• Breakdown – A technique used to break an opponent by removing his/her hand and knee supports.
• Crossface – A wrestling technique that uses a hand/wrist to control an opponent by holding his/her face.
• Decision – This is the result of the match when a wrestler scores more points than the opponent.
• Default – When a wrestler is unable to continue the match because of a disqualification or injury.
• Disqualification – When a wrestler is eliminated in a match or tournament because of his violation to a certain rule.
• Escape – A term that is used when a wrestler that is being controlled by the opponent escapes and return to his/her neutral position.
• Fall/Pin – A wrestling technique by pressing the opponent’s shoulder or the upper body to the mat. If being executed successfully, this technique can end a match instantly.
• Forfeit – This happens when the opponent fails to appear on the scheduled match for a certain reason. The wrestler who is on the ring and ready to fight will be automatically declared as the winner.
• Hand Control/Fighting – An offensive maneuver that a wrestler will be using his hand to gain control of the opponent.
• Major Decision – This occurs when a wrestler scores less than 8 points and not more than 14 points on his/her wrestling victory.
• Neutral Position/Neutral – A position when both of the wrestlers don’t have any control with each other.
• Optional/Freestyle Start – A starting position on which the wrestler places his hands on the bottom back of the opponent. He has an option to release the opponent or continue the fight.
• Penalty – Points awarded to the wrestler whose opponent violated a certain wrestling rule. One penalty equal is equal to one point.
• Reversal – This is the term used when a defensive wrestler escapes and took control of the opposing wrestler using the same technique.
• Riding – This is a term used when a wrestler is on top of his opponent and controlling him.
• Shoot – A term when attempting to make a takedown to the opponent.
• Sprawl – This is a technique for defending a takedown that uses the wrestler’s leg on executing it.
• Stalemate – This is a call made when both of the wrestlers are stuck in a position where both of them don’t have a chance of scoring.
• Stalling – A term used for a wrestler who fails to take control or pin the opponent.
• Stance – The correct standing position.
• Takedown – An act from the neutral position a when the opponent is taken down suddenly to the mat and being controlled.
• Technical Fall – This happens when a wrestler has a 15-point advantage to his opponent.

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Let’s get started now by learning the common freestyle wrestling moves we have listed below:

• Ankle lock

Ankle lock is perform by seizing the ankle of your opponent and locks it. You should seize it tightly so that you have strong grab to its ankle and take him down properly. Your opponent should be forced onto the back so you can grab his ankle and foot for you to twist it easily. Doing this will force your opponent’s shoulder to be on the ground when you elevate his ankle while holding it tightly because it is so painful for him/her.

• Leg lock

  

Leg lock is the same with ankle lock that you will have to make your opponent lie down on the floor. When he/she is already lying, you will now then grab his legs and hold it tightly towards your body. You should be sitting on his butt area to have more control on his legs. This will be too painful for him because of the tightness and the extension you are doing to his legs. This move might force your opponent to a submission that will lead to his defeat.

• Headlock

  

Headlock is the most common finishing move in wrestling. It is done by placing your arms tightly on the neck and head area of the opponent. This is a critical move that needs proper execution to prevent an accident because it involves the grabbing of the neck and the head that is a critical area of the body.

• Suplex

  

Suplex is the grabbing of the opponent’s waist tightly using both of your arms. After you grab his waist, lift him/her to a high level then fall forward onto him/her. This move really needs a great strength from you so that you can lift your opponent properly.

• Leg sweep

  

Leg sweep is the last common freestyle wrestling move we will discuss. This involves the sweeping of the opponent’s legs for him/her to be out balance and fall down. First is you have to hold your opponent’s upper chest area and sweep his legs using your one leg from the under. While you are sweeping his legs, push him to the opposite direction so that he will fall down on the floor and you will gain points.

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• Stance – This refers to your body position when fighting. You can use either a square stance or a staggered stance depending on what you like and which are you most comfortable of. These are just equally well. You should bend your body at all times to prevent a possible take down from your opponent. Then, put the weight of your body to the balls of your feet to have a better balance and quickness during the bout.
• Movement – Like any other combat sports, wrestling do requires also lots of movement from you. This can be a move to defend or to attack the opponent. You should practice different kinds of moves so that your opponent can’t read what you will do next. When attacking, your move should be precise and strong for it to be more effective. Then, during defense, keep it tight and always look at your opponent to defend better and do a possible counter attack.
• Level Change – Level change refers to the move you will do when executing an attack or a defense. It is when you move your hips up or down from your normal stance. For example, you will normally lower your hips when preparing to attack using a takedown. Then also when trying to escape a take down from your opponent, you will raise your hip and then avoid the attack. That is a level change. Changing the level of your hips depending on what will be your next move.
• Takedown – This is a type of wrestling attack which you will take your opponent down for a score and possibly end the match if being executed properly. Takedown is usually used to neutralize the opponent and take control of the fight.
• Reversal – This is sometimes considered as a kind of counter attack in wrestling. Reversal is a move when you act like you are defending but actually waiting for the opponent to attack. When the opponent is already attacking, you will then be on offensive.
• Escape – This is a move to stay away from your opponent. An escape can be used also when being cornered.
• Breakdown – A move to make the opponent off balance and down him/her to the mat.
• Finish – Like the word means, it’s a move to end the fight by defeating your opponent by just one blow. You can also use your special moves to pin your opponent down.

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Below are the most important wrestling mental and physical preparations that you can do even just by yourself. Follow all of these to stay fit and mentally prepared the next time you will do wrestling.

Physical Preparation

• Have a proper rest. It is very important if you are well rested before you do anything that is very tiresome like wrestling. Be sure to sleep 8 hours every night.
• Proper diet and vitamins. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. You can also visit your doctor so that he can prescribe you proper vitamins for your body. Be extra cautious with your diet and your body.
• Do jogging and other types of endurance exercises every day. This is the most effective way of improving your body’s endurance.
• Hit the gym. Strength is very important in wrestling. You will have more advantage to your opponent if you have stronger than him. So be sure to hit the gym and lift some weights.
• Practice some loosening exercises. Being flexible is also important to wrestling and you can have it if you practice loosening exercises every before and after wrestling practice. You can ask your wrestling coach or better yet, search on the net the most effective loosening exercises you can do.
• Drink right amount of water. It is very important when you want to maintain the right body and weight. Because drinking too much or too less of water will result to unhealthiness or undesirable weight. You can talk to your fitness coach for more information about it or there is much free info in regards to this one on the internet that you can read anytime.

Mental Preparation

• Always think that you can win. It is very useful to do not just in wrestling but in almost any kind of sport. Think and act that you can win the match. Do not think of other things except for winning. Think of it in your practice, in your sparing matches or even if you are eating. It will surely improve your performance during the match. Some call this as the “I CAN WIN FORMULA”. Trust me, it is very effective.
  • Intensity
  • Confidence
  • Attitude
  • Never say die
  • Will
  • Intestinal Fortitude/Guts
  • No Doubt
• Believe in yourself. Do not be afraid on how tough or strong your opponent is. The winner is determined based on the result after the match, not on how you and your opponent look before the match. Just always believe in yourself that you can bring down your opponent anytime during the match.

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Wrestling is one of the oldest combat sports in the world. This sport involves grappling techniques like grappling holds, clinch fighting, throws, take downs, joint locks and pins. An actual wrestling match is a physical competition of two or more fighters who are trying to gain and maintain superior position towards the opponent.

Wrestling have many styles. It is because of the mixing of the modern and ancient traditional styles. Techniques on wrestling have been incorporated with other martial arts and combat tactics. It depends on the player’s origin and style of training.

History Of Wrestling

Wrestling dates back to the times of the ancient people from France 15000 years ago when there are some wrestling drawings found on its cave. There are some evidences also that Ancient Greece developed wrestling since then by using this to train their soldiers and as an everyday exercise. Babylonian and Egyptian also shows that they also use wrestling by the way of a sport and it is present till now. Then some references found that it was present just as early as the time of ancient Indian Vedas. The Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata do contain some references that wrestling is one of their oldest martial arts.

Those evidences show that wrestling was already present since the ancient times on many places in the world. They either use this as training for their soldiers or just for fun through sport. Although wrestling is a bit brutal to some, we cannot hide the fact that it was really popular to the masses.

Modern Wrestling

The first time wrestling was featured as a sport was on an Olympic Games in 1896. Then since 1920, it has been part of the Olympics already using the freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling styles. Greco-Roman is an international discipline and an Olympic sport. It is forbidden to hold the opponents below the belt, trip the opponent and to use legs on any acts you will do. Freestyle wrestling on the other hand is also both an international discipline and an Olympic sport for both men and women. But freestyle wrestling is different and more popular than the Greco-Roman. It increases its popularity throughout the 19^th and 20^th centuries on entertainment and sport. Freestyle wrestling allows holding the opponent below the belt and using the legs for their acts.

Today, the most use wrestling styles are Greco-Roman, freestyle sombo and judo. Aside from United States, many other countries really love wrestling. As a matter of fact, wrestling is considered as a national sport in Turkey, Mongolia and Iran. They are also one of the countries that produce the best wrestlers in the world today together with USA and Russia. Like boxing, wrestling have also weight categories for both men and women. Many competitions are present today from local to international. Then there are also professional competitions like WWE or World Wrestling Entertainment that is very famous internationally. Any wrestling fan knows WWE and can tell you who their favorite WWE wrestler is.

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