yesterday we had a dual meet with a turkish sport school.  i am going to list the results as to the best of my ability.

round 1 mat 1

yasin bolat vs. alex tsirtisis 1-1. 5-0 bolat

bekir demirtes vs. mark perry 1-3. 3-1. 1-0 demirtes

sabahattin gotez vs. david copp 6-0. fall gotez

musa gurbuz vs. ryan morningstar 2-2. 0-5. 2-1 gubuz

muharrem dundar vs. jon shellenberger 3-0. 6-0 dundar

vgur kabutegi vs. landis wright 4-0. 2-4. 0-2. wright

yasir sen vs. shad rissler 2-3. 1-0. 1-0 sen

sadin bakir vs. josh deadrick 5-0. 2-0 bakir

sakir bozkurt vs. jared villers 3-0. 0-1. 1-0 bozkurt

hamit hamituglu vs. paul hartt fall hartt

bekir demirtas vs. matt kocher 1-0. 4-3 demirtas

round 2 mat 1

yasin bolat vs. tsirtsis 1-0. 1-0 bolat

ramazan guter vs. perry fall perry

musa gurbuz vs. morningstar 2-1. 3-0 gurbuz

dundar vs. shellenberger 7-0. fall dundar

vgur kabutegi vs. landis wright 6-2. fall wright

yasir sen vs. shad rissler 5-3. 3-0

sadin bakir vs. deadrick 7-0. 7-4

sakir bozkust vs. villers 1-1 fall villers

round 1 mat 2

usa vs. turkey

obe blanc vs. demir 1-4. 1-1 demir

shawn mosely vs. hakki 6-0. 7-1 hakki

marc bennett vs. teufik 0-4. 0-6 teufik

minga batsuka vs. ahmet 0-1. 2-0. 1-1 batsuka

keith gavin vs. eahan 2-5. 1-0. 3-1 gavin

jayk cobb vs. yakup 0-6. 0-4 yakup

nic miragliuolo vs. helil 1-3. 1-1 fall miragliuolo

derek harrison vs. ertegrul 0-1 3-0 ertegrul

matt fields vs. omer 1-0. disq. (punched fields) fields

jeremie cook vs. teufik 2-0. 0-2. 0-5. teufik

kurt brenner vs. muhamet 4-1. 5-3 brenner

I do not have a second round record for mat 2

Today we trained with the same team at their facility and our guys wrestled very well.  the match ups at the duals were in their favor for most of the matches.  they held a 2, 3 or 4 kg advantage.  during todays practice we were able to get better matchups which gave our guys some better results.  they trained technique with the team for over an hour and a half.  then they wrestled matches with their partners.  our guys learned some great things throughout the practice.  the turks have very good frontheadlock offense and def.  some of our guys took time after the workout to learn the offense and defense to these positions.

tonight we are leaving Istanbul and driving by motor coach to bulgaria.  it should be a 5 or 6 hour bus ride so we have decided to leave at 3 am so that we have more time in varna, bulgaria to train tomorrow.

i will try and update on tomorrows trip and any results once we get settled in varna.

teague