Finally! This is one of those times we feel like yelling Finally!! It’s here!! YEEESSS! at the top of our lungs. This has been something that we’ve been looking and hoping to do for two years. We know that the off season is a very important time for wrestlers. It really is what makes the good wrestlers stand out from the rest. They’ll be going to camps, eating healthy and maintaining weight, they continue to work out. We are very excited to announce the very beginning of wrestlefattie.com’s entrance into the off season. And just in time, we might add. You might have seen us talk about it on Twitter or in previous posts. If not, here’s the deal.
Matt Krumrie, author of The Ultimate Guide to Wrestling Camps
We’ve partnered with Matt Krumrie, author of The Ultimate Guide to Wrestling Camps, a brand new book talking about how to select a good wrestling camp. Matt Krumrie is the former editor of TheWrestlingMall.com and has contributed to W.I.N Magazine, The Guillotine and IntermatWrestle.com. He has been a guest on TakedownRadio.com and covered numerous NCAA Division I wrestling championships. As a sports writer, Krumrie has had articles published in over 50 newspapers, magazines and web sites. He knows wrestling and what make s a good camp.
The books 120 pages go over everything from how camps can effect coaches and influence wrestlers for life to how the camps were changed forever by the J Robinson Intensive Camps. He’s spent countless hours interviewing not only High School coaches, but college coaches as well. He’s talked to the top individual wrestlers, including Ben Askren and Kevin Bracken, both of whom are Olympic Wrestlers. He’s talked with NCAA champions and amateur wrestlers and has even crossed the fence to talk with MMA fighters. Quoting InterMat:
The book delivers a true “insider perspective” on wrestling camps, bringing together interviews, comments, quotes and information from over 40 of the most informed and educated people involved in the sport of wrestling — high school and college coaches, all-time great wrestlers, and individuals who run camps, as well as youth and high school wrestlers and their parents. In other words, people who have experienced wrestling camps from just about every angle possible.
The Ultimate Guide to Wrestling Camps is a one of a kind. It doesn’t endorse a single camp, yet at the same time it teaches. All other books that are close to being like it endorse a certain camp. “Sure, there are all the ads for wrestling camps at websites and in magazines, and all those slick brochures,” said Krumrie. “But they’re trying to sell you something. How do you separate hype from reality?”
“There needs to be a resource, to help folks decipher all this information.”
“Parents spend so much money for their wrestlers for things like wrestling camps,” Krumrie continued. “Camps can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars each. When a family sends multiple kids to camp, or multiple camps over the course of a summer, it really adds up.” Matt Krumrie shared an example from his personal experience of just how challenging it can be to make the right decisions. “I have a friend from college who never wrestled, but has three young sons who do. He was asking me, ‘Do I send all of them to the same camp? Or do I want them to join a year ’round wrestling club?’
WrestleFattie’s Goal
So what’s different about WrestleFattie’s partnership with Matt? Well, two years ago, we had the idea to make a list of all the camps in the nation. We didn’t know how or where to begin. Well, we heard about The Ultimate Guide to Wrestling Camps through Twitter. We instantly thought of that idea we had two years ago. Matt gave us the kick in the butt/inspiration that we needed. We realized that there is a real need for help selecting wrestling camps to find schools near you. Our solution: check out our brand new Wrestling Camps page. This page, combined with the book, really will become the Ultimate Guide to Wrestling Camps. You’re able to buy the book directly off the site, but at the same time, we’re putting together a list of all the wrestling camps IN THE NATION for you to look at. Our goal? We want you to be able to find a good, quality wrestling camp within 5 hours of your own home. We figure that 5 hours is the limit of any parent to drive their high school wrestler to a wrestling camp.
So take a look at the Wrestling Camps page. Check out the book. You’ll thank Matt for spending a few years to write the book.
If you are a wrestler, or a parent of a wrestler, those thoughts have crossed your mind. That’s where The Ultimate Guide to Wrestling Camps can help you. Why? Because the book answers those questions . With interviews, comments, quotes and information from over 40 of the most informed and educated people involved in the sport of wrestling, this book is not only an educational resource for wrestlers, it’s a valuable tool for parents who are trying to learn more about the training opportunities available for their son or daughter in many cases there are multiple children involved. It provides stories, tips and information for wrestlers of all ages, whether it’s the young wrestler just starting his or her career, the kid who wants to figure out how to make the starting lineup for the high school team or the wrestler who hopes to compete at the college level – it’s covered in this book.
So anyways, I’ve been thinking about wrestling camps. They help out wrestlers of all levels progress and they are all over the nation. You can choose from a huge number of instructors from High School state and national champs to NCAA national champs to Olympians such as Rulon Gardner, Cael Sanderson and Ken Chertow. So we haven’t been able to set anything up yet, but we are looking into it. So stay tuned for more on wrestling camps!