Submission Wrestling

Roy Wood has predominately remained in Wigan producing champions for Aspull Olympic Wrestling Club Roy has also taught abroad in Japan and has in fact coached in Japan and took a team of his wrestlers.  During his 11 visits he has coached for one of the biggest companies in the world namely New Japan.

He has also taught for SWS (the main type of wrestling Roy Wood taught in Japan is Lancashire Wrestling (this is what old Riley Wrestling was) also known as Catch as Catch Can. This style of wrestling is very similar to submission fighting which is becoming more and more popular in both the U.S.A and England.  Roy has had many invitations from all over the World just recently from Switzerland to attend with Shamrock (Shamrock is also known World-wide).

Not only Roy does the travelling for Aspull Olympic Wrestling Club we have had many of our Teams travel to represent our club for example

• Neil Maxwell - Switzerland
• Paul Strigeon - Chicago
• Bill Robinson - Japan
• Karl Gotch - America