About Us

Cardinal Wrestling Club is a Non Profit 501-C-3 organization located in Palo Alto, CA.  CWC serves the San Francisco Bay Area and surrounding communities.  Our main goal is to promote wrestling and help local wrestlers become more competitive on a local, state, national and international level.   We offer a high level of instruction to a variety of age and skill levels.

Beginning wrestlers are instructed in the basic skills and fundamentals of wrestling. Wrestlers learn the rules of the sport and begin to learn basic techniques of wrestling.

More advanced wrestlers are taught techniques as well as tactics and strategy. Our clinics are structured around improving technique with emphasis placed on developing and working from good position, whether in on the feet or on the mat. Live wrestling is an important part of training.

The training for wrestlers preparing for State and National competition is  more intense and customized to suit the individual wrestler. Clinics are a combination of structured drilling, advanced technique, live wrestling and conditioning.

For the elite College/International athlete, clinics are combination of drilling, individual areas of concentration, tactics and strategy, advanced technique, live situations, live wrestling conditioning. This is geared to help elite wrestlers aspiring to make National, World and Olympic teams.