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

[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........

[phil flynn]

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

ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!