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Wrestle4Fun Gets an Update

Saturday, July 15, 2023 - 10:36 By United World Wrestling Press

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(VEVEY, Switzerland) July 15 –- The Wrestle4Fun programme has recently been updated on the UWW Academy platform. Wrestle4Fun is a physical education based curriculum that includes many activities and games to introduce the sport of wrestling to children. The programme can be used in physical education classes at schools or at local clubs.   

Wrestle4Fun is developmentally appropriate for all age levels and designed to support girls’ and boys’ physical literacy journey.  Wrestle4Fun has 5-stages based on different developmental levels.  Each stage has 15 lessons.  In total, there are 75 lessons with over 200 games and activities.

“As part of UWW sustainable future for our community, it was our duty to provide a programme to introduce wrestling to children and youth. Wrestle4Fun is key and fundamental toolkit for schools and clubs to implement wrestling worldwide as we pursue the growth of our beloved sport.” – UWW President Nenad Lalovic

The entire Wrestle4Fun programme was updated on the Academy platform.  The recent updates included making the lessons online more user-friendly, adding videos of all the games and activities into the lessons, and downloadable PDF’s that include links to the videos.    

The UWW Academy can found at https://academy.uww.org/. The Academy is an online learning portal designed to provide information, tools and resources to support and develop wrestling.  To access all the content including the Wrestle4Fun programme, please go to the website and create your free account. 

Development

Evaluation of Holds course now on the UWW Academy

Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 11:48 By United World Wrestling Press

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COSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (February 13) --- The Development Department and Referee Commission launched their 2nd course centered around the rules of Olympic wrestling and refereeing.  The course is entitled Evaluation of Holds and can be found on the UWW Academy.  Participants will learn how the score is determined for various actions.  During the course, they will focus on the 3 questions that referees must ask when an action occurs. The answers to those questions often determine the points that would be scored for an action.  The course will also examine other scoring situations such as takedowns and correct holds.  However, those topics will be covered in more detail in future courses.

The Evaluation of Holds course will begin with background information and the rules which include video examples.  Then the course will provide 10 specific video examples along with explanations.  Next the participants will practice their video analysis with 10 videos.  The course will finish with a 15-video quiz.  This is the same format as the Attack vs Counterattack course.

The UWW Academy is the official educational platform for United World Wrestling.  There are numerous courses on coaching, referees, rules, sports administration and beach wrestling.  There are also additional resources, performance analysis metrics from major UWW events, videos, and the Wrestle4Fun curriculum.  The Academy is free and available to all participants.

To get started and create your free profile, please visit  https://academy.uww.org/.