Proudpatriot

It's great to hear praise of the J. Robinson camps. My son is in PA right now. It was really expensive but his coach is totally sold on the camp (he went as a teen). Only time will tell.

My son wrestled well last year(his freshman year). All his losses were to state qualifiers. Obviously he needs to be able to beat the state qualifiers if he hopes to progress and he is hoping the camps will give him the mental toughness to do so.

MOJO

My son is with his school team this week doing a Penn St. camp that Sanderson is running. Sounds good so far. At the end of July he is going to a Ken Chertow camp in Lehigh, last year it was excellent. It will be interesting to hear how he compares the two. He is also working out with a local club twice a week during the summer with little instruction, but lots of live wrestling.

To answer the original question- How to become a baddass- my advice would be go to any good camp with a reputable leader and good collegiate clinicians, THEN make sure that you go to a local summer work-out (2 or 3 days per week) with LOTS of live wrestling with a variety of partners (some better than you, some a little worse than you). This will allow you to put the instruction and training that you learn in camp to practical use, in a way that you probably wont be able to do as much when your school season comes around.

To me, this combination was the biggest reason that I went from being 1-15 my first (soph. in HS) year wrestling to 34-4 and state placer my second year to 39-2 and Jr. National double placer my senior year. Camp+summer workout (and spring freestyle thrown in) gave me 3 additional seasons to improve. Good luck!

bentley

I went to the Iowa State 21 day intensive camp this summer (just got back a week and a half ago), i got amazingly better.