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More youth athletes taking to the mats in that other indoor sport

More youth athletes taking to the mats in that other indoor sport – Randy B. Young
Here on Tobacco Road, basketball is life. Each season, fans live, dream, despair, hope, and dies a little, until there’s one team left standing in March. Out there in that great wilderness beyond the land of longleaf pines, however, are those who actually enjoy or even participate in other indoor activities, forsaking the madness of March for the mats of wrestling, and local devotees are trying to import wrestling interest and enthusiasm into the area. The key: start ’em young. New local wrestling club N.C. Rams hopes to build a nationally recognized program through instruction and competition. Meeting Sundays at UNC’s Fetzer Gymnasium, N.C. Rams’ high school program began in late November and runs through February. A Little Rams program for elementary and middle school boys and girls meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings through Feb. 2. Club director Andy Gunning and coach Josh Kindig hope to help young athletes develop core fundamentals – footwork, hand-fighting, stance and motion, head position, escapes and reversals – while also providing advanced training for experienced wrestlers. N.C. Rams, which evolved from Gunning’s Big Cats wrestling program, now provides a significant increase in mat space as a chartered club with USA wrestling and a charter member of the newly formed Triangle Youth Wrestling League. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-sports/article118809993.html?mc_cid=ac06da2376&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b#storylink=cpy

January 1, 2017 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized