How To Use Your Hips In Wrestling Video

Explode the hips to defend a wrestler's attack. Learn basic wrestling moves, defenses, and attacks in this video from a wrestling coach.

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Fourth defense is hips
Explode hips into opponent
Pull leg away

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Brandon Slay won the Gold Medal in Freestyle Wresting at the 2002 Olympic Games in Sydney.

BRANDON SLAY: So our first line of defense are our hands, thumb down, second line of defense is head, third line of defense are our arms. Again, down block and turn our arms like a fence post as our opponent attacks. But sometimes guys are great and they create all these motions. They get us off position. So Steven may shoot and get past Robert's hand, head, arms--shoot Steven shoot. And he shot--so he got past his hands, head and arms. So our fourth line of defense when somebody gets this deep, our fourth line of defense are our hips. But our hips can only be in line of defense is if we get them in and explode our hips into our opponent, explode Robert--to knock our opponent back. Because if you leave your hips out, this guy's going to cut the corner, pivot, and drive across the finish. So back up. Steven gets past Robert's hands, head and arms, so now to use his hips in line of defense, what Robert has to do right here is he has to bring his trail leg up, explode his hips in, create that power. Now, common sense, Steven has Robert's legs so he doesn't want him to have it so he pulls it hard away. Now from here, he's going to stuff his head, butt drag, trail like a pivot drive across the tee and finish. So again, the only way your hips can be in line of defense is you have to explode your hips in and stuff the guy's head down to create an opportunity for you to score.

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