Life University Head Coach;
2021 NAIA National Championship;
2021 USA Wrestling Magazine Coach of the Year;
2021 NAIA Coach of the Year;
2019 and 2021 Life University Coach of the Year;
Has coached:
5 NAIA Champions;
14 NAIA Finalists;
31 All Americans;
55 National Qualifiers;
Grandview University Assistant Coach from 2012 to 2016;
while there, he coached:
15 NWCA All Americans;
12 NAIA National Champions;
19 NAIA All Americans;
Coast Guard Academy Assistant Coach from 2014 to 2015;
2 NWCA All Americans;
2 NCAA Qualifiers;
1 All AmericanThis video takes a deep dive into top and neutral position techniques that can be chained together to make amazing and effective drills for your team. This system is great for any coach wanting to develop a strong foundation to develop dominant mat skills for their team in an efficient, effective manner.
Coach Acosta starts off teaching an effective tilt that breaks down each small detail of the move to ensure you know exactly how to replicate it. This goes for all the following techniques in this video as well.
Once this tilt is explained and demonstrated, Coach Acosta then shows you how to score, counter, and to get back to it when standing. This leads into other techniques such as the ball and chain, hand fighting, collar ties, takedowns, and back to follow up tilts.
The editing of this video is top notch that circles the demonstrators and zooms in to ensure the viewer gets all the information needed. The video also ties all these segments into a good flow drill to chain the techniques together to help you understand the dynamic power of Coach Acosta’s Top and Neutral Position system.
If you feel you would like to add a more fluid structure to your training program or would like to experiment with a new segment for a seminar or camp, this video is for you regardless of skill level.
49 minutes. 2023.
