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Professional wrestling holds include a number of set moves and pins used by performers to immobilize their opponents or lead to a submission. This article covers the various pins, stretches and transition holds used in the ring. Some wrestlers use these holds as their finishing maneuvers, often nicknaming them to reflect their character or persona.
Edge, applying the variation of a kneeling sharpshooter on CM Punk. Natalya applying a double sharpshooter on Eve Torres and Layla.. While Bret Hart is the wrestler with whom the Sharpshooter is most often associated, Ronnie Garvin and Sting were the first wrestlers to prolifically use the hold in North America, during which time it was called the "Scorpion Deathlock", deriving from the ...
A grappling hold, commonly referred to simply as a hold that in Japanese is referred to as katame-waza (固め技 "grappling technique"), is any specific grappling, wrestling, judo, or other martial art grip that is applied to an opponent. Grappling holds are used principally to control the opponent and to advance in points or positioning.
A simple and effective chokehold, it is the most common finishing hold in mixed martial arts competition. [17] Triangle choke – Applied from full guard or from mount, the opponent's neck is trapped in a triangle formed by their own arm and the attacker's thigh and calf. A common finishing hold in mixed martial arts. [17]
They are also used as submission holds in martial arts such as Brazilian jiu-jitsu (where the most common name is mão de vaca, "the cow's hand") and catch wrestling. While being an illegal technique in modern sambo [1] and judo [2] competitions, it is still practiced in judo forms of self-defense kata kōdōkan goshinjutsu. [3]
The real-life family reigned supreme in the sports world during the 1980s, coining the now iconic hold dubbed “the iron claw.” The Iron Claw is not just a wrestling movie – that’s not A24 ...
The spladle is a wrestling technique commonly used as a counter and pinning move to single leg take downs. When opponents shoot in and grab the leg the wrestler will drop their weight on the opponents head to prevent advancement of the take down, from there they may reach across the body with their arms to grab hold of the opponents far side ...
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