I would say a lot of it has to do with kids doing other sports. With a club of over 100 kids we don't get a ton either and most of our parents that have expressed interest in it just can't juggle that with baseball and/or soccer.
I don't believe it has anything to do with the length of our folkstyle season, the kids that want and can wrestle year round are going to do it. Many of the kids have been juggling 2-3 sports for the last month and others stay committed to 1 but as soon as wrestling is over they go straight to the diamond or pitch.
When most of us older adults played sports we played 1 sport at a time and when it was done we then went to another, now kids are juggling multiple at once because we feel that if we don't do a sport year round they will never be great.
I have also always thought that a lot of it has to do with the amount of "rural" clubs we have in KS. If you don't live around one of the larger cities in the state people just aren't going to be involved.
All that said we have had around 40 area kids at each of our freestyle sessions so far this season and we will keep promoting it. I hope it stays that way but I also understand why many are not in there.
