Ever notice that things never quite go as planned? In your head you step out onto the mat, shake hands, Head snap spin around then suplex the other wrestler flat on their back scoring the pin? But in reality your opponent starts hand...

To be successful in wrestling you need more than one attack. You need a Plan A, Plan B, C, D E …ETC. If you think that if Plan A is a single leg, and backing out Plan B is a double leg, First...

Granby rolls are a solid defense wrestling technique that can be used in a lot of different situations. The technique has become increasingly popular in MMA, specifically with strikers that use the technique to get out of bad wrestling scenarios. Whether you're an...

  Tyler Caldwell was a four-time all american and two time NCAA finalist at 165 pounds, wrestling for the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, finishing with a 98-25 record. In high school, he totaled 150 wins and only 4 losses, and owns...

There is something about New Jersey that just makes tough people. Maybe it is having to deal with New Yorkers all the time, or possibly because during the 70’s and 80’s New Jersey was home to some of the toughest “Family” members of...

To throw or to not to throw that is the question! While wrestling this question may cross your mind a time or two during a match. This hesitation is deeply seeded in the premise that if you miss the attempt on the throw...

The setting is the NCAA Div.I Championship in 2018, taking place in Cleveland Ohio.  CJ Brucki from Central Michigan is currently the #16 seed at 174. Looking to make his trip short lived is Seldon Wright from Old Dominion. From the early stages...

Mixed Martial Arts is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. From it’s inception it has been inclusive to competitors from all over the world. Welcoming every training style to step into a cage and test their skills against another in...

The Duck under is both an elementary move in wrestling but also one of the most powerful. The ability to move through (under) an opponent's primary defense to their back is not only valuable but essential. When you watch folkstyle tournaments that have...

BJJ and wrestling are both grappling arts. Wrestling is much older, and while bjj is a young sport it is steadily growing in its audience, thanks to the UFC, and athletes like Gordon Ryan (who has several instructionals with bjjfanatics) who talk a...

  If you happen to hear some people talking, and you hear “Sniper single head wheel,” you may think that they’re talking about some kind of Navy Seal Training. That’s not the case, though. This is the name for a way to finish...

Wrestling is a fluid and dynamic sport. Unlike many contact sports with a ball, the changes in wrestling happen instantaneously. In Lacrosse, Football and Basketball there are other players on the field and their actions and reactions will foreshadow what is happening. This...

The single leg is quite unique in that it is both the simplest and most complex takedown in all of grappling. Seems a bit oxymoronic right? How can a technique both be simple and complex? Take a students first day of wrestling, there...

It doesn’t really matter if you have been wrestling for a month or a decade, just about every wrestler knows about the double leg takedown. This is one of the moves that serves as a building block for a wrestler’s skills and technique. ...

  If someone were to ask you right now about the first thing you go for when starting a match, what would you think of? For most people, the answer to that question would most likely be some sort of takedown or the...

Football is a game of inches. Billiards is a game of angles. Curling is a sport requiring a very refined technique. Chess is a game of strategy. Archery requires great mental focus and precision. Gymnastics is a battle between humans and what physics...

You find yourself in a room with a bunch of wrestlers and you hear a few talking about using the crackdown. Crackdown? What is that? Like a snap down? Not exactly. The Crackdown is the position coming off a single leg takedown, but...

  Continuing events during quarantine the UFC is truly the world leader when it comes to adapting and overcoming. They made fight Island happen where we saw some historic fights come to life. Before that it was no surprise that Florida of all...

  Let us be honest, being stuck at home is a drag. Not being allowed to workout with a partner or a group is equally miserable. So now that we can actually go to the gym, and events are starting to open back...

It's a common saying in combat sports that “Drillers are Killers” and while it might be something of a cliché, that doesn’t make it any less true. It’s easy to look at a technique online or in class and think that you’ll be...