Newer Female Grapplers, Like Chess, Learn Basic Terms And Moves From Experts

February 8, 2022,

Alright already.

A ton of female hopefuls want to learn grappling, improve and compete.

That is great. Give yourself a pat on the back.

According to The National Wrestling Hall of Fame, nwhof.org. “High-school-girls-wrestling-continues-rapid-growth. In 1990, there were 112 girls who participated in high school wrestling. For 27 straight years, girls high school wrestling has grown. In many of those years, the percentage of growth was 10% or more. In the 2016-17 high school year, there were 14,587 girls wrestling in high school.”

No matter your age, that has to be encouraging news.

You are ready.

It is just the beginning though.

What are we getting at? Get to the point you say?

Okay, will do.

You need a strategy.

Was that direct enough?

Yes, you can learn it from a friend or practice with your girlfriends but once you get into real competition you will most likely lose.

Here, we are going to focus on strategy. The fact that you will need to learn Jiu-jitsu is a given.

We have written some recent articles to point you in the right direction.

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Thus, when you are attempting something like this, don’t re-invent the wheel.

Learn the basic terms of wrestling. Yes, that’s right. Do you know what they are, besides the headlock and pin?

Compare it to playing Chess for the first time. Before you even get started what do you need to learn?

What are the names of the pieces on the board and what are their basic functions.

How can you plot a strategy if you don’t know how the pieces move?

Time for some focus.

A wrestling move is a technique that helps you directly or indirectly win a wrestling match.

There are four broad categories of collegiate and scholastic wrestling moves.

1. Basic Skills
2. Take-downs
3. Reversals and escapes
4. Rides, breakdowns and pinning combinations

A basic skill is a wrestling skill or technique that is fundamental to wrestling.

It is the foundation to build upon launching other moves.

Basic skills should be taught, learned and mastered prior to more advanced moves. The success of other moves are dependent on how well basic skills are executed. These skills should be drilled and retaught on a regular basis.

Drumroll please. The seven basic skills are:

1. Stance
2. Motion
3. Level change
4. Penetration
5. Back step
6. Back arch
7. Lift

We won’t ask you to say that fast seven times. Just read it more than seven times until you kind of memorize it.

A few details.

A take-down is a wrestling move used to go from a neutral standing position to an up position with your opponent in a down position and thus score two take-down points.

These moves are usually taught at a young age through high school. Most are simple and very effective if done right.

Even if you are not a youth, what is taught to them will work for you.

Here is a book on Amazon that might help as well. Don’t get bogged down with the age thing. Learn the basic terms, techniques and strategies.

Youth Wrestling: Takedown Fundamentals

By Eric Akin

Features & Benefits

• Learn five setups that lead to multiple attacks
• Learn 10 core drills to develop muscle memory for sound positioning on the feet
• Learn techniques to finish leg attacks

“With Eric Akin, East Kansas Wrestling Club Head Coach;
United States Olympic Team Alternate (1996 and 2000); USA World Team member; 3x Big 8 Champion and 4x All American for Iowa State University; 3x Kansas High School State Champion

Four-time All American Eric Akin was a top level athlete at Iowa State University. Now as a youth coach he has developed a series of techniques that focuses on fundamentals that will train athletes at all levels to be successful.

Coach Akin starts with the stance - the most basic element to being successful on your feet. Akin provides a series of stance and motion drills all wrestlers need to become fluid and agile in any takedown attempt and help ingrain it into muscle memory.

He teaches setups that will work at any level to control the opponent and open attacks. His instruction covers elbow control, inside tie and collar tie, and telephone wrist tie to 2-on-1 control. From the set-up, Akin moves to three types of penetration steps (with drills to practice the steps) to get in deep on your attack. The steps include: the drop step/inside step, the punch-punch sweep single step, and the spring-load step for double legs and low singles.

All wrestlers, especially young wrestlers, commonly lack the ability to finish their leg attacks. To get those hard earned points, Akin demonstrates finishing drills for the "Big Three" (Single leg, double, leg, and Hi-Crotch). He also shows a slide-by - a technique that is really effective on an opponent that we cannot pass his leg defense.

Finally, Coach Akin covers basic leg attack defense from the most basic sprawl to the more advanced Wizzer. He discusses two types of level change skills, which is a fundamental component for good defense and blocking, as well as the key to effective leg attacks.”

Now, you’ve made it this far.

We have a visiting writer who will help you with terms. If you research some of the terms online, it will help with your strategy.

Wrestling Terms for the Beginner

By Nick Samuel

If you are new to wrestling you might not be aware of all the different terms that wrestlers use. They have their own lingo and a non-wrestler could quickly get lost in the conversation between two wrestlers. With that in mind I will go over a list of some of the more popular wrestling terms.

Pin- A pin is when you hold your opponents shoulders on the mat for a period of 5 seconds. You must be in control to get a pin. As soon as you get a pin the match is over.

Technical Fall-As known as a tech, or a techfall. A technical fall is when a wrestler scores 15 or more points on his opponent during the match. Once he hits 15 points or more the match is immediately over. Think of it as a mercy rule.

Stalling-Stalling is when a wrestler does not attack or is not being aggressive. This usually happens when he is in the lead, so that he can buy time and not have to do anything. It is a caution-able offense and doing it 2 times or more in a match will give your opponent a penalty point.

Takedown-A takedown is when a wrestler takes his opponent from off his feet to the ground. To get a takedown a wrestler must be in control, behind his opponent and the opposing wrestler must have three points of his body down on the ground.

Mat Maid-Slang used for team managers. Usually they are girls and will help out the team with team scoring during tournaments, help setting up for the meets and cleaning the mats for the team. They are also some of the team's biggest supporters.

Dual Meet- A dual meet is a competition between two wrestling teams. It is also possible to have a tri and quad meet. That is when you compete against 3 and 4 teams respectively. These are head-to-head battles against teams and should not be confused with team tournaments.

While there is more lingo out there when it comes to wrestling, these are the most confusing terms you will find when it comes to wrestling. Most of the other terms are pretty self-explanatory.

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