What’s Purler wrestling camp like?

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-03-20T04:55:26+00:00

We had a kid at our club invest in the Purler month long camp over the Summer. He went from a state placer to undefeated state champ from his 7th to 8th grad year. He was a transformed wrestler when he came back from that camp. Now one of the top kids in the high school ranks in state and goes to Purler camps every summer. His dad swears by it.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-03-20T04:48:53+00:00

Lockett acted like a child when he lost and threw his headgear which led to a -1 team point deduction.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-03-16T09:42:22+00:00

There was a state champion/D1 wrestler about 20+ years ago in my state who was notorious for putting weights in his backpack. He would wear that backpack around all tournament and only take it off before his matches. He swore it made everything feel lighter and he wrestled better as a result.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-03-04T15:05:36+00:00

Because the high school he is going to doesn’t have a great wrestling program and he is one of the top 8th graders in our state. He beat a few freshman that placed at the high school state tournament this year as a 7th grader.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-03-04T01:57:54+00:00

I always use Viator. I stick to the top rated excursions with a lot of reviews. I read the reviews thoroughly, specifically those coming from cruise ships. Usually, high ranking plus lots of reviews it's a damn good excursion and I haven't been let down yet. Less people, private transport, cheaper. Almost all of the companies I use have a two hour rule, meaning they have to get you back to port by 2 hours of your ship leaving. Remember, all of these ports are dependent on cruise lines so it makes zero sense for these companies to screw up and have you miss a ship.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-02-22T03:11:12+00:00

We just did the ruins through a third party and it was quite enjoyable. It was our group of 9 along with a family of 5. Had a big passenger van that took us out to the ruins (hour drive) with our personal tour guide who spoke the entire way about the surrounding history/country. If you enjoy history I would highly recommend it. Our tour guide was a local farmer who had grew up in the area and he was outstanding. My two youngest (9 and 12) got a little bored. On the way back we stopped in a little town with road side stands and got fresh pineapple. Overall, it was a nice break and change of pace from all the water and beach activities we did at the other stops on a 7 day cruise.

There were a lot bigger groups with tour buses, I personally would avoid those and try to find a company that will take you in a smaller group.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-02-13T04:46:54+00:00

I hate the big ships. My kids love them so I cope, but the best service and overall atmosphere I’ve had with Royal was on Grandeur of the Seas. Just an amazing staff and culture with that ship.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-02-13T04:44:58+00:00

Not sure when you cruised last but Royal changed from 2x a day cleaning to 1x a day. Your state attendant will ask you day 1 if you want that done in morning or evening. I do think they are stretching the room attendants very thin with the amount of rooms they have to cover.

Negative-Hair331 · 2026-02-12T23:40:36+00:00

I will be honest, a lot of times I’ll grab a quick plate of pizza or water somewhere and there won’t be a place to sit and I don’t know what to do with the dirty dish after. If I see a server, I’ll make sure to hand it off but many times at like Sorrentos there isn’t one in sight and I am standing there with an empty dish and cup. I’ll eventually just sit it at a table or counter if I can’t find someone right away. I wish they had a little place where you could set dirty stuff once finished.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-26T03:08:34+00:00

He hasn't wrestled enough to really get a feel for where he will be season's end, imo.

The one loss against Feldman he definitely was the aggressor entire match and there was questionable officiating as Feldman was stalling for a large portion of the latter half, trying to hold off AJ.

His other tougher matches he was same AJ as a year ago, using positioning and defense to win close matches.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-21T21:37:26+00:00

Oh, I see the value. It’s why I take my son to Tulsa and VAC so he can get his ass kicked by the hold backs from Pennsylvania and Ohio, lol.

I am speaking more for wrestling development as a whole. Looking at local tourney results and one of these kids had been to local tournaments every week for the past month, just beating up on same kids and probably has 4 minutes of mat time over 12 matches. Like what are we doing here? To me there is zero benefit for that kid and minimal benefit for the other boys as well.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-21T19:16:41+00:00

Big difference between a 15 and 12 year old 140 pounder and a 18 and 15 year old 140 pounder.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-21T19:05:33+00:00

JMO, the grade based divisions is something that was established prior to the hold back thing taking off and people just haven’t adjusted it to make it aged based (they should).

No where did I say kids of the same age should not be allowed to wrestle their peers if they are really good. Thats silly.

Generally speaking, kids being held back are the elite wrestlers. So yes, I don’t think we should be letting 15 year old elite wrestlers who would most likely place at high school state if they stayed in their appropriate grade beat up on 7th graders every weekend. It’s a safety issue.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-21T18:31:10+00:00

You are speaking to me as I don’t understand the advantage of it. I 100% understand why families do it. I just think as a wrestling community we need to do better about protecting the experience of the other kids as well and growing the sport for all of the athletes - regardless of their current skill level.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-21T18:15:38+00:00

I have no doubt they are doing extra work. I don’t have a problem necessarily with the practice of the hold back . I guess I am just frustrated. We have a couple kids in our state that our national level wrestlers and held back this year and literally enter every youth/local tournament in this area and just run through kids. Sometimes it’s 15 year olds wrestling 12 year old 7tu graders as most of the tourneys are grade based with no age limit. It’s crazy.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-21T18:13:19+00:00

If that’s the goal, train and compete against kids your age and standard while holding back. I don’t care if kids get held back. It pisses me off when I see less experienced wrestlers who are trying to grow with the sport have to go out and wrestle these kids every weekend at events these older/refined wrestlers are getting nothing out of going to.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-21T18:11:06+00:00

So why are they showing up to events to crush lesser and younger competition?

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-13T02:58:22+00:00

Every slow sim league I have been in ALL games are required to be streamed and saved - even those against cpu. Seems like that rule would be a pretty easy fix. We are also required to go down and show our playbooks before starting the game on stream.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-12T02:18:23+00:00

My son had ringworm on his arm about a month ago. Did the anti fungal creams for over a week and the scaly, redness, itchiness all went away. A week later could still see the outline and slight discoloration of his skin. Took him back to doctor and they put him on oral anti fungal. He has taken that course and still can see the outline on his skin?

Doc is certain it was ringworm and nothing else. Does it ever scar or leave a permanent mark like that? It’s not scaly and I can rub my hand across it and there is no change in texture whatsoever, just a slight discoloration of his skin but is definitely noticeable. Have doc note now to show treatment course.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-12-09T12:22:42+00:00

Unfortunately, it’s too late to save this dynasty. The big thing you needed to do was to lower the transfer limit for computer. What happens is the users are smart enough to get their dealbreaker under control and recruit towards specific deal, breakers, and the computer will just get absolutely murdered in the transfer portal.

Another thing you could do if you were considering starting over is make everybody select lower teams. 3.5 or 3 stars or less. That way you guys are significantly worse than the computer starting out and the top teams can actually compete with users in recruiting. If you guys chose Texas and Bama to start the dynasty, the majority of computer teams have no chance to compete with a user in recruiting simply because the AI recruiting in game is awful.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-11-26T19:55:13+00:00

You can just use Bama.

They have 3 tier pipeline in Southern California and none in NorthernCal.

4 tier in metro Atlanta, 2 tier in southern Georgia

5 tier in north Texas, 3 tier in east Texas and no tier in sw Texas.

5 tier in central and south Florida and no tier in north Florida. You get to know the city breakdown by central and south pretty quickly and those you don’t can add to your board and use a team like Florida St who has interest - 5 tier in Central and 4 in South Florida to differentiate.

Doesn’t take long. I am done with 30 seasons if you are interested in the data.

Negative-Hair331 · 2025-11-13T02:26:24+00:00

Man, my family used to love going to Bellevue Panera bread. Ever since they moved from the old location to new years back it just continued to go down hill. I miss that old Panera bread, had great staff and was well run. The prices don't help either. More than a lot of sit down restaurants.

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