
Wrestling
Lesson 26 – Wrestling From The Bottom
Warm Up (10min)
- Line Drills
- Pummling
- Hand Fighting
Lesson (40min)
- Bottom Wrestling
- Being on the bottom drains your energy.
- Good base, knee under chest, hands under head
- Stand Up
- Step up on your outside leg
- Get your hips under your body
- Push your shoulders into your partner.
- Grab their hand and squeeze, put it in your back pocket
- Step forward on the far leg.
- Lift your close arm high, turn into your opponent and chop your arm down so your fingers touch the floor, as you step the close leg behind and away.
- Granby Roll
- Step your outside leg to the side
- Step your close leg beside the outside foot.
- Move your close hand back under you,
- Cartwheel / Flip over, then turn a face your opponent.
- Don’t cover too much space.
- Switch
- Take your inside hand over your outside hand, that hand becomes your post.
- Lift your outside knee turning your back to them.
- Lift your outside elbow high and chop down, this should lock their arm.
- Grab the inside leg, as you lean into them.
- Pull yourself around to finish the switch.
- Chain Wrestling
- Learn to join these moves together.
- Step Up vs Arm Chop
- Start a Stand Up, and your partner chops your arm
- Post on your head, and cover the outside grips
- Post with your inside hand
- Run toward their head, land on your side with an arm bar
- Options:
- Create some distance and space
- Turn back in for a reversal
Live Rounds (25min)
- Rule of 10 – No resistance, do the same move for 10 reps, change over
- Bottom Wrestling
- Stand Up, Granby, Switch
- Mat Returns
- Lift, Switch Feet, Run The Double
- Bottom Wrestling
- 5 x 3min Hard