Yefim Toybin - Friend of Mine and the Best Wrestling Coach. by Warren Applegate

When it comes to athletics, hardly any sports can be as tough and competitive as wrestling. This competitive happening happened to be one of the world's first, showing up in every culture around the world in many variations. Any sport needs a great deal of discipline and respect, although accounting for all the sports a lot of mentors will agree that wrestling is perhaps the most gruelingly challenging in relation to personal discipline. To flourish in this physical pursuit, at any level, the person must be not merely hearty of body and mind, but of character, as well.

Yefim Toybin's expertise about freestyle wrestling is at a world class standing and he originally received a degree in Civil Engineering from the Soviet Union. Afterwards, Yefim Toybin earned a Master's Degree for the Coaching of Wrestling from the State Central Institute of Physical Culture ( currently known as the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism). The USSR has dominated the international types of wrestling for the last forty years. Yefim Toybin has been teaching teenage males ages fifteen to sixteen from the Cadet Freestyle Wrestling Team level in Moscow while they toured The U. S. In the Soviet Union Schools of Sport the students are personally mentored by the same coach from starting at age 10 through age 18. Each year, the most outstanding competitors in each sport are assembled at the national and local camp for training. Mr. Toybin served as a freestyle wrestling coach at a huge number of these training camps.

Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Mr. Toybin immigrated with his family to the city of Phoenix in Arizona. Here he has worked admirably to build not just a career for himself, but a life of helping others by sharing his unique personal strengths with the local junior athletic competitors.

Even more than his freestyle wrestling technical skills, Yefim Toybin stands as an expert in warm up exercises as well as sports games, that make wrestling practices quite a lot less monotonous to junior wrestlers. Throughout the past three years, Yefim Toybin has served as freestyle coach atfor Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale. Yefim's coaching proved to be an integral part of Shane McGough's development as a freestyle wrestling athlete. Shane finished fifth weighing 125 pounds in the Asics Junior National Freestyle Wrestling Championships in Fargo, North Dakota in July 2009.

His experience with of the Russian two on one and Front Headlock series is phenomenal. These two series have enabled Russian wrestlers to remainbe the highest ranked atat international championships on a regular basis. His approach to coaching is quite optimistic and motivational in nature with all of his athletes. That is exactly why his athletes adore Yefim Toybin's coaching and everyone I have personally talked with is grateful to have Yefim Toybin as the school's coach. This is a big part of what fills me with pride to callhim my friend.