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...

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...

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...

Wednesday June 7th 2017 What a week!  Having just returned from the international wrestling training camp in Sardinia Italy, I’m considerably more tanned and well rested from my trip.  While it may have seemed like I was on an extended vacation, the camp was long...

Tuedsay May 23rd 2017 When starting up a program, there are many challenges that you will face.  This goes for an academic, cultural or athletic program and whether it’s at a community centre or at a highschool.  For the sake of tapping into my own...

Friday May 12th 2017 The summer months usually mark the off-season for high-school and university wrestlers.  Competitions in the summer are few and far between as the focus shifts to international tournaments featuring usually featuring members of the Canadian National Team.  Quebec athletes who are on the...

Saturday April 22nd 2017 In the world of sports, I have seen many different category of athletes.  Athletes have their own personal foibles and behave very differently from non-athletes.  Wrestling sees many of these personality types and as such, I’ve decided to place them into categories based...