All Howell wrestlers are part of Team Hurricane, including the high school and middle school teams.
Team Hurricane is designed to provide the very best training possible at all levels,
so that student-athletes are given the opportunity to reach their fullest potential.

The future of Howell Wrestling looks strong! There is a Hurricane coming!

Team Hurricane: ROSTER (2011-12)

Team Hurricane & Middle Schools: SCHEDULE & RESULTS

Team Hurricane Schedule - http://www.mmwawrestling.com/

More links for competition during the year: http://www.borderwarswrestling.com/ http://www.mywaywrestling.com/schedule/index.html http://www.aauofmichigan.com/wrestling.htm

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Team Hurricane: REGISTRATION

SIGN UP: __11-1-2012__6:00-7:30PM__ (Howel H.S. Wrestling Room) __Late registration accepted...

Head Coach: Dan Minock ___Assistant Coaches: TBD

Where: Howell High School Field House (Wrestling Room)

Practice: Tuesday & Thursday from 6:00-7:30

Ages: 5 to 14 years old, must be 5 and not older than 14 on or before December 31, 2012.

Cost: $85.00 per child or $150.00 per family. (Cash or Checks made to: Friends of Howell Wrestling) - No refunds after 2nd week of practice

_____* MYWAY membership may be an addittional $15.00 per wrestler. This is up to the individual family.

**COPY OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE REQUIRED** __Completed paper work and all monies due by the 2nd practice.

Season: November - March. Wrestling meets are available in the Mid-Michigan area every Saturday and/or Sunday.
(Tournament participation is optional.)

Coaches: DaDan & Drew Minock, as well as other members of the high school team. (Parents are encouraged to assist.)

Other: Wrestlers should come dressed for practice, clean gym shoes, shorts and T-shirt. No jewelry or metal is to be worn.

Contact: Dan Minock (517) 304-6336__ or __ dminock@mdrlandservices.net

Team Hurricane: “At the Tournament”

ADMISSION & REGISTRATION:
When you arrive at the hosting club’s school, you will be greeted at the door by the admissions table.
Admission is charged by the individual or family. Only wrestlers are exempt from paying admission, all others must pay.
(Family includes mother, father, brothers and sisters; not grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends.)

Past the door, you must locate the wrestler registration and weigh-in areas. Most tournaments will have signs directing you.
But if you don’t see one, simply ask someone, as they’re all here for the same reason you are and probably know the answer.
Weigh-in registration slips are provided by age group.

Novice (beginner) slips should have NOVICE written on them, and will probably be a different color from the regular slips.
If you are not sure if your child is a Novice (beginner) wrestler, check with your coach regarding criteria. (Criteria available at the end of this page.) Fill out the appropriate slip with the wrestlers name and club name; some clubs have a two-part slip, make sure to fill out both sides.
Be sure you have the correct slip. Neatly PRINT the wrestlers “Name” and “Hurricanes” as the club name. Proceed to the registration desk. They will ask the wrestlers club and his age. Also remember a birth certificate can be requested at any time at any tournament so make sure you turned one in to your club and keep a copy in the wrestlers gym bag. If they ask you for your birth certificate and you do not have a copy of one you will not be able to wrestle that day, there are no exceptions to this rule. At the registration desk they will mark the back of one of the wrestlers hands with their age group.

WEIGH-INS:
Fathers may accompany their son to the weigh-in area. Mothers must wait outside. Special arrangements will be made for female weigh-ins. At weigh-in the wrestler is to step on a scale. He/she will be allowed to take more clothing off and step back on the scale only once. He/she will not be allowed to step off and leave the area, then come back. The other hand of the wrestlers will be marked with his/her weight class. The marking of the hands assures that there is no mix-up of age and weight groups at the mat.

AFTER WEIGH-INS / FOOD:
Following weigh-in you are free until the tournaments begins. You may wish to leave the premises to find a local restaurant. Many families prefer to bring coolers with juice, cereal, snacks, etc. There is always an area, usually the school cafeteria, available to relax, eat, play cards, and leave your belongings. There is no food or drink allowed in the gym areas, however, wrestlers are allowed to bring water bottles to the mats. Concession stands are usually run by the hosting club. Sometimes the offering is limited, while others serve a full breakfast and lunch. This is usually indicated on the informational flyer. If you leave for breakfast make sure you are back before wrestling begins, if you are not available to wrestle the first round you will not be able to wrestle the rest of the day.

PAIRINGS:
Before the tournament begins, the pairing staff is busy assembling the weigh-in slips, matching the age and weight groups, checking to see if you have a MMWA Registration form and Birth Certificate turned in, and preparing the bout slips and charts.

If at any time before or during the tournament you hear over the PA that a Hurricane Coach or Representative is to report to Pairing, please take it upon yourself to go to Pairing. (Don’t assume that someone else will be going.) Find out what the problem is. Usually it is that they don’t have a birth certificate of someone on the team, if that is the case you will need the PA person to call for that wrestlers parent to go to pairing. When they call a coaches meeting, you are the coach, you are to attend the meetings. There will be an announcement that all clubs are to go to pairing to pay. Charlene will pick a parent to take the money to pairing for each meet.

CHARTS:
The charts are posted in the hallway outside the gym area as soon as they are ready. They will be posted by age and run consecutively by weight. If there are a large number of wrestlers in a particular weight group there may be an “A” and “B” chart, in very large tournaments there may even be a “C” or “D” chart. These are called “split charts”. Each chart will have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner. Check your wrestlers charts carefully, if your child’s name does not appear or appears on the incorrect chart, go to the Pairing Room immediately. Sometimes, if there are two or less wrestlers in a weight group, they will be moved up to the next weight group. You will refer to the chart to determine what round and whom your child wrestles. The initial posted chart will have the first two rounds bouted. The charts are updated following each round.

BEGINNING THE TOURNAMENT:
The announcer will begin the tournament with the national anthem. They will also give any pertinent instructions and will point out the staging area, the coach’s area, and where to turn in bout slips. The staging area is where the wrestlers assemble to be paired with their opponent; the announcer will call the age groups to go to the staging area. They will typically say, for example, “All 8 and under wrestlers to staging.” Only wrestlers usually are allowed in the staging area. When the wrestler gets to staging they will call out the two wrestlers names and give one of the wrestlers the bout slip. The wrestlers are to walk in line to the tower. Parents/Coaches are to wait by the tower. The tower is where you will meet up with your wrestler. The tower staff will take the bout slip, ask for the two coaches (you the parent) and then tell you what mat you are on. The bout slip will be given back to one of the wrestlers. There are usually 3 to 5 full mats at a tournament which may be divided in halves or quarters. Each has a sign indicating its mat number.

MATCH CONDUCT & INFORMATION:
Two (2) people are allowed to be at the mat with each wrestler; usually this is the parent. If you are videotaping the match you count as the second person. All other parents, spectators, team members, must be seated in the stands. At the mat, the wrestler must have their singlet pulled up over their shoulders, headgear on and be ready to wrestle. The wrestler with the bout slip is to give it to the table help, the wrestlers are asked their names and will be assigned a color: Red or Green / Blue. If you have braces or any metal in your mouth you must wear a mouth guard. The wrestler puts the colored ankle band on their ankle, steps on the white line, shakes opponents hand and waits for the referees whistle or says, “Wrestle”! There are many whistles blowing and it becomes confusing at times. If you are not sure if it is your referee that blew his whistle, keep on wrestling. He will tell you to stop or touch you to stop you.

Below is the length of matches:

8 & under and 9-10 will have a special 15 second rest in between periods, at that time the wrestler is to go to the coach (parent),
get a drink of water if needed. No wrestler will be allowed to leave the mat without the permission of the referee.

At the end of the match you are to step back on the white line shake your opponents hand and the referee will raise the winners hand. You are then to proceed to your opponent’s coaches and shake their hands. Coaches sometimes shake each other’s hands but it is not mandatory. Once your child has wrestled, the winner of the bout will be given the bout slip. Normally the parent/coach and the referee will sign the bout slip. Whoever signs the slip should always check to see that the correct winner is marked, as well as the score. This slip must be turned in at the location indicated. It is important that all bout slips be turned in immediate after the match has ended. The bout slip then goes to the pairing area where the results are recorded. The results of the match are then updated on the wall charts. You should become familiar with the charts and the scoring procedure. If you need help please see Charlene or one of the coaches. If you believe a chart has been marked incorrectly you need to go to pairing as quickly as possible. Remember, the pairing staff is doing the best they can with as little help as they have. Be patient. Normally, once a wrestler has lost two bouts (matches) he/she is eliminated from the tournament. There are exceptions so do not leave the tournament until you see your wrestlers name crossed (X) out. Occasionally, two wrestlers may be eliminated in the same round that have not already wrestled and they will have to wrestle off for placement. So, it is best to check with a coach or other qualified club members until you become familiar with the rules. Each year wrestlers leave the meet thinking that they are finished when in fact they are not, so they don’t receive a medal.

TOURNAMENT COMPLETION / AWARDS:
Wrestling will continue until the chart is complete. At that time the awards will be announced and medals (sometimes trophies) will be handed out. No awards will be giving until all clubs have paid their entrance fees. You are free to leave once the wrestlers have received his/her award or have been eliminated from the tournament. Tournaments generally take most of the day so if you cannot stay until your child is finished wrestling, and gets his medal, please make other arrangements with other club members or tournament officials. All tournaments do not start wrestling, and do not get over at the same time. If your child becomes ill and you must leave the tournament please go to pairing and let them know.

NOVICE WRESTLER
Description

1. A “Novice” wrestler is a wrestler who has not received any 1st place or two (2) second place medals in a regular tournament, with three (3) or more wrestlers on his/her chart.
2. A Novice wrestler is a wrestler who has not received a total of five (5) or more medals/trophies in any tournament that has four (4) or more wrestlers on his/her chart.
3. Any wrestler who has received two (2) first place awards that has (3) or more wrestlers on his/her chart during a “Novice” tournament can no longer be considered a “Novice”.
4. Competitive discretion on the part of coaches and club officers is expected.

Team Hurricane: Articles & Motivation

Energy: Turn It on When You Need It (By Steve Fraser) April 18, 2006

Energy in competition is very important. Low energy means poor performance. Low energy can result from over-training, lack of rest, or eating poorly among other things. It is also common for athletes to have low energy when they are not challenged. Maybe they thought their opponent was going to be too easy, or on the other hand, that there is no way that they can win.

How does one turn it up when the situation calls for it? How do you get energized when you are down? How do you change from feeling low to feeling high thus getting into your “ideal competitive state” which will allow you to wrestle to your best potential?

I went to the book, The Achievement Zone, by Shane Murphy, Ph.D. for some answers.

One of the most spectacular upsets in Olympic history happened in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. It was in the 10,000 meter race where the favorites were supposed to duke it out. Ron Clarke of Australia who was the world record holder, defending champion Pyotr Bolotnikov of the Soviet Union, and 5,000 meter winner Murray Halberg were the guys to watch. The American runner, Billy Mills was a complete unknown whose best time was a minute slower then Clarke’s world record. However, Billy Mills astonished the world by beating these favorites and winning the gold medal.

Half way through the race Mills thought he would have to quit. Clarke had a pattern of surging on every other lap which made it extremely difficult to keep up with him. “At one point I was going to go one more lap, take the lead, and go one more. That way, if I had to quit, it would be while I was winning,” said Mills. But at just that moment, Mills noticed Clarke looking back over his shoulder. My God! He’s worried, thought Mills. “From that point on, it was - I am here to stay.”

With less than three laps to go in the race, the clear leaders were Clarke, Mills, and another runner, Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia. In the backstretch of the final lap came the moment that electrified the crowd.

As they lapped some of the other runners, Mills was on the outside of Clarke, a perfect tactical position. Desperate to get space, Clarke gave Mills two nudges before shoving him out of the way, sending him sprawling to the outside. At that moment Gammoudi shouldered between both of them and sprinted into at ten-yard lead. Mills describes the closing moments.

“There were probably seventy-five thousand people sreaming in the stadium, but all I could hear was the throbbing of my heart. In my mind, in a kind-of self-hypnosis, I was reliving my training sessions at Camp Pendleton…Every day of my training, in my mind, I went by Clarke just a second before the finish, and I’d win. But this was real…I kept thinking, One more try. One more try…With about eighty yards to go they were five or six yards ahead of me, and I thought, I may never be this close again. Drive! Drive! I knew I had won. I knew I might not get to the tape first, but I knew that at that stage I was the fastest man on the track, and if I had enough time I would go past them…Then I felt the tape break across my chest. I came to a stop, and a Japanese official came running up to me and said, “Who are you? Who are you?”

With his dramatic gold medal, Billy Mills, a twenty-four-year-old man of Sioux heritage, became an American legend. He proved his win was no accident by breaking the world record the next year.

How did Billy Mills do this? How did he energize his mind and body to exceed his best performance and defeat these great runners in the most revered event ever…the Olympic Games? How can we as wrestlers do the same thing? How do we make certain that we will have plenty of energy when we need it?

First we need to learn how to give ourselves energy. We need to know how to psych our selves up at critical moments. Our thoughts and feelings, the attitudes we bring to the performance all affect our energy level.

In Billy Mills’s case, the physical training he did at Camp Pendleton was critical for his development as a runner. But his mental preparation helped him develop energizing thoughts which gave him the extra boost when he really needed it. He used these thoughts in the Olympics when he told himself One more try, one more try, and when he yelled to himself, Drive! Drive!

Energize your thinking. No matter how much you enjoy what you are doing there will be times when you need to psych yourself up. Whether it is at the end of a tough work day or it is at the end of a tough wrestling match, you are going to be tired. Your thoughts are critical in how you control your energy level. Your thoughts can either drain energy away, leaving you zapped and unable to perform, or they can give you new energy and excitement.

Energizing your thoughts is very important. Thinking positive will help you generate the energy needed to perform at your best. Thinking positive, especially in tough exhausting situations, can be difficult. But this is what separates the medalists from the rest.

Focus on energizing images. Use your creative thinking skills to visualize seeing yourself as a fine tuned machine or a powerful locomotive racing down the rail road track. Nothing can stop you!

Imagine excellence in all you do and focus on the desired result. See yourself throwing that Russian wrestler through the air right on to his back. Imagine you standing on the awards podium accepting the Olympic gold medal. Take time to really feel the moment.

Use energy cue words to ignite your performance. Using words like: Go, go! Explode! Blast off! Nothing can stop me! Here is where I take off! Watch me now! These words, or words like it, can cue you to step-up when needed. Remember what Billy Mills said to himself in the last stretch of the race.

Focus on things you can control. Low energy often is a result of feeling out of control. To combat this try focusing on the things you can change or manage. Try focusing on the great execution of your technique as opposed to winning the tournament. These are called performance goals. You can control how you execute or what tactics and strategy you use. You can’t always control the end result.

Challenge yourself! It is common to feel flat when you feel you have no chance of reaching your goal. Again focus on smaller execution type goals. Goals that when you reach them tell you that you are improving. Think big at the same time. Why settle for mediocrity when you can achieve the unbelievable?

Look energized! Remember the old adage “You look good, you feel good.” Well, the same is true for energizing. You will make yourself feel more energized when you look more energized. Walk, talk and act as if you have a lot of energy. Shoulders back, a skip in your step, increase the pace of your activity. Studies have shown that acting out strong emotion can actually cause an emotional physiological response, so act energized!

Remember a time when you had high energy. Think back on a time when you felt great and your performance was spectacular. Again use your creative thinking skills to visualize that event and try to recapture the feeling you had that helped you achieve that success.

Learn something new. Learning something new helps to stimulate your energy juices. A characteristic of high achievers is that they love doing new things and learning new skills. They are always searching for new techniques and methods to try. Learning new moves, tactics and strategies helps to make wrestling more fun which heightens our energy.

Have fun! Having fun with our sport is the key to being successful at it. Life is too short not to enjoy it every step of the way. Dr. Jerry May of the University of Nebraska, a sport psychology consultant for the U.S. sailing team, has studied hundreds of elite performers in sport and business. He finds that a characteristic shared by highly successful people is a sense of humor. So always remember to enjoy the battle!

Remember that high energy means high performance. Learn all the ways that help you bring your energy to your performance and you will wrestle to your utmost potential.

Expect to win!

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