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» FAQs Why do you call your Academy Purler Wrestling? Purler Wrestling /Foundation Wrestling is brand of wrestling. It is a style or method of training developed by Nick and Tony Purler that has proven to be extremely effective with age-group and high school wrestling. The most comparable situation we can think of is Gracie Jui Jitsu. The Gracies perfected their own style of grappling and have taught their style to various instructors who have opened their own academies. Whether David and Phil Nowick are "black belts" in Foundation Wrestling - that's a question you will have to ask Nick Purler. But we take pride in our high level of expertise in this system. You will likely see both Tony and Nick several times a year at our training camps in Colorado or in your corner competing with the other PWA academies at national competitions, but if you would like either of them as a personal coach you need to move to Missouri. Do you plan on opening additional PWA Rocky Locations? Absolutely. We are currently seeking several locations, both in the north and south Denver metropolitan area. Why do PWA Rocky wrestlers improve so quickly ? Our method of teaching has been proven over and over again with some of Colorado's best wrestlers. We start by correcting positional errors that have been hindering a wrestler's progress -possibly for quite some time. We then teach a wrestler how to MOVE an opponent and break his stance or base while attaining a true attack position. From there we teach efficient, effective technique from the most common wrestling positions. Most importantly, we care enough to demand that our wrestlers train year-round and drill the moves in our system thousands of times each year. Ask any NCAA or Olympic Champion, they will tell you that's how they got it done. I want to join PWA Rocky - should I quit my local club? Absolutely not. First of all, there are some awesome clubs in Colorado, and they provide something to your training regimen that we believe is vital - a large group of kids, lots of live wrestling and a room that you can get to quickly and conveniently . After your weekly practice at PWA Rocky, you need to get mat time and focus on developing the techniques we prescribe, not spend your life driving and listening to the same lesson plan yet again at another Purler location. My coach teaches different techniques from PWA Rocky - is he wrong? There is no definitive right or wrong answer in wrestling - anybody that tells you that is defending his own ego. Let's face facts, you will see different variations of, say, a single leg takedown from every coach you will ever have - but in some respects, it is the same move and nobody is right or wrong. We have a system that is focused on the details of making your single leg better (i.e. 4-5 different set-ups, how to drop your level and make the shot more explosive, how to finish if your shot doesn't work initially, etc.) that your coach will likely not offer . Our advice is to be respectful , follow your coach's practice plan and add these elements in drilling and live wrestling to the techniques your coach is teaching. You will find that the two practices actually fit together very well. What elements do most elite-level age-group and high school wresters have in common? We could give you the cop-out answer of heart, dedication, intensity, desire, "wanting it more", etc. - that is obvious - but we won't. READ CAREFULLY! It is our strong belief (Nick and Tony Purler believe the same) that elite-level age-group and high school wrestlers almost uniformly have the following traits:
It is that SPECIFIC combination that we see over and over in the great ones. It is not the answer that most parents or wrestlers want to hear - but it is the plain and simple truth. If you have partial elements of these traits in your wrestling training, you probably are experiencing partial success - which means you are experiencing your share of failure as well at the highest levels. You might wrestle five days a week and have plenty physical ability, desire, intensity, etc. - you just don't use your time effectively, and it shows up in your results. Families with two or more brothers that have an enthusiasm for wrestling (the Purler brothers, the Brands brothers, the Steiner brothers, the Cejudo brothers) often experience a high degree of success for this reason. If you don't have a sibling that wrestles - you need to find a kid in your area and make him your wrestling brother. At PWA, we call them "basement champions" - and they DRILL (not wrestle) constantly , even if it is for 5-10 minutes per day. If you are a parent, are you going to be thrilled that your basement TV room has mat in it for 6-7 years? Of course not - but it also doesn't feel very good to make the investment in the sport that you do and watch your son fall short. Conversely, it is quite gratifying to be the parent of a 12-year old with college-level technique. Every nationally ranked wrestler we have in our program trains this way, and their parents are generally the ones going through the PWA Rocky practice plans with them. We can't preach it enough - and we see parents that spend vast sums of money taking their kids to 3-4 different wrestling coaches per week and every conceivable local competition only to continue struggling. They want a different, more convenient, more entertaining answer, but the answer is right in their own home. What if I just buy Nick Purler's Foundation DVD's and don't join PWA Rocky? That's a start, and probably a better answer than what you are doing now. However, you will not see near the level of improvement that you will at PWA Rocky. Think of it this way - why would you pay for a math tutor? Can't you just read a textbook and become a math whiz? Why would you hire a private tennis coach, or personal trainer or pitching coach? Countless instructional DVD's exist for sports - wrestling is no exception! The truth is that body mechanics, timing, strategy, explosiveness etc. are extremely difficult to learn. You will have many stumbling blocks and questions and you need a demanding coach with an expert eye to bring the best out of you. If it were as simple as popping the DVD in and watching TV - then everybody would be Olympic caliber wrestlers. The Purlers have developed practice plans, competitive drills and live wrestling situations that are NOT on the DVD's that consistently develop champions. Come try a complimentary practice at PWA Rocky and see for yourself. I only have one year of wrestling experience and did OK, but I want to get better. Can PWA help me? We can absolutely help you. We specialize in helping wrestlers at ALL levels elevate their game. Our system of wrestling will help you compete with even the toughest of wrestlers faster than you ever thought possible. Nothing is more gratifying to us than watching a novice wrestler develop into a beast within a year's time. We have experienced that success with many wrestlers who came to us knowing next to nothing and have now gone on the highest levels of wrestling. I am already one of the best wrestlers at my weight class and age group in Colorado? Why should I join PWA Rocky ? That's fantastic. You probably have some lofty goals, like winning a state high school championship, placing at Junior Nationals in Fargo and becoming a college wrestler. Ask yourself if you need to get better to achieve those goals. Who is going to bring that out of you? That's the real challenge after you have experienced that initial level of success in Colorado. You aren't often tested until you wrestle in national tournaments - so how do you know if you are getting better? Will the same old techniques and same methods of training keep working for you as the bar gets higher? The answer is probably not. BECAUSE you are talented, you will need to seek a higher level of instruction to keep improving. My son won the Tulsa Nationals as a six-year old and eight-year old. Now he can't even make it to the placing rounds as a twelve-year old. What are we doing wrong? First, as a six or eight-year old, your son faced a great deal of first or second-year wrestlers while he was winning every trophy possible at the youth tournaments. Those same wrestlers have been training hard and are now on their third or fourth year - so the bar has been raised. Additionally, disparities in physical maturity are starting to play a significant role in these matches. It doesn't seem fair, but that is reality. There is only one answer if you would like to regain that level of success. You son needs to become technically better at wrestling . You can push him to the brink of exhaustion every day in all other aspects of his training, but you will likely to have the same results and a child that burns out on wrestling. We invite you to attend one our practices on a complimentary basis - we can help you. |
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