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A groin attack is a deliberate strike to the groin area of one's opponent. The technique can be quickly debilitating due to the sensitivity of the groin area and genitalia and is sometimes used as a self-defense technique. The technique is often banned in sports. Groin attacks have been popularized as a comedic device in various forms of media.
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling.It is one of two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games, along with Greco-Roman. High school wrestling and men's collegiate wrestling in the United States are conducted under different rules and termed scholastic and collegiate wrestling.
In freestyle wrestling and the Olympics, wrestlers are on their feet 99 percent of the time. This will help the younger wrestlers improve on their feet and that's a really good thing."
Takedown techniques that are pure leg trips usually involve controlling the body of the opponent, and impeding or destabilizing one or both of the opponents legs. Leg trips are featured in for instance freestyle wrestling, judo, sumo, and shuai jiao while being an illegal technique in Greco-Roman wrestling. [1]
This is a list of female freestyle wrestlers, in alphabetical order. Alina Filipovych; Heaven Fitch [1] Anna Gomis; Kyoko Hamaguchi; Chiharu Icho; Kaori Icho; Lise Legrand; Gouzel Maniourova; Sara McMann; Irini Merleni; Randi Miller; Patricia Miranda; Tonya Verbeek; Saori Yoshida; Sarita Mor; Wang Xu
Sack tapping is a slang term for a game where a participant attacks, by slapping, tapping, punching, kicking, elbowing, twisting, or backhanding a victim's testicles.The term derived from 'sack', slang that refers to the scrotum, [1] [2] and the activity is a form of groin attack.
College wrestling debuted the three-point takedown last season. When announcing its approval in 2023, the NCAA’s Wrestling Rules Committee rationalized that increasing the value of takedowns ...
Chief Ade (right) executes a leg drop. Hulk Hogan performing the Atomic Leg Drop (running leg drop) on Mr. McMahon. A leg drop or legdrop refers to an attack used in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler will jump and land his leg across a fallen opponent's chest, throat, face or head or in some cases, the groin/lower-abdominal area.