Ben Askren

Fargo Par Terre Preparation Class

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After Fargo this year we have made a decision to add a little freestyle into our fall curriculum.  That being said we don’t feel as though par terre work is applicable to everyone so we have added an extra par terre specific class.

When: Every Tuesday and Thursday from Sept 13- Nov 10 from 7:40-8:10.  This practice will run for 30 minutes after the other practice.

Who: This class only has 16 spots and is only for wrestlers who intend to go to Fargo(Cadet and Junior Nationals) or Schoolboy USAW Freestyle/Greco nationals.

Where: AWA Lake Country

Coach:  John Mesenbrink

We feel as though this will help our wrestlers be better prepared for Fargo next year because this is the preeminent national tournament for HS level wrestlers.

Price $125

Sign Up: https://askrenbros.wufoo.com/forms/fall-par-terre-class/

Ben Askren

Fall Hammer Camp

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The idea for the Hammer Camp is to bring together a group of high level wrestlers all around the same size and give them a challenging weekend and a lot of live wrestling! For this first camp we want wrestlers from 8th-12th grade and 120-170lbs. This ensures all wrestlers will have a lot of good partners.

Coach Pat McNamara(3x AA at Michigan St and Ben and Max’s college coach) will be running most of the sessions and bringing a crew of his kids from Edwardsville, IL!

Dates and Schedule:

September 17th
Session 1 – 9am-11am
Session 2 – 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Session 3 – 6pm – 8pm
September 18th
Session 4 – 9:30am-11:30am

Who: 8th-12th graders from 125-160lbs. We are looking for state place winner type wrestlers.

Location: AWA Lake Country 596 North Shore Dr. Hartland, WI

Focus: The focus of this camp will be getting high level wrestlers quality coaching and great competition.

Price: $125

Capacity: This is limited to 36 wrestlers.

Register: https://askrenbros.wufoo.com/forms/2016-fall-hammer-camp/

Ben Askren

AWA Fall Camp with Brian Smith

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AWA is so excited to announce that we are hosting Legendary Mizzou Wrestling Coach Brian Smith for our fall camp.  Coach Smith was the Head Coach for AWA coaches Max and Ben Askren and Josh Wagner.  Coach Smith has led the Tigers to 5 NCAA top 10 performances and was the 2007 WIN magazine Coach of the Year!

When: October 1st and 2nd- 9:00am-12:30pm both days

Where: Saturday Oct 1- AWA North Shore

Sunday Oct 2- AWA Lake Country

What: Coach Smith will be teaching the Tigerstyle system that has made Mizzou a consistent powerhouse the last 10 years.

Ages: 9 and up

Cost:  AWA Members will have the option to chose 1 of the days or both.  Cost is $40 for 1 day or $75 for both.  Year members will be free as always, but we would ask that you respect the space and only sign up for the day(s) you plan on coming for.  For non AWA members the cost will be $100 for both days.

 

Sign up:  https://askrenbros.wufoo.com/forms/awa-fall-camp-with-brian-smith/

Ben Askren

AWA Adds 4 falls clinicians!

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AWA is proud to announce the addition of 4 clinicians for its fall classes, 2 of whom are NCAA Division 2 Champions!  AWA continues of hiring only the best wrestling technicians and people of high character to teach at AWA.    The additions this fall are Ryan Woods, Jordan Newman, Raufeon Stots and Nick Becker.

 

Woods, originally from Bay Port wrestled his college career at UW-Parkside.  After graduating from Parkside Woods coached for 2 seasons at UW-Whitewater before moving on to the professional world.  Woods currently works at Midwest Insurance and has helped out at AWA this summer.

Newman who wrestled from AWA and St. John’s military academy currently wrestles for UW-Whitewater where he has 2 years of eligibility left.  In 2015 Newman made All-American status at the NCAA Div. 3 tournament.  Newman has also has All-Americaned twice at the UWW Juniors and University levels!  Newman has helped out as an AWA summer camp counselor the last 2 years.

Stots a 2x National Champion at University of Nebraska Kearney in 2012 and 2013 is now training as a Mixed Martial Artist.  Stots is currently 6-0 and one of the hottest Bantamweight(135lb) prospects in the World.  This will be Stots’ first time helping at AWA.

Becker who currently wrestles at UW Parkside has 2 years of eligibility left completed his Sophomore campaign undefeated with a National Title!  Becker went 42-0 and defeated Minnesota State’s Adam Cooling 9-3 in the NCAA Finals.  Becker attended AWA in high school, but this will be his first time helping out.

AWA is also staffed by John Mesenbrink, Max and Ben Askren, Josh Wagner, Cade Sarbacker and Mason Baumgartner!

 

Ben Askren

2016 AWA Annual Pig Roast

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Hey guys time for the annual pig roast here is the full information.

When: Sunday August 14th at 3:00pm until whenever everyone wants to go home.

Where: Sussex Village Park at the Main Shelter

Who: Any and hopefully every AWA Member

What: Awesome Pig Roast by Jeff Armstrong and Awesome Music by Chicken Truck(Coach Sarbacker’s dads band)

What you need to bring: We will provide all food plus water.  If you want any other beverages please bring those and also any fun recreational games you may have.

Thanks

Ben Askren

AWA Fall Ninjas in Training

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Hope everyone had a good summer, time to get back on the mats for the little ones.  Our ninjas in training program has been our intro class for a long time, this fall there are two changes.

  1. We are expanding our reach and will host classes in Western WI(New Lisbon/Mauston) and the Green Bay area(Bay Port/Lux Casco)
  2.  We are expanding the age range from 5-9 to 5-11 years old.  We felt like this was the best for newer 10-11 year olds.  However we are still allowing and would recommend more experienced 10-11 year olds to join our other classes.

With that being said here are the locations and their corresponding dates.

  1. AWA Lake Country- Sept 7- Dec 21(Thanksgiving Week off)
  2. AWA North Shore- Sept 7- Dec 21(Thanksgiving Week off)
  3. Western WI Sept 7- Nov 9 (Mauston- Wednesday and New Lisbon-Sunday)
  4. Green Bay Area Sept 7- Nov 9 (Bay Port HS-Wednesday and Lux Casco- Sunday)

We will be having the same time for all locations

Wednesday- 6-7 pm

Sunday 4-5 pm

All Locations are limited to 35 spots so please sign up soon.

Cost- AWA locations- $225(14 weeks- This is more expensive that usual but it is also an extra month as compared to the length we have been doing in the past.)

Green Bay and Western WI- $150( 9 weeks)

Sign Up: Click Here

Ben Askren

Fall 2x per week class

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We started this class last fall and it was a big hit, we are back again.  Our 2x a week program allows kids who play other sports or who are not able to commit to 4x per week to still come and get some awesome training.

Here are the locations.

  1. AWA Lake Country
  2. AWA North Shore
  3. Western WI(Mauston- Wednesday and New Lisbon- Sunday)
  4. Green Bay Area(Bay Port- Wednesday and Lux Casco- Sunday)

Ages- 10-18 years old(No exceptions)

All sites will run Sept 7- Nov 9 and all sites will host practice Wednesday at 7-8:30pm and Sunday 5-6:30pm.  These practices will be all folk style training and have an emphasis on getting kids technically prepared for the season.

Price: $225

Sign Up: Click Here

Ben Askren

AWA Satellite Sites

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Great news everyone!  We are expanding to serve a greater portion of Wisconsin this fall.  AWA will be hosting satellite sites in Western Wisconsin and the Green Bay area.  In Western Wisconsin Mauston and New Lisbon will host and in Green Bay Area Bay Port and Lux Casco will play host.  It gives us great joy to be able to spread our passion for the sport of wrestling around the state.

Green Bay Area

Locations: Wednesday- Bay Port HS and Sunday- Lux Casco HS

Dates: Sept 7- Nov 9

Classes

Ninjas in Training(5-11 Year olds)- Wednesday-6-7pm Sunday 4-5pm

MS and HS Training(10-18 Year olds)- Wednesday 7-8:30pm Sunday 5-6:30pm

*10 and 11 year olds have option to chose either class.  We would recommend the ninjas in training for newer athletes.

Coaches: Josh Wagner and Nate Arquinego

Price: Ninjas in Training- $150 MS and HS- $225

Sign up: Ninjas          MS and HS

Western WI

Locations: Wednesday- Mauston and Sunday- New Lisbon

Mauston- Talon Training Center 134 east state st

New Lisbon- Silver Star Training Center- 201 Leer St

Dates: Sept 7- Nov 9

Classes

Ninjas in Training(5-11 Year olds)- Wednesday-6-7pm Sunday 4-5pm

MS and HS Training(10-18 Year olds)- Wednesday 7-8:30pm Sunday 5-6:30pm

*10 and 11 year olds have option to chose either class.  We would recommend the ninjas in training for newer athletes.

Coaches: Andrew Crone and Cole Martin

Price: Ninjas in Training- $150 MS and HS- $225

Sign Up:   Ninjas       MS and HS

Ben Askren

Spring High School AWA information

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Hey everyone it is tournament time so that means it is about time for wrestlers to come back to AWA, we have been getting a lot of email inquiries about what we are doing this spring so here it is!

 

AWA Lake Country(Hartland)- 596 North Shore Dr

Elite Class- 4x a week- Freestyle Focus

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday- 6:00-7:30pm

Wednesday 7:30-9:00pm

Class Starts Monday March 7th

Open House- March 6th 5:30-7:00pm***

***This is strongly recommended for new members to AWA, you will get a chance to ask questions and get signed up the day before classes start.

Our elite class is our original class and will run the entire off season for HS kids, you can sign up for 3 months, 6 months or 1 year.  3 months is the minimum commitment because we have found that when kids do shorter memberships than that they are more of a disruption to the class rather than a benefit.  Also because we run this as a team format we do not allow any partial memberships because it slows down the flow of the class.

2x a week class- SOLD OUT

Since we have started offering the 1x and 2x a week classes they have been a real hit, we are going to offer one this spring also.  This spring’s 2x a week class will have a Folkstyle focus, we have never offered a Folkstyle class in the spring but it has been often requested.

Class Starts March 15th runs until May 19th

Grades 9-12

Folkstyle focus

Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30-9:00pm

Cost: $225- $200 for first 10 sign ups

Sign Up: https://askrenbros.wufoo.com/forms/spring-hs-2x-a-week-class/

AWA North Shore(Mequon)- 6000 W Executive Dr

Elite Class- 4x a week- Freestyle Focus

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday- 7:30-9:00pm

Sunday 2:00-3:30pm

Class Starts Monday March 7th

Open House- March 6th 5:30-7:00pm***

***This is strongly recommended for new members to AWA, you will get a chance to ask questions and get signed up the day before classes start.

Our elite class is our original class and will run the entire off season for HS kids, you can sign up for 3 months, 6 months or 1 year.  3 months is the minimum commitment because we have found that when kids do shorter memberships than that they are more of a disruption to the class rather than a benefit.  Also because we run this as a team format we do not allow any partial memberships because it slows down the flow of the class.