tion. You could worry a guy to death with all the information. It’s pretty easy to say, “This guy’s a right foot lead. He shoots a high crotch here and a swing single here. But if you circle to the right, you are good to go, your shot’s a good one. This is how you are going to beat this guy.” We make it really simple. What is important is I try to get this information, this scouting video, to the personal coaches and to the athletes, so they can form their own opinions on what needs to be done. Then it is a collabora- tion of what we think the athlete should be doing. Honestly, I can go back to the past and say, with Cary Kolat, you only had to scout three or four guys because he was so much better than everybody else. We have some athletes who are new to the scene and maybe we need to scout 10 opponents. There is a learning curve. But at the same time, the information we try to give them is pretty miniscule in terms of what they have to do to beat the guy.
Q: Do you watch the video with the athlete? Burnett: Yes. I try to, but some don’t like to watch it, so I work
with the personal coaches, and we watch it and talk about it. For example – Salas from Cuba. You probably don’t want to attack a lot on that guy because his counter offense is his best opportunity to score. But we do know that if you attack him and you get both legs, percentages are that you will win that posi- tion.
Q: Explain how video study and scouting gets worked
into practice plans? Burnett: This week, at the World Cup Training Camp, I have
a theme for each day. The first day will be clearing underhooks. We will put together a video of every weight class for Iran, three pushouts where they get to the underhook and push somebody out. Back-to-back-to-back. Next weight class, back-to-back-to- back. Next weight class, back-to-back-to-back. Because as a team, they all do it. It is something they concentrate on and work on. If the people reading this article went to Beat the Streets, you would see their Junior kids do it as well. If they got behind, they look immediately for the underhook and the pushout. You know they do it. First day of camp, that’s what we do. We watch the video at 8:00 a.m., we go on the mat at 9:00 a.m. and I will show six ways to score when they try to get that underhook or have that underhook. I don’t care which one they do. I am just telling them two things: stop the underhook or be able to score and clear it when they have the underhook. We have to be able to do that or we won’t do very well against Iran. We talk about finishes to your takedown. You can set a guy up, you can penetrate and get to the leg, but that is where the fight really comes in. You have to be able to finish on the good ath- letes. We work on our finishes, which is another theme for a day. I show about 10-15 minutes of video in our morning meet- ings on that theme for that day, and I am able to show them. We will go back in that morning and work on the technique the fin- ishes to our takedowns. Honestly, they don’t all do the same takedowns so one guy can be working on head-inside single fin- ishes while somebody else is working on high crotch finishes. The next week, we do a little more on their match preparation, and their individual preparation.
Q: When you get to the actual competition day, how do
you use the scouting information you have collected, and do you do any scouting on site? Burnett: There are two answers to that question. If we have somebody we haven’t seen, they brought somebody else, or they substitute their No. 2 guy that weighed in, we will watch them. We always watch them prior to. If we wrestle at 3:30 and
they wrestle at 6:00, and we face them the next day, we will have somebody have eyes on them to see if they are doing anything different. Most of the work is done before the competi- tion day. If somebody is walking out on the mat and the guy says they can’t remember if the guy gutwrenches left or right, we have our scouting notes and our stats and we say he gutwrenches left. That helps the athlete focus on that position. We don’t give them a lot of information on competition day.
Q: How young can an athlete be to regularly study video,
and how can youth and high school coaches use this tool to improve development and growth? Burnett: A good stance is a good stance. You can show them
a good stance and try to put them in a good stance. And then you can put it side-by-side in a video and say “This is a good stance. Look at your stance. What do you think about that?” Or, a sprawl versus a knee sprawl. “Are you sprawling with your hips up so the guy has more space to get underneath you, or are you dropping your hips to the mat or knees down, then hips to the mat?” So, I think, even at an early age, you can use that as a learning tool. That’s all that video is. It’s a learning tool. You can say, “When you shoot your double leg, you step in the buck- et.” What’s step in the bucket? “It means you take a step back- wards before you go forward. Watch. I will show you 10 times that you do that.” Then you show that this is how you can do it without stepping in the bucket. Let’s work on this position. Then you can video it and show the video of what he did do and what he didn’t, how he fixed the problem. Video helps you fix the problems.
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