Giving back to the community
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....
Sports and Depression
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,...
Giving Thanks
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...
Wrestling with Life
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...
The benefits of Sports for School
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...
Something Special
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...
Is wrestling a combat sport?
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...
Athlete’s funding at the grassroots level
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...
Pushing athletes
Monday June 26th 2017 As preparations for the upcoming Canada Games approaches this summer, I recently got into a conversation with a colleague from work. Discussions centred on the Canada Games and how her son had made the Quebec team for baseball. As I congratulated...
My thoughts from Sardinia
Saturday June 10th 2017 Having had more than week to reflect on my trip, and coming back to some truly depressing initial June weather here in Montreal, I can now give my full impressions on the training camp. For starters, I don’t think that there...