The Autistic Yogi Reflects on the Journey to Teach Stretching & Conditioning to High School Wrestlers

So I was hired twice a week to help a local high school wrestling team to address ROM (Range of Motion) issues, aka stretching.  So having never witnessed a practice I went to observe them practice and I can say that watching them has me excited to work with these athletes and to give them the form of yoga that I have been personally practicing which combines both dynamic and static stretching. And I am far more excited to learn more about giving movement to these athletes that serves their sport.
Some of the things that came to my mind while watching them:

1. Gospel cues/cookie cutter yoga postures just will not work for the intense demand these athletes need. 
2. This is partner stretching of the most extreme kind. Wrestling makes me think that both people are the stretch therapist attempting to gain the upper hand and be the master of the stretch of their opponent/client.
3. The goal is to make these athletes supple in their joints, to not sacrifice strength for flexibility and not sacrifice flexibility for strength.
4. The demand of wrestling is extreme and in many instances excessive, these athletes need the highest grade of coaches that can be obtained. 
5. The stresses on the joints of the athletes is extreme and there are tons of movements that they have to commonly do that would be contraindicated by most of the gospel cue yoga teachers out there (example, the demand that shoulder stand be practiced with a supporting prop under the shoulders to execute).
6. There must be an intelligent method of pre-workout stretches versus post-workout stretches that will facilitate better neural/muscular responses over the career and lifespan of the athlete.
7. Many injuries could be prevented with intelligent conditioning of the athletes. Finding the balance between self drills & skills and partner drills & skills will be the challenge. And will most likely be different for each athlete.
8. Assessments of each athlete should be done often so that I as a ROM movement coach can better serve each athlete. What things are working and what things are not working? 
9. I believe that I am studying the right materials to offer a well balanced ROM program to these athletes and I need to continue to find more great minds out there that have spent years tackling best practices and adopt philosophies and training methods as it becomes a skill that I am capable of offering athletes at appropriate times, and honor those whom have given me skills by crediting them where due. Simon Borg-Olivier, Scott Sonnon, Christopher Sommers
10. This is going to be an exciting journey in developing bonds with other coaches and with athletes. My hopes is to be able to intelligently modify my instructions to best serve the whole group and become a valued participant that is continually welcomed back each training season.

Time to get researching more about how to give an appropriate yoga'esque program to high school wrestlers and how to be an important faculty member of the coaching team.

If your a wrestling coach or athlete and have any input or resources that can help me to better serve the team I am part of please comment :)