April 10, 2023,
Virtually all sports have important elements that must be learned and effectively applied if you are to have great success.
As an example, women’s professional tennis is about conditioning, hitting steady groundstrokes with pace and forcing your opponent to play to your strengths.
A powerful serve would help too.
The essence of football, at its core, is blocking and tackling.
Female submission grappling, like most sports, requires exceptional conditioning and muscle building. Once you have achieved those two important factors, to have success, you must become effective at five basic submission holds, some of which will work well in combination.
HEADLOCK
The headlock is the most basic hold in wrestling.
In a July 13, 2022 article, FCI Women’s wrestling Magazine stated, “The key to a great head lock submission is to tighten your grip around your opponent’s head and neck area and after it is secure, using your shoulders to fall on top of her head, where her head literally disappears underneath you as you extract a submission.
Follow this technique and we are very confident you will have success. We have seen this occur so often.
It is important to state that, because time after time, we have seen newer female grapplers grab for the head while they are in the bottom position. They do achieve a headlock but since their opponent is on top and they have no body weight leverage, the opponent, in the superior position, will typically break the hold.
Once they break that hold and are sitting on top of you, they are in a great position for a rear naked choke, or smother submission.
A case in point is a match we purchased between Bulgaria’s Vox and Cheetah at Wrestling Monica’s store in London.
Cheetah constantly grasped for headlocks from the bottom position and Vox constantly broke the hold and afterwards was in a fantastic position from the top.
It was only when Cheetah changed up, secured a headlock, took Vox down to the mats and put her body weight on top of Vox’s head, which disappeared beneath her, that Cheetah secured a submission.
Again, put your shoulder in to it.”
Very good advice. Nice example as well.
Practice and practice the headlock and it will keep you competitive with superior opponents.
What increases your chance for a submission is if you use that headlock in combination with a side body scissor.
Hold number two is the body scissor.
BODY SCISSOR
The most effective body scissors is when you have your opponent trapped in a headlock, you pull her head close to your neck area and sandwich her in between your scissor and squeeze. It is one of the toughest holds for her to escape as she is trying to pry your leg apart as you squeeze her head hard from up top.
She will soon tap out from the pressure.
You will need to work heavily on your squats and leg presses to ensure your thighs are strong enough to get the job done.
Keep thinking scissors. In combination with chokes, they are deadly.
CHOKES
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The three most important chokes we have witnessed on the female grappling mats are the rear naked, triangle and guillotine chokes.
The most brutal is the rear naked choke in combination with a body scissor.
This hold is often applied when your opponent has mistakenly given up her back. Quickly, you capture her from behind with the choke, pull her backwards and encase her around the waist with a scissor, squeeze, and she is in big trouble.
The scissors keep coming, especially when you combine it with the arm bar.
ARM BAR
In competitive female submission wrestling, the arm bar works in conjunction with a body scissors or triangle choke very effectively.
Often an Arm Bar is called an Arm Lock.
An arm lock in grappling is a single or double joint lock that hyperextends, hyperflexes or hyperrotates the elbow joint or shoulder joint.
An arm lock that hyper-extends the arm is known as an arm bar, and it includes the traditional arm bar, pressing their elbow into your thigh, and the triangle arm bar, like a triangle choke, but you press their elbow into your thigh.
An arm lock that hyper-rotates the arm is known as an arm coil, and includes the Americana, Kimura, and Omaplata.
Generally, arm coils hurt more than arm bars, as they attack several joints at the bone and muscle.
Obtaining an arm lock requires effective use of full-body leverage in order to initiate and secure a lock on the targeted arm, while preventing the opponent from escaping the lock.
Which brings us to the scissor.
If you apply the arm bar and scissors in combination, you leave your opponent with only one hand to try and break the hold. Does she try and pry your legs or arms apart? Which one?
By the time she decides, you’ve already submitted her.
SMOTHER
This is a basic submission that can be applied when your opponent has made the mistake of trying to trap you in a floor (her on her back) to sitting, kneeling or standing body scissor.
Your defensive move is to try and break the scissors, especially if you are in the standing position but realistically from any of the above positions. Once the scissor is broken, you fall forward on top of her chest and head area, slide your hands behind her neck, pull her head forward while you smash your chest on her face and she is in big trouble.
She most likely will try and fence you off, blocking with her forearms but because you have worked out heavily at the gym and built your shoulder and back muscles, keep applying the pressure, because after all, you are on top and gravity is your friend.
At some point, during your war of attrition, where she is expending far more energy to block you than you are pressing down, she will concede.
SUMMARY
So there you have it.
Learn those five submission holds, especially the headlock, choke and arm bar which can be used in conjunction with a crunching body scissors and “I submit” will be the most frequent words you will hear from your opponent during the match.
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