 I've been coaching at the University of Michigan for four years and prior to that I wrestled in college at the University of Michigan. I used to be a Florida guy and actually was friends with Mike Palazzo in high school. We were from the same grade, knew each other outside of high school. After college I competed and wrestled in the U.S. and internationally for about five years and then I opened a wrestling club in Chicago in an area of over 10 schools. Very similar to the layout here. We trained all of our age groups here around, folk style, free style. I love working with younger age groups as well as the college age. I'm going to work some of my front up out here in short elementary positions for you guys. We don't have a lot of time so I'm going to try to move pretty quick. I'm going to try to get through about four or five positions. Really focused on learning how to win that position. I was very fortunate. I started to really learn this position and have a great appreciation for it. Actually right after college I had a lot of success with it. High school and college where I started to really learn a position after college. I was training at Foxcatcher. Training with Dave Schultz for about two years off and on at the camps. He was my size so I wanted to wrestle a lot. He was a tremendous self-prone outlock in short offense series. I was very fortunate to pick that up. For me I always try to pass down to the other age groups. I think it's an important position. I think too at high school you're starting to see a trend too. You guys have probably seen a lot of your opponent sometimes different points of match to a wrestling down on one knee. You either start a match or win your space. Maybe they're on a pocket down on a knee. You've got to be able to crack that head. You've got to be able to create that gap. Put pressure on him. You're probably going to have to attack that head to get to his legs or create some offense. We're just going to spend time working right in the position. You guys have been wrestling for a while so there's a lot of different ways to get there. Off your snap downs or off their shot. We're all that guy who's got some down on a knee. We're just going to start in a position and we'll start with basically a certain sequence. I want you to think about it. You've got to have an attack in the position. There's a lot of ways to score from a front head and short offense. A lot of ways to get to their legs. A lot of ways to put them in their back. But you've got to have an attack in the position. Guys that don't have a lot of success there they hold them way up front. They kind of catch the position or snap and then hold. They give a guy time to get a good shrunk base. They're chewing up their elbows. They're sprained and angled themselves. You don't want to do that. You've got to have an attacking position. One thing you want to think about. A lot of times your short position is going to start at the base of that neck. But eventually I want to move my shoulder to the side I'm attacking. I want to kind of have this guy trade an angle so I can get to his leg. Get back side out of the score. So think about when you start in this position showing on the base of that neck I want to keep that hand on the chin. I want to keep that elbow really short. I want to keep that elbow high. But as I start to attack the position I'm going to bounce this guy and try to create an angle. I want to slide my shoulder on the base of that neck and shoulder to shoulder. Hard to get around. Hard to get a good angle with my back and my shoulder. Not his back. I'm going to create that angle. Arms are short. Because I bounce this guy a lot of times it comes from my hips. It's like a level change from the mat. A little bit of timing to it. As I bounce that guy it's going to swim down, keep that weight on his hands the elbow, head. Ideally I want to get him on the elbow and on his forehead. I'm going to keep a lot of weight on this arm. In order to get here I got to keep this arm. Right? So a quick bounce. Watch how I slide my shoulder on that bounce. I'm shoulder to shoulder with. I'm going to leave my shoulder here when I get it. Bounce like that shoulder. I'm trying to get back so I can put a hamstring. Okay? Elbow stays down. Up that ham, we're going on this hamstring. Head right around the slide. Shift my weight forward. Bring this elbow down the other side. Try not to want to hit the bell. Rest a little bit. I want to keep this. Driving this head away. I turn my hips so I can run everything forward. Run this guy into the mat. Okay? Get to a riding position. Okay? It's a timing. I'm going to put his head where my knee was. I'm changing levels with my hips. My arms go through a lot of moving here. Shorten up that back elbow so we can't get too bad of arms. Okay? They take one or two. I'm trying to get that angle and get back side. Get that hamstring. Shoulder is so important. Again. Again. Of course, I don't stay here. This is when guys can kind of wrestle into you and start to turn in here. Come up up. Come up off those hands. I want to choose I can get that hamstring. I want to shift those hips. Get my toes in the right direction. Keep that person down in the head. Okay? Get into that. Get to your riding position. Okay? I'll make three stars. Make three stars in here. Three star post I'll probably be able to court you. But I don't want to do right when I get here. I don't want to stay on this knee. I want to be able to close. Okay? You want to close here? Okay. Don't drop this knee. You got weight. Drive it those way. Run that guy to the mat. Okay? Question? Uh, it's for this first position. Okay, go.