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I know what some of you are already thinking. You're thinking that pro wrestling doesn't count as a martial art. Well, my question to you is, "Why not?" I admit that there are some moves that wouldn't work so well in a street fight (i.e. the delayed vertical suplex), however, I still think it is a valid fighting style and worth putting on my site. I KNOW WRESTLING ISN'T ALL REAL. QUIT BOTHERING ME ABOUT THAT! I ENJOY PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING FOR ITS TECHNICAL ASPECTS. Anyway, let's just get down to business... |
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Strikes: Chop: Any strike with the outer ridge of the hand. Clothesline: A heavy strike to the upper chest using the entire arm that usually knocks the opponent down. Double axe handle: A double hammer fist. Drop kick: A self-sacrificial aerial kick, usually with both feet. European uppercut: An uppercut that hits with the inner forearm. Eye rake: Clawing the eyes with the finger nails. Head butt: Strike using the head. Leg drop: Dropping into a seated position, with your leg landing across the opponent's chest or throat. Superkick: A powerful shuffle sidekick to the jaw, almost a hook kick. Also called Sweet Chin Music (Shawn Michaels, WWF) and the Cryonic Kick (Glacier, WCW) |
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Throws and Holds: Arm Bar: Any move apply opposing force against the elbow or shoulder joints. Man, I love these! Arm Drag: You step forward with your right foot and grab the opponent's right wrist with your left hand. Make sure your left foot is turned 90 degrees to the left. You slide your right arm underneath his right armpit and grab his tricep with your right hand while pivoting your right foot to the left. Turn your entire body so that your right side is against his chest/stomach. Fall to the left while continuing to turn so that your back is almost against his shins and pull hard on his arm. He should get pulled over your extended body and come crashing down in front of you. A variation of this move is that you hook your right arm beneath his but with his arm behind your back. Very difficult to explain but I will try to include a picture sometime in the future. Arm Wrench: Attacker grabs opponent's arm, lifts it, and then swings underneath it to twist the arm painfully. This is usually turned into a wristlock [1]. Pictures: 1. Back Breaker: Opponent is lifted off the ground from the side and dropped forcefully on your extended knee [1]. Pictures: 1 Back Drop: Opponent has you bent over in a side headlock. You reach the arm closest to his body around his waist and your other arm should scoop up his nearest leg. You stand upright while lifting them into the air [1], then fall backward [2] and send the opponent crashing down on his back. Pictures: 1 and 2 Belly-to-back suplex: One of several techniques which involve grabbing the opponent from behind and falling backward, dropping them on their shoulders. Examples of this are the Back Drop and the German Suplex. Belly-to-belly suplex: You wrap both arms around your opponent's waist from the front. You lift while pitching back into a backbend (or just falling backward), flipping the opponent over and slamming the opponent onto their back. You can also bring him more to one side rather than straight back, which is a lot easier. Brainbuster: You have the opponent up like a vertical suplex. But you drop straight down so that they land head-first. Chokeslam: You grab your opponent by the throat with one hand, lift them up [1], and slam them on their back. Pictures: 1 DDT: You put the opponent in a front headlock and fall backward, sending your opponent's head into the mat. Death Valley Driver: You pick up your opponent with the fireman's carry, bring the arm that is holding his arm around and over his head. You finish the move by dropping to your side, driving the opponent on his head. Diving reverse DDT: A Reverse Headlock into a falling-forward variation of a Reverse DDT. Double-hand choke: Both hands clasp the opponent's throat. You could even lift them off the ground for even better results [1]. Pictures: 1 Double-underhook face jammer: You hook your arms underneath your bent-over opponent and slam their face in the ground. [1] Pictures: 1 Fireman's carry: You grab the opponent's arm with one hand, hunch down, and picks up the leg on the same side. You load him onto your back and lift by standing up. Fisherman suplex: You put opponent in a front headlock and fling the arm closest to you over your back. (You will find that this is the start for many moves.) You scoop your arm around his nearest leg, clasp your hands, and with one swift motion, you whip back (sometimes into a backbend), pushing your hips out as you lift [1]. Finish the move by driving him hard on his shoulders [2]. Pictures: 1 and 2 Flying head scissor: You charge at your opponent right side and swing your right leg up, over, and behind the head of your opponent and immediately spring off of your left leg [1] and complete the head scissor. The momentum causes you to swing across the front of the opponent in a pendulum motion. You then twist to your left as you land to do a roll thus flipping the opponent onto his back. Pictures: 1 Frankensteiner: See 'Hurracanrana'. Front face pancake: Starts out like a pile driver. The only difference is that you fall forward, slamming the opponent face-down to the mat. Front headlock: You hold opponent's head face-down under your armpit [1]. Pictures: 1 Front neck breaker: Grab opponent in a headlock with their throat barred over your shoulder and drop to a sitting position [1], jarring the opponent's neck. Pictures: 1 You can also fall into a laying down position (Diamond Cutter) but it doesn't seem quite as effective. Front slam: Opponent is held stomach-down on one shoulder, his head should be pointing where you are facing. [1] By pulling down on his upper body and, usually, falling foward you flip him and plant him into the mat. Pictures: 1 German suplex: You wrap your arms around your opponent's waist from behind. [1] Then you lift while pitching into a backbend, slamming the opponent on his shoulders. Pictures: 1 Gorilla press: Opponent is held high overhead. [1] Your arms should be as far extended as you can get them. Pictures: 1 Hip toss: Wrap your right arm around the waist of your opponent as you set your right foot in between your opponents feet. Turn your body so that your right side is against his chest and push your hip into him. As you do so, twist your upper body to your left while loading him onto your hip with your right arm. Complete the maneuver by pulling them over your extended hip and sending him into the mat. Hurracanrana: You begin by jumping and scissoring your opponent's head between your legs. Next, you throw yourself backward, landing on your hands and, using the backward momentum, pull the opponent off his feet using your legs and finally driving him hard into the mat. You end up on your stomach. Implant DDT: Mostly like the DDT except that you lift them off the ground a bit before you drop backwards. Inverted Piledriver: A sitout piledriver where the victim is facing towards you, not away. Jaw Breaker: Wedge your head beneath your opponent's jaw, have your arms around his head to keep it in place. The move is done by dropping to your knees and jarring his jaw against your skull. Pile Driver: Opponent is bent over with his head between your legs. You lift the opponent by the waist, and hold him upside-down. You finish off the move by dropping to a seated position [1], driving the opponent's head straight into the mat. Pictures: 1 Powerbomb: Opponent is bent over with his head between your legs. You lift the opponent by the waist swiftly. Lift him up so that your head is between his thighs [1] and then drop them hard on their back [2]. Pictures 1 and 2 Pumphandle: Opponent can lifted up with this move for devastating effects. See picture. Reverse Powerbomb: Pick opponent up from behind by the legs [1] as if you were going to do a giant swing with the opponent facing downward. Raise him as high as you can get them and the drop them onto the face and chest. Very awkward but still pretty cool. Pictures: 1 Reverse Suplex: Starts out like a vertical suplex but, instead of falling backward, you fall forward and send the opponent crashing down face-first [1]. The picture I enclosed is move of a seated reverse suplex. You can see the legs of the attacker leaving the ground. Pictures 1 Rib Breaker: You pick up your opponent like a scoop slam and hold them against you sideways. Then drop to a kneeling position and crack the opponent's side against your knee [1]. Pictures: 1 Scoop Slam: You reach over opponent's shoulder with one arm and between the legs with the other. You tilt him just enough to lift him off the ground, turn him upside-down, and slam him hard on his back [1]. He should land face up with his head toward you. Pictures: 1 Seated Scoop Slam: Starts like a scoop slam. When you have him upside-down move your arm (the one that's securing their shoulder) to tuck the opponent's head. Then, slam him forward while dropping to a seated position. This is also known as the Michinoku Driver (WWF), and the Juvi Driver (Lucha Libre). Side Headlock: Look at the picture. Pictures: 1 Sidewalk Slam: You begin by tucking your head underneath the opponent's armpit (or opponent has you in a front headlock), reach your arms around and clasps them behind the opponent's knees. You then pick him up [1] and slam him back down on his back while still holding onto his legs. Pictures: 1 Snap Suplex: You put your opponent in a front headlock, sling the arm closest to you over your back. Then, you grab the side of the opponent's belt. You execute the move by hopping your feet past your opponent's feet and then fall backward. The opponent lands on his back. Stone Cold Stunner: See 'Front Neck Breaker'. T-Bone Suplex: You start at the opponent's side. You reach across the front of his body with one arm and underneath his nearest thigh with the other. You lift and fall backward while turning so that you land on your side [1]. Make sure that you turn in the direction of the arm you have holding their thigh. (in the picture, he has his left arm holding the opponent's thigh so during the takedown he is turning to the left as he falls) Pictures: 1 Torture Rack: An excrutiating submission move where the opponent is held across your shoulders. One hand is pulling down on the head and the other is pulling down on the nearest leg [1]. Very similar to an Argentina backbreaker except that an Argentina backbreaker you reach around and pull down on both legs, not just one. Pictures: 1 Vertical Suplex: Starts out like the Snap Suplex, but is executed by lifting the opponent straight up into the air (no hopping) [1]. Opponent's legs should be as straight as possible [2]. Then, you fall backward, sending the opponent for a long fall onto his back [3]. This move is often stalled for a few seconds during the lift to let the opponent's blood rush to his head. Pictures: 1, 2, and 3 |
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Aerial Moves (pouncing moves): Butt Drop: Land into a seated position on your opponent. I have a move a lot like it. It's call the 'Big Sit'. After my stupid little dance, I can get as high as 3 or 4 feet off the ground and land with a loud crash with my legs straight in front of me. Corkscrew Moonsault: A moonsault with a 180 degree turn in mid-air so that you land on your back Corkscrew Planche: A vertical body press with a 360 spin in it. Cross Body Block: Dive onto your opponent sideways. Elbow Drop: A strike against a fallen opponent where you land on him elbow first. Fist Drop: A falling punch onto a fallen opponent. Knee Drop: Land knee-first onto your opponent. Lateral Body Press: See 'Cross Body Block' Leg Drop: You jump high and land in a seated position, one of your legs should land on your opponent. Moonsault: An outstretched, incomplete backflip where you land stomach down on the opponent. This can be done to a standing or a fallen opponent. Senton Bomb or Senton Splash: Mainly just to land back first onto your opponent. You can either jump up and simply lay back in the air (kinda looks like an exaggerated elbow drop without the elbow.) or you can do an incomplete front flip and crash onto them. Shooting Star Press: Facing your opponent, you jump torwards them and do a backflip. I believe it's called a cut off or something. This is truly an amazing and an incredibly difficult move. Side Moonsault: I've seen a few wrestlers do this and I'm not positive if this is the name. They go for a moonsault but turn quite a bit to the side so they do go straight backward. Kinda crooked and half-assed but effective. Swan Dive Headbutt: You jump with your feet together and your arms spread out beside you and land stomach-down, connecting only with your head. Swanton Bomb: A layout front flip senton. Hits with the head only. Twisting Senton: See 'Corkscrew Moonsault' |