TheSpiffman wrote:
Avwolf wrote:
Okay, for the record, yes, that's a real wrestling move; it might be illegal now, but one of my best friends in high school liked it because it was painful as all get out. I did wrestle in high school, it's why I have a slightly disproportionately large neck.
Cool, I know a new thing about you. Were you any good at it? :D
No. Not really at all. I got very close to qualifying for State my senior year, but my district (heck, my conference) was stacked with some of the best guys in my weight class (and they kept ending up in the same weight class as I was every year). I didn't win my first match until my sophomore year; though I ended up winning that tournament. By my senior year I was decent, though certainly nothing special.
Sable Dove wrote:
And Av', the Saturday night (we never had the 'ride' part at the end) is still a legal and quite powerful technique, though I myself am more partial to the classic head 'n' arm.
Half-nelson? The bread-and-butter move? It's solid, that's for sure. Me, I loved the cradles, particularly the cross-face cradle. By the end, the coach had actually taught me a way to do a cradle from the up position (yeah, that's right, the cradle was the takedown), not that I ever got to use it. I got some crazy grip strength from it; there were times I held people in place for a minute because the ref wouldn't give me the pin. I tended to shoot from too far away and then hold on...Gave me a lot of experience in fighting to top from the bottom.
TheSpiffman wrote:
I was a fan of the Gramby Tilt myself. Well, that and going from a clinch to a duck under and around the back.
Sure; you're a big guy. You do a lot of clinches to bearhugs and inside trips. It's something big guys always do for some reason. ;) So I take it you preferred tech pins over just pinning the guy, if you preferred the Gramby?
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Now you guys know one of the two reasons I'm very comfortable wearing spandex. ;)
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Or do you mean the headlock? Front headlock's kind of a risky move unless you know you can control the guy.