The End of a Crazy Year...

It has been on hell of a roller coaster year for Scientific Wrestling. We started the year with a great training camp in San Diego but little did we know it would be the last one we'd have with our beloved Head Coach of seven years, Billy Robinson. Billy passed away peacefully in his sleep at the very end of February. It was a crushing loss for me personally and my family. The roller coaster didn't stop there though. Serendipitously, the record-breaking legendary champion wrestler (and coach of champions) Wade "Ace of Pinning" Schalles stepped up to takeover Head Coaching duties for our highly acclaimed training camp. I was nervous but Wade really exceeded all expectations and we had absolutely amazing training camps in New Jersey, England (with Bellator fighter James Thompson in attendance) and Salt Lake City (at Jeremy Horn's MMA gym). Additionally, our people held King of Catch Wrestling Tournaments and did exceptionally well in grappling and MMA competitions (scroll down and read earlier blog entries for details, photos, videos, etc.) 2014 has been a roller coaster year and we are looking forward to an epic 2015. We are re-launching the Scientific Wrestling website (our design hasn't changed since 2006!) with our new logo and much more in 2015, so stay tuned and thank you for your support!!



1) HELP US RAISE AWARENESS OF CATCH-AS-CATCH_CAN IN MIXED MARTIAL ARTS Help us get more catch wrestling on the big stage of MMA. We've created our Pinisher campaign to help wrestlers realize that they already know submissions by making simple tweaks to some common pinning combinations! Please help us raise awareness for catch-as-catch-can in mixed martial arts, grappling and amateur wrestling.

Please CLICK the link, pledge to support us and then PLEASE SHARE! We only need 32 more folks to pledge their support and it costs ABSOLUTELY nothing more to support us than just a few clicks of a mouse!! Thank you!



2) *NEW* PINISHER DVD PRE-SALE ENDS TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT Learn from legendary Scientific Wrestling head coach, champion of champions AND coach of champions Wade Schalles how to pin AND submit your opponent, all at the same time! pinisher /pin·ish·er/ noun A portmanteau of the words "pin", "punish" and "finisher". A pinisher is a wrestling hold that exhibits the ultimate in control over an opponent, esp. in catch-as-catch-can wrestling where players can win via pin or submission; pinishers accomplish both simultaneously. Pinishers include such moves such as the Spladle, Banana Splits, Wrestler's Guillotine (aka "The Twister), etc. Click here to grab your discounted copy while you can!



3) Give the gift of GREATNESS this holiday! FEBRUARY TRAINING CAMP IN SUNNY SAN DIEGO Want a great excuse to escape the cold and start off 2015 learning to takedown, pin and submit from the best in the business? Wade Schalles is arguably one of the greatest pinners to EVER live. Insofar as pinning is relevant to catch, Wade is perhaps our tribe's greatest asset yet. He is renowned for his pins that are also submissions (i.e., Pinishers), like the spladle (which he invented for pete's sake). Further, he was introduced to wrestling at the YMCA during a time where catch was practiced there (he tells the anecdote about his introduction to wrestling better than I) but is where his entire "legal pain" approach originated. Additionally he has world champion experience in submissions via sambo and judo. Suffice it to say, these alone should be relevant to anyone that *actually* wants to succeed in our sport (wrestling to pin or submit). We've fine tuned our curriculum to take what we're taught with our other Head Coaches (Billy Robinson and Dick Cardinal) and integrated Wade's world record breaking insights into our highly acclaimed 3 day Training Camps. Also Billy Robinson's hand-pick Asst. Coaches (Sam Kressin, Ricky Lazaro, Jesse Marez, Luis Ojeda, and myself) will be on-hand too! I think it is fair to say that Wade's grappling learning curve is better than many, if not most. We had arguably one of the greatest catch wrestlers in Billy add to our submission curriculum and now one of the greatest champion grapplers (and coach of champions) is here to make our people the best pinners possible. Our camp teaches submission the Billy Robinson way, pins the Wade Schalles way and our takedowns and wrestling is a mixture of the best from both! JOIN US! ***Special pricing available for Mil/LEO and we have awesome group discounts (for groups of 3 or more attending the same level together). Email me at [email protected] for details.



4) SUPPORT JOSH BARNETT'S CALIFORNIA CATCH WRESTLING ASSOCIATION Catch wrestling bad-ass Josh Barnett is holding a Catch Wrestling test tournament this December 21st at Brea High School (Southern California) to kick off the formation of his California Catch Wrestling Association. Their expressed goal is "to bring the sport of Catch Wrestling back to the public eyes and back people back on to the mats as another addition to the existing styles of amateur wrestling (Folkstyle/Freestyle/Greco-Roman)". Join their Facebook Group here.



5) THE NEXT KING OF CATCH WRESTLING TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED! West Coast King of Catch Wrestling Tournament
Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 10:00am - 3:30pm in PST
SAN YSIDRO HIGH SCHOOL - San Ysidro, CA Join the Facebook event here.



6) ARTICLES OF INTEREST The Bulldog Choke: Catch Wrestling Renaissance The All Time Best 5 Submissions In MMA / UFC Purring