the mat, as they earned their degrees from their respected universities with honors. Not only will the camp feature techniques that will help a wrestler take their skills to the next level, but also reinforce the meaning of being a STUDENT-ATHLETE with honor and integrity.
    For more information on the camp see the flyer below:

Wrestling Dojo

El Dorado Hills, CA

EDH Grappling

First Wrestling Camp of 2013 in El Dorado Hills, CA: Wrestling Dojo

Wrestling Dojo News: We just finished the first round of wrestling camps at EDH Grappling, home of EDH Brazilian Jiujitsu, Wrestling Dojo, and Judo. The camp was held on January 2/3/4 from 9:00AM to 11:00AM. Middle School Wrestlers from Elk Grove, Folsom, El Dorado Hills, and Cameron Park all participated in the camp to make improvements on their takedowns, top wrestling and bottom wrestling. Here is a very brief list of the technique covered on the mat during the three 90 minute sessions:

Day 1:

- Stance

- Stance Motion

- Penetration Steps

- Hand Fighting

- Hand Control

- Head Position

- Double Leg 

- Double Leg Near Fall

Day 2:

- Review of Day 1 

- Referee's Position

- Sit Out

- Knee Slide

- Stand Up

- Cut & Face

Day 3:

- Review of Day 1 

- Review of Day 2

- Escaping Near Fall & the Pin

- Recovering from your stomach

- Arm Turk

- Chain Wrestling

In addition to wrestling, clinicians Eliot Kelly and Beau Weiner emphasized the importance of applying the different concepts and attributes that wrestling teaches in the student's daily life. Respect, Focus, Hustle, and Awareness were some of the many principles of Martial Arts reinforced in the camp. For more information on El Dorado Hills Wrestling Camps visit the link below.

Wrestling Dojo

EDH Grappling 

916 595 4064

Putting the Martial Arts Back into Wrestling

Winter Break Wrestling Camp in El Dorado Hills, CA

Wrestling Camp in El Dorado Hills, CA hosted by the WRESTLING DOJO of EDH Grappling. 

     The Wrestling Dojo of El Dorado Hills, CA will be hosting it's first Wrestling Camp of 2013 on January 2/3/4. This camp will be for wrestlers from the 5th grade all the way up to high school seniors. The camp will include some very unique features to provide individual specific one-to-one attention. Wrestlers will get an opportunity to train with new and fresh training partners without sacrificing any contact hours while getting some world class instruction on the mat. 

     Middle School Wrestlers will range from 5th grade to 8th grade. They will have three sessions of the span of 3 days starting at 9:00AM and go until 10:30. Following each session will be 30 minutes of open mat where wrestlers will get to wrestle, drill, and ask questions they were unable to ask during the session. 

     High School Wrestlers will range from 9th grade to 12th grade. They will have three sessions of the span of 3 days starting at 11:00AM and go until 12:30. Following each session will be 30 minutes of open mat where wrestlers will get to wrestle, drill, and ask questions they were unable to ask during the session.

     The Wrestling Dojo is a unique training system designed for wrestlers of all ages. After 15 years of wrestling and coaching experience, the creator of the Wrestling Dojo, Eliot Kelly, realized that there were some great deficiencies in the sport. As a result of his training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, recently earning his Black Belt, he realized wrestling had become a "great sport" but lacked all the elements of "Martial Arts." "I got really into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu while I was still wrestling and training for a spot on the National Team. I quickly realized wrestling would be different if some tweaks were made in how it was taught. I really excited to push forward with this new concept and help spread the culture of wrestling!" We hope to see you on the mat at our first training camp of the year!  

EDH GRAPPLING

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