Wrestling athletes training challenges (watch) - prevention exercises

The Wrestling Athletes Training Challenges (WATCH) project is based on the interdisciplinary approach and its aim is to focus on the area of "protecting athletes - especially the youngest - from health and safety hazards by improving training and competition conditions" while is focusing on a European grass-root sport, the wrestling. The main goal of WATCH project is to create an open educational innovative approach for wrestling injury prevention strategies while fostering regulation skills for weight control related to wrestlers, providing key techniques for the modern wrestling athletes and exercise experts (wrestling trainers, athletic trainers, physiotherapists etc.) Therefore, the objectives of the WATCH project are to: Identify the most common wrestling injuries and the proposed injury prevention strategies. Identify the necessity of weight control counselling skills and incorporate them in wrestling injury prevention project. Design and develop the open WATCH course with multimedia content to support athletes' and coaches' understanding about the injury prevention strategies and weight control counselling skills. Create the WATCH community through the open educational course promoting open access, equity and quality. The WATCH project will make use of the technology in a way to both intrigue wrestling athletes from early ages to middle ones to interest and to disseminate the program in all Europe, through an open course with multimedia materials. The principle goal of the Web Platform will be to provide multimedia material containing learning and assessment tools suitable for wrestling athletes, athletic trainers, coaches, trainers, sport physiotherapists and public, as well as to guide them on how to integrate these strategies in their daily training processes.