We are ready to roll right. First thing I want to address real quick is, the number one philosophy in the sport of wrestling or life, no matter what age you are, is having a good feel, or good feeling about where you are at now, and where are you going. So, where you are at now, and then where you are going. So present and future, and that's pretty healthy. If you think in those terms, that's a pretty healthy philosophy to live by, to compete by, to train by. It gets you through a lot of ups and downs and it actually keeps you out of the rut.
If you do get in these low areas in your life, which everybody goes through, I am not saying that it's depression or anything along those lines, but you start to get to there, you just keep that perspective that I work hard today to get ready for tomorrow, and it's a Biblical timeless principle. It's something that we talk about to our athletes everyday here, and that is that you don't let a day go by without getting better in your life, in your wrestling, in your school, in your personal relationships, so on and so forth. And when you do that everyday, you start to build these habits that start to manifest themselves, and multiply on top of each other, and then as you get older and more mature, you handle things coming down the pipe at you, that might derail most people or a lot of people but because you have handled things your whole life or you made yourself handle things, when bad things come down the pipe, fighting for your marriage, fighting for your kids, if your kids are doing things that they shouldn't be doing, you are handling that at the highest level, and getting the best result out of it.
People make mistakes, the idea is to recover from those mistakes as quickly as effectively as possible, and that's what the sport of wrestling teaches. So that's the first thing, it’s that philosophy that we want to feel good where we are right now and we want to feel good about the future. And also we don't let a day go by without working hard in our life, in our wrestling, and that's a game of principle as well. I call it a biblical timeless principle, but it's a game of principle as well. And you can even say that, maybe you compare him to a supernatural power even though that might be borderline crazy, but he does have an overriding principle of being great in life. So that's the first thing. The second thing is we already got some question rolling in, we have had four questions and actually one of the questions dealt with some dummy work and that's actually what I was going to start with here, and I am just going to go through some dummy drills.
One of the questions we had was dealing with dummies and that's actually what I was going to start with technically in skills, in wrestling, in what you got to realize that you don't need much in wrestling to work on get better everyday, whether you have a brother or not. I was really fortunate having a twin brother, having people in my community that would help us, but you really don't need much and you actually don't need a dummy either and I'll actually go off of the dummies in the shadow wrestling, once we get going here. But the biggest thing is what we want to do is I am just going to bring it through a little routine, and you can mix it up anyway you want but all you need is a dummy. These dummies happen to be through Play Ltd. There’s a website forum, I am not making a plug forum except for to say that they are the best in the business, and Ivan Ivanov is the entrepreneur that started this company but you can get those online and they are, they hold up well and that's one of thing.
The first thing I am going to do is just going to warm up. So all I do is I just pick up a dummy here and I am just going to toss him around, so I just pick him up, just like there, I pick him up here, then I just flip him over.
There are different sizes too, and if you are a youngster and this is too heavy and you are struggling and you want to get yourself that you can explode to. So you want to get yourself that you can really explode to. And I am just picking him up and I am explode him. As I start to get warmed up and the younger you are the better off you are, as far as starting from cold but as I started to warm up, I'll get in a better position here and I'll squad and I am learning to grab and it's not just a slow lift here and then a hesitation, and then trying to force it over this way and making it work this way. It's a grab, and it's a grab in, in explosive little increments; boom, boom, boom.
So I am coming down here, I’m squatting I am grabbing. And I am grabbing, I am slapping at it and grabbing, and gripping. And it's not, it's not like I am picking up something off the ground where it's here like this. It's grabbing something to move it. That means I got bend arms when I am grabbing. They are bent, they are not straight, when I am grabbing. They are bent, when I grab, they are bent. And I am pulling in there and I am exploding up. Right there and I jerk with every muscle in my body. Actually if you see my toes, you can see my toes here, I am not flat footed here, I am picking it up this way. I am not picking up this way, watch my toes here. I am picking it up, and my toes are moving there. I am picking it up here. And I am shrugging my shoulders, and I am using my hips and my quads here. I am picking it up here, right here and I pick it up, throw it, right there. I am picking it up, throwing it right there. I am picking it up, throwing it right there.
You can come here to picking it up here. Picking it up, picking it up here, and experiment different places to grab, different places to grab. That was a little more awkward. I am picking it up here. And what I do as I pick him up in its rear end over head, rear end over head, rear end over head, rear end over head, picking up here and boom, right there. That’s one drill to warm up, teaching using my hips, good wrestling position where I am strong here, good wrestling position, in a finishing position, where I have to come up and explode through those types of things. Moving on off that, it would be more specific to wrestling, finishing, head to the inside the single I am here, squad down in good position. See my head here, and this is a static start and so I know this isn't really realistic and so what I want to do is I want to get my feet moving, but not from out here because this isn't realistic.
So I am in here I get my feet moving here, I get my feet moving here, grab and go. It's the same thing. I am in good position, bent, good angles, shrugged shoulders. I know my neck look smaller than it use to. And so I got to get in that neck machine. See how it's pencil neck now. But you should have like a tree stem neck. You get it here, see here no neck, he explode I explode, boom. Just like that, pick it back up now. It doesn't stand sometimes, like you can see, it so either, it's an art to picking this thing up too; especially with this one it's broken pretty good. So I pick him up just like that. That's how it bounces and the more you do it, the more you'll get used to it. You'll learn your timing; you'll learn all the little details of it.
So anyway I am getting in here and now I go to my offside. I happened to be a lefty when I wrestle, this is my strong side. Now I go to my offside, I alternate. Again, I am in here, my feet are moving, my feet are moving. I am in a really good position right here. Really good position, I'd lock, and I explode, and that was not straight up where my feet are staying to the same spot, and it's exploding from point A to point B. I am coming right over to that side of the camera here, exploding right there, that, just like that. And again I’m picking up again. Back to my strong side, right in here. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Now I can start going in, boom. That's another drill right there. Now that’s head to the inside single. Now I am going to do a head to the outside single, it's the same thing. Same position, I am in here, head to the inside single. Now I am head to the outside single. I am here, moving my feet, popping through, just like that. Now I am on my offside, throw right there. You can see that it’s a good workout. Talking along with this makes it a better workout but a good warm up. So anyway --
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