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How to Get Into Great Wrestling Shape, Physical and Mental

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Endurance is what can separate a good wrestler and an awesome wrestler. Even if your opponent is stronger, faster, and more skilled, having the attitude and endurance that wrestling at the next level necessitates will allow you to beat such an opponent.

Steps

1. Run. Wake up in the morning before school/class/when everyone wakes up, and run a distance that makes you want to throw up. Do this at a fast pace. Do push-ups and sit-ups, as well as stretch, at both the halfway point and end point. Increase distance every couple of days.
2. Eat a protein-filled breakfast.
3. After school, sprint repeats of 20 yards, no break in between, do from 15-30 depending on your fitness level. You can always do more, but make sure you sprint all the time.
4. Wrestle with a partner. Do the basics over and over until you can't get them wrong. Say what you're doing as you do the technique.
5. wrestle live from anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour using round robin with at least 2 other wrestlers. Rotate opponents after each period, after each match rotate out, Always feel free to do more according to your motivation and physical condition.

Tips

• Whenever you feel like quitting, tell yourself that you're the man and imagine another man, your arch rival, doing this every day.
• Drink lots of liquid before such a workout day, but keep water intake fairly low to reduce cramps. After the workout, feel free to splurge.
• Do not eat a big lunch before this workout, for obvious reasons.
• At any time, if you feel like you're not being challenged, or if it is too challenging, modify the workout to suit your needs. As this is a fairly flexible routine, feel free to mix/delete some of these steps. Even if you can only go 5 minutes of truly intense wrestling, do it. Build upon each day.
• Focus on breathing between each bout/exercise.

Warnings

• If at any time you feel dizzy, sick, or have a headache, stop what you're doing and take a break.
• If you feel faint, take a break and a drink.
• Never let your mind break.
• Always have a good stretch and warm-up (10-25 minutes long) and control your breathing.

Things You'll Need

• A brave wrestling friend.
• A wrestling mat or trampoline.
• Mental toughness.
• Good 8-10 hr sleep.

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How to Wrestle

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So you're interested in joining your school's wrestling team or want to wrestle for tournaments? Wrestling is one of the world's oldest sports, and more complicated than you might think. This article will go over the basics as they are practiced in sports, but there are many different kinds of wrestling, and sports wrestling is just one!

Steps

1. Get the gear. With almost every sport comes equipment or clothes associated with that sport. Things you'll need will be listed below.
2. Master the stance. Start from a standing position. Then, separate your feet slightly so you can fit an average sized pillow in between them. Then, bend your knees and arch your back. Lastly, put your hands in front of you.
3. Keep a low center of gravity. Widening your legs will help with this. You want to make it very difficult for someone to topple you over. Keep your weight spread between both of your feet.
4. Practice your dropsteps. First, get into your stance. Second, lower your level and take a step with your lead foot. Third, fall to your dominant leg's knee and drag your non-dominant leg through and come to a knee with your non-dominant leg. If you are a righty, you should end up on your right knee. Although, once you've been wrestling for awhile you may develop a neutral stance and not necessarily have a lead foot, but you don't worry about it. Just make sure your comfortable and balanced in your stance.
5. If you already belong to a team or club, watch everything the coach does closely, do not improvise some parts of the move because you think it will work better, it will not. If you don't understand a move get help from someone who does, and watch it being done slowly and attempt it slowly to perfect technique, then speed it up.
6. Learn the double-leg takedown. Start from your stance, then shoot into your partner with a dropstep. Your "power leg" or leading leg should be on the inside of your partners legs and your non-dominant leg should be on outside. Your right hand should be grasped onto your opponents left gastrocnemius muscle (the back of their thigh) and your left hand should be on the right one. If you are strong enough to lift your opponent, then do so and dig your head into your opponents hip and drive him that way. If you are not strong enough, then still drive your opponent with your head on his hip, he will eventually fall if performed correctly.
7. Learn to sprawl. Sprawling is simply falling to your hip from your stance. It moves your legs out of range from someone shooting on you. Simply drop from your stance and land on your partner with your hip on his back. Like everything else in wrestling, practice this over and over again.
8. Find out what weight class you are in. Your coach should have a weight class chart.
9. Research. Find articles on wrestling such as this and read through them. Practice what they tell you.
10. Practice all aspects, fighting on ground, etc., because most people don't like to be caught on their back not knowing what to do.

Video

This video shows a variety of techniques for opening up opportunities with your wrestling opponent while on your feet.

Tips

• When in your stance, your elbows should be above your knees, but not touching.
• Know your limitations. If you are not strong enough to perform a move, then find an alternative. Many wrestlers are not as strong as most but beat stronger wrestlers because of their technical wrestling styles. But some wrestlers are very strong.
• Practice makes perfect. If your moves during a match aren't entirely done through muscle memory, than you are too slow to win large tournaments. Repetitively going through moves and combos will allow you to instantaneously react to the situation.

Warnings

• Wrestling can lead to many injuries like all other contact sports. Be smart, and wear the right equipment.
• Don't get cocky, just because you can wrestle doesn't mean you can beat up someone who doesn't, you'll probably end up with a broken nose.
• If you lose a match, take it gracefully - if they were strong enough to beat you on the mat, they have a good chance of hurting you if you try to retaliate.
• It is important to take a hot shower with soap after you leave the mat to prevent skin diseases such as impetigo, ringworm, or staph infections.
• If you are in a wrestling room with many other wrestlers/wrestling pairs it is important to spread out and give each other room. If you run into another pair when wrestling live, break, move, and then start again.
• Wrestling is a huge commitment, and if you want to truly excel it only becomes more demanding. If you are going to set high goals for your self make sure you are willing to work and sacrifice for it. Remember that all success has a price.
• Think positively and believe in yourself! If you do not you will surely fail.

Things You'll Need

• Wrestling Shoes
• Headgear
• Kneepads
• Mouthpiece (If you have braces)
• Singlet (If you will be wrestling competitively.)
• hair net (If you have long hair)

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How to Start Your Professional Wrestling Career

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If you want to be a Professional Wrestler then here's an article outlining exactly what you need to do.

Steps

1. Improve your body. You need to watch what you eat and start an exercise program. Not only will it improve how you look, it will also insure you don't blow up(run out of breath and start wheezing in the middle of the ring), and that in itself will go far.
2. Go to Wrestling School. Going to wrestling school will help you learn everything that you possibly need to know to have the skills to get into the ring. Just remember that Wrestling shape and Weightlifting shape are two totally different things. Just lifting weights isn't going to make you a Professional Wrestler so you'll need to go to Wrestling School in addition to lifting weights. The greatest cardio you will get as a wrestler is being in the ring.
3. Read books on how to be a Professional Wrestler. The more books you read the more you'll succeed in the ring. Don't just read it, apply it.
4. Eat a healthful diet. Eat a diet rich in protein, fruits, and vegetables so you'll look good in your wrestling gear and you'll be a better wrestler too. Avoid foods high in sugar and fat.
5. Start out by Wrestling in a local league. You're not going to get paid much at first but once your skills start improving you'll start making more money and bringing in the big bucks. The key is to never stop trying to improve.

Tips

• Talk to as many different local wrestlers as possible and ask them for tips on how to improve your in ring skills.
• Make sure you know and understand that being a professional wrestler is a very rough job and takes a major toll on your body. Any Wrestler will tell you that making a living as a wrestler is not a good thing.
• Have another career plan in mind just in case you don't make it into Professional Wrestling. Many people try to make it into Professional Wrestling but very few people make it so just make sure that you have something else in mind that you want to do if you don't make it into Professional Wrestling.
• Try to look different. Don't go out looking like Triple H, or Jeff Hardy or any other big name, you'll never go very far like that.
• When you get a chance to go backstage at a wrestling event, shake hands with everyone. Not doing this will be seen as a act of disrespect.
• Find entrance music to fit your gimmick.

Warnings

• Being a Wrestler is a very rough job and lifestyle so you may get really stressed out with the schedule of Professional Wrestling.
• Wrestlers often get hurt a lot so you may have to spend half of your career in the Doctor's Office.
• You may be permanently disabled if you really crush your body in the wrestling ring.
• Make sure that any wrestling school or promotion you get involved with is fully insured.

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How to Perform Pro Wrestling Moves

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Many of the moves in professional wrestling can cause serious injury if you do not do them right. Although some pain is to be expected, the same as in all contact sports, but they are all impressive. In this article, we'll look at some of the most devastating moves in professional wrestling. Do not try any of these moves unless you have been trained to do so by a professional.

The Shining Wizard Combos

1. Select a variation of this move that appeals to you.
   • Have your opponent at a turnbuckle.
   • Face them, and lift up your knee to their face.
   • As you come down, wrap your right arm around their head, and run and few feet. You should now get them in a running headlock.
   • Jump at the center of the ring, and use your arms to push their head to the ground. Let go before they hit.
2. Another variation is the running Shining Headlock Bulldog.
   • Run at your opponent and put your left knee (or vice versa if your a lefty) on their hand to give you leverage.
   • Swing your right leg (vice versa for lefties) around their head, knocking them to the floor.
   • Stand behind your opponent.
   • Run and wrap an arm around their head and slowly put the other hand there as well.
   • Drive their head to the floor and let go before impact.
3. The next is the Shining Carry.
   • At the turnbuckle, put your knee to their face.
   • You should get on your knees, so they fall on your back.
   • Lift them into a Firemans Carry. (Samoan Drop).
   • Lift their legs up over your head and use an arm to cover theirs.
   • They should land on their back.

The Back Suplex

This a suplex from behind, making your opponent land head first.

1. Wrap your opponents right arm around your head, or vice versa if your a lefty.
2. Wrap both of your arms around their stomach, and pull up.
3. They should land head first or shoulder first.

Another way is the German Suplex.

1. Wrap your arms around their stomach.
2. Pull up until they are over your head.
3. Let go and they should be thrown over you head and land head first.

The Boston Crab

The Boston Crab is a simple yet painful submission move made famous by Chris Jericho.

1. Get your opponent on the floor, laying on their back.
2. Hook each of your opponents legs in your arms and turn them face down and step over them.
3. Get in a semi-sitting position and bend your opponents legs and back towards the sky and stretch them out.

The Gore/ Spear

The Gore is a very simple but devastating move in professional wrestling. If not performed correctly, you can injure yourself pretty bad.

1. First, use both arms to squeeze their back and chest.
2. Lift them up and smash them into the ground, doing a Belly-to-Belly Suplex.
3. Walk to a location far from your opponent, and put your left leg and foot inline with their body. Your right foot and leg must face to right.
4. When they get up let them do a turn so you hit their chest.
5. Run at them and and smash your right arm and shoulder into their chest.

A spear is bit easier. You start at the turnbuckle, and charge when they get up. It ends with a Gore.

The Suplex

The Suplex is one of the hardest, yet most devastating moves.

1. First, get into a DDT position, but wrap their left arm around your head.
2. Put your right arm on their waist, and lift them up into a vertical position.
3. Fall backwards, letting your back to land first.

For a Batista-Suplex, just do it all over again, but before you land spin onto your opponents chest. An Arm-Drag suplex is more complicated.

1. Grab your opponents arm, and pull.
2. Your head should be locked in their right arm, and both your arms should be holding their waist.
3. Pull up, so they land back first.

This move ends in a pin, and was made and popularized by Chris Jericho

The DDT

1. One of the most devastating moves in wrestling, when done properly will have your opponent down for the count!
   1. First, get them into a bent over position.
   2. Get them into a headlock and hold their waist.
   3. Now, you lift them up like a suplex for a Suplex DDT, and fall so their head hits the ground.
   4. For a Kick-Out DDT, lift your leg out behind you and kick the legs, letting you both land on the floor.
   5. Immediately hop up and pose, as you have probably just put your enemy down for the count!

If you execute this move improperly you WILL hurt someone severely, be sure that when you do the DDT, you hit the ground a fraction of a second before your opponent, so you break their fall and not their neck. Keep in mind that if you hurt them, you no longer get to wrestle with them. There you go a perfectly made DDT

The Hurricanrana

Performed by High Flyers. WARNING! You should only attempt this if you are experienced in moves like this, or are under 150 Ibs. Death or serious injury can occur.

1. You should do this on someone bigger, heavier and taller than you.

(Also make sure that the person that you are about to do a Hurricanrana at knows how to perform it).

1. Run at the ropes and jump on them, like a Lionsault.
2. Jump and spin so your legs land on their shoulders and they are facing your crotch.
3. Spin to the side and lock your ankles around their neck.
4. You should land stomach or chest first, and have your opponent fall back first.

Next is the top rope version

1. At the turnbuckle, lift them up to the top.
2. Stand on the middle rope and jump, so your sitting on their shoulders.
3. Pull backwards like a flip, and tuck in, so you don't hit them.
4. They should land back-first, and you should pose for more cheers!

The Life Cutter

1. The Life Cutter is one of the smoothest looking moves in professional wrestling history, popularized by "Sick" Nick Mondo. To perform this, you need strong shoulders and forearms.
2. Get your opponent groggy and get behind him/her.
3. Grab their left arm and tuck it under their right arm pit.
4. Duck and put your shoulders on their back and lift them up in the air.
5. Throw your opponent over to your side like an inverted fireman's carry. Make sure your opponent can cover their face before they land.

- This move is meant to show that it hurts their face and stomach like a DDT and a inverted suplex. Be sure not to bind up your opponents hands with your shoulder, when they hit their knee will absorb the blow, for this to work right, you need to allow one hand free at least, so that they can block their nose from the mat.

The Andreslam

1. Place yourself in front of the opponent.
2. Grab your opponent's arm with your weak arm, and lift below the crotch like a fireman's carry.
3. Once your opponent is on your shoulders, duck your head and spin your opponent onto your strong arm.
4. Continuing from the spin, finish off by slamming your opponent off your shoulder into the ground.

If done right, this will look great, but so as not to paralyze them by severing their spine, make sure your dominant knee, hits the ground as in a Batista Spine buster, just a second before you let them hit, in this you need to be strong enough to support your opponents weight while falling them to the mat, otherwise you will drop them before completing the move.

The 619

1. Let your opponent run at you.
2. Give them a toe hold so they land in the ropes.
3. Run to the opposite ropes, then back.
4. Put your right hand on the top rope, and your left on the middle one.
5. Push your legs through the top and middle ropes, kicking their head.

This is usually finished with a jump onto the top rope, then a springboard. This can also be initiated by giving them a head scissor into the ropes. Then start from step 3. This was made by Rey Mysterio.

The Sharpshooter

from a standing position with your opponent lying on their back, grab both of the legs by the ankles, spreading the legs apart take your right leg, step inbetween your opponents spead leg, placing your right foot on the mat, on the left side of his abdomin. now cross their legs, over your knee and upper thigh, so that their feet make an X and rest on your upper thigh. place your right elbow.on top of the cross section that your opponents crossed legs have made, extentending your upper forearm outwards, so that their legs are prevented from un-crossing by your elbow and forearm. reach back around the right side of your opponents calves, with your right forearm, pinning your right palm against your own stomach, and the the top of your right hand against the back of your opponents calves. this should secure the leg lock. now move your left leg from the left side of your opponents body to the right side of his body, while pivoting on your right foot. this motion will force your opponent to roll from laying on his back to laying on his stomach. be sure the legs are locked in a cross, and that the point at which the are crossed stays above your knee. with your left arm reach across your body between your stomach and your opponents legs and graps your right hand, either at the wrist, or enterlocking your fingers. now crouch, so that the bottom of your rear, hovers over but does not rest on top of your opponents, lower back, while applying an upperward force with your arms. The famous Bret Hart used to do this !

Warnings

• As with any physical activity, be sure to take preventive measures to avoid hurting yourself or another.
• Remember that wrestling moves can hurt the opponent if not done properly.
• Do not try these moves without the proper training.

Be sure to plan the more dangerous moves, involving the head, neck, and spine with your opponent before the match, so you can plan the landings.

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How to Be a Good Wrestling Promoter

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In this page it will teach you how to be a good promoter in wrestling, and how to manage your own fans

Steps

1. Get to know your fans, this way you can't throw something at them they won't like
2. Don't insult the intelligence of the fans, when you see things on TV that are real like the Iraq war, don't give the fans something blatently fake and expect them to believe it good way to lose fans.
3. If you are going to do story lines, and you have writers, always and i mean always check what your writers have written in the storyline, script, vignette etc
4. know your roster, the best way to lose wrestlers is if they aren't happy, make sure they are happy with you and the place they work.
5. Don't lie to your wrestler, another good way to lose them!!!
6. When you are doing shows, make sure a good number of people have heard of what you're doing.

Tips

• watch the Vince Russo Shoot interview on TWC sky channel 427, he gives great tips
• Don't try and compete with bigger companies to quickly

Warnings

• Don't get into debt with paychecks and finances

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