Was your base greco or judo? Seems like in freestyle there are some gaps they can exploit if the handfighting is not used too much like here, unless you were just exaggerating/demonstrating dramatically
With respect to this concept, Yes, there are some gaps they can indeed take advantage of. However, my overall point with this topic is to help increase the fight IQ and highlight the fact that there doesnt always need to be a complete text book take down especially if certain aspects such as: an angel, opponents shoulders are above their hips, and opponents toes are digging into the mat are acquired. Here is another example... th-cam.com/users/shortsWPJW5nmTt_M Did I answer your question? To answer your first question- I didnt wrestle at all in either highschool or college. When I started jiu-jitsu I started working with a personal coach of sorts who wrestled at Ohio State (with/at during the same time as Kevin Randelman and Mark Coleman) My coach also wrestled internationally. Additionally, a friend of mine who has also coached me wrestled at The University of Lacrosse Wisconsin (D3 school although one of his coaches was an assistant coach at Iowa).
@Hopperuniversalperformance sort of yes, just realised this is more for bjj/mma than for pure freestyle wrestlers. I was confused as I primarily watch wrestling shorts under freestyle wrestling rules, being that high up is asking for a low single hence I initially thought your background was greco/judo
@3DHDcat Oh, no doubt. This particular video is from a wrestling class I teach on Sundays. I have a wide variety of people from black belts, to high-school wrestlers, to literally first day people, so here I'm discussing basic concepts like hip to hip, angles, getting your opponent out of position etc. But no direct background in any one art, just been training for almost 20 years now.
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Was your base greco or judo? Seems like in freestyle there are some gaps they can exploit if the handfighting is not used too much like here, unless you were just exaggerating/demonstrating dramatically
With respect to this concept, Yes, there are some gaps they can indeed take advantage of. However, my overall point with this topic is to help increase the fight IQ and highlight the fact that there doesnt always need to be a complete text book take down especially if certain aspects such as: an angel, opponents shoulders are above their hips, and opponents toes are digging into the mat are acquired. Here is another example...
th-cam.com/users/shortsWPJW5nmTt_M
Did I answer your question?
To answer your first question- I didnt wrestle at all in either highschool or college. When I started jiu-jitsu I started working with a personal coach of sorts who wrestled at Ohio State (with/at during the same time as Kevin Randelman and Mark Coleman) My coach also wrestled internationally. Additionally, a friend of mine who has also coached me wrestled at The University of Lacrosse Wisconsin (D3 school although one of his coaches was an assistant coach at Iowa).
@Hopperuniversalperformance sort of yes, just realised this is more for bjj/mma than for pure freestyle wrestlers. I was confused as I primarily watch wrestling shorts under freestyle wrestling rules, being that high up is asking for a low single hence I initially thought your background was greco/judo
@3DHDcat Oh, no doubt. This particular video is from a wrestling class I teach on Sundays. I have a wide variety of people from black belts, to high-school wrestlers, to literally first day people, so here I'm discussing basic concepts like hip to hip, angles, getting your opponent out of position etc. But no direct background in any one art, just been training for almost 20 years now.