World Wrestling Resource Podcast

Episode 29 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast features former USA Wrestling National Teams Director Mitch Hull and regular hosts Jason Bryant and Dennis Hall. Hull spent over 20 years at USA Wrestling and he'll give his insight on the recent hiring of Bill Zadick as the U.S. National Freestyle Coach and what processes are in place when a national governing body makes hires. Hull will also break down some of his experiences in dealing with controversial topics that surrounded wrestling, including alleged corruption with international events and even recent happenings at the Russian Nationals. We'll also dive into a discussion about the situation in India with Sushil Kumar and Narsingh Yadav in a court battle for the Olympic spot for that nation at 74kg. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling R

On Episode 28 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we're joined by legendary wrestling coach Dan Gable and four-time All-American and 1999 U.S. World Team member Eric Akin. Joining host Jason Bryant is the World Wrestling Resource's own Terry Brands. We'll talk with the group about the factions within wrestling and whether or not there is a barrier to entry with elite-level clubs and regional training centers, drawing off the Hawkeye Wrestling Club experience with all three. Akin, now a high school coach in Kansas, left Iowa State after graduating to compete with the Hawkeye Wrestling Club based at the University of Iowa, the Cyclones' chief rival. Akin and Brands also share in how their losses helped drive them to compete further and also how the current set of rules with international wrestling make coaches have to be bigger students of the game. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.world

Episode 27 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with 1972 Olympic champion and two-time Olympic medalist Ben Peterson. Peterson has been renowned as a clinician and speaker and coach for decades. He's recently released a book, Road To Gold, where he chronicles his journey to the gold medal in 1972. Peterson shares stories about Bill Farrell, Dan Gable, Rick Sanders and of course, his brother John throughout this episode. Interested fans can buy the book at CampofChamps.org The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling Resource staff discuss? Drop us a comment on Facebook at www.facebook.com/worldwrestlingresource or on twitter at @WWRESO. The World Wrestling Resource is sponsored by DefenseSoap. The World Wrestling Resource Podcast is a presentation of the Mat Talk Podcast Network. SUBSCRIBE

Episode 26 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast breaks down the Olympic Trials with Jon McGovern, Dennis Hall and Terry Brands. Hall coached Ben Provisor to his second straight Olympic team in Greco-Roman, while Brands coached the Hawkeye Wrestling Club members and 57kg Olympian Daniel Dennis. We break down the preparation, the battles within the room as teammates competed for the same position and get perspectives from Hall and Brands about the competitive side rather than focusing on the drama that came out of Iowa City. The discussion also moves to qualification processes, Trials timing and other topics relevant to the Olympic Games. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling Resource staff discuss? Drop us a comment on Facebook at www.facebook.com/worldwrestlingresource or on twitter at @WWRES

The 2016 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials are ready to roll in Iowa City on April 9-10. On Episode 25 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, host Jason Bryant will be joined by U.S. National Team coaches Matt Lindland and Terry Steiner and WWR co-founder Dennis Hall. There's still work to be done for some of the weight classes that still need to qualify for the Rio Olympics, but all three on the panel will give their perspectives on preparing for the Trials from both a coaching and competition standpoint. Lindland, an Olympic silver medalist in 2000, is going through his first Olympic cycle as the Greco-Roman coach, while Steiner is in his fourth as the leader of the women's freestyle program. Hall competed on one of the most iconic Trials matches in 2004, beating rival and friend Brandon Paulson. He won a silver medal in Atlanta in 1996. Also discussed is the scheduling of the Trials, the impact of men's and women's college wrestling on the developmental programs and the keys to improving depth. All

On Episode 24 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll take the world of coaching and parenting to the next level. Joining WWR staffer Dennis Hall will be Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan and Graham High School (Ohio) head coach Jeff Jordan. Hall has three sons who wrestle, as does coach Jordan, who also has two other nephews who wrestled for him at Graham.. Coach Ryan is coaching two of Jordan's sons at Ohio State and is also coaching his own son, Jake, at Ohio State. What are the challenges in coaching your own kids? Where do you draw the line when someone else coaches your kid? How does the impact work with other siblings and other wrestlers on the same college or high school team? The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling Resource staff discuss? Drop us a comment on Facebook at www.

The World Wrestling Resource Podcast returns with Episode 23 where the discussion will center around the recent Flowrestling release of Terry, a feature-length documentary on Iowa assistant coach and World champion Terry Brands. Brands will join host Jason Bryant and World Wrestling Resource's Jon McGovern and Dennis Hall for a conversation about the backstory within the film and some of the focal points of the film. Coach Brands also explains the Foxcatcher relationship from 1996, which caused controversy in Atlanta as well as the group's thoughts about the Grapple on the Gridiron from back in November. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling Resource staff discuss? Drop us a comment on Facebook at www.facebook.com/worldwrestlingresource or on twitter at @WWRESO. The World Wrestling Resource is s

Olympian Andy Hrovat and renowned high school wrestling coach Mike Powell address distractions on Episode 22 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast with host Jason Bryant. Hrovat was a three-time All-American at Michigan while Powell was an All-American as a freshman at Indiana. Hrovat avoided negative distractions that often follow college life, but Powell didn't and it ultimately led to him not getting back on the podium. The two offer their perspectives on avoiding damaging distractions like partying, drinking and drug use, with Powell, it's something he lived through and now shares his own story to prevent his wrestlers at Illinois powerhouse Oak Park and River Forest High School from making the same mistakes. Distractions aren't always limited to the use of alcohol or recreational drugs. Sometimes negative distractions can come from technology, smart phones and social media. Both offer their perspectives on dealing with different age groups and how to work through those challenges. The World Wrest

On Episode 21 of the World Wrestling Resource, we are again rejoined by Gene Zannetti of Wrestling Mindset and welcome Dr. Coyte Cooper of Elite Level Sports Marketing and the author of the book Impressions: The Power of Personal Branding in Living an Extraordinary Life. Cooper and Zannetti will join host Jason Bryant and World Champion Dennis Hall in a discussion about goal setting and living a championship lifestyle. Focusing on goals is great, but are you actually writing them down? Are you putting them in places you know you'll be reminded of them? Our discussion breaks down simple tips and tricks that wrestlers and the general population can do to make sure they have clear goals, and then when they've set those goals, what they can then do to live a championship lifestyle in whatever their path may be. It's an engaging conversation with successful people in wrestling and the world of mindset training. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and

Episode 20 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast talks with three individuals who know a little something about the World Wrestling Championships. World Wrestling Resource co-founders Terry Brands and Dennis Hall will break down their thoughts on the performances at the World Championships in Las Vegas in men's freestyle and Greco-Roman, while Terry Steiner will again join the panel to talk about the women's performance, which also included a third-place finish in the team standings. Brands tackles the importance of what Jordan Burroughs and Kyle Snyder accomplished, as well as touched on what his athletes, Tony Ramos and Brent Metcalf, need to do in order to medal. Steiner had two World Champions, Adeline Gray and Helen Maroulis, while Hall explained the grit two-time bronze medalist Andy Bisek has. They all agreed everyone should be a Robby Smith fan. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.wo

The United World Wrestling Championships are coming to Las Vegas and on Episode 19 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll talk Team USA with Women's freestyle coach Terry Steiner and Greco-Roman coach Matt Lindland.But before we get to the team talk with our coaches, Dr. David Curby, the Director of the International Network of Wrestling Researchers, will join the show to talk about the upcoming symposium prior to the World Championships on September 5 in Las Vegas.Dr. Curby has long been associated with wrestling as a competitor and a coach and parent.Dr. Curby will breaks down the upcoming symposium and his relationship with the United World Wrestling Scientific Committee.Steiner talks about what he expects with this women's team, one of the strongest since the 2003 team that earned seven medals at the World Championships in New York.Lindland also breaks down the Greco team. The last time the Greco-Roman World Championships were held in the U.S. was in San Diego in 1979.The World Wrestling Resource

Historically, wrestling has been looked at from the outside world as a society of people who starve themselves and put themselves through agony just to compete. Wrestlers know it's more than that. Wrestlers also know proper weight management is based on sound nutrition. They know what to do and what not to do. On Episode 18 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, Clint Wattenberg, the Coordinator of Sports Nutrition Nutrition at Cornell University, will join Jason Bryant and Iowa associate head coach Terry Brands in a discussion about where nutrition has evolved and how important it is to wrestlers. Wattenberg is a California native who also works with the My Sports Dietician group with a wrestling-centric website at MyWrestlingNutrition.com and he's authored Performance Nutrition for Wrestlers, a book aimed at making what works work and what doesn't work go away. You can follow Wattenberg on Twitter at @SportRd_Clint The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all

The World Wrestling Resource Podcast is back at you with Episode 17 with three great guests talking about various resources to help your program, build your athletes and protect them as well. We welcome Guy Sako, the man behind Defense Soap. Sako, a longtime youth wrestling coach in Ohio, developed the product out of necessity for his own kids and his club. Soon, other people were asking for it and Defense Soap was born. Ivan Ivanov of Suples.com joins the WWR Podcast for the second time. A longtime Greco-Roman coach, Ivanov recently returned home from Africa where he was helping outfit wrestling training facilities in Senegal with his Bulgarian bags, pull up bars and wrestling dummies. Larry Marchionda joins us again from Leaderheadgear.com to talk about the upgrades and innovations in his company's product over the past year. The LDR is aimed at cutting out concussions in wrestling (And other sports). The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and info

On Episode 16 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we're talking preparation and mental mindsets with Gene Zannetti of WrestlingMindset.com and Ben Peterson, a two-time Olympic medalist who captured the gold in 1972. In addition to Gene and Ben's views on routine and mindset training, coach Jon McGovern and coach Terry Brands offer their unique perspectives on making wrestlers competitors and how they differ across various levels of wrestling. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling Resource staff discuss? Drop us a comment on Facebook at www.facebook.com/worldwrestlingresource or on twitter at @WWRESO. The World Wrestling Resource is sponsored by DefenseSoap. The World Wrestling Resource Podcast is a presentation of the Mat Talk Podcast Network. Find more wrestling podcasts at www.mattalkonli

On Episode 15 goes in depth on the U.S. Open in all three styles as guest Terry Steiner, the U.S. Women's National Team Coach joins Jon McGovern, Terry Brands, Dennis Hall and Jason Bryant. The World Wrestling Resource Podcast opens up with a discussion about the new book by Dan Gable and Scott Schulte titled, "A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable." Brands, McGovern, and Steiner all wrestled under Gable at some point in their careers. We'll go style-by-style with Steiner, Brands and then Hall, who was getting fitted for a tux in preparation for Nate Engel's wedding. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com. Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling Resource staff discuss? Drop us a comment on Facebook at www.facebook.com/worldwrestlingresource or on twitter at @WWRESO. The World Wrestling Resource is sponsored by DefenseSoa

On Episode 14 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, it's a lot of talk about Greco-Roman wrestling with World Champion Dennis Hall and Bulgarian Greco-Roman specialist Ivan Ivanov. United World Wrestling announced it was changing a few rules across all age-group levels on April 30 and there was a discussion about the impact of those rules and how they would impact the American system of Greco-Roman wrestling. There was also a note to point out the elimination of forced par terre wrestling won't occur at the senior level until after the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Dennis and Ivan talk about their theories on the Pan Am Championships, the development of the NCWA's pilot Greco-Roman wrestling league and much more. You can find out more about Ivan's products at suples.com Contribute And if you're a fan of the extensive and broad-based reach of the shows on the Mat Talk Podcast Network, consider becoming a patron by going to www.patreon.com/mattalkonline. There are various levels of perks for the different le

On Episode 13 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we talk World Cup, Olympic Trials and the preservation of wrestling at Northern State and Cleveland State with Jon McGovern and Terry Brands. Coach McGovern and coach Brands first talk about the viral video that's floating around the internet with the fight between two Russian wrestlers escalating to the point where it included coaches and spectators. The discussion then turns to the U.S. performance at the World Cup and coach Brands explains the performance of past Hawkeye wrestlers Tony Ramos and Brent Metcalf. Then we move on to the discussion of the Olympic Trials coming to Iowa City in 2016. Then we move into a spirited back-and-forth about the issues at Cleveland State and who or what can be done to make sure this doesn't continue to keep happening in wrestling. Coach Brands and host Jason Bryant go back and forth on the matter. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WWR PODCAST iTunes | Stitcher | Spreaker | SoundCloud | TuneIn | RSS The World Wrestling Resource ha

On Episode 12 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we talk college wrestling with Dennis Hall, Jon McGovern, Terry Brands and guest Lee Kemp. With the college season over, we'll talk about the close of the season at the Division I and Division III levels as McGovern, Hall and Kemp have relationships with the world of NCAA Division III. We'll also talk about the team race in Division I and some things with coach Hall about preparing for the high school postseason events. Kemp will also break down some of the differences between his time following high school and now and the group will talk about when kids should make the switch to freestyle and Greco-Roman after their high school season. Coach Brands will join the last part of the show with his thoughts on the Iowa performance at the NCAA's, the upcoming AGON V championships at U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids and the new relationship between Nike and the Hawkeye Wrestling Club. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WWR PODCAST iTunes | Stitcher | Spreaker | SoundCloud

On Episode 11 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we talk international wrestling with Dennis Hall and Jon McGovern. The first part of our discussion centers around the large tournament hosted in Iran, with over 2,100 entries over 100 weight classes and over 8,000 spectators. While Iran is trying to get this recognized as the largest Olympic-style wrestling tournament by Guinness, we here in the U.S. know that Fargo reigns supreme with over 4,000 wrestlers competing annually. The discussion also centers around women being able to watch wrestling in Iran for the first time. This was spearheaded by American Kiki Kelley's appearance last year at the Greco-Roman World Cup as the U.S. Team Leader. We'll also get some insight from Hall about preparing high school wrestlers who are looking to reach the state tournament for the first time and McGovern explains going down the stretch at the college level. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WWR PODCAST iTunes | Stitcher | Spreaker | SoundCloud | TuneIn | RSS The World Wrestl

On Episode 10 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we're joined by Jon McGovern, Dennis Hall and Terry Brands to look at some of the topics related this month in wrestling. We'll get an idea of what the University of Iowa is thinking as they head to Minneapolis on January 30 with a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup against the top-ranked Gophers. Key bouts there are at 174 pounds with Iowa's Mike Evans and Minnesota's Logan Storley as well as the 184-pound tilt between Iowa's Sam Brooks and Minnesota's Brett Pfarr. Coach Brands also breaks down what a wrestler like Mike Kelly has to do when going into a bout with an unorthodox and wild wrestler like Dylan Ness. Dennis Hall gives his thoughts on the change in format from the Jack Pinto Cup held on January 25 in Colorado Springs and all three coaches chime in about the importance of the Dave Schultz Memorial International held Jan. 29-31 in Colorado Springs. There's also a breakdown of acclimation and performance as it relates to events in the U.S. versus events