Ask Cael: Question: I am a longtime fan and wrestler and now train with Ricky Lundell and Brandon Guzzo at the throwdown gym in Orem. I would love to findout more information for your clinics as I am an old man starting to compete again in the world of grappling….

Story Published Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Question: I am a longtime fan and wrestler and now train with Ricky Lundell and Brandon Guzzo at the throwdown gym in Orem.  I would love to findout more information for your clinics as I am an old man starting to compete again in the world of grappling….

We are getting more and more requests to run grappling camps and are looking into it.  Ricky and I have been working together on creating a grappling school.  I am organizing the takedown and wrestling curriculum while Ricky, being a 3x submission grappling world champion, is creating the submission and jiu jitsu portion.  That should be ready probably next Spring or Summer I would guess.  If you are training with Ricky and Guzzo now I think you are in a pretty amazing training situation.  Ricky is by far the best jui jitsu grappler I have ever seen.  Ricky also spent last year at Iowa State training and learning wrestling, so he knows what he’s doing.

We will very likely host a grappling clinic or camp next summer at Penn State.  We don’t have it set yet but are working on it.  You will be able to find info on our PSU camps on my site and also at this address.  http://www.outreach.psu.edu/psu-sport-camps/Wrestling/

We will get the site updated soon.

Thanks

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