JJ Howland & carolyn wester CAMP 2027
GIRLS/WOMENS CAMP
Time & Location
GIRLS/WOMENS CAMP: Jul 01, 2027, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Buzzsaw Wrestling Club, 1857 Hayden Ave, Hayden, ID 83835, USA
About the event
Jacob “JJ” Howland is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, wrestling coach, content creator, and motivational speaker known for his candid story of resilience, discipline, and recovery. Born in Virginia Beach, VA, Howland served in the Marine Corps for nearly five years, including a nine‑month deployment in Iraq. After leaving service, he struggled with addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges, eventually finding purpose through treatment, sobriety, and a return to wrestling — the sport that shaped him from youth. Today, JJ builds a 1.6M+ follower community around themes of discipline, accountability, faith, and purpose, sharing both his wins and setbacks without sugarcoating. He conducts wrestling clinics, speaks at events, and partners with brands aligned to his mission, using his lived experience to help athletes, veterans, and young people “keep showing up, take ownership, and rebuild”. His message is direct and battle‑tested: where you are doesn’t have to determine where you end up.
Carolyn Wester is the founder and head coach of Wrestling Prep and the creator of Body Leveraging and Sequential Muscle Order (SMO), proprietary coaching systems she developed in 2005 and refined over more than two decades. She entered wrestling at age 42, starting with youth athletes and progressing to coaching nationally ranked wrestlers, Olympic and World-level competitors, UFC fighters, and professional MMA athletes. Wester’s career includes chief corner coach roles for the UFC (2015–2019) and being the first woman to hold that title. She has coached over 2,000 wrestlers annually since 2010 across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and has worked with elite fighters such as Khabib Nurmagomedov, Daniel Cormier, and Luke Rockhold. Her methods are science- and math-based, focusing on optimal body positioning, leverage, and mechanics rather than fixed techniques.
BOYS/MENS CAMP
Time & Location
BOYS/MENS CAMP: Jun 30, 2027, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Buzzsaw Wrestling Club, 1857 Hayden Ave, Hayden, ID 83835, USA
About the event
Jacob “JJ” Howland is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, wrestling coach, content creator, and motivational speaker known for his candid story of resilience, discipline, and recovery. Born in Virginia Beach, VA, Howland served in the Marine Corps for nearly five years, including a nine‑month deployment in Iraq. After leaving service, he struggled with addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges, eventually finding purpose through treatment, sobriety, and a return to wrestling — the sport that shaped him from youth. Today, JJ builds a 1.6M+ follower community around themes of discipline, accountability, faith, and purpose, sharing both his wins and setbacks without sugarcoating. He conducts wrestling clinics, speaks at events, and partners with brands aligned to his mission, using his lived experience to help athletes, veterans, and young people “keep showing up, take ownership, and rebuild”. His message is direct and battle‑tested: where you are doesn’t have to determine where you end up.
Carolyn Wester is the founder and head coach of Wrestling Prep and the creator of Body Leveraging and Sequential Muscle Order (SMO), proprietary coaching systems she developed in 2005 and refined over more than two decades. She entered wrestling at age 42, starting with youth athletes and progressing to coaching nationally ranked wrestlers, Olympic and World-level competitors, UFC fighters, and professional MMA athletes. Wester’s career includes chief corner coach roles for the UFC (2015–2019) and being the first woman to hold that title. She has coached over 2,000 wrestlers annually since 2010 across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and has worked with elite fighters such as Khabib Nurmagomedov, Daniel Cormier, and Luke Rockhold. Her methods are science- and math-based, focusing on optimal body positioning, leverage, and mechanics rather than fixed techniques.