There are many things you should know about wrestling and what your child will need to start on the mats.

Youth Wrestling is Safe

If you are like many people, the first thing you imagine when you think of wrestling is the violent, choreographed mayhem of WWE-style professional wrestling. Forget that. The sport of wrestling has nothing to do with professional wrestling. Wrestling is a carefully refereed sport focused on grappling. There is no punching, kicking or any other type of striking allowed on the wrestling mat. Because of this, there are very few serious injuries associated with wrestling. In fact, wrestling has a much lower rate of serious injuries than sports such as football, hockey, soccer or even baseball. There are no running collisions that can cause concussions and because of the fluid nature of wrestling there are no repetitive motions that can cause major joint damage such as in baseball. Most wrestling injuries consist of sprains and strains.

What Your Child Needs to Start Wrestling

First, your child will need a team or club to wrestle and train with. Many middle schools and most high schools have wrestling teams. These teams usually hold regular afterschool practices and participate in weekly meets and tournaments. If your child is younger or his school does not have a wrestling team, you may find a local independent wrestling club.

There are several pieces of wrestling gear your child will need to practice and compete. For training, make sure he has loose fitting but not baggy exercise clothing free of metal buttons, zippers and other hard or sharp objects that can cause harm to him or other wrestlers. He will need a tight-fitting, one-piece garment known as a wrestling singlet. Many teams will provide this. He will also need youth wrestling shoes and specialized wrestling headgear to protect his head and ears. Beginning wrestlers should choose soft-shelled headgear. For additional protection, you should consider purchasing kneepads and a mouth guard.

Once, your child is enrolled in a program and has the gear he is ready to compete. Be sure to talk to his coach for anything else you will need to know. Most importantly make sure your child has fun out on the mat.

Author Bio

Jeffrey Pape is the founder and president of WrestlingGear.com. He has been involved in wrestling since joining his first team in the 4th grade. WrestlingGear.com offers a full line of wrestling gear and clothing including youth wrestling shoes and other accessories.

If you are interested, please fax a cover letter along with a one page resume to 630-832-0505. Don’t have access to a fax machine? Send it via snail mail to: WrestlingGear.Com, Ltd. 655 W. Grand Ave. Unit 140, Elmhurst, IL 60126

Marketing Co-ordinator:

• Must be pursuing a marketing degree or minor
• Help our company plan and execute its marketing programs
• Gain experience working with database marketing, catalog marketing, marketing planning, email, Search Engine optimization, blogging, social media and more
• Paid internship opportunity for this summer
• Possible extension after the summer for those attending college locally
• Flexible hours
• Pay will be $8.50 an hour

Graphic Design / Photographer / Videographer:

• Looking to hire one or more persons to fill these jobs
• Must be pursuing a degree in on of these fields
• Help us generate marketing materials including those for web, print, and video for the web
• Must have skills in Abobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Paid internship opportunity for this summer
• Possible extension after the summer for those attending college locally
• Part-time hours to fit your college schedule
• Pay will be $8.50 an hour

You can even see the photo at the end of this interview…

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While we enjoy selling wrestling shoes and wrestling gear, what we really LOVE is seeing them in action. There is no greater thrill than watching the top athletes in the sport compete against each other with big stakes on the line. This was the case as the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials exploded into the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa April 21-22. Judging by the record two-day attendance of 54,766, we’re not the only ones passionate about this sport.

There are almost too many highlights from the weekend to list. Clarissa Chun became the United States first two-time Olympian in women’s freestyle history thanks to a dramatic victory over Alyssa Lampe. Sam Hazewinkel qualified; making him the first second-generation U.S. wrestler to make it to the Olympics after his father, Dave, competed on the 1972 squad.

The emotional highlight was former gold medalist Henry Cejudo’s on mat retirement. He had promised his mother he would retire if he did not qualify. After his semifinal loss to Nick Simmons, he did just that in front of a crowd of almost 14,000. The crowd rose to its feet in appreciation of Cejudo’s career. In response, Cejudo removed his wrestling shoes (which were a pair of Nike Inflict wrestling shoes) and threw them into the stands.

Crowd is on their feet when Henry says Good Bye

After the excitement of this weekend, we are thoroughly pumped for the summer games in London. We can hardly wait to see our men and women in action. You can see the almost complete team roster here: http://themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=25022

If you’re UFC Light Heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones, there’s only one reason you’ll take a break from training: new wrestling shoes from WrestlingGear.com.

When Jones’s wrestling coach Israel Martinez reached out to us to help outfit his superstar, we jumped at the chance. Jones is arguably the most dynamic athlete in mixed martial arts today. He is capable of unleashing the most devastating array of offensive maneuvers in the sport. He has notched impressive victories over the likes of Quinton Jackson, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, Ryan Bader and Lyoto Machida.

Here, Jones takes a break from training for his April 21 match against Rashad Evans. Yes that’s our stylish logo T-shirt he’s wearing. Also pictured, you’ll see adidas AdiZero and Asics Omniflex-Pursuit These shoes are perfect shoes for a hard day out on the mat.

If you want the same wrestling shoes the champions wear,you should visit our main site for a full selection of shoes and gear. And don’t forget to watch Jon “Bones” Jones defend his title at UFC 145 April 21.

If there is enough demand for a second order, we will place a second with a cut off of approximately April 13 with an estimated delivery of May 4. However, we can’t guarantee those will arrive in time for the state tournament. Also, the price will go up at least $12 per singlet (the manufacturer is increasing the price effective 03/23/2012).

Price for the Custom Sublimated Singlet is $75.98 for the March 23 Order Only. It is a reversible sublimated. So one side will be Royal Blue the other side will be Red. This is a new type of singlet that has been around for only about a year…so you don’t need to buy two singlets for the Freesytle and Greco Season. You will be able to switch between Red and Blue as needed at tournaments.

Ideally, each team member will buy a singlet so we can look the same at tournaments on the weekend. Any questions on the singlet see your coach at practice.

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Sizes

Youth Small (40 to 60 lbs) Youth Medium (60 to 75 lbs) Youth Large (75 to 90 lbs) Adult Extra Small (90 to 110 lbs) Adult Small (110 to 130 lbs) Adult Medium (130 to 155 lbs) Adult Large (155 to 185 lbs) Adult Extra Large (185 to 225 lbs) Adult XXL (225 to 275 lbs)

Well here is your chance. You can even do all the research on IntermatWrestle for the top teams and top wrestlers. It’s easy to sign up and make your picks. Go through the rankings if you need to and write down your champs. Then select those champs and put a  point value on your pick. E.g. if you think he is going to win, put a 10 there. Then pick a wrestler you want to put a 9 point value on and so on down to the wrestler you are least confident will win the title. Many of the brackets are loaded so choose carefully.

Here is the link do to your research – IntermatWrestle College Rankings

Here is the link to enter the contest – IntermatWrestle & WrestlingGear.Com & Cradle Gear’s Pick’Em Contest

The one featured below we are doing for our youth and high school wrestling teams. By not putting Jr Cougars or Conant High School on it, we can sell it to both the Jr club members and the older high school wrestlers.

The reason we are doing it that way is because you have to order 15 each time you order. Of course you can order 24 or 36 or whatever quantity you need, as long as it’s more than 15.

We expect the high price to deter all but the most serious wrestler away from these wrestling shoes. If you have Red in your team colors, I would expect this to be one of the shoes you will consider for the “off season” and for next year’s regular season.

Here is what they are saying about the shoes on Facebook:

Albert Rojas i think there unique and stylish but i wonder how they perform on the mat

WrestlingGear.Com I am pretty sure Russell from Michigan wore these in the finals of the Big Ten Tournament. He is a four time winner of the Big Tens (only the 11th person to do that)…

Kenneth Thomson Mason Those are sweet! Will there be any other colors?

Danny Rousseau dont like them. bring back the old inflicts!!!!!

David Engstrom Yeah, kellon russell wears them all the time

Sean Atlas Small I think those are going to be the Sissy Aggressors of next season..

Evan Wright Love the old school EQT bottoms. The lace cover and colors though make them look like low end boots even if there is quality in the construction.

Javier Cardenas as GET?

Erick MtnDew Ramirez I MUST get these !

Tony TP Pritt make em in north carolina blue.

Alex Bozinovski look like syndes botto

Alex Bozinovski bottoms*

Jesse Yohn Will they have any other colors besides red?

Jesse Caldwell This is red not orange.

Victor Ontiveros ‎140$ !
I hope I can by these with stamps x). These are some bad shoes!

Adrian Spacemonkey Hernandez make em purple and id get em!

Nancy Geraci Are they orage or red? Hard to tell in the picture

Ali Proctor I wish my skool color was orange I would get these

Tom Toth What colors do they come in?

Ali Proctor I hope they make more in different color’s

Ryan Nell make em Orange and black

James Deleon i want those

Alex Orosco black and gold

Tom Toth Purple white gold

WrestlingGear.Com There is a black and gold of the regular adizero…can’t see that being a future color…

Ryan Nell that’s one more thing that I can add to my list on why I like Nikes better haha

Sam Rieder These r beastly!!!!!!!

Aaron Allen how abnout a black and yelow in these

Ryan Nell thats true but you can customize them

Rook Kassabaum can i get these in white and bule

Erik Schroeder DIIIRRTTTYYY

Oliver King can you make the white parts black???

Albert Rojas I want these !!!!!

Benjamin Bertelsman Finally, those are BA

Congrats to our winners of our survey. Each person won their choice of wrestling shoes. Contact WrestlingGear.Com to claim your prize. Sheri Reese of Ohio and Julius Rock of Washington. Congrats you won your choice of any in stock wrestling shoe we have.

Take our 5 Minute Survey for a Chance to Win a Pair of Wrestling Shoes

Who says nothing in life is free? Well you have a free chance to win a pair of wrestling shoes. One person will be selected to win their choice of in stock wrestling shoes or a shoe that is featured in this survey. Some limitations may apply (our attorney says we need to put that in here).

New update to the survey – if we hit 500 responses we will award three pairs of wrestling shoes. Tell your friends about the survey and that they can check out all the shoes for 2012-2013 wrestling season.

A brief summary of the new shoes for next year include two new high end shoes from Asics and adidas wrestling. New colors of the Aggressor and Dan Gable Ultimate 2 and adizero’s. Completely new shoes including the Response III, Split Second 9, Cael V5.0′s and more. And possibly the biggest departure from what Asics normally puts out there is their Split Second 9 shoes that are coming out in colors like Grape, Pink, Camo and more. Be sure to download the pdf flyer. Since this information is so new, we have not had a chance to make it look as pretty as we’d like, but you will see all the new shoes though for 2012 – 2013 wrestling season.

All you have to do is download our most recent pdf of all the current year wrestling shoes we plan to offer for the 2012 – 2013 wrestling season. We plan on offering most shoes from Asics, adidas and Nike this year (like always).

If you already know what shoes you plan on wearing you can skip this step. adidas did just announce all their wrestling shoes for the 2012 – 2013 wrestling season. So be sure to download the pdf if you have not seen them.

First Step:

Download – New Wrestling Shoes for 2012 – 2013 See all the Current Wrestling shoes on our site. There are tons of photos of the returning Nike, adidas and Asics wrestling shoes on WrestlingGear.Com too

Second Step:
Take our Survey – it will take about 5 minutes to complete once you know what shoes you are looking at for next wrestling season.

Third Step:

Tell a friend or post a link to this blog post on your Twitter or Facebook or MySpace account. Remember if we hit 500 responses we will award 3 pairs of wrestling shoes.