Ask Cael: Question: I know u are still doing the iowa camps but are you doing the the penn state too? And which ones or all of them?

Story Published Monday, May 25th, 2009

Question: I know u are still doing the iowa camps but are you doing the the penn state too? And which ones or all of them?

Yes I will be working all of the Cael Sanderson Iowa State Camps and all of the Penn State camps. I am responsible for both sets of camps. It will be a busy month for me but I am commited to putting quality time into all of the camps. The Iowa State camps actually start a week earlier then the Penn State camps so I will be in Ames the first week and then I will travel back to Penn State the second week. I will be back and forth a few times. We will have excellent staffs at both camps. I will be at each camp and the camps will be top notch. I take great pride in producing a premier camp and this year will be exactly the same. With the struggling economy camp numbers are down around the country, yet the numbers on our 10 and 21 day camps are up. The numbers are up because we work really hard to make sure our campers get more then they expect. We have a system and our campers get better. We don’t just throw a bunch of random technique at them and think they will pick something up. We teach and rehearse the important things that win the big matches. When our campers go home they will take these skills with them. We work hard but we don’t focus that much on conditioning because we understand that kids will lose that with in a few weeks after the camp ends. We teach them how to train, how to think, and what to work on technically. There are not better camps in the country.

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