Mastering the ability to step straight to your opponent’s leg, then punching and pivoting around their leg, will help you get to the sweep single leg quicker and give you a much better angle for your finish. The ideal finish position for your sweep single leg is to have your attack hand planted into the mat, your off-hand grabbing your opponent’s laces and your body up into them. Step 3 of a Leg Sweep: Finish in a Bulldog Position Step 2 of a Leg Sweep: Create Sweep ActionĬreate the sweep action for your sweep single leg takedown by pivoting your lead knee, punching you lead elbow as you swing your back foot around your opponent’s leg. Out of a good shooting stance, start your sweep single leg by using a power step with your lead foot straight to just outside of your opponent’s toe. Learning a sweep single leg takedown can be a game-changer for you in the neutral position! Step 1 of a Leg Sweep: Step To Opponents Toe With this being said, your single leg sweep takedown is only as good as your footwork.

You get in less trouble when you hit a Single Leg with the head to the inside, even without finishing right away. Studies show that the Single Leg is used more than any other leg attack in State Tournaments, NCAA Tournaments, and even World/Olympic Championships. Odd, isn't it, how casually we use those names without even thinking about it? There is probably a good explanation for every one of those moves.The Single Leg Takedown is the highest percentage takedown at all levels of wrestling. That's all I can think of for the moment, but I'm sure there are more. Exactly what about taking a guy into a headlock and then jumping forward so he lands flat on his face says canine, let along that specific breed? Was it maybe invented (or renamed) by the British Bulldog? Eh, who knows. Whoever coined this one apparently thought the move looked like the guy was tossing out the hook, I guess. Wrestling moves that you barely see these days aka no one does the Russian leg sweep or the drop toe hold Was thinking about how certain moves go out of favor, in the 90s I felt the Russian leg sweep was extremely common nowadays I rarely ever see it. I get what this is trying to say and it's obviously better than saying the 'knee-to-ass-smash.' Well, ok, I don't really have a problem with this one. Not again! What's Irish here? And where the hell is the whip in this? Clearly taking a guys head and ramming it straight into the ground is reminiscent of insecticide. Maybe if Vladimir Kozlov performed it on Nikolai Volkov. I get the leg sweep part, sure, but I dare say there is nothing Russian about it. These days it's called a Russian Leg Sweep. Today's WWE commentators certainly don't. in all fairness, that move name isn't really used anymore. So the opponent is the grapevine, right, and the other guy. I can't even begin to guess where that name is coming from. Was the inventor German? But why name it after his nationality, not his name? We don't call the Lou Thesz Press the American Press, now do we? The last time we picked a fight with other nations we were pretty straightforward about it. Do Germans like to attack from behind? Not really. How about the German Suplex? What's German about it? I'm German and even I don't have a clue. Granted, I can see where the clothesline gets it's name from, but isn't it kind of a silly name for such a violent strike? Even the figure-4-leglock makes sense.īut then there are those where you must wonder what the person who named it must have been smoking. With some moves it's pretty straightforward and clear. Ever notice how many wrestling maneuvers have names that just don't make any sense? I never really questioned them because I learned those names long before I even learned to speak English, so for the most part I sidestepped the whole 'why is it called that?'-phase.

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