Hi, my name's Adeline Gray.
I'm a five-time world champion for Team USA
in women's freestyle wrestling.
I competed in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Let's get to the mat.
Alright, let's talk about hand fighting.
You can do a couple basic moves to help you improve
your hand fighting.
You can do wrist ties, arm drags, under hooks
and collar ties.
So, if you're wrestling an opponent that's slightly
better than you, these are some great hand fighting tricks
to be able to slow them down
and get them to a point where you can advance
your techniques and score points.
Wrist ties, where someone grabs your wrist
and we need to clear them
or we are going to allow someone to grab our wrists
so we can clear them into getting an angle
or finding our attack.
If someone attacks both of my wrists,
I'm gonna attack towards their weak spot
which is the thumb.
So I'm gonna turn and rotate my wrist towards the opening.
From here, I'm going to punch this wrist down
as I pull my arm into my stomach.
We can do that on both sides.
We're gonna take same arm, same side,
grab their elbow and pull them to the side
or down to the mat to score a two.
Left hand on their right hand.
From here, I'm gonna pull above their elbow.
You have a space just above your elbow
with two bones on it.
You wanna pull that down to strap the shoulder
from the socket.
From here when I grab around, this elbow is down
and I'm pulling around to an arm drag.
An underhook is a little bit more advanced of a move.
You have to know where your hips are,
where your head position is
and how high your elbow should be up
to advance into their chest,
to get them to either stand up or back away.
From here, I wanna take the wrist,
circle it into an underhook,
on the backside, elbows high, and I'm pulling.
Opposite wrist control, my hip is inside.
From here, I can come in deep with the underhook.
My other option if I want my hips out
is to have head position elbow high.
From here I can attack my single legs,
I can move her, push, pull.
And then our last move is a collar tie.
This could be used as a defensive block.
It can also be used to move the opponent
by forcing their head in one direction or the other
to create an angle and allow ourselves to open up the body
to hopefully get to the legs.
So when I reach up, hand goes on the collar,
elbows down so if they shoot,
my elbow is here to block them.
I can now take this collar and grab the opposite wrist
and pull her to the side.
I can push, I can pull,
I can shove to the side to get an angle.
Now that we've wrapped up hand fighting,
be sure to focus on this area.
This can really open up your wrestling.
Remember with the wrist ties,
we wanna open the lock and punch the hand out.
With the arm drag,
we wanna grab both the wrist and the tricep,
pulling down with our elbows facing the mat.
With the underhook, keep your elbow high
and force them into creating an angle
or making a reaction for you.
And then with the collar tie, we wanna have the hand
on the collar, elbow in the center of the chest.
Thanks so much for watching these wrestling tips.
Be sure to check out more of my tips here.
You can do an arm drag, you can do a collar tie,
you can do an underhook, and you can do something else.
Wrist tie. You can do wrist ties,
underhooks, arm drags and collar ties.
Take four marker.
Watch your head.
Oh, there's a light. Get off me!