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Training The Parents with Mike Foca & Donny DeFilippis
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 01:03:36
Publish Date: 2025-10-31 14:31:35
Description:

Gene Zannetti talks with coaches Mike Foca and Donny DeFilippis about why parents need to step back and let coaches do their job, the dangers of club hopping, and why customer-is-always-right doesn't apply to wrestling coaching.


Timestamps:

1:43 - The difficulty of coaching your own child

12:28 - What parents should do when entering your room

14:10 - Parents can't let go of their kids

19:38 - Parents proving coaches wrong instead of kids proving themselves

21:46 - Stop chasing kids and begging them to stay

25:11 - Private lessons vs practice room development

32:03 - Academy and military discipline in coaching

40:28 - Club hopping destroys consistency and coachability


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