Once a wrestler gets past your head, you can defend with the arms. Learn basic wrestling moves, defenses, and attacks in this video from a wrestling coach.
BRANDON SLAY: So first line of defense hand signal. I have defense in my head. My third line of defense are my arms. Now I have to focus on this because this can get kind of confusing. The best way to understand your arms as a line of defense is to understand boxing. Now boxing, if we think about boxing for a moment, if I'm boxing, if my opponent goes to punch me I have to block with the same side, hand that he's attacking me with. If he's punching me here, block, just go block, block, block, block. And since that's the case in boxing, it's very appropriate to use that same line of defense for wrestling. So if we move it down and start boxing again. Punch, punch, punch. Now we're going to kind of move it down to wrestling here. So in wrestling, Robert's going to be kind of, for a lack of a better--he's going to be punching my leg or punching my leg on this side, punching here or punching here. So using my arms as a line of defense, I have to keep the same arm balance, go slow. If he goes to attack with this arm, I've got to put my arm like a fence post inside of the arm he's attacking me with. He attacks me with this arm, inside, like a fence post to block it. This is called "down blocking." Nothing fancy here. I'm going to thrust my arm down and block opponent's shot, down block. And what I want to do is I want to turn my elbow to face him because if I don't turn my elbow to face him, if I just leave it open here, Robert can shoot down my arm because my arm bends so I don't want that to take place so I'm turning it and facing him, all right? So again it goes like this. He attacks with this arm, down block. He attacks this arm, down block; he attacks this arm, down block.
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