Since 2008 the Dakota Wrestling Club has given kids 5 to 14 an opportunity to learn and compete in amateur wrestling. We practice at Dakota High School and compete in the Metro Region of the Michigan Youth Wrestling Association (MYWA) for Folkstyle wrestling and USA Wrestling for Freestyle and Greco wrestling. The folkstyle season lasts from mid November thru end of March, with the Freestyle and Greco season lasting from April thru July.
We are a feeder program for Dakota High School so our club participation is limited to kids that attend a feeder school to Dakota High School.
The club is completely run by parent volunteers and parent volunteer commitments are mandatory for a child to participate in the club. We stress sportsmanship and fundamentals while teaching kids to love the great sport of wrestling.
We teach the same style of wrestling that is taught by the Dakota high School coaching staff. This system teaches moves that are complimentary to each other instead of just a random group of wrestling moves that have no relationship to each other. The club instruction will emphasize an aggressive, physical, offensive style of wrestling. We believe that a great wrestler is not determined by the amount of technique they know, but how hard they are willing to work and how well they execute their technique. Our practices stress hard work and full speed drilling of technique until it becomes a reaction, not a deliberate action.
The goal of the club is to teach kids the great sport of wrestling and provide experienced wrestlers to the Dakota High School Wrestling Team. Even though we are a team, wrestling is an individual sport. Individual wrestlers and their parents decide how many and which tournaments they compete in. Wrestlers are not required to compete in any wrestling tournaments if they choose not to.
We are a feeder program for Dakota High School so our club participation is limited to kids that attend a feeder school to Dakota High School.
The club is completely run by parent volunteers and parent volunteer commitments are mandatory for a child to participate in the club. We stress sportsmanship and fundamentals while teaching kids to love the great sport of wrestling.
We teach the same style of wrestling that is taught by the Dakota high School coaching staff. This system teaches moves that are complimentary to each other instead of just a random group of wrestling moves that have no relationship to each other. The club instruction will emphasize an aggressive, physical, offensive style of wrestling. We believe that a great wrestler is not determined by the amount of technique they know, but how hard they are willing to work and how well they execute their technique. Our practices stress hard work and full speed drilling of technique until it becomes a reaction, not a deliberate action.
The goal of the club is to teach kids the great sport of wrestling and provide experienced wrestlers to the Dakota High School Wrestling Team. Even though we are a team, wrestling is an individual sport. Individual wrestlers and their parents decide how many and which tournaments they compete in. Wrestlers are not required to compete in any wrestling tournaments if they choose not to.