One Day on the Mat. The Rest of Your Lives Off It.
A one-day father-son wrestling and strength and conditioning camp at Father Ryan High School in Nashville. You and your son. Six hours of work. Shared language for every practice, every match, every conversation that comes after.
$297 per pair. Capped at 15 pairs.
Six hours. One full day. Nashville, TN.
Three camps run. Pairs from 6+ states.
June 20, 2026 — 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Register NowEvery Dad Who Comes In Has the Same Question.
How do I help my kid?
Some of these dads wrestled in high school or college. Some never wrestled a day in their lives. Some played football, some played nothing. A few are experienced wrestling coaches. Most aren't.
What they all share is what brought them to camp. They want a good day with their son. They want to learn enough to actually help between practices. They want to stop watching from the bleachers feeling like they're missing something. They want to know what good looks like, what to encourage, and what to leave alone.
The Father-Son Camp is built for that.
It's not a clinic for advanced coaches. It's not a place to figure out if your kid is good enough. It's a day where you and your son work together, learn the same framework, build shared language, and walk out with something you can use the next day and every day after.
By the end of camp you have what most parents in wrestling never get. You can see what's happening on the mat. You can spot the difference between hard work and good work. You can correct without nagging. You can encourage without sounding clueless. Your son sees that you know what he's doing now, and that changes everything about how he trains.
Here's How the Day Runs.
Opening
The Game Plan
A short talk before we step on the mat. I lay out the wrestling framework we're going to install that day. What good wrestling actually trains. What most kids are missing. What the dads should be watching for during the session.
Session 1
Wrestling
Three hours on the mat. We warm up together. We drill the techniques and positions that win matches at every level. I install the framework I use with my own sons. The fathers learn what to look for and how to coach the right principles. The sons drill it under coaching eyes the whole time.
Lunch
One Hour
Real break. Eat together. Talk about what you just learned. Ask questions.
Session 2
Strength and Conditioning
Three hours implementing the same S&C system I use to build state champions. Programming, movement coaching, and the standards every wrestler should be hitting at his age and weight. The fathers leave knowing how to train this at home with the equipment they already have.
Close
What You Take Home
Before we end, I send everyone home with the materials. The wrestling framework. The S&C standards. The drills and the standards. Your son keeps training. You keep coaching. The day doesn't end when you leave Father Ryan.
The Coach's Eye for Dads.
SHARED LANGUAGE
You and your son leave speaking the same wrestling language. The same names for the same positions. The same framework for what's working and what isn't. The conversations after practice get sharper, faster, and more useful.
THE WRESTLING FRAMEWORK
The same wrestling framework I install with my own sons and with Ayla. Position concepts, scoring principles, and what good wrestling actually looks like. Not technique-of-the-week. The structural understanding that makes every technique make sense.
THE S&C SYSTEM
The strength and conditioning system that built two Tennessee state champions and a U17 World silver medalist. Movement standards, programming framework, and exactly what to do at home with a barbell, a pull-up bar, and a box.
THE COACH'S EYE
The single most important thing dads leave with. The ability to watch their son train and actually see what's happening. What's working, what's breaking down, and what to say (and what to stop saying). This is what twenty years of coaching gives me. We share as much of it as we can in one day.
Three Camps. Six States. The Pairs Keep Coming Back.
We've run three Father-Son Camps so far. Around eight pairs each. Pairs have come from Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, and South Dakota.
Some pairs come once and use what they learned for years. Others come back and bring friends. The thing every camp has in common is the bus ride home. The dad and son talk on the way home in a way they never did before. That's not in any brochure. That's the camp.
Photos from past Father-Son Camps
The Quotes.
Thank you for all your advice. Your program has allowed Corbin to hit techniques against kids he couldn't in the past. It's allowing him to hold and advance position. I'm so grateful for all your knowledge, it's really giving Corbin the confidence to reach his personal best.
Craig Lorek
Father-Son Camp
Dane thank you so much for the opportunity yesterday to train alongside the boys. We would not trade it for the world. We have been talking about yesterday nonstop!
Jose Arriola
2x Father-Son Camp Attendee
More testimonials being added as camps continue.
Honestly, Is This for You?
Right Fit
Your son is between ages 8 and 18
You want a real experience together, not a spectator afternoon
You're willing to work, sweat, and try things you've never done
You want to walk out knowing how to help your son between practices
You're okay being a beginner for a day. Most of the dads are.
You can travel to Nashville for the day
Not Right Fit
Your son is younger than 8
You want to drop him off and watch from the side
You're looking for a clinic for advanced wrestlers only
You expect to be turned into a wrestling coach in six hours
You're not willing to work alongside your son
You can't make it to Nashville on a camp date
Common Questions.
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Who You're Working With.
I'm Dane Whitted. I've been coaching wrestling since 2008. I'm a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA CSCS), a National CrossFit Champion, a US Army combat veteran, and a NASM Certified Fitness Trainer.
The athletes I'm known for are my own. Andrew and Alexander, my twin sons, are multi-time Tennessee state champions. Ayla Sahin, who trains with me remotely from Germany, won silver at the U17 World Championships last year.
Father-Son Camps are the work I love most. The wrestling framework I install with my own boys is the same one I install at camp. The S&C system that built two state champions is the same system I teach the dads. Six hours together with your son is one of the best uses of a day I know of in this sport.
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA CSCS)
- National CrossFit Champion
- US Army Combat Veteran
- NASM Certified Fitness Trainer
- CrossFit Level 2 Trainer
- Coaching wrestling since 2008
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Register Now.
The next Father-Son Camp is June 20, 2026. Spots are capped at 15 pairs. Registration is open now.
If you read this page and felt the pull, register now. Spots fill before the date gets close.