The chance to learn from a wrestling luminary was enough for Kalani High senior Megan Yamaguchi to give up her weekend.

Yamaguchi and about 75 other wrestlers took to the mat the past three days for the 10th Annual Fall Wrestling Clinic at Moanalua High School.

The four-day clinic, which concludes with today's session from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., features U.S. women's national team head coach Terry Steiner.

Steiner, who won an NCAA championship at the University of Iowa in 1993, has headed the U.S. women's program since 2003 and produced several Olympic medalists and world champions, including Kapolei's Clarissa Chun, who won a world title in 2008.

"Every day has been something different; he's shown us so many different moves," said Yamaguchi, who was the state runner-up at 120 pounds last season. "The way that he coaches and the way that he teaches, it seems like there should be no way that you can't finish a move or not get the shot that you want. It's been really interesting."

Twelve-year-old Teshiya Alo, who has about a dozen national wrestling titles, was the youngest participant at yesterday's session.

"It's been awesome because I've learned a lot of new moves," Alo said. "When we get used to the techniques, then he has us spar to make sure we've got it and if we don't, he makes us do it over and over again."

Steiner said he hopes to instill a solid foundation, which the young grapplers can build upon.

"I'm not big on flashy or fancy stuff," Steiner said. "Basic wrestling is what wins matches and that's really what we're trying to cover. You don't really want to overload them with too much — it's only 12 hours of clinic — so you can't throw everything at them."

It's an approach appreciated by Punahou senior Jordan Ng.

"The clinic has been very educational and what I like about it is it teaches the basics and really reinforces them," said Ng, who placed second in the state last year at 108 pounds.

Despite a hectic travel schedule that will take him from Honolulu to New York City via Colorado Springs, and Vancouver, Canada and Tunisia all within the next month, Steiner said he couldn't miss this stop.

"I think it's important as a national coach to show up and get out across the states," Steiner said. "Particularly when they have these camps and clinics — and Hawaii's not a bad place to come."

Steiner also noted with the prep wrestling season coming up, it gave him more incentive.

"I can tell that the coaches have really put to use what we talked about before, because a lot of the stuff we're going over, the kids already know it a little bit," he said.

Ng said he jumped at the opportunity to participate in the clinic.

"This was something that I was very excited to attend," he said. "To have an Olympic coach here helping us out inspires me to just keep practicing."

Yamaguchi said she hopes to add to her repertoire with what she learned from Steiner.

"I think I'm probably going to pick and choose what I think I would be best at and work on it leading up to the season," she said. "I think it should give me some confidence when I shoot."

Besides the takedowns and turnovers, Steiner taught the wrestlers to practice patience.

"Our society today, we want things now, we want to see results right away and wrestling is just not a sport like that," Steiner said. "It's an art and you don't learn an art like that. It takes time, it's not going to come overnight and you have to put in the commitment and hard work to get there."

Steiner added: "I've been fortunate to have a lot of success in wrestling, but it didn't come with a lot of failure. There was a lot of failure and a lot of times when I was left shaking my head and wondering, 'What the heck am I doing?' But if you keep working and you persevere, good things will happen."