Just pick when you want your kid to peak. Because one in 10,000 will be a stud at 6 and still at 16. I agree with choice, but I don't believe ANY 5-6 year old can handle 50-100 matches a year that some are doing now and not lose the "passion" by the time they are 16-18. I get all the "not my kid stuff", and maybe I am wrong, but "My kid" was "that kid". And he was not turned loose until 8 not 5/6. Looking back I wish I would have let him go at 10-11.
I am just trying provide some perspective that I am not sure I even would have listened to at that time.
Here is my advise. Get with someone you trust in wrestling. Put together a plan of gains your kid needs to make to jump to each age group. There are clear differences in what wins at 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and HS. Even more at you look to college. Focus on those goals and how to accomplish them and still have balance and FUN and the titles will come if they are meant to be.
As a parent of a kid who has won 20 state titles, has lost one match at a state tournament since he was 9 years old, has placed AA at 22 different national tournaments, and won 6 of them...We are now looking for ways for him to treat wrestling like he did when he was 5/6. Be careful what you create and wish for.
JMO I am done with this topic. Tell me to stick it if you want. Just trying to save people from their own ambition. Wrestling has changed our families lives in a great way. I just wish I had listened when I had a young one.
Thanks!
