Your opinion on beating up on white belts

[Big Nasty Edison]

I'm an assistant coach for a high school wrestling program in a weaker state for wrestling who only had 1 NCAA qualifier from that state All but one of my kids right now are equivalent to white or low blue belts at best
I've learned/developed several approaches to it
1. Going live - don't say much beyond "keep going", "fight off your back" etc, the lower belts need to be going live not talking or learning technique
- the caveat to this is that how hard I go depends on who I'm going with, if it's a first year or JV kid I just play around with things and occasionally let them score if they do it properly, against my regular starters I go harder but usually don't completely destroy them, my returning state placer at 220... who has 35 pounds of muscle on his coach who's out of shape with a bad knee (yours truly), and destroys everyone else on the team. Then I go all out
2. Drilling is when I actually help

I'm an assistant coach for a high school wrestling program in a weaker state for wrestling who only had 1 NCAA qualifier from that state All but one of my kids right now are equivalent to white or low blue belts at best
I've learned/developed several approaches to it
1. Going live - don't say much beyond "keep going", "fight off your back" etc, the lower belts need to be going live not talking or learning technique
- the caveat to this is that how hard I go depends on who I'm going with, if it's a first year or JV kid I just play around with things and occasionally let them score if they do it properly, against my regular starters I go harder but usually don't completely destroy them, my returning state placer at 220... who has 35 pounds of muscle on his coach who's out of shape with a bad knee (yours truly), and destroys everyone else on the team. Then I go all out
2. Drilling is when I actually help

If the newbie sparring mantra "keep going" and "don't stop" could be trademarked we'd be rich men!

 

[jack36767]

If the newbie sparring mantra "keep going" and "don't stop" could be trademarked we'd be rich men!

For sure

 

[Codger]

Newbie whites get an easy roll, some tips and me playing defence, letting them get position and capitalising on big errors. However there are some athletic whites who can kick the shit out of me so obviously I have to go hard with them or get tapped. Those guys get cheered especially loudly at grading up time!