Who
Battle Wrestling Club (“BWC”) is located in Tallahassee, Fl and is owned and operated by Coach Dale Jackson. Dale has a lifetime of experience in the sport of wrestling and has coached at all levels, from Youth to High School, and competed at The Ohio State University under Hall of Fame coach/athlete Russ Hellickson.
The club currently calls the wrestling room of the Chiles High School Timberwolves home.
Coaches
Brad Hoard
Brad started wrestling in 1982 at North Davie MS in North Carolina. He was a 4 year varsity wrestler at Lincoln High School and wrestled 1 year for Campbell University. Brad was the Head Coach for Lincoln High School in the 1991-1992 season before leaving the sport for some years. In 2007, Brad joined the coaching staff at Chiles High School as an assistant coach. Brad has coached multiple region champions and state placers both boys and girls. Brad specializes in utilizing height and leverage from all positions of wrestling. His coaching style is hard-nosed with a strong focus on details and persistence. He demands a lot from his athletes, and they grow to love the extra push they receive from him.
Brad is also the No Gi Wrestling Coach at Higher Performance Jiu Jitsu.
Kyle McGill
Kyle was a 3x State Qualifier, a 2x state placer, and capped off his high school career with a 30-0 record and winning Chiles High School’s first state championship. While in High school Kyle was also a 2x Disney dual All American with a record of 21-0 at the tournament, 3x first team all big bend, 2x Big Bend WOY . Kyle wrestled 2 and a half season at Reinhardt University where in his short time made the starting lineup and was one match away from the National Tournament. Kyle brings a skill set and experience to help bring wrestlers to the next level.
Garrett Marschka
Garrett is a 4 year varsity letterman from Tallahassee Chiles High School. During his high school career, he obtained 177 career varsity wins: a Chiles High and Leon County Schools record. Along with multiple individual tournament championships, Garrett was Chiles High’s first 4 x State Qualifier, a 2x District Champ, 2x 1st Team All Big Bend wrestler, and a Regional Champ. Garrett brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to pass along to the youth of our area.
What
BWC is focused on providing an environment where kids can learn about the sport of wrestling through a fun yet challenging environment. It is our hope that the club can provide an avenue for youth, middle school and high school athletes to gain additional technical experience as well as an opportunity to compete and train with athletes from all around on a regular basis and as a supplement to their normal structured practice and/or training program.
We promote the combination of strong character, responsibility and respect with hard work and lots of fun.
Why
As life long wrestlers we found that the sport taught us many things that have helped us in our day to day lives, both personally and professionally. As the club name suggests, there is focus on learning how to “battle” through challenge and adversity. The sport of wrestling quickly introduces its athletes to many challenging concepts in a way that can be used to help an athletes understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses. Athletes will learn that, in the wrestling room at BWC, most things aren’t given to you and that you will have to work hard for your successes. One of the best aspects of the sport is that there is much opportunity for each and every athlete to find success on the mat, either through wins and losses or through the achievment of personal goals that may be unrelated to the win/loss column.
How
At BWC we work hard to combine hard work with lots of fun. We aim to provide ample technical guidance, but not at the expense of having a good time. Most practice sessions will consist of a 30 minute period of warm up, technique and drilling, followed by 30 minutes of wrestling and wrestling related games and fun.
Advanced private technique or workout sessions are available and will be held outside the regular practice schedule.
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