European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 14.1988 the stars and stripes Page 23 Usa eur wrestling clinic Grapp ers get advice from fhe Seoul Brothers Bijj com Saunders staff writer Darmstadt Wisl Germany the russians Trust us. Believe it. One or the most respected Amateur wrestling officials in the world Vince Zuaro says the russians Trust us More than they do some of their fellow Easl bloc neighbors. Zuaro along with Floyd Winter both of whom attended the 1988 Seoul games As members of the . Wrestling Contin gent Are in Darmstadt to conduct the Usa eur wrestling clinic at Cambrai Frisch Cavern. This year they re delivering a message from inc Seoul integrity. The clinic which is hosting approximately _80  coaches and  1 tiers started tues Day and is to wind Down with two Days of a rustling. Free style matches will Slan at 4 . Fri Day and Greco roman matches Are set to begin Al 10 . Saturday. This year marks1 the 12th clinic the duo has held to Zuaro a Cher in usar eur. Zuaro who has a doctorate in educational administration is inc senior member of the act. This is his 15lh clinic. Because they be travelled and instructed so much inc incr and because of their re cell return from Seoul. South Korea one clinic attendee referred to them As he Seoul or others. People like to kid Floyd and i about us being an acl Zuaro joked. We re Here As a team for lie 12th time. But the first three years i was Here Floyd was Here As a Soldier and he was wrestling. Attic program was just getting off the ground then in 1973. It had about 20 people in All including  Zuaro recalled. Now it s  Zuaro knows about growing Al inc Seoul games where he was  he saw the Downside to the wrestling where the maturity of the Spon was re Ducco to infancy. Poor decisions Bias by officials and Overall poor behaviour blemished wrestling s respectability la was then Zuaro decided that a message had to be delivered. The message is integrity. We found that there was a Lack of integrity Al inc olympics. Not  wrestling but in boxing. Even in tac Kwon do there were matches we should pc won that we did t. Integrity and ethics. For instance the russians would rather have us referee their matches than have the bulgarians. They know they la gel a fair shake from us he said alluding 10 several instances of inc Cretian South Korea s questionable verdicts notably. The major message Here is that two wrongs Don t make a right he said. We have to implant that message. We do have carryover from Usa eur in our National  Seoul was the third olympics for Zuaro who is considered one of the world s top Amateur officials he is As signed by fila inc International Ama Leur wrestling federation As rules Clini Cian for the Western hemisphere and is inc . Wrestling National rules Clini Cian. Besides the three olympics he hits officiated at 16 world championships. Al the clinic he addressed Rule changes Wilh coaches and officials Young and old. Tony Wickham of Mannheim at Floyd Winter demonstrates a reverse lift using Malm s James slept Tenn for an opponent during Wojac Day s Secund Day so ssh. Tended the clinic As coach for the 21st support coins. Wickham is one of the new Guys. He sees a lot of benefits from inc clinic. I m Here to learn Aboul the rules and regulations How Points arc scored and How the referees will treat us. Little things. Like moves to teach my Guys. A lot of wrestlers we gel some arc real Good Haven t wrestled freestyle or sonic Haven t wrestled Greco. Or if they have it has been limited said Wickham. One of the old Guys is Burhan lira Kim a former International Greco wrestler who coaches inc Ascham Boi Kurl Wenburg wrestlers. It was his seventh clinic. Whal would someone Wilh his wrestling background expect to get out of in clinic Don t know. It s too Early to Tell he said. Mainz s Charles Grimm has 20 years experience in coaching and officiating. He says the clinic is invaluable. I m learning a lot. Doctor Zuaro of fers a lot of new insight. Just talking Aboul the olympics and the mistakes made. 1 like it. Winter was the assistant coach of the . Greco roman team a position he also held in inc 19s4 games in los an Eck s. He worked with the approximately 40 wrestlers at the clinic. My objective is to Leach inc techniques and skills of International Wres  explained Winter. For Winter inc trip to Europe is a stroll Down memory Lane. I always enjoy coming Over Here he said. He is assigned to fort Campbell by. I was involved in the wrestling program Here in the 70s in  among this year s clinic attendees were Usa eur champions Roger Herrera of a Schaffenburg 220 class curl Lon. Pease of Kirch guns l98 class and Dennis  of haunt Iolder 136 class. Bui the clinic was t geared to just the big names James St Pleton of Mainz was impressed Wilh How Winter accommodated everyone. This is a great refresher. It gets your mind into the set Pluton wrestling season. You also get to see what everyone is wrestling like he said. The most important thing though is thai Winter teaches everybody. Lie docs l just go Over moves Wilh the Good Guys he shows  sle Lelon who has been wrestling since elementary school about 15 years Tost to Kaiserslautern s Leslie Lewis last year in Usa eur s 165-Pound final. Zuaro and Winter also look time to talk Aboul the . Wrestling program a pro Gram that is trying to fight off lie grip of an Eastern bloc Headlock a hold that Ren dered the . Virtually fight less in this year s olympics. The olympic freestyle learn hyped to be one of the strongest Ever a Cal to Seoul eyeing four Gold medals but came away with Only two golds a Silver and two bronzes. The Greco roman team managed just a Bronze. What s wrong Winter does t have the answer but says it has a lot to do Wilh numbers. We just Don l have a great number of wrestlers and coaches. Winter explained. The . Has Iso full Lime Greco wrestlers. The soviets have 400,000. We have less than 10 full Lime Greco coaches. The soviets have 5.000." though the numbers sound grim. Winter in t Aboul to throw in the Towel. He even sounded optimistic when he said we Are getting  his optimism might be thanks to a new internal ional Rule change planned to be in effect Jan. I. 1989, which i Juht allow . Wrestlers to reverse the head lock. A five Psi null period will take inc place of inc current system of two three minute Peri ods. The new Rule is l Efrese some thing Zuaro feels is Likely to even things up. Probably inc greatest advantage we have is Llic conditioning our Al lets co through. We re in belter condition. The proof of that is the number of matches we win in the later periods Zuaro said. Not everyone s keen on the change. A lot of wrestlers won t be Able to wrestle fur five straight i nulls said Dennis do frees of Baum older who is Usa eur freestyle and Greco Champi on in inc 149 class. Nol every wrestler is that dedicated. They re pan timers. They do their soldiering during the week train when they can and wrestle for five i nulls on the  Winter though fell confident Hal the five minute period would work at least on the International scale. Overall it will help the . Against the europeans he said of in International affect. Aboul the soldiers he said the wrestlers will be Able to  photos by Tracy Tanner