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Session 1: June 8-12 (Ages 13-18) - Spec Ops Camp - High Intensity Training and Conditioning - Boarder Only
- Check-in Sunday, June 7
Session 2: June 15-19 (Ages 10-18) - Technique Camp
- Check-in Sunday, June 14
**Registration Opens Monday, December 1**
Registration Fee: $1,150-Boarder (Session 1 )$1,000-Boarder, $700-Commuter (Session 2);
**Early-Bird registration ends January 31; Late Registration May 12-23 with a $25 late fee**
**Registration Closes May 23**
**Boarders must be 12 years of age or older**
Attention Wrestlers:
Be confident that your decision to take this opportunity to learn and develop your wrestling skills and abilities will expose you to top level wrestling technique, strategies and tactics. As you know, wrestling is a very physical and emotional sport that challenges your strength, speed, skill, stamina, agility and of course mental toughness. Wrestling teaches individuals a great deal about themselves; in fact, it has been said that many life's lessons are learned in a wrestling room!
Our camp is a proven resource to help develop competitors in each area mentioned above. The training regimen campers will follow on a daily basis has been developed under our coaching staff's leadership and guidance. AF wrestling has implemented a wrestling system from the ground up and our coaching staff will offer campers the opportunity to study the combative and systematic style of wrestling used by our AF athletes. All sessions are held in the newly renovated wrestling facility, home to the AFA Wrestling team.
The staff, including our featured guest clinicians and AF Cadet counselors, will guide each camper towards mastering the skills we teach as well as help them grow with our off the mat "Character and Integrity" training sessions. The camp's outstanding staff, staff to student ratios, and access to all of the academy's outstanding athletic facilities makes the AF Wrestling Camp an obvious choice for parents and wrestlers alike. This year's camp staff will consist of state champions, Asics All-Americans, Junior National Champions, NCAA Champions and All-Americans, World and Olympic Team Members.
Session 1 Details: Spec Ops - High Intensity Training and Conditioning Camp
"Spec Ops" is the elite operations unit within the United States Air Force. These men are specially trained to handle situations that most others would shy away from. They are always ready to answer the call of duty. This is the attitude in which we base our summer "Spec Ops" training camp. This camp will offer a chance for wrestlers to challenge themselves on the wrestling mat, and off of it as well. We will train in the perfect environment, at the base of the Rocky Mountains. You can expect to learn valuable wrestling technique from the nation's best coaches and wrestlers. You will be pushed physically during morning Spec Ops style training run by current and former Air Force Special Operations. You will test yourself in live wrestling with your peers. Lastly, you will gain knowledge in the Air Force core values of integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do during the Personal Leadership 101 classes.
The camp will have three training sessions a day except for Friday. Friday is a half day with the camp completion recognition program beginning at approximately 10:30am in the wrestling room. The campers will be free to leave immediately following the ceremony. A typical day in the Spec Ops camp is listed below:
The emphasis of the Session 1-Spec Ops camp is on total development of the student-athlete. Campers are expected to come to this camp in shape and ready to work hard! This camp is not designed for beginner or novice wrestlers. Three or more years of wrestling experience highly encouraged for attendance.
Session 2: Technique Camp
During the AF Wrestling Technique camp, you will learn from some of the best minds in wrestling! This camp will focus on the breakdown of winning techniques taught by NCAA All-Americans, Olympic level coaches and AFA Cadets. For a sample schedule of each session please see below.
| Session 1 - Sample Daily Schedule "Spec Ops" | |
| 6:10-7:00am | Spec Ops Training/Physical Training |
| 7:00-8:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:30am-12:00pm | Technique Sessions |
| 12:30-1:15pm | Lunch |
| 2:00-4:00pm | Drill & Live Wrestling (Sessions taught progressively) |
| 4:30-6:30pm | Dinner / Recovery |
| 6:30-7:30pm | Personal Leadership 101 |
| Session 2 - Sample Daily Schedule | |
| 8:30am-10:30am | Technique (Sessions taught progressively) |
| 10:45am-12:15pm | Cross Training (Stanley Canyon, Aquatics, OTC) |
| 12:30pm-1:15pm | Lunch |
| 1:45pm-3:45pm | Technique (Sessions taught progressively) |
| 3:45pm-4:00pm | Daily Review / Questions and Answers session |
| 4:00pm-4:15pm | Commuter parents meet their athlete Outside the Field House or at the Wrestling Room - Boarders Return to Dorms |
Workout gear should include t-shirt, shorts (preferred) or wrestling singlet, wrestling or tennis court type shoes, running shoes and a water bottle. Optional equipment would include: headgear/ear guard, kneepads and mouthpiece. Campers should bring enough gear for four training sessions per day plus a good pair of running shoes to run up Stanley Canyon (weather dependent).
Please note, that we will not know the size and experience level of campers until the camp begins, this is important information to consider for heavyweights and light weight wrestlers under 100lbs.
Again, thank you for considering the AF Wrestling Camps this summer. We are confident it will be a rewarding experience for parents and wrestlers. Our goal is to contribute to your wrestling success, mental toughness and strong character!
Sam Barber
AF Head Wrestling Coach
@AF_Wrestle
In accordance with NCAA guidelines, all AF Sports Camps are open to any and all entrants, limited only by specified number, age grade level and/or gender of its participants.
