Category: Jason’s Blog

Thursday December 14th 2017 With the Christmas Break coming up, many schools will basically call it quits for those two weeks. Most Quebec public high schools have a two-week break and some of the private schools will have three weeks.  Some of the Universities have already...

Thursday November 23rd 2017 As the first couple of tournaments began this year, I eagerly awaited the beginning of the high school season’s tournaments to start up.  Don’t get me wrong, coaching and watching our club an univeristy athletes compete is always fun but there’s something special...

Saturday November 4th 2017 In one of my previous blogs, I spoke about giving thanks.  Giving thanks is important but the next step is to act out on it.  We can be thankful as much as we want but without action, these words are almost meaningless....

Monday October 23rd, 2017 While my blogs tend to try and focus in the positive things that our sport is doing in the province of Quebec, sometimes there are things that aren’t as positive that are associated with not just with wrestling in the province,...

Thursday October 5th 2017 As Thanksgiving approaches, it occurred to me that many of us don’t give enough thanks for what we have.  Too often, we take for granted what we have or are too caught up with the speed in which our lives move at...

Friday September 15th 2017 On Wednesday September 13th, George Reinitz, sponsor and one of the founders for the Montreal YMHA Wrestling Club held a book signing for his memoir, “Wrestling with Life”.  I had the privilege of attending the book signing and being able to listen...

Monday September 4th 2017 As a new school year is upon us, I thought I would take a look at sports and school and the struggle that our Quebec athletes face as they pursue the sport of wrestling while studying.  Many athletes find it hard to...

Saturday August 19th 2017 It’s been almost a week since we got back from the Canada Games.  As always, I like to reflect upon what’s happened and how it affects the state of wrestling in Quebec.  Here are a few things that I saw during...

Saturday July 29th 2017 The sport of wrestling has been around for thousands of years, dating back to the time of the original Olympiad.  Paintings and murals of the ancient Olympics depicted the events as battlefield training.  Essentially sports at this time were like practice for...

Monday July 17th 2017 I recently got into a conversation with another coach about the subject of funding for athletes in amateur sports.  This is always a touchy subject as funding at the lower levels of sport in Canada is virtually non-existent.  Funding at the higher...