Herculean University Wrestling

[Herculean]

HERCULEAN UNIVERSITY WRESTLING

olympic wrestling class is every wednesday at the sugden sports centre, manchester. This is a wrestling programme for students at both university of manchester and manchester metropolitan. The club is also open to non-students, both male and female.

We do not teach, or pretend to know how to teach mixed martial arts. We only teach pure freestyle wrestling and aim for our students to learn, challenge themselves, have fun, and for the right students to enter competitions and progress as an athlete. however for those who are training mma, we understand the importance wrestling can play in mma, for example many of the top ufc fighters started as wrestlers before going into mma.

We started our first class last week and had a great turn out. The coaching staff is made up of a north west sports coach of the year award winner and also a current British Wrestler who is aiming to compete in national and international competitions such as comonwealth games 2010 and olympic games 2012.

In manchester there are not many places to learn olympic wrestling. some mma clubs may advertise wrestling, however are they really qualified to show freestyle wrestling? and also because students may not understand the world of olympic wrestling when they start out, they can be easily miss-guided and fooled into thinking that they are in safe hands. We offer those interested in MMA a chance to learn proparly the art of wrestling, from the basics, lifestyle of an athlete and conditioning. We dont show you suplex or advanced moves straight away because you will need to start from scratch and build yourself up. If you want to just learn a takedown or leg attack then go to any mma club in manchester if u like, but if u want to learn the fundamentals of wrestling, and get a good foundation which may assit in your mixed martial arts, then we are the club for you!

To see some videos of British Wrestling and other stuff visit:
www.herculean.ning.com

To watch british wrestling 2010 video visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFI8yg3Uyc

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n178/pahlavan/herculean_wrestling_posterx1.jpg

[mcgovern]

If you are thinking about taking up MMA or some form of contact sport, you cant go far wrong with freestyle wrestling.

IMO Freestyle wrestling provides a good base for all types of martial arts.

Good luck with the class.

[widge milward]

Good luck with the classes, who is the coach down there?

Could you please check your private messages as well.

[Manik]

I know you have picked the time and day for students, but are there likely to be any other lessons in the week?
Also coaches names might be handy!

[Herculean]

I know you have picked the time and day for students, but are there likely to be any other lessons in the week?
Also coaches names might be handy!

Well we have just setup the class, and we chose this time and day to fit in with both students timetables and also coach's/wrestlers programs. hoever we are actually planning to do more class's and possibly start with doing a saturday class as well as wednesdays. but first we need to take our time and see how we go with just wednesdays, if we get alot of turn out each week then we may just have to do a secound class!

The class will be coached by David Sweeney, Nathan Tully, also Yousef Alikhasi and other guest wrestlers who are currently training full-time will be attending now and again to offer support to wrestlers at the club.


The best thing to do if u want more info or get in touch with a coach yourself is to email us:

herculeansport@googlemail.com

[mcgovern]

5:07 on the link is young tom from Stockton wrestling club, one to watch

[steve_langford]

I LOVE freestyle wrestling!! It gets me wet!!

[Herculean]

I LOVE freestyle wrestling!! It gets me wet!!

oh shit! someone remove this post if u have rights!!!

[steve_langford]

oh shit! someone remove this post if u have rights!!!

you should embrace my post........:D

[phil flynn]

I LOVE freestyle wrestling!! It gets me wet!!
ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

[phil flynn]

oh shit! someone remove this post if u have rights!!!but even more ha ha ha ha at the response,fookin brillant!!!one thing i would advise you before too any people get onto it is remove the ufc bit off your poster,especially on here mate,people will slate you for it and take the piss!!!!but good luk with this and might come take a look at this!!!

[Jay Evans]

Did some Freestyle Wrestling a year+ back and enjoyed it to a certain level, might come down one Wednesday and give it another go!

[The Natural]

excellent clip..some stuff from this years and last yrs british comp..

some badasses in there..it will be interesting to see how the guys get on in comp over the next few months!!

[Herculean]

Yes Phill its a good point you make about removing the ufc from our posters, its just that i know many student we are trying to attract always call mma by ufc, becasue thats how it is, but you are probably right and i dont want any copyright issue or somthing like that! so i will try edit the posters when get chance.

And yes british wrestling is developing really good now and we have some good british born wrestlers who i am sure to do well in near future.

Our university class is open to everyone who wants to learn wrestling, but i also understand the popularity of mma these days and we welcome fighters to come along.

as i said before we are not going to pretend to teach mma in our class, we are pure wrestling, however if we get people who are training in mma, and come to our class to develop their wrestling skills, then we will only be too happy to work with them and help them achive their goals. we are a new club, but already the future seems bright for the club and i hope for the sport of wrestling in britain.

[the jabroni]

Tom is a animal and an amazing freestyle wrestler, especially at his age! He already competes at a European level an even won a kettle at one event!
He is truely gifted athletically he could be one to watch in MMA circuits in time.

Good luck with the club.

Rich

[the jabroni]

Why have the guys at the beginning of that youtube video got nowt on! Your going to get deprived homosexuals turning upto the club using that as advertisement!
If i were you i'd get rid of that bit, wrestling looks gay enough without men running round naked in black and white old porno style as a selling point! hahaha

Rich

[mcgovern]

Why have the guys at the beginning of that youtube video got nowt on! Your going to get deprived homosexuals turning upto the club using that as advertisement!
If i were you i'd get rid of that bit, wrestling looks gay enough without men running round naked in black and white old porno style as a selling point! hahaha

Rich

trust you to mention that, that would be an attraction for you to join, you hommo

[Manik]

Well good luck with this, anything that increases interest in wrestling and improves the standard of it can only be good, and hopefully have the knock on effect of better wrestling in MMA. And if you add a weekend session I'll try and check it out!

[crawley_lyndon]

sweeny is a brilliant wrestler and a good coach nuts but is always up for helping you out

[crawley_lyndon]

tom from stockon is also a good wrestler hes a monster for his age aswel i couldnt believe it when we went away on a youth training camp together he looked like he was in his 30s lol

[wrestlewar]

tom from stockon is also a good wrestler hes a monster for his age aswel i couldnt believe it when we went away on a youth training camp together he looked like he was in his 30s lol

he weighs 85kg at 17 years old , i dread to think how big he's gonna get.

[crawley_lyndon]

lol hes a ripped 85kg aswel i remember rubbing it in at a comp because i got a 5 pointer in his next match he picked up this irish kid and belly to back suplexed him all over the mat hes crazy strong and has great technique

[the jabroni]

trust you to mention that, that would be an attraction for you to join, you hommo

I thought Chris would have signed up before me after viewing the video?

[mcgovern]

I thought Chris would have signed up before me after viewing the video?

lifetime membership, only if they can wrassle naked

[mcgovern]

Tom is a animal and an amazing freestyle wrestler, especially at his age! He already competes at a European level an even won a kettle at one event!
He is truely gifted athletically he could be one to watch in MMA circuits in time.

Good luck with the club.

Rich

whts up with winning a kettle, he doesent even drink hot drinks

[Herculean]

Yesterdays Herculean University Wrestling class was a huge turn out, and we got a lot of mma people training as well as students. The club has only been up and running for two weeks and already it looks like things are going well. We will be looking into a secound class every week, maybe Saturdays, due to the mma guys asking for extra wrestling! So if we continue to get a huge turn out next wednesday then I will speak to everyone about running a secound training session! Thanks to everyone who turned up and also people who are showing their support!

Next weeks class is at the earlier time of 3pm, this is due to a booking mix up so sorry for any problems this may cause! we will be in the sports hall downstairs. check the club group on facebook or the herculean site for updates on club news.

http://www.herculean.ning.com

[mcgovern]

Yesterdays Herculean University Wrestling class was a huge turn out, and we got a lot of mma people training as well as students. The club has only been up and running for two weeks and already it looks like things are going well. We will be looking into a secound class every week, maybe Saturdays, due to the mma guys asking for extra wrestling! So if we continue to get a huge turn out next wednesday then I will speak to everyone about running a secound training session! Thanks to everyone who turned up and also people who are showing their support!

Next weeks class is at the earlier time of 3pm, this is due to a booking mix up so sorry for any problems this may cause! we will be in the sports hall downstairs. check the club group on facebook or the herculean site for updates on club news.

http://www.herculean.ning.com

good news.

IM in manchester in april, il drop by for a look and train

[Herculean]

As we are a new club, I am going to arrange some fundraising activities in the next couple of months, we need to get t-shirts/training kit for our wrestlers, and funds that are needed for the clubs activities. if anyone in the mma commmunity has any ideas or if they could help in anyway please let us know!

herculeansport@googlemail.com
www.herculean.ning.com

[Herculean]

Just another quick reminder for all those interested, tommorrow's wrestling class is at earlier time of 3pm just for this week, in the big sports hall downstairs. Also joining us will be a guest british wrestler who will help show some techniques to the class.

www.herculean.ning.com
email: herculeansport@googlemail.com