Eierman Elite Wrestling is a
competitive wrestling team coached by Mike Eierman in Fulton, Missouri.
The team is a Missouri USA
sanctioned wrestling club.
The wrestlers compete in many local tournaments and have opportunities to travel
and compete in national tournaments around the country. During the
Missouri USA youth folkstyle season, the club is assigned to
district 7/region D.
Read the Columbia
Daily Tribune article about EE Wrestling printed on
May 12th, 2006.
Mike has lived and coached wrestling
in Mid-Missouri since 2003. Before coming to Mid-Missouri in 2003, Mike was a
resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado for more than three
years. From youth wrestling to international competition, for thirty years
Mike's life has revolved around wrestling. He has trained in many other countries with the best wrestlers from those
countries including Russia, Ukraine, and Italy. Mike's practices and camps are
influenced by what he learned while training with some of the world's elite
wrestlers. Mike's wrestlers will benefit from his international experience and
intense training philosophy. Mike believes each wrestler has his own unique
style and encourages each wrestler to adapt what he learns and explore
variations. Mike knows a one-size-fits-all attitude ultimately fails, because
each wrestler's approach to wrestling is, and should be, different.
Check out this video about EE
Wrestling
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Other paid wrestling organizations in the state are
businesses only where the wrestlers practice once or twice a week. These
wrestlers are not part of a team. They do not benefit from having a
full-time coach. They do not benefit from being a member of a team, where
the receive everyday support, pride, and motivation from teammates and their
coach.
Still other clubs have volunteer part-time coaches
(usually club members parents). These clubs are great places to learn the
fundamentals of wrestling.
However, Eierman Elite wrestlers are members of an
elite competitive wrestling team where they can practice with state and national
champions on a daily basis. Coach Eierman travels with the team to
competitions and tournaments. Wrestlers have the benefit of having a
full-time, high quality coach in the practice room and at competitions.
Coach Eierman does not teach a watered-down or simplified version of wrestling.
The techniques Coach Eierman teaches are the same he learned and saw while
competing at the highest levels. EE wrestlers are learning
skills they can use throughout their wrestling career, youth through college and
beyond.
Yes, you can teach a wrestler to scramble.
Yes, a wrestler who can scramble will be a dominate wrestler. Yes,
scrambling wins matches. How do you learn to scramble?
The art of scrambling...hours and hours and hours of wrestling with other
wrestlers who scramble.
Constant movement...
Never stop wrestling...
Better positioning...
Anticipation...
Always have an options...
Turn your opponents efforts into your points...
What is
scrambling....check out this video
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to view video)
Wrestling is the toughest, most
grueling sport, both mentally and physically, because it consumes all of the
athlete's strength and demands all of his attention the entire time he is
competing on that mat. While the majority of wrestling clubs focus primarily
and, in some cases, exclusively, on the physical aspect of wrestling, Coach
Eierman knows there are two sides to winning, physical and mental. Without
attention to both sides, a wrestler will not wrestler to their full potential.
A wrestler must always remember that
even if he knows all the moves and techniques and trains rigorously every day,
he will ultimately fail in serious competition unless he honestly believes in
himself. All the sweat and hard work will count for nothing unless every fiber
of a wrestler's being exudes self-confidence and a winning attitude.
Nutrition has a huge influence on a wrestlers
performance. Proper nutrition plays a vital role in all angles of
wrestling including, conditioning, stamina, recovery time, mental toughness.
Everyday wrestlers should pay attention to what they eat. Proper sleep and
plenty of water are also very important for proper muscle recovery. Mike
Eierman's wrestler's will benefit from his personal experiences and lessons
learned while being a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center for three
years.
Youth
Wrestlers are not encouraged to lose weight. Coach Eierman believes
wrestlers should spent their time and energy improving in the practice room.
Time spent losing weight is time wasted. Mike Eierman's practices are very
demanding and physically draining. Without the proper nutrition your body
will not recover as quickly. If a wrestler or parents feels a wrestler would be more competitive at a lower weight, the advice given
is to work harder and improve at the wrestler's natural weight.
However,
there is a distinct difference between losing weight and watching what you eat
while observing your body's natural weight fluctuations. Wrestlers are
expected to eat three meals and hydrate themselves with plenty of water even on
competition days.
Wrestlers are also encouraged to monitor their weight and learn how their weight
reacts to strenuous workouts and healthy, sensible meals.
Yes. Open practices are on
Tuesdays and Sundays. Mike is also available for private practices. See the
Practice Schedule and Club Fees
page for details. There are also Eierman Scrambling
camps. Check the Scrambling Camps page for details.
