Thank you for taking an interest in our wrestling club. USA Team Conquest is the premier wrestling club in Southern California setting the standard for excellence both on and off the wrestling mat.

We are Champion builders! And our goal is to promote the sport of wrestling by offering an enriched kids program. We are here to build your kid's character, self-esteem, self-discipline, mental awareness, and physical fitness.

It's just the greatest individual sport there is! Probably as old as man itself, wrestling is a contest to see which individual has the best techniques to take their opponent to the ground (takedown) and to try to immobilize his opponent by pinning this opponent's shoulders to the mat (fall).

Wrestling takes techinique, strength, and athletic ability. What we do at USA Team Conquest is to coach and motivate kids to do what is a very natural ability--we teach them to wrestle!

What is Folkstyle Wrestling?

Folkstyle is an American tradition! Folkstyle combines the takedown techniques of Freestyle and Greco-Roman plus the ground techniques necessary to control your opponent on the mat.  Both wrestlers, while on the ground, are encouraged to escape, reverse, and attempt to control their opponent while their opponent attempts to score technical points or attempts to pin (fall).  Folkstyle is most common in high school and college.

At USA Team Conquest, we instruct folkstyle to wrestlers who have completed and competed at least 1 year in Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

Freestyle is where contestants try to take each other down to the mat by attacking the head, body, and legs.  Freestyle is known for it's variety of takedowns and its fast pace.  Once taken down, the bottom wrestler is not required to escape, but instead, tries to prevent the top wrestler from turning his shoulder past 90 degrees.  The top wrestler only has 15 to 20 seconds to turn his opponent or else the referee will stop the match and wrestling resumes standing up (neutral position) until a wrestler is taken down.

Greco-Roman named after the style used in ancient Greece and Rome, is a style where opponents attack above the waist. It is illegal in this style to attack the legs. Greco-Roman is known for its explosive throws.  Just like Freestyle, if an opponent is taken down, the top wrestler has only 15 to 20 seconds to turn his opponent.  Unlike Freestyle, once in the par terre position,  the top wrestler cannot attack below the waist to turn his opponent.  If the top wrestler cannot turn his opponent, the match is stopped, and wrestlers resumes in the standing or neutral position.

Both styles are Olympic styles and are the basis for all other styles of wrestling. In both styles, a wrestler can win by either pinning their opponents shoulders to the mat (a fall) or by scoring more technical points than his opponent.

Registration Information

Currently, our registration for 2005 is on an individual basis.  We will be accepting new registrations May 1st, 2005 for experienced wrestlers to help prepare them for Regionals and Nationals. 
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